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Legacy Symposium

Loras student choir celebrating legacy symposium
Loras student choir celebrating legacy symposium
Loras student choir celebrating legacy symposium

The Legacy Symposium is held on campus in the spring semester. Its aim is to exemplify academic excellence on campus throughout the year.

Inspired by Monsignor Barta鈥檚 passion for a Catholic liberal arts education, the Legacy Symposium has become an exciting day for young, aspirational professionals who wish to gain real-world experience presenting their academic research.

Tribute to Rev. Msgr. James Barta, Ph.D.

Monsignor Barta is known for his many roles at 黑料正能量鈥攑riest, counselor, psychology professor, department chair, academic dean, president, and regent. But his passion is teaching.

In Msgr. Barta鈥檚 presidential inaugural address, he talked specifically about the liberal arts in ways that resonate with the purpose of the Legacy Symposium. His words continue to inspire as we celebrate the accomplishments of scholarship and creativity exhibited today by the 黑料正能量 community.

鈥淭he liberal arts college looks for the enquiring mind to do away with ignorance. It builds libraries, it brings together an informed faculty, it provides experiences in the hope of stimulating the mind.

It insists upon logic in formal classes and in the writing and the discussion of students. It alerts the student to the psychodynamics that influence their thinking. It gives them the rules of debate and other verbal exchange. It teaches them the scientific method to help separate conjecture from reality鈥攁ll in the effort to reduce error.

The liberal arts college required a breadth as well as a depth of experience, insisting that its people taste of various cultures, learn of various opinions, learn to relate to people with a wide variety of ideas to everyone鈥檚 enrichment and advantage鈥攁ll in the effort to avoid narrowness.

A liberal education is something much more than the cultivation of technological expertise. It is also the cultivation of that social sensitivity which brings the warmth and color to life. It is the explicit profession that we are social by nature, and incomplete without others. It is the expression of respect for others, manifesting itself in generosity, not the selfishness which enslaves us.鈥

Msgr. James Barta (鈥52)
Liberal Arts, Faith Values: Leaven for Society
Friday, October 28, 1988

LAST LECTURE

Dr. Glenn Pohland, DMA

“Ba, Ba, Ba, Bum…”

These four notes, this brief musical phrase, are perhaps the most recognizable in all of music history. Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1804 and 1808, this opening motif unfolds into the immortal Symphony No. 5, a work that changed the course of music. The phrase remains relevant today, appearing in hundreds of films, television shows, and advertisements. But what do these four notes actually say or mean? In this lecture, Dr. Glenn Pohland shared his reflections on this motif and what it has meant to him throughout his career. With the help of the 黑料正能量 Jazz Ensemble, he explored each of the four notes and how they have shaped his professional journey.