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Pitzer Fall 1986 Table of Contents

1 From the President

2 From the Alumni Council

3 The Inside Story

5 Ink Spot

6 Learning Continues

8 The Censureship, Banning,

and Burning of Books in

America

10 Run Spot. Run!

10 A Pinch of Black Cats

and Stepping on Cracks

12 Harvard's Appeasement

13 Calendar

14 The Scoop

The Magazine Fall 1986 Volume 21, Number 1

Participant (USPS 970-280) is published quarterly by Pitzer College, 1050 North Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA 9171l. Second class postage paid at Claremont, CA 9171l. Editor: Chandre Kipps '85 Design: Cinnamon Design Typography: Via Type Printing: Kellow Brown Company COVER: Photography: Tammy Lavanty '86 Cover, Kenneth Bohannon, Untitled Vessel, 1986 Page 6, Joanne Butera Turner '70. Hand-built, low fire clay illustration: 18xl0x6 Page 10, Rossana M. Lucido From the President

As many of you might know, the opportunity of peace and Pitzer is in the midst of a quiet. MiLximizing privacy and "Campus Renovation Program." increasing natural lighting are two The clamour of jackhammers, of our highest goals. Construction concrete saws, and the smell of is scheduled to begin during the paint this SlUnmer served to winter vacation. remind us that Phase One had During the SlUnmer, a new carpet begun. was installed in Holden Dorm and There continues to be two the Sanborn living room was priorities the entire commlmity renovated. shares: In addition to these projects is the 1. That all existing facilities are purchase of9.53 acres on the well used before the idea of north side of the existing campus, buiding is considered; and, adjacent to . 2. That students maintain an active This largely undeveloped property role in the process and their includes one of the few remaining needs given the highest priority. lmdisturbed areas of coastal sage This past year, the Community and chaparral in the immediate Resources Committee identified vicinity of the . While the need for the renovation of the long range plans would allow for study rooms in all three dorms. its eventual use for campus New desks and chairs, and the development, in the absence of a modification of several of the specific plan the College Space studyrooms into typing and band Committee has recommended that practice rooms, are just some of the natural area be preserved in its the ways we are attempting to existing state. meet student needs. In conclusion I would also like to The Reading Room in Mead Hall announce the appointment of Carl is one of the places of greatest Bandelin as Executive Director of change. The room will be Development. He will be in expanded to double the current charge of all development occupancy to allow more students programs of the College and will report directly to me. Mr. Bandelin comes to Pitzer from Yale where he was Senior Development Officer. He received his B.A. from Pomona, an M.A. from University of , Riverside, and his Ph.D. in English from Yale. I look forward to introducing him further in the next issue of Participant. Sincerely, ~ ';(~~ Frank L. Ellsworth President and Professor of Political Studies 2&3

From the Alumni Council

Alumni-Admission Committee Regional Programs Committee Alumni-Faculty Interactions Committee

