June 2022 Union in the Media Archive

Lori Marso, the Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, has written an essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books about writer-director Audrey Diwan’s critically acclaimed film, “Happening.”

Winner of the Venice Film Festival’s top prize in 2021, “Happening” chronicles the efforts of a college student in 1960s France to have an illegal abortion in order to continue her studies. Based on an autobiographical novel by Annie Ernaux, the film is timely because of the recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling.

To read Marso’s essay, visit the Los Angeles Review of Books website.

Union celebrated its commencement on Sunday, June 12, with more than 500 members of the Class of 2022.

The featured speaker was Kate White '72.One of the first women to graduate from Union after the College began enrolling women full-time in 1970, White is a New York Times best-selling suspense novelist and former magazine editor-in-chief.

The Daily Gazette featured White and other members of her class in a front-page story about their experiences.

The newspaper also featured a photo gallery from commencement.

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