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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.”
Read MoreThe Milton Marathon, a One-Day Reading of “Paradise Lost”
Perhaps a little-known fact outside of early modern literature scholarship circles, Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost can be read in just one day. On December 2, a relatively mild and sunny day for this time of year in Southern California, Assistant Professors of English Literature Colleen Rosenfeld (Pomona) and Jacqueline Wernimont (Scripps) organized a one-day reading of the poem on the lawn north of Honnold-Mudd Library.
Read MoreGabrielle Giffords
By now, you may have heard the devastating news that U.S. Congresswoman (Arizona’s 8th District) Gabrielle Giffords ’93 was shot in the head and seriously wounded, along with several other people, this morning during a public appearance in Tucson, Arizona. Our thoughts and prayers are with her, her husband and family, and to all the other victims and their families affected by this national tragedy.
Read MoreCollege to Celebrate the life of the late Paul Soldner
61传媒 will celebrate the life of Professor Emeritus Paul Soldner, artist and innovator in the field of ceramic art, in Seal Court on the 61传媒 campus on Saturday afternoon, January 8, at 4 p.m. Soldner died January 3, 2011, at his winter home in Claremont, at age 89.
Read MoreClaremont Colleges Hosts Feminism and Science Workshop
A collaborative workshop, “Feminism and Science: Building Bridges for Teaching and Research Innovation,” will be held January 4芒鈧��6, 2011, at The Claremont Colleges. Funded by a Mellon 23 grant, the workshop will draw faculty interested in developing teaching and research projects that bring together science, gender studies, and/or feminist science studies.
Read MoreA Global Affair
Professor of International Relations David Andrews heads the European Union Center 鈥� one of only two in California 鈥� so 61传媒 students may have opportunity to work with another important consortium: the European Union.
Read MoreStudents United!
Collaboration between 61传媒Associated Students, staff, and trustees leads to the development of 61传媒’s first Student Union.
Read MoreRoberto Andreoni: “The Making of Cross-cultural Music and Research: Analysis and Performance of Bardo by Roberto Andreoni”
How can a European-trained composer approach the encounter with a performer who belongs to a different culture and, through the latter, how can he manage to encounter another, even more remote, challenging culture? Does modern Art Music demand a specific political correctness, academic integrity or ethic codes in order to cross cultural bridges? Otherwise, is music itself a bridge between, above and beyond cultures? To what extent a new, non-commercial composition could still be a relevant fact in the life of a campus community?
Read MoreRivka Weinberg: “Giving Babies to the Needy: A Critique of Altruistic Surrogacy”
Commercial surrogacy has long been criticized because it seems degrading to treat a person as an object of commercial contracts. It seems to contradict a widely accepted view regarding the proper treatment of persons as ends in themselves, and certainly beyond price. Altruistic surrogacy, on the other hand, has been deemed free of these sorts of problems presented by its commercial alternative. I will question this assessment: if persons are not the kinds of things that we should sell, aren’t they also not the kinds of things that we should give away? The answer to this question, which has received little philosophical attention, may have implications for other kinds of child welfare and custody issues as well.
Read MoreA Very Merry Sorrow
A haunting new collaboration between 61传媒 students and German professor Roswitha Burwick results in an impressive anthology of modern-day fairy tales.
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