Camille Lombardo '71 Sandy Segal '78 Linda Powers Leviton '74 Anita Ortega-Oei '75 Carolyn Wright '73 Peter Nardi Chuck Diaz '75 Ellin Ringler-Henderson We are happy to report the There are currently three The Alwnni-Faculty Interaction overwhelming success of the 1986 regions of the country that are Committee of the AllU11lli COlU1Cil Alumni-Admission New Student providing activities for graduates works to facilitate cOirunlU1ication receptions that were held in Los and former students. This past and interactions bet\veen allU11lli Angeles, , and San swnmer, the Northern California and Pitzer faculty members. In the Diego. At our Alwnni Club, with the superb past this has generally asswned the reception, more than 150 direction of Carol Kruidenier form of haphazard invitations to prospective students and their Luery '78 and her husband, events and, for the past ten years, a parents visited with faculty, Michael (Pomona), a most small fanfare over tl1e Annual administrators, and ten allunni successful raft trip and picnic were Alwnni Academic Excellence vollU1teers at the Bonaventure held in Sacramento for Pitzer and Award. Things have recently Hotel. Plans are currently being Pomona allunni. The American improved, however. We've had two finalized to host similar receptions River proved to be an able enthusiastic representatives to the in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and challenge for more tl1an 50 Alwnni COlU1Cil: last year Ruth Chicago in early 1987. If any participants - 32 of them from Munroe and Ellin Ringler­ alwnni are interested in Pitzer! Plans are in the works right Henderson, and this year Ellin participating in these enjoyable now for a visit to both Sacramento will continue with the addition of evenings, please contact one of us and San Francisco by President Peter Nardi. Ellen and Ruth through the Alwnni Office. Ellsworth and possibly a surprise periodically reported alwnni news Paul Ranslow, Dean of faculty guest! Nortl1ern California to the faculty at College COlU1Cil Admission, recently reported that alumni should watch for an meetings, faculty received letters applications to Pitzer have invitation to this November event. and invitations to local events on a dramatically increased in tl1e past On October 24th the Chicago regular basis, and specific faculty t\vo years, but that his staff can use Regional Alwnni Club sponsored members were targeted to receive the help of alumni to continue this a Career Net\Vorking evening at personal invitations to some of upward trend. We are planning the home of Jill Minderhout our events. The response was very to expand the alumni role in Baskin '77. An Alwnni-Admission positive, and communication, in recruiting qualified students by New Student reception is planned general, continued to increase as inviting for February 1987, and a the Academic Excellence Award alumni to participate in tl1e "On committee of Chicago area alumni Task Force (Ellin Ringler­ Campus Day" for prospective will be developing plans for a Henderson, Werner Warmbrunn, students that will be held in April, Family Picnic in early July. Our Tom Ilgen, Sandy Segal, Linda 1987. In addition, some alwnni club organizers in Chicago would Leviton, and Meg Wilson) will be asked to participate in love your input on these proposed reviewed faculty sentiments about special minority on-campus days. programs, as well as suggestions the future of the award. One of One major project for our for others. So, speak up! the outcomes of the srudy is that committee this year is developing The Southern California faculty would like to interact with a packet of information that will Alwnni Club is very busy! alumni but that they wish to be be available to any graduate Upcoming events include an recognized as a whole. So, folks, who would like to share their "evening with faculty" lecture and look for a special faculty event in knowledge of Pitzer with tl1e local reception in the fall; a special early February that will include high school, guidance counselor, get-together of former Pitzer faculty, alumni, and maybe even or prospective srudents in tl1eir presidents Atherton and Atwell some past Pitzer presidents. We'll geographic area. You'll be hearing and current President Ellsworth, be sending more information later more about these packets as they for an overview of Pitzer from past in the year. become available. In the to present and a tribute to the meantime, please contact the faculty, in the spring; and a career Alumni Office if you are interested exploration night geared toward in any of these activities - or have our graduating seniors (and some additional suggestions. always-on-the-move graduates). Activities being discussed by the Club are a "mystety" evening or weekend, theatre evening at the newly reopened Pasadena Playhouse, ski trip, and rafting trip (the Northern California Club one sounded so great!). Let's hear some new ideas from new people - we'd love your participation in planning as well as your attendance. Inside Story

