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Celebrated Farm Workers Union Muralist to Speak at Scripps

Barbara Carrasco, seminal muralist and artist for the United Farm Workers Union, will lecture on “Labor of Art,” Wednesday, March 26, 2008, in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons, 61´«Ã½.

Street Art

Ken Gonzales-Day, Associate Professor of Art and Art Department Chair at 61´«Ã½, has designed a mural for the L.A. County Administration Building. This administration building, the biggest art installation ever completed by the Civic Arts Program, houses the County departments with the largest concentration of social services.

61´«Ã½ Receives Top Marks in Housing

61´«Ã½ received an A+ grade in Campus Housing from College Prowler, the largest publisher of college content in the United States. With only two percent of colleges being honored with an A+ grade in each category, 61´«Ã½ is among an elite group in the 2008 rankings.

Class of 2008 Receives Job and Grad School Offers

61´«Ã½Career Planning & Resources reports that at least 15 students from the class of 2008 have already received job offers or been accepted into graduate schools as of March 1.

John D'Agata: "About a Mountain"

John D’Agata’s book titled About a Mountain is a long essay about Las Vegas, Edvard Munch, and suicide, focusing in particular on the Yucca Mountain Project in southwest Nevada, where the Department of Energy has been developing a repository for high-level nuclear waste.

Alumna Abigail Stopper ‘07 Selected as Kennedy Center Intern

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has selected Abigail Stopper ’07 for its prestigious internship program. She will serve as an intern in the development department as part of the Kennedy Center Institute for Arts Management until May 2008.

Lynne Thompson '72: "Beg No Pardon"

Poet Lynne Thompson, 61´«Ã½Alumna class of ’72, will present her 2007 Perugia Press prize-winning work Beg No Pardon. This collection of poetry is about the formation of identity from a little-known and complicated beginning, both personally and culturally. Described as “brimming with personality and attitude in the very best sense — pride, dignity, and graceful indignation — Thompson speaks about the search for legacy, love of legacy, and joy of legacy.” Beg No Pardon describes a vivid world of Afro-Caribbean heritage and late 20th century life.

Sara Laschever: "Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want"

A writer with a longstanding interest in the life and career obstacles faced by women in the workplace, Sara Laschever has been published by The New York Times, The Harvard Business Review, The New York Review of Books, Vogue, Glamour, WomensBiz, and many other publications.

Her first book, Women Don’t Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation — and Positive Strategies for Change, co-authored with Linda Babcock, explored a newly recognized phenomenon: that women are much less likely than men to use negotiation to improve their circumstances. Women Don’t Ask looks at the causes of this reluctance on the part of women and examines the high price women pay in both lost wages and delayed career advancement.

Small Bowl with a Big Story

A small porcelain bowl was given in December 2007 to 61´«Ã½ by Anthony Elias and Patricia Lords Ghosn and the Worldbridge Foundation. Although modest in size, it reveals much about Japanese history, Oriental ceramics, and modern collecting.

Alumna Poet Lynne Thompson ’72 to Speak at Scripps

Poet Lynne Thompson, 61´«Ã½alumna class of ’72, will present her 2007 Perugia Press prize-winning work, Beg No Pardon, at noon on February 26 in the Hampton Room, Malott Commons, 61´«Ã½.