Feature Stories (page 62)
Students Take Action for Good Causes
When Scripps students care passionately about a cause, increasingly they turn to creative and productive ways to get out the word – and raise money.
Read MoreScripps’ new elms prepare for spring growth; podium and diploma table to be created from original trees’ wood
After two seasons, Scripps’ 18 paired Princeton elms, planted last summer to replace the dying 70-year-old trees on Elm Tree Lawn, are thriving in their new location, according to Lola Trafecanty, director of grounds.
Read MoreSpeedtraps
Your imagination is your most precious resource, what you’ll most need in the years to come. It’s your resourcefulness, your versatility, what you can do. It’s what the world will reward, as a matter of fact, more than a grade or a GPA.
Read More“You Already Know Enough”
For you see, in the end, Scripps is not simply a beautiful campus, a challenging curriculum, an approach to education. Scripps is you. You are Scripps. And your class is a special one because it arrives at a turning point in the history of the college.
Read MoreOur Amazing Faculty
During the year, Scripps faculty members do much more than teach and advise. Here are just a few of their many accomplishments.
Read MoreHidden Depths
Winslow Homer took watercolors to new levels. A Chicago exhibition charts the elusive New Englander’s mastery.
Read MoreElm Tree Lawn Begins New Life
One special place of beauty on the Scripps campus is Elm Tree Lawn, 18 paired American elms that form a majestic allée on the south side of campus. For years, largely unseen forces have slowly and quietly been threatening the health of the elms. This is the story of the College’s efforts to preserve Elm Tree Lawn, and its decision to replace the dying trees this summer with carefully nurtured, disease-resistant Princeton elms.
Read MoreClass of 2008 Receives Job and Grad School Offers
Scripps Career 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.
Read MoreSmall Bowl with a Big Story
A small porcelain bowl was given in December 2007 to Scripps College 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.
Read MoreSelf-designed majors define themselves
Declaring a major is a process that requires a bit of questioning, experimentation, and a few pitfalls along the way. As much as some students wish they could remain “undeclared” a while longer, there is a turning point where one is expected to magically realize their purpose in life — at the end of sophomore year, to be exact, when students turn in their declaration forms.
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