Alumni Annual Fund Committee Ann Stromberg Gets Back to Basics Ann Stromberg, professor of sociology, made a special journey Madeline Pinsky Walker '73 this past SlUllmer into the world of Scott A. Citron '77 traditional healing. Stromberg spent a week on a Navajo Indian The 1986-87 fund raising year reservation on a study tour with a will be a major depamlre from our group of healthcare providers. The previous efforts. This year, for the group examined the traditional first time, we will be employing healing practices of the Indians the services of current Pitzer and how the health benefits of the students as some of our practices are being acknowledged flUldraisers . The reasons for tllis and accepted by the modern change are two-fold. First of all, healthcare practitioners who work by utilizing student callers we can with the Indians. As part of the increase the munber of calling tour, Stromberg went herb hours to almost 1000 per year. gathering with an Indian medicine This will enable tlle College to man and was struck by the beauty reach a major portion of our of the Indian rituals and the almnni population. respect and gratitude the Indians Secondly, tlle students will be show to the healing benefactor - able to keep the allUl1I1i much the earth. Stromberg plans to use better informed about what is her experiences to enrich the happening on campus. The mood course she teaches in medical of the campus, the educational sociology. direction of faculty and programs, Laurie Shrage Has the Write Stuff as well as all of the "intangibles" that make Pitzer tlle great place Laurie Shrage, assistant that we all remember, can best be professor of philosophy, has been described by a student who is busy at the typewriter. Two papers currently a part of tlle conunlUlity. by Shrage will soon be coming We will still be sponsoring into print. One, entitled "Some allUl1I1i phonathons, as well as Implications of Comparable utilizing the vollUlteer services WOrtll," will appear in the Spring of a generous group of almnni as 1987 volmlle of Social Theory and members of tlle Almnni Annual Practice. The other, entitled Fund Conunittee: Lisa Bridges "J ames Sterba on Nuclear '80, Susan Brock '70, R. Ruben Deterrence," will be published in Gallegos '85, Ed Hernandez '75, Peace and Change this fall. In Tacy Hess '86, Deborall Bach addition, Shrage will be reviewing Kallick '78, Kim McDonald '72, a new book, "Feminism and Cheryl Murray '77, Jon Parro '82, Political Theory" (Evans, et all for Michel Raviol '85, Davy a forthcoming issue of Ethics. . Rosenzweig '75, Bruce Ross '72, Polly Pechstedt Gets Selective Andrea Sklar Sidorow '82, and Janet Caffardo Yoss '70. When it comes to the annual We hope that this new student convention of tlle American focus helps to make you feel just a Psychological Association, Polly little bit closer to Pitzer, as well Pechstedt, assistant professor of as raising more money for the psychology, plans to get pretty College. As always, we appreciate selective. Pechstedt was recently and welcome your feedback. named chairperson of the selection cOl1U11ittee for Division 40 (Clinical Neuropsychology) oftlle convention. Professor Pechstedt Yo.u'll be hearing more from the and her committee will review all otller committees of the Almnni submissions in neuropsychology Council in tlle next issue: AllUTIni­ and select those to be presented at Student Interactions Committee, the 1987 New York convention. chaired by Maggi Klassen '69 and She will also be inviting guest Susan Coes '84, and our new speakers and planning symposia conunittee charged witll for the meeting. developing career networking programs, in conjunction with Pitzer's Career Resources Director Barbara Bixby, and chaired by Joanne Butera Turner '70. 4&5

