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March 11, 2008

Scripps College Receives Top Marks in Housing

Scripps College received an A+ grade in Campus Housing from College Prowler, the largest publisher of college content in the United States. With only two percent of colleges being honored with an A+ grade in each category, Scripps College is among an elite group in the 2008 rankings.

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March 7, 2008

Class of 2008 Receives Job and Grad School Offers

Scripps Career Planning & Resources reports that at least 15 students from the class of 2008 have already received job offers or been accepted into graduate schools as of March 1.

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March 4, 2008

John D'Agata: "About a Mountain"

John D’Agata’s book titled About a Mountain is a long essay about Las Vegas, Edvard Munch, and suicide, focusing in particular on the Yucca Mountain Project in southwest Nevada, where the Department of Energy has been developing a repository for high-level nuclear waste.

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February 28, 2008

Alumna Abigail Stopper ‘07 Selected as Kennedy Center Intern

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has selected Abigail Stopper ’07 for its prestigious internship program. She will serve as an intern in the development department as part of the Kennedy Center Institute for Arts Management until May 2008.

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February 26, 2008

Lynne Thompson '72: "Beg No Pardon"

Poet Lynne Thompson, Scripps Alumna class of ’72, will present her 2007 Perugia Press prize-winning work Beg No Pardon. This collection of poetry is about the formation of identity from a little-known and complicated beginning, both personally and culturally. Described as “brimming with personality and attitude in the very best sense — pride, dignity, and graceful indignation — Thompson speaks about the search for legacy, love of legacy, and joy of legacy.” Beg No Pardon describes a vivid world of Afro-Caribbean heritage and late 20th century life.

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February 22, 2008

Sara Laschever: "Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want"

A writer with a longstanding interest in the life and career obstacles faced by women in the workplace, Sara Laschever has been published by The New York Times, The Harvard Business Review, The New York Review of Books, Vogue, Glamour, WomensBiz, and many other publications.

Her first book, Women Don’t Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation — and Positive Strategies for Change, co-authored with Linda Babcock, explored a newly recognized phenomenon: that women are much less likely than men to use negotiation to improve their circumstances. Women Don’t Ask looks at the causes of this reluctance on the part of women and examines the high price women pay in both lost wages and delayed career advancement.

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February 21, 2008

Small Bowl with a Big Story

A small porcelain bowl was given in December 2007 to Scripps College by Anthony Elias and Patricia Lords Ghosn and the Worldbridge Foundation. Although modest in size, it reveals much about Japanese history, Oriental ceramics, and modern collecting.

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Alumna Poet Lynne Thompson ’72 to Speak at Scripps

Poet Lynne Thompson, Scripps alumna class of ’72, will present her 2007 Perugia Press prize-winning work, Beg No Pardon, at noon on February 26 in the Hampton Room, Malott Commons, Scripps College.

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February 15, 2008

“Ask For It” Author Sara Laschever to Speak at Scripps

Author Sara Laschever will speak about women and negotiation on Friday, February 22, at 12 p.m. in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons, Scripps College. Her lecture, “Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want,” will present the four-step negotiation guide detailed in her forthcoming book of the same name.

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February 14, 2008

Self-designed majors define themselves

Declaring a major is a process that requires a bit of questioning, experimentation, and a few pitfalls along the way. As much as some students wish they could remain “undeclared” a while longer, there is a turning point where one is expected to magically realize their purpose in life — at the end of sophomore year, to be exact, when students turn in their declaration forms.

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