News Releases (page 68)


February 9, 2007

Judith Arcana Reads Her Feminist Poetry

Feminist activist and poet Judith Arcana will read from her new book What if your Mother, on February 20, at 4:15 p.m., in the Balch Auditorium, Scripps College.

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Romantic Piano Masterworks: A Faculty Recital Featuring Hao Huang

The Scripps College Department of Music presents a faculty recital with pianist and Professor of music Hao Huang on Sunday, February 18, at 3 p.m. in the Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center.

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February 2, 2007

Dance Company Casebolt and Smith Present Popped!

Popped!, an evening of dance developed and performed by Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith of Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company will be held Friday February 16, and Saturday February 17, at 7 p.m. in the Richardson Dance Studio, Scripps College.

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February 1, 2007

Molly Ivins, 62, columnist and raconteur

Author and newspaper columnist Molly Ivins died January 31 at the age of 62. Ivins, a student at Scripps during the 1962-63 academic year, passed away at her Austin, Texas, home after a long bout with inflammatory breast cancer.

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January 31, 2007

Sandra Tsing Loh To Visit Scripps

Sandra Tsing Loh, the star of NPR’s, “The Loh Down on Science” and “The Loh Life,” comes to Scripps as a visiting professor of writing for a semester, beginning January 2007.

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January 29, 2007

Spring Semester Tuesday Noon Lectures

The Spring Semester Tuesday Noon Academy, a series of lunchtime lectures at Scripps College, features distinguished alumnae, professors, students, and guests. Lectures begin at 12 p.m. in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons, Scripps College.

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January 26, 2007

Changing the World One Loaf at a Time: College Student Devises Her Own Recipe for Global Service, Expands to Colleges Nationwide

Two years ago, Scripps College senior Elisabeth Winkelman used her now famous recipe for baking challah bread to raise money for victims of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. Her program, Challah for Hunger, is expanding to campuses across the nation, including NYU, Smith College, University of Rochester, and University of Texas at Austin, with more to come, and has received recognition from Elie Wiesel and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of England.

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January 19, 2007

“L.A. Palimpsest: Recovering Los Angeles’ Hidden Stories and Forgotten Communities”

The Scripps College Humanities Institute begins its spring 2007 program, “L.A. Palimpsest: Recovering Los Angeles’ Hidden Stories and Forgotten Communities,” with an opening lecture “Landscape of Soul: Hollywood, Watts, and Beyond,” on Tuesday, January 23, at 7:30 p.m. with poet and performance artist Wanda Coleman in the Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center.

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January 12, 2007

Scripps College’s Ceramic Annual 2007 Exhibition

The 63rd Scripps College Ceramic Annual, on view at Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College from Saturday, January 20 through Sunday, April 8, is the longest running exhibition of contemporary ceramics in the United States.

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Mallarmé Symposium and Two Exhibitions Commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the Scripps College Press

Scripps College will host a panel of noted book arts scholars and artists at the Frederic W. Goudy Symposium on Saturday, January 27. The day-long symposium will examine the lasting impact that the 19th-century French poet Mallarmé has had on book artists throughout the 20th century.

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