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1987 Spring-Participant • • p a r t I c I a n t Pitzer College Spring, 1987 From the President Your alma mater enters the spring 1987 ali ve wi th important issues that involve the entire community. Among the most exciting aspects of Pitzer is that members of the community engage in issues of substance in open forums. Often the iss ues are a localized version of a nati onal issue. The recent attacks on education funding at the national level come at a time when we at Pitzer are focusing considerable energy on our own fi nancial condition. Few, if any, colleges as young as Pitzer can boast of a financi al picture as bright. Yet with approximately 50 percent of our students requiring financial assistance, and with a decrease in the percentage contribution from federal and state sources, all of us in the Pitzer community need to constantly search for new funding opportunities. Therefore, I am particularly excited that Carl Bandelin has joined Pitzer as the executive director of development. You can read more of Carl's background in this issue of Participant. Suffice it here to say that I hope you will get to know Carl and follow hi s activities with interest. He is a consummate professional with a Claremont background and broad experience in education, particularly in development. With all best wishes to you for 1987, all of us invite you back to Pitzer. I am confident you will find your alma mater growing stronger and continuing to make that special contribution to higher education that has become a Pitzer tradition. Sincerely, ~'I~Mtt Frank L. Ellsworth President and Professor of Political Studies. 2&3 Inside Story Thomas ligen Advice from Werner Warmbronn A Passage to India started nine years ago.) The The Dutch Institute for War Susan Seymour will be highlight was not only Docwnentation has recently spending her sabbatical this term contacting all 25 but seeing their publIshed what's being termed in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India, remarkable health and kindness. I "the definitive edition ofthe where, for the past two decades, also had a chance to visit with Anne Frank Diary." They were she has been studying changing Jamie Orlikoff, '76, his wife, aided in their efforts by Werner family organization and child­ Anita (Scripps, '76), and their Warm brunn, who served on the rearing practices. In addition to young daughters. It is exciting to International Advisory finding out what has happened see how life goes on for people Committee to the Institute. to all "her children" since she last you met years earlier. These follow-ups make me appreciate Places To Go. Papers To Present. saw them eight years ago, professor Seymour will begin once more how good Pitzer is, at And you think your December collecting intensive interviews of educating and as a set of relationships between students was rushed I Dan Segal's women from different anthropological explorations generations in an attempt to and faculty. kept him on the go starting understand the different ''Also, I managed to have two December 5 when he chaired and perspectives of the women on the papers accepted this fall for the participated in a session and great changes that have occurred 1987 meetings of the Society for presented a paper entitled "The recently in their region ofIndia. Research in Child Development, Past in Trinidad's Present: Seymour reported on some of the and was invited to do a chapter Colonial Traces in Nation­ changes and how they have, or on mentors' and parents' role in Building Now," at the 85th have not, affected family life guiding giftedness. Annual Meeting of the American when she traveled to Istan bullast "Lastly, I've begun a project Anthropological Association. summer for the International within my long-term research. It Shortly after his return from the Congress of Cross-Cultural consists of interviewing meeting, Segal jetted off to . Psychology. extremely productive and Trinidad to observe the national influential social scientists about What's a ute Worth? elections and continue his their work habits, philosophies research. Practically just off the In addition to his teaching and of career, etc. I suppose the one plane from the Caribbean, Segal traipsing around the globe benefit I've derived from my shifted gears to present a talk on studying the European Economic research is thatI've met a lot of "Courting the Familiar: Community, Harvey Botwin has fine, classy people over the years. Courtship and the Making of found time to devote to yet It can't get any better." New Families in Jane Austen," to another endeavor. Professor Something Worth Talking About the Jane Austen Society of North Botwin has made himself America, Southwest Chapter. His available as an Expert Witness A lot of people have been talk was excerpted from a where he finds himself in the listening to Harry Senn lately. forthcoming book on Austen, co­ center of legal battles as the man Just around Halloween, people authored with Richard Handler who determines the value of from all over the country heard of the University of Virginia. damages, including, but not Harry's comments and insights Now that's one busy December. limited to, injuries, loss of life or on the celebration of Halloween, earning capacity, patent and the tradition of wearing masks, Your Chance To Be A Star other infringements, monopoly and werewolf and vampire The alumni office is doing a or unfair competition industrial legends. And he did it all without leaving Claremont! Thirty-five casting call for showbiz types. labor, public policy aI~d property radio stations from California to The production is big, BIG, disputes. What's a life "worth"? REALLY BIG! It's a fantastic Forensic economist Harvey North Carolina featured Harry as 11l1l11ber featuring a cast of Botwin has all the answers. a Halloween expert. On the day before Halloween and Halloween hundreds - put on by a major, For Your Viewing Pleasure major studio. (Universal mean itself, Harry logged an impressive 22 interviews in anything to you?) Sid Sheinberg, Recent paintings by art two days! head ofUniversal/MCA and professor Daniel Douke were the Pitzer trustee, is the executive focus of a month-long exhibit But, on to another topic. director of this sure-to-be-a-hit held at Tortue Gallery in Santa Harry presented two lectures in February, one to the Orange extravaganza. If you haven't Monica. The exhibit ran early already guessed, it's the Pitzer February through early March County Social Service Agency, and featured a number of and one at California State College Annual Film Benefit, University, Fullerton. The coming to a theater near you in Douke's distinctive large scale subject: "Romania and Eastern May. If you work in the trompe l'oeil works. Europe: Conditions that Cause entertainment industry, we'd like "What I Did This Summer (And Fall Emigration," sponsored by the you to come. (All others And Winter)": A Letter From Cross-Cultural Training welcome, of course! ) If you're Bob Albert Workshop for Human Service interested, or just curious, call Professionals who communicate Central Casting, Meg Wilson, "I had a wonderful sabbatical, with or care for targeted refugee (714) 621-8130. Act now! You'll traveling about the country populations. be a star in our eyes. locating and interviewing one sample of young men in my project. (A study of giftedness and the achievement of eminence Ink Spot The Japan Connection Travels and Travails of U.S. Coal Talking Strategy This March, Japan comes to Kate Rogers, organizational Tom Ilgen's latest book has just Pitzer with the arrival of 36 studies professor, received a hit the stands. Titled Trading students and two professors from favorable review for her new Tech nology: Etwope and Japan in Kwassui Women's College in book US. Coal Goes Abroad: A the Middle East, the book (co­ Nagasaki. It's part of an ongoing Social Action Pel'spective on authored with T. J. Pempel of and educational exchange Intcr01:ganizational NetlVor/1s in Cornell Uni ve rsity and published between Pitzer and Kwassui. The the Academy ofManagement by Praeger Publishers) examines students will be participating in a RevielV, the leading journal for strategies pursued by various program of English language management scholars. European countries and Japan in classes, cultural exchange the sales of high technology A Question of Ethics? seminars, field trips and lectures products to oil-rich Middle East from Pitzer faculty that will "Should Feminists Oppose nations. Ilgin's research for the include Al Wachtel an d Ann Prostitution?" is the subject and book was originally done for the Stromberg. The students live title of a paper by philosophy Office of Technology Assessment with local families during their professor Laurie Shrage. The and the Congress in Washington. visit, and 10 Pitzer students will work was recently accepted for The project was undertaken in be working as cross-cultural publication by Ethics. Shrage's the hope of offering policy discussion leaders for the treatise examines opposing prescriptions for American program. This coming summer, feminist stances on mercenary sex exporters of high technology the College will host students in and proposes an alternative products. similar programs during July and analysis of female prostitution - Dan Wards Double Identity August. Want to kn ow more? one which appeals less to Contact Special Programs or the universal norms of human Dan Ward's now wearing two Program in American College sexuality and more to beliefs and hats for the academic journal English for International principles which give Political Psychology. This past fall Students (PACE) at (714) prostitution its significance in he was appointed to the editorial 621-8104 or (714) 621-8000, our society.
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