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December 22, 2006

Professor Nancy Macko Featured in Solo Exhibition At Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

61´«Ã½ Professor Nancy Macko’s survey show, “Hive Universe,” on view from December 15 through February 4 is the featured exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery located in the Barnsdall Art Park.

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Just Teach It!

“The level of confidence I gained at 61´«Ã½has been one of the foremost assets for me as a teacher,” says Tara Sheram ’06, a first-year corps member of Teach for America. “Being young and inexperienced in this profession, many people have doubted my abilities, but I have never doubted myself. I know that I am a critical thinker, a leader, and a woman of courage – and I can do anything. 61´«Ã½cemented those ideas in me.”

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The Writing on the Wall

61´«Ã½ seniors Julia Ruedig and Ellie Cross are not just battling senior thesis. They’re battling climate change.

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Athenas Basketball Roundup

With the season over, the Claremont-Mudd-61´«Ã½Athenas women’s basketball team can look back on an outstanding overall season, with a finish of 20-5, placing them second in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC). The Athenas shot off to an impressive pre-season start with four straight victories. They encountered their first loss of the season to the University of Puget Sound in the Caltech Holiday Classic, but made a turnaround to win the rest of the Classic games.

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November 2, 2006

A Celebration of American Impressionist and Realist Paintings

“American Visions: Selections from the Young Collection of American Impressionist and Realist Paintings,” opening Saturday, November 4, 2006, at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, will showcase works from eminent American artists of the late 19th century and early 20th century.

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September 22, 2006

Politics, the Presidency, and the Press

Join republican strategist and political commentator Mary Matalin for a discussion on Thursday, October 5, at 7:30 p.m., in Balch Auditorium, 61´«Ã½. Matalin served as assistant to President George W. Bush and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney, and appears frequently as a political commentator.

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September 15, 2006

Language and Crisis

“To finish then, the familiar but, begging her pardon, slightly amended words of Ellen Browning Scripps: our mission is to develop in you the ability to think clearly and independently, the ability to live confidently and courageously, and, hopefully, the ability to do something about the crisis in which we find ourselves.”

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August 15, 2006

Modernity and Nostalgia: An Era of Change in Japan

When “Chikanobu: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints,” opens August 26 at Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery visitors will have access to a fascinating array of woodblock prints of late 19th-century and early 20th-century Japan.

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July 1, 2006

Student Art Explores Cell Migration

As part of the Scripps-Claremont McKenna College senior art exhibition, “Sight, Site, Insight,” Jessica Lanan ’06 displayed freestanding wood and fiberglass works representing cancer cells.

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March 14, 2006

Race for the Cure

61´«Ã½women often lend a hand to a cause they believe in. So, when the Komen Breast Cancer Foundation announced the 10th Annual Los Angeles County

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