"As a young girl in Italy, my mother and grandmother spent hours every Sunday trying to teach me how to crochet and cook lasagna," said St. Francis College Chemistry and Physics Assistant Professor Filomena Califano. "But all I wanted to do was play with my brother's toys, particularly assembling his robots or a bike."

Old and young music fans gathered in St. Francis College's Founders Hall on Wednesday, March 2 to watch Billy Joel's documentary, "The Last Play at Shea." Following the documentary, the audience was treated to a discussion with musician David Rosenthal, who toured with Joel for 15 years, the Executive Producer of the film Todd Kamelhar and Joel's archivist Jeff Schock.

Behind St. Francis College's new Men's Career Points Leader Ricky Cadell and Northeast Conference (NEC) Defensive Player of the Year Akeem Bennett, St. Francis Men's Basketball returns to the NEC Playoffs this Thursday night for a 7:00pm quarterfinal match-up against Central Connecticut State (CCSU).

Admitting that from the outside, societal changes in Saudi Arabia may not look like much, Saudi Arabian Diplomat Tariq Allagany told the audience in St. Francis College's Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Education on February 28, that great changes have, in fact, been made and that the country is on course for more, though at a pace that will be slow, steady and preserve the safety and security of the country and its citizens.

"Without Twitter, without Facebook, without YouTube, there's a very good chance that Mubarak might have endured," media studies expert Paul Levinson told a packed audience referring to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in St. Francis College's Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture & Education on February 23 as part of his lecture, Marshall McLuhan at 100. "It's tough to overthrow someone but it becomes easier when that attempt to change the government is tied into a global village that's watching and communicating back and forth."

On Valentine's Day, St. Francis College hosted its second annual reading of poetry and prose, Love Springs Eternal, by the senior citizens in the College's For Seniors Writing Class, taught by Professor Mitch Levenberg, Director of the College's Academic Enhancement Center. The event took place in a crowded Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Education with guests including City Councilman Stephen Levin, whose support along with Council Speaker Christine Quinn, makes the For Seniors program possible.

St. Francis College Economics Professor Behrouz Tabrizi will be a special guest on the NET TV program, In the Arena, on the "Crisis in Egypt," which debuts this Sunday, February 13 at 7:00pm.

The question, Is the New York Times Good for Democracy? cast the opposing speakers far apart ideologically in their panel discussion at St. Francis College on Monday, February 7 at the College, but Michael Tomasky, Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and American Editor-at-Large of The Guardian and William McGowan, author of Gray Lady Down (Encounter Books)were both brought further to the center as the night continued.

Families and friends of the late Brother Edmund Holmes, OSF '28 came to St. Francis College for a Mass and to dedicate the college's newest lecture hall in his memory. It was the support of Brother Edmund's Franciscan Brothers and his family that made it possible to construct the state-of-the-art teaching facility.

St. Francis College Biology Professor Irina Ellison is in a major battle. It's not the fight of her life, but the lives of others as she tries to help people break their addiction to smoking.