Torch bearers

Kidder (far left) and Farmer signed books for (in front, from left) Dana Mars ’07, Michelle Cherubin ’07, and Thamarah Crevecoeur ’06.

The First Year Academic Convocation is part of “Conversations in the First Year,” a series of talks that continues this year with former governor and presidential hopeful Howard Dean; Fernando Cardenal, SJ, the former Minister of Education in Nicaragua; and Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools.