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Press Room
The New England Institute of Art has the Democratic National Convention Covered
- (July 27-30, 2004)
More than 35,000 people have descended on Boston for the Democratic National Convention and The New England Institute of Art is right in the thick of things.
Manning the television cameras in the Fleet Center skybox for Boston's Channel 7 is recent graduate Brian Krause. Current television major Bret St. Gelais helped CNN build the sets at the Convention Center and Mary Cardaras, chair of the Digital & Media Communications department is running the local CNN Bureau while their news team is on assignment covering the DNC from every angle.
"It's an incredible once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," says Cardaras. CNN loves our students and trusts them with the most difficult and complicated assignments." Cardaras also notes that another alumnus, Chuck Ranney, is running the Satellite truck feeding all the networks.
At the College, students, faculty and staff were treated to a special visit by Congressman Robert Andrews, who represents the first Congressional District in New Jersey.
Andrews sits on the Education and Workforce Committee. He is the Democratic leader and Ranking Member on the subcommittee on Employer-Employee relations which has responsibility for health insurance, pension and labor laws. Representative Andrews was also recently appointed to the House Select Committee on Homeland Security.
Congressman Andrews, along with his staff, toured The New England Institute of Art, shared brief remarks on the funding of higher education, then spent more than an hour addressing students.
Students asked questions ranging from the war in Iraq, to the military draft, women's rights, the Patriot Act, the legalization of marijuana and human rights. Congressman Andrews fielded all the questions with grace and aplomb. One student came up to shake his hand and said "I'm one of the few Republicans living in Brookline, but you are a Democrat that I could vote for."
Former President of The New England Institute of Art, and now EDMC's Vice President for Government Relations and Administration, Rick Jerue was instrumental in arranging Congressman Andrews' visit.
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