Pitzer's in the Pilot Seat Elfin, Emily, Alumni, and school, where idealistic young Existentialism people who have learned to solve The five-college Office of Black problems with mathematical Student Affairs has chosen Pitzer This fall and precision confront the 'profound to pilot its new Faculty Advocate Pitzer got together for a uncertainties inherent In medlCll1e. Program for Black Students. Al celebration - specifically, "Emily It helps them cope. Segal was Bloom, dean of faculty; Consuela Dickinson: A Celebration for exposed to medical school hlUnor Lewis, dean of the Office of Black Readers." Ellin Ringler­ up close as a participant-observer Student Affairs; Agnes Jackson, Henderson, a Pitzer English at a prestigious Midwestern . professor of English; and Jane professor, was right in the thick medical school while researching Holcombe, dean of students, are of things, from organizing to his dissertation. involved in the preliminary participating in panel discussions planning of this volunteer. devoted to interpreting indIVIdual Really Out of This World program - and they're excIted poems. Former Pitzer professors Jimmy Kang, a Pitzer senior about the possibilities and proud Maurya Simon and Marcia and biology major, was one of 30 that Pitzer was selected as the pilot Falk also took part in the top college students from arol~d institution. The program is "Celebration." From all aCCOllnts, tlle country selected to spend SL,( designed to promote close mentor the working conference was a weeks of his SlUnmer at the relationships benveen Pitzer terrific and enlightening Kennedy Space Center. While faculty and Pitzer Black students collaboration. there he learned how space life and to help them have a positive And, on the topic of science experiments are developed academic experience. collaboration, we would be remiss for and operated aboard the space not to mention that Ringler­ Synchronicity shuttle. As Kang found out, there Henderson and Glenn Goodwin, are plenty of differences in tlle Dave Furman, ceramist and professor of sociology, are . features of life science experiments professor of art, received a 1986- together in the classroom agall1. conducted in a micro-gravity 87 National Endowment for the After a hiatus of four years, the environment and those done in an nvo are team-teaching the Arts Interclisciplinary Fellowship Earth-based laboratory. And with for a collaborative project in which Existentialism class . all the lectures and presentations he and poet Alex Caldiero will And, a special note from Ellin: by astronauts and leading create an 1800 square foot "ruin" "I'd like to say how pleased I authorities in various branches of that will be "unearthed" next am to be serving as faculty life sciences and space flight spring in Main Gallery of the Salt representative to the Alumni operations, it was not exactly a Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, COllncil for a second year. I've typical vacation. But Kang's back Utah. The installation "will pull really enjoyed the experience!" down to eartll and once again In together elements of past, present, The Funny Bone's Connected to the classrooms of Pitzer. and future and present them the . .. ? synchronistically," explains You Gatta Love 'Em Furman. It will be an extension When Medical World NeJVs (the Thanks, thanks, thanks! to the of a current body of work newsmagazine of medicine) alumni who put Pitzer into the comprised of miniature ceramic wanted to get the straight scoop top 19 percent nationally in archaeological digs that measure on what's fimny and what's not in "allUnni giving to private about lO-inches by 12-inches by medicine, they called on Dan coeducational colleges with lll1der 18-inches. Furman, Caldiero, and Segal, assistant professor of 10,000 allUns." Yes, Pitzer was Gayle Weyher, project coordinator, anthropology. The article, entitled named a finalist in the 1986 will work together to look Into the "The Anatomy of Coping: CASEIU.S. Steel AllUnni Giving past in an attempt to find answers Medicine's FlU1I1Y Bone," was Incentive Awards. We're glad you to present and future dilemmas. published in the July 14 issue of care. Onward and upward. And looking into the recent the magazine: past, a suite of trompe l'oeil works, An old psychiatrist and a young An Encore Performance ''The Act of Drawing," by psychiatrist leave the office togethel' Mathematics is more than Furman, was exhibited in the at the end ofa long day The older nlUnbers' it has been involved in Allan Stone Gallery in New York. man is dapper and has not a hair major debates about thought, And jumping to the near future, out ofplace. The young doctor is politics, and religion. That's tlle Furman's work with miniature totally unkempt and frazzled. premise of an address that math "ruins" will be on display at «HolV can you be in such great historian Judith Grablner gave to the Fisher Gallery at USc. The shape after a whole day oflistening the International Congress of show, "Small Scale Sculptures to people spill out their deepest, Mathematics this past slUruner, Addressing the Urban most ;;rut-wrenchin;;r problems?» and again this fall at a Environment/L.A.," will open the young guy asllS. "So who November 5 and run through listens?)) replies the veteran. December. Accorcling to Segal this off brand of humor is developed in medical The Inkspot

