Views From the Green: September 2023

A new academic year starts with an active month on campus.

9/8/2023

Professor Kimberly Juanita Brown, inaugural director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life, offers words of welcome at the launch of the institute at an event in ��㽶��Ƶ Hall on Friday, Sept. 15. The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020 moved a group of Black alumni to begin the work to made the institute possible, Brown says. (Photo by Kata Sasvari)

Members of the Eden Brooklyn Dance Theater brought an exuberant spirit of celebration to the institute’s launch reception in 105 ��㽶��Ƶ Hall, the same space where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed the ��㽶��Ƶ community in 1962. (Photo by Kata Sasvari)

Sian Leah Beilock, Elizabeth Smith, Vivee Francis

President Sian Leah Beilock, left, speaks with Elizabeth F. Smith, center, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of English Vievee Francis at the IBICL reception. Francis read five poems at the celebration, including “On the Piney Woods, Death, Bobby Frank Cherry, and Me.” Cherry set the bomb in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., that killed four girls on Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, “60 years ago today,” Francis said. (Photo by Kata Sasvari)

Members of the Eden Brooklyn Dance Theater performed during the IBICL launch reception at 105 ��㽶��Ƶ Hall. (Photo by Kata Sasvari)

The Eden Brooklyn Dance Theater dancers on the 105 ��㽶��Ƶ Hall stage. (Photo by Kata Sasvari)

Members of the undergraduate Class of 2027 light candles for the Twilight ceremony. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

Walking across the Green toward the Bema for the Twilight ceremony

First-year students walk across the Green with their candles for the Twilight ceremony at the Bema. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

Students gather at the Bema for the Twilight ceremony. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

A student holds a candle during Twilight at the Bema. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

The sunset behind ��㽶��Ƶ Hall and Baker Berry library

(Photo by Robert Gill)

Lily Rose Johnson and others sign their name into the book.

Lily Rose Johnson ’27 participates in the signing at Matriculation. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

Members of the Class of 2027 head toward Matriculation on Sunday. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

President Sian Leah Beilock addresses students living in South Fayerweather 1 and 2 at Matriculation on Sunday. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

(Photo by Robert Gill)

Students peruse course options while they wait for a guidance session.

Yunfei Zheng ’27, Cal Shin ’27, Devan Opper ’27, and Tajreen Nushba ’27 look at course options while they wait for a guidance session with one of the first-year deans. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)