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THE COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE LAUNCHES
SPECIAL WEB PAGE ON THE OLYMPIC GAMES

NEW ROCHELLE, NY, July 21, 2004 -- The College of New Rochelle (CNR) today announced the launch of a special page on their official web site www.cnr.edu tied in to the Olympic Games taking place next month.  Dr. Amy Bass, Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program in the School of Arts & Sciences at CNR, will be on-site in Athens supervising the Research Room for NBC’s entire broadcast from August 13-29.  On August 1, Dr. Bass will begin filing regular updates to provide a behind-the-scenes at one of the longest running events in global history.  Visitors may access the CNR site this month for background on Dr. Bass.

The 30-member staff in the Research Room at the Olympic Games is responsible for all data that this enormous event entails.  Dr. Bass and her team serve as the information network for NBC during the Games, gathering the wealth of information for the Opening Ceremony, spotlighting the interesting stories that arise during the weeks of competition, marking the significant athletic records that are set, and working with producers, writers, and sports commentators to ensure that the coverage is as accurate and thorough as possible.

Dr. Bass worked for the NBC research team for the first time at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. Since then, she has returned to the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and the Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games in 2002 - each time with increasing responsibilities.

Dr. Bass is the author of Not the Triumph but the Struggle: the 1968 Olympic Games and the Making of the Black Athlete (University of Minnesota Press, 2002).  This book is a study of racial and national identity formation in the 20th century United States and examines how the figure of the black athlete has emerged as a critical and contested ideological site within popular culture, generating broader issues of black collectivity and consciousness as well as cultural collisions among race, nation, and gender.


The first Catholic college for women in New York State, The College of New Rochelle was founded in 1904 by the Ursuline Order. Today, it comprises the all-women School of Arts & Sciences, and three schools which admit women and men: the School of New Resources (for adult learners), the School of Nursing and the Graduate School.  The main campus of the College is located in lower Westchester County, 16 miles north of New York City.  The College maintains six other campus locations in New York City. Visit the College’s website at www.cnr.edu
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