Mathematics ColloquiLUTI here in Ron Rubin Delivers the Goods really been up to is writing, . Claremont. "The Centrality of editing, and the general busllless "Emotion and Interpretation" Mathematics in the History of of scholarship. was the topic of the paper Ron Western Thought" is the title of Professor Brenneis is the author Rubin, associate professor/hIstory her talk and a big topic of of an article, "Shared territory: of ideas, delivered to the discussion in the courses she audience, indirection, and . HlUTIanities CollegilUTI at The teaches on "Mathematics and tl1e meaning," which will appear III Claremont Graduate School. And World" and "The History of a special Fall, 1986 Issue of TEXT continuing with the CGS Mathematics. " on The Audience as Co-Author, connection, Rubin completed a which he co-edited with Sandro What Do You Know That We textbook, Formal Logic: A Model of Duranti. In addition, he will Don't Know? English, with CGS professor be presenting a paper, Charles Young. The book WIll be Did it take you years to figure "Decontextualization and published next year by Holt,. out where you fit into a career of Recontextualization in Legal Rinehart, and Wlllston. Rublll , social and political change? Good! Discourse," in the symposilUTI, also did a translation of Descartes Then you're just the person Rethinking "Context": Language as Meditations on First Philosoph)\ Barbara Bixby, director of career an Interactive Phenomenon, at the which was published last. year resources and Jessica Thayer, annual meeting of the American by Arete Press (in a pubhshmg assistant director of alumni Anthropological Association to be company of which he is president) relations, are looking for. They're held in PhiladelphIa. . . and has been included in an planning a conference on careers This fall Professor Brennels IS anthology, Introduction to in social and polItical change for the Scholar-in-Residence, teaching Philosophy: Classical and the spring of 1987, and they're a seminar on Words and Music Contemporary Readings, edited by hoping you will make yourself which focuses on the similarities John Perry and Michael Bratman available to current students who and differences between language (Oxford University Press, 1986). would appreciate your ideas, and music as communicative In that same anthology appear expertise, and experience. processes. The bulk of what's left selections from Rubin's translation The plan is for panels, lectures, of his time is spent working on a of St. Anselm's Proslogion and and open discussion. If you'd hke book on music and emotion. St. Thomas's Summa Theologica. to be a speaker, an orgamzer, or to A Woman's Place Is at the Office? contribute time and Ideas III omer From Pitzer to Peru ways, Barbara and Jessica would ''Women and Work: An Annual When New Resources student sure appreciate your Illput. Review," co-edited by sociology and history major Edna Teninty Barbara Bixby can be reached at professor Ann Stromberg, along investigated the link betv/een (714) 621-8000, extension 2803, wim Laurie Larwood and Barbara U.S. conservative religious and Jessica Thayer can be reached Gutek was written-up this past organizations and the anti­ at (714) 621-8130. It can't happen in a New Yor/I Review of Sandanista "contra" movement sUll1ill~r without you. Boo/IS article on women at work. in Nicaragua for a class p:oject, Anomer volume of the review is she didn't anticipate that It would scheduled for printing at Sage be published in Peru. The course Publications. was Dan Ward's United States Foreign Policy: Central America and Teninry's artICle, entItled "U.S. Religious Right Lends Financial, Propaganda Clout to Contra Cause," was pubhshed III Latinamerica Press, a weekly magazine published out of Lima, Peru. More Than Just a Pretty Voice In addition to "nattering about on me radio" (as Professor Brenneis refers to me 30-or-so radio interviews he has done across me country this fall on me topic of superstition) what he's 6&7

Learning Continues

Perspiration dripping from my nose, I stand in a cloud forest amid mosses, ferns, and tree tops. At my feet is a clearing, perhaps 12 feet in diameter, where the leaves and twigs which litter the ground have been removed by a male Argus Pheasant in preparation for his mating dance. Ah ha! A feather, brown and gold, with nine eyes patterned up its shaft - yes, he danced and left this behind. I look upward, my eyes called by the cries of a troop of gibbons. moving across my trail. Are they aware of me? A few large seed pods and dead branches fall as the primates shake the upper limbs in passing. Luckily, I'm 20 feet away and am not in danger of being hit by the falling debris, the greatest hazard in this jungle. Having climbed about 2800 feet above a base camp nestled deep in the rain forest below, I look outward over the lush green canopy to the Java Sea in the west. No one has ever walked from where I stand to that shore, across this natural and wild land. Although my body is tired from the climb (the trail is marked without switchbacks to reduce disturbance to trees and plants), my senses are keen and my mind is racing to understand all I see and hear and feel. I stop to record calls from a Helmuted Hornbill and an Argus Pheasant, just after the passage of the three gibbons. It is 12:20 p.m., time for my second snack break. I've been walking since 6:00 a.m., winding my way along slippery trails marked only by tree tags. I am careful not to grab vines, conveniently hanging from nearby trees, to help myself along for fear of calling wildlife attention to myself. I am here to observe their presence and behavior, not to disrupt them. Why are the trees up here smaller and less dense than those along the rivers and in tl1e swamps below? Why do some trees produce only a few giant fruit while others make tl10usands of soft skinned, sweet delicacies? Why do some of tl1e primates and birds prey on seeds while others Joanne Butera Turner '70 (seated in boat) explored the jungles of Borneo during a research expedition with Earthwatch.

