Meliora Weekend
Quotes
University Award: Eastman Medal
Garth Fagan, the acclaimed choreographer best known for his work on the Broadway musical The Lion King, received the George Eastman Medal, the University’s highest award given in recognition of achievement and service.
Fagan, the founder and artistic director of the Rochester-based company Garth Fagan Dance, embodies Eastman’s commitment to ensuring that the arts remain a vital part of the community, President Jackson said in awarding the medal.
“Brain, brain, brain, and more brain.”
—Internationally recognized choreographer Garth Fagan, commenting on the qualities that he looks for to separate the very best dancers from the technically competent ones
“If there is one lesson we have learned, it is that those who have felt themselves beyond the reach of accountability—investment bankers, corporations, government entities, and nonprofit institutions—have been brought back down to earth over the past several years. . . . A friend once gave me a T-shirt that said, ‘Hubris is terminal.’ That’s the lesson we need to learn.”
—New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
“If the military hasn’t found [Saddam Hussein], we don’t know where he is.”
—Ingrid Formanek, CNN senior executive producer who oversees the network’s Baghdad operations, also noted that CNN gets several calls a day from people claiming to know where the deposed Iraqi leader is, and who want to collect a U.S.–funded $25 million reward.
“No matter how expensive education is, ignorance costs you more.”
—Representative Chaka Fattah (D–Pennsylvania), who has led efforts in Congress to increase funding for programs that prepare young people for college
“I grew up in an anecdotal society. I write hearing the voices in my head.”
—Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos (Andrew H. ’37 and Janet Neilly Library Series)
“I’m going to read A Linnet, a poem named after a small bird that seems to exist mainly in poetry.”
—Celebrated poet John Ashbery (Plutzik Memorial Series of the Department of English)
