A rapt crowd of St. Francis College student-athletes and their classmates shared a long conversation Thursday, April 24 at St. Francis College, with Anucha Browne Sanders, the former New York Knicks executive who recently won a sexual discrimination suit against the team.

With just two victories this coming weekend at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships, the St. Francis College Women's Water Polo team can extend their already most successful season ever with a trip to the NCAA Division I Women's Water Polo Championship.

Everyday, the campus of St. Francis College reflects the amazing diversity of the city it calls home. To celebrate the coming together of people from dozens of countries and countless cultures, the College hosted its annual multicultural interchange, Community Day, April 13, where members of the college community shared aspects of their cultures with and among each other.

Iraqi Judge Raid Juhi Al-Saedi says his role in presiding over the investigation of former Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein for war crimes was more important than concerns for his own life. "We need to teach our society how to respect the rule of law in Iraq," Juhi told a packed theater Thursday, April 10 in a talk sponsored by the St. Francis College Department of International Culture Studies.

Roger Hertog, Vice Chairman Emeritus of AllianceBernstein, L.P. and Chairman Emeritus of the Manhattan Institute, was so moved by the testimonials about St. Francis College's retiring President Frank J. Macchiarola '62, that Hertog committed $1 million to the College in honor of Macchiarola's life's work before the 47th Annual Charter Award Dinner was even over.

St. Francis College Alumnus and former CEO of Deloitte, Bill Parrett '67 shared some of his 40 years of accounting and workplace skills with a group of current St. Francis accounting and management students Monday, April 7. He focused on dos and don'ts for the first five years on the job.

A first of its kind one-day conference on women's poetry drew dozens of scholars and educators from across the area and as far away as New Orleans, Ohio and Maine to St. Francis College on April 5 to answer the question, Why Study Women's Poetry?

Hundreds of St. Francis College students, faculty and staff along with friends and relatives from the community were treated to carnival games, karaoke and food April 4, all for a serious cause, the Third Annual Relay For Life, co-sponsored by the College and the American Cancer Society.

After almost 40 years in the banking industry, Chairman and CEO of Metro New York / New Jersey Division of Sovereign Bancorp, Brendan J. Dugan '68, is joining the world of higher education; becoming the 18th President of St. Francis College effective July 1.

It started with a class project for three students in Professor Maria Finn's Writing in the Public Sphere class and turned into a real world lesson on social activism that culminated in a three week photography exhibit and panel discussion on the dangers and victims of pesticides used on banana plantations in Central America.