eat only the fruit and discard the 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Yes, I've At the last river crossing before seeds? What forces have compelled chosen to trudge for hours camp I ilOtice I have a little time the evolutionary process to through the muck of swamps up left before nightfall. I remove my balance the plants and wildlife, to my hips and to be startled pack and boots and delight in a ensuring the nurturing and hourly by unexpected sights and brief swim among the worn and reproduction of each species? sounds. I've also chosen to delight slippery boulders. The mud Perhaps the data I collect will help in two weeks of the most colorful, washes from my clothes and skin; untangle these complex issues. fascinating, and spectacular place I tiny fish nibble the few leaches still I am on the equatorial island might ever visit. The primitive attached to my pants. I float witl1 Borneo, about 80 miles upstream beaury and namral harmony leaves my feet balanced against a rock, from the nearest planes, me fulfilled most every minute. looking upward toward the telephones, and refrigeration. My smdies at Pitzer, and later in verdant canopy. Again I am Instead of a "look and visit" graduate school, provided me with rewarded by seeing a small green vacation, I have volunteered two tools to observe, understand, and heron, several metallic blue weeks of my talents and strength enjoy tl1e world. I learned how to butterflies, and a chattering to a research expedition headed by ask questions and how to develop Prevost squirrel in the branches Dr. Mark Leighton, a biologist/ hypotheses, and maybe even to overhead. No need to dry off ecologist from Harvard Universiry. find an occasional answer. before continuing toward camp His work is sponsored by grants Swnmer jobs and internships since it looks like I'll be caught from the National Science honed my skills and sharpened my in a SW1set rain anyway. But I do FOlmdation, National Geographic, inquisitiveness. Now, midstream take a minute to make some more the NY Zoological Society, and in a satisfYing career as a notes of time and place and EarthWatch, a non-profit management consultant, it is time species and behavorial organization which matches to become an explorer and observations. It has been a vollmteers like myself with adventurer, to nourish life's beautiful and successful day. research expeditions. continual learning process. I Refreshed, I'm ready for a hearty My qualifications? Well, I can teach my clients to survive and, Indonesian dinner and lots of walk and write and observe and indeed, to thrive in their work story telling about the adventures organize data I am enthusiastic environments, redefining of my teanm1ates. and flexible and very curious organizations, roles, and Irvine, CA. February 1986. about my world. My preparation? relationships for the success of alL Where will I go next? Perhaps to I read all the materials which I am always alert for opportlmities Belize to dive and collect coral Earth Watch and my principal to develop myself too. This on the reef; perhaps to North investigator provided (academic Earth Watch expedition offers the Carolina to study black bears; articles on forest primates, tropical perfect challenge. to Hawaii to teach dolphins forest ecology, interactions I suppose it is time to begin my language; or to Brazil to videotape between vertebrates and fruiting descent of this mOlmtain and local col11lmmiry festivals. trees) and paged through field rejoin the team from Harvard and Earth Watch provides about 100 guides on tropical birds, primates, my nine fellow Earth Watch choices this year, fully tax­ plants and travel guides to volunteers. Slillset is unmerciful at deductible experiences of a Indonesia. My equipment? the equator, providing total lifetime. There's still so much to Vietnam issue boots, jungle green darkness in about ten minutes. It learn, so much to give. I'll be a pants, T-shirts, and canvas would be almost impossible to Pitzer shldent forever, no doubt! backpack; a pocket knife, Casio follow the scant trail signs after diving watch, compass, camera, dark, and the thought of sleeping Joanne Butera Turner '70 and binoculars. What did I expect? on tl1e leach and insect infested To learn about an equatorial rain ground is chilling. More gibbons forest, to observe bizzare wildlife, and a red leaf monkey, three and, of course, to challenge and more species of horn bills and two enjoy myself by experiencing as fi ve-foot wing span fruit bats, a completely as possible this wild foot long red centipede, six environment. I am paying for the clusters of mushrooms and other pri':,.ilege of wading across streams observations are entered in my log with pythons and banded kraits as I return to camp. (one bite and I might have three minutes to live) , for the tickle of leaches inching their way on my skin, for sleeping on a wooden platform perched out of reach of most insects, for enduring three or more deluges each day, and crossing waist-deep streams from 8&9

The Censorship, Banning, and Burning of Books in America

The recently released Meese Vermont in 1980 and 1981 much too rarely in contemporary Corrunission Report on because it "contained obscene American society. Further, tlle pornography is not an isolated language and it used the Lord's spectre of a United States event. Rather, it is the logical name in vain." F. Scott Fitzgerald's Supreme Court led by Justice extension of developments The Great Gatsby was withdrawn Rhenquist, with brotherly occurring over the past decade in from school libraries along with assistance from recently confirmed American society. While the Meese 32 other books in Wisconsin in Justice Scalia, does not bring great Corrunission attempted to deal 1981 because they allegedly comfort to those interested in with "pornography," which they "portrayed obscenity and had no protecting First Amendment were unable to define, the literary value," and even the rights, The censoring and/or censorship of books, magazines, dictionary was removed from a banning of books, particularly at and classic works of literamre has high school library in Folsom, the public school level, generally increased at an alarming rate. California, in 1984 and since occurs in such a surreptitious way According to an editorial in a 1977, has been banned from Texas that most of the public is unaware 1984 issue of the Los Angeles classrooms because of objections it is even happening. Tim es, a national survey conducted to the inclusion of "vulgarisms" Typically, what happens is that a in 1977 indicated that 34% of like "French kiss" and the group of parents and/or local the public schools responding definition of "bed" as a transitive clergy petition tlleir school boards reported attacks on materials in verb! A book entitled Mal/ing It to censor and/or ban books or their libraries and that by 1982 the WIth Mademoiselle was banned by otller materials they find percentage reporting such artacks a Louisiana school board simply "offensive," and the school boards, had increased to 56%. A recent on the basis of its title (tlle book perceiving themselves as report on censorship issued by the is a how-to pattern book for "responsive to the constimency People For The American Way dressmaking smdents), and a that elected them," unilaterally indicated that for the 1983-84 group of ministers and church rule in favor of such requests. The school year attempts to remove, members representing the Moral way the rest of the public generally alter, or restrict student access to a Majority managed to get Doris discovers the elimination and/or variety of educational materials Day: Her Own Story removed from restriction of such materials is only were reported in 48 ofthe 50 school libraries in Alabama in when they or their children visit states. A 1983 editorial in the 1984 because it was believed to tlle school library in search of a Daily Journal of Minnesota be "ungodly and obscene." A particular book or magazine. And reported 17 documented cases of particularly pernicious form of even then, the public (and book or record burnings from censorship occurred during the oftentimes teachers tllemselves) 1981-83, including the burning of 1983-84 school year in have been reluctant to pursue issues of the Ladies Home Journal Minneapolis when it was censorship issues into tlle courts. and Lawrence Welk records. The discovered that the publishers What is frightfully clear from Washington Coalition Against themselves (Scott, Foresman and materials I have researched this Censorship recently reported that Company) explmged what they past year is that book censorship is since 1982, dozens of books have (the publishers) alledged was on the increase in America, and it been challenged in that state's "sexually explicit material" from is a quality of censorship that most public schools. It is clear that Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Americans, were they aware it is over the past decade the moral and similarly, in 1981, Doubleday happening, would find repugnant. entrepreneurs have been active in Publishers purposely omitted the For the censorship, book banning, attempting to delineate not only word "evolution" from a widely and burning of which I write has what we and our children can read used biology textbook in New nothing to do with what is but what we can have access to in Mexico because they (the typically called "pornography" or public libraries . . publishers) wanted to "avoid the "smut." Rather, what is lmder The books, magazines, and publicity that would surround a attack in our society are major other curricular materials that so controversy." Both ofthese works of literamre, many of them horrify these moral entrepreneurs publisher-censored texts remained classics, as well as mainstream include attempts to ban Anne as part of the curriculum in magazines and other curricular Frank's Diaryl ofa Young Girl from the schools involved. Even this materials. The explanation as to reading lists and school libraries in necessarily truncated sampling of why this is increasing at this point the state of Washington in 1982 the censorship, banning, and. in our history relates directly to because it allegedly reflected burning of books verifies the the successful coalescence of "inappropriate adolescent health and vitality of the moral power among the radical right in behavior and perpemates the myth entrepreneurs in our midst. American society. [sid] that the holocaust ocurred