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...Meanwhile, talk about prospective masters has begun to fly around Currier.“There’s definitely talk. The students are very concerned. Especially now that Cole [Crittenden] is leaving. He was kind of like the last bastion of the Joe and Pat administration,” Martel said. Martel said Crittenden’s presence would be missed.“Cole is a very visible figure in Currier. He’s very much a part of Currier life and part of the Currier spirit,” Frances I. Martel...
Perhaps Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper was warned to beware of authors bearing gifts. Recently, Canadian writer Yann Martel, who became a household name when his novel Life of Pi won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2002, announced that he intended to send the Prime Minister a book every two weeks. Martel has already sent Harper two, accompanied by letters about each book's literary merits and meanings, but the PM has yet to thank...
...reason for Harper's response or lack thereof could be that Martel's gifts come wrapped in criticism and might be more accurately described as a guerilla publicity campaign. "This government, and especially the Prime Minister, doesn't seem to have an awareness of the importance of art and culture," Martel charges. His campaign, intended to encourage Harper's Conservative government to make the arts and arts funding a higher priority, was launched with an essay in the national newspaper The Globe and Mail, has its own website, and has succeeded in attracting considerable media attention. Many Canadians regard government...
...environmental initiatives, such as Green Allston, the Green Cup, and other eco-friendly programs, not everybody is gung-ho about the environment. Reasons for anti-Green and Green-neutral thinking abound, starting with plain and simple dendrophobia. “I hate trees,” Frances I. Martel ’09 declares. “I’d rather not look at them.” For Martel, it all boils down to aesthetics: “I’m not a fan of the green and the brown.” While Martel does believe...
...petite and friendly Frances I. Martel ’09 appears an unlikely “Fight Chick,” the moniker bestowed on her when she began writing for the boxing news, analysis, and discussion website Ringtalk.com. “I knew it was going to annoy people,” says Martel, adding with a hint of feistiness, “I liked that.” She got what she wished for. Pedro L. Fernandez, Ring Talk’s editor and self-proclaimed “undisputed King of the airwaves” says Martel?...