Feature Stories (page 55)


January 11, 2011

Gabrielle Giffords’ Message

Gabrielle is a role model, not just for our students, but for all women and for all Americans. She did not shy away from her calling to be a leader. With grace and determination, she has become an outstanding and courageous public servant. Gabrielle Giffords’s career shows that she is fiercely independent — framing her positions on issues thoughtfully and humanely, and, in the words of our founder, Ellen Browning Scripps, “with confidence, courage and hope.”

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December 13, 2010

A Global Affair

Professor of International Relations David Andrews heads the European Union Center — one of only two in California — so Scripps College students may have opportunity to work with another important consortium: the European Union.

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Students United!

Collaboration between Scripps Associated Students, staff, and trustees leads to the development of Scripps College’s first Student Union.

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November 17, 2010

A Very Merry Sorrow

A haunting new collaboration between Scripps College students and German professor Roswitha Burwick results in an impressive anthology of modern-day fairy tales.

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November 9, 2010

Navigating the Scripps Journey

Melissa Mesinas ’12 draws on her own experience as a first-generation college student to help others in their first year at Scripps College.

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November 1, 2010

Sacred Music and Spaces

Renowned composer Dr. Roberto Andreoni is a visiting member of the Scripps College faculty this fall as part of the unique Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program.

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October 29, 2010

A Touch of the Supernatural

Teacups falling off shelves? Mysterious apparitions? Denison Library’s Judy Harvey Sahak ’64 talks about the ghostly legends of Scripps College.

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October 28, 2010

The Haunting of Revelle House

Denison Library’s Judy Harvey Sahak ’64 wonders: does the spirit of Scripps College founding president Ernest Jaqua inhabit Revelle House?

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October 27, 2010

The Lady in White

Is Clark Hall host to a mysterious ghost dressed for a vintage Medieval Dinner?

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October 11, 2010

The Slocum Awards

Established in 1936, the Slocum Awards represent a most unique and individual challenge for a Scripps College student: who can build the best personal library collection?

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