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November 12, 2007

Professor of Music Wins Fulbright Award

Hao Huang, professor and chair of the Music Department at Scripps College, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary, during the 2007-2008 academic year.

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November 1, 2007

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp: "Nothing to Lose: The Los Angeles Art Scene of the 1960s"

Unlike New York, Los Angeles did not have an true art museum until 1965. The artists who chose to pursue their art here were intentionally charting a course independent of that pursued by peers on the East Coast. Ed Kienholz, Robert Irwin, Ken Price, Ed Ruscha and others were rebels with a cause, creating work that was beholden to their own sensibilities despite the lack of gallery support or critical commentary. Hunter’s talk addresses the personalities and politics of the era, incorporating anecdotes recounted by the artists and those around them.

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October 30, 2007

Walter Benn Michaels: "Unequal Opportunity: The Flourishing University and the Vanishing Middle Class"

Walter Benn Michaels is just completing a project, The Shape of the Signifier, on literary and theoretical writing since 1967. His new project — its working title is “The Beauty of a Social Problem” — will be about art and inequality between WWI and WWII, and his teaching over the next few years will probably focus on this period while continuing to engage the issues raised by some more recent texts.

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October 24, 2007

Scripps’ Director of Financial Aid on Public Radio

Listen live to David Levy on 89.3 KPCC-FM and 89.1 KUOR-FM Thursday, Oct. 25, at 11 a.m. on “AirTalk with Larry Mantle.”

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October 17, 2007

Cheney Sisters to Make First Joint Appearance at Scripps College

Mary and Liz Cheney will make their first ever joint public appearance at Scripps College on Thursday, November 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Garrison Theater, Performing Arts Center, as part of the second annual Elizabeth Hubert Malott Public Affairs Program.

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October 16, 2007

Chris Howard: "Fighting Inequality and (or?) Poverty"

Chris Howard graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Duke University in 1983 with a B.A. degree in History. He later earned his M.S. (1990) and Ph.D. (1993) degrees in Political Science from MIT. Chris has taught at the College since 1993. Recent course offerings include The American Welfare State, Research Methods, and Race and Inequality in American Politics. Students in this last course also participate in the Sharpe Community Service Program by tutoring students from the local schools. Starting in August 2007, Chris will be the Pamela Harriman Professor of Government and Public Policy.

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October 11, 2007

Scripps Alumna to be Featured on MTV

Scripps College alumna Eli Winkelman ’07 will be featured on MTV television Friday, October 12, at 8 p.m. as part of a news segment about the Clinton Global Initiative forum.

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October 10, 2007

NY Times Best-Selling Author to Speak at Scripps

Author and journalist Jeannette Walls will present her New York Times best-selling memoir The Glass Castle on Monday, November 5, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. in Balch Auditorium at Scripps College as part of the Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series.

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October 9, 2007

Stanley Aronowitz: "Work and Consumption: What, if anything is the Middle Class?"

Stanley Aronowitz has taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 1983, where he is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology. He received his B.A. at the New School in 1968 and his Ph.D from the Union Graduate School in 1975. He studies labor, social movements, science and technology, education, social theory and cultural studies and is director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the Graduate Center.

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October 8, 2007

Wall Street Comes to Claremont

Four Scripps students are helping bring the world of finance to The Claremont Colleges on October 12-13 during the first “Wall Street Weekend.”

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