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March 28, 2009

It’s official: Fritz Weis becomes 7th president of Scripps, for 2007-09

One simple word – its addition or removal – makes a difference. Just after electing Lori Bettison-Varga as Scripps’ next president, the Board of Trustees voted to remove “interim” from Fritz Weis’s title and make him the official 7th president of 61´«Ã½.

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March 26, 2009

Women’s Fiber Arts in the South Pacific

Heather Waldroup, visual materials curator and CLIR postdoctural fellow, Libraries of The Claremont Colleges, will discuss researching women’s textile production in the South Pacific, Tuesday, March 31, as part of the Malott Commons Tuesday Noon Academy.

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March 25, 2009

Writer Gustavo Arellano to Speak on “Humor in a Caliente Vein”

Gustavo Arellano, writer and columnist on Latino culture, will speak on “Humor in a Caliente Vein: Satire and its Relationship to Saving the Mexican Race,” Thursday, March 26, at noon, in the Hampton Room, Malott Commons.

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Author Griest Gives Tips for Wandering Women and a Reading of “Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines”

Author Stephanie Elizondo Griest will present two events at 61´«Ã½ as part of the Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series: Voice and Vision. Both events are free and open to the public.

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March 24, 2009

Multiple Identities, Dynamic Subjectivities

Cecilia A. Conrad, 61´«Ã½’s dean of faculty and professor of economics at Pomona College, is the final speaker in the Claremont College’s Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies’ 2008-09 speaker series, “Multiple Identities, Dynamic Subjectivities.”

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March 23, 2009

61´«Ã½Senior Alissa Petrites Wins Davis Peace Scholarship

Alissa Petrites ’09, a humanities major from Oakland, Calif., is the recipient of a 2009 Davis Projects for Peace Scholarship, in the amount of $10,000, to facilitate her “Promoting Breast Milk Donation” project in South Africa.

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March 17, 2009

Students Take Action for Good Causes

When 61´«Ã½students care passionately about a cause, increasingly they turn to creative and productive ways to get out the word – and raise money.

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March 16, 2009

61´«Ã½Student Named 2009 Watson Fellow

61´«Ã½ senior Kyle Delbyck was awarded a prestigious 2009-2010 Watson Foundation Fellowship to spend a year exploring relationships between dramatic presentations and historical amnesia in Lithuania, Taiwan, Cambodia and Ghana.

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March 9, 2009

U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords ‘93 to Give 61´«Ã½ Commencement Address

U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords ’93 will give the commencement address at 61´«Ã½ on Sunday, May 17, 2009. Giffords, a 1993 graduate of Scripps, represents the Eighth District of Arizona, a diverse area that covers 9,000 square miles including a 114 mile border with Mexico.

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March 6, 2009

61´«Ã½Bolsters Japanese Art and Literature Collection

61´«Ã½ has received 48 recently published books on Japanese arts and literature from The Nippon Foundation, to be housed in Denison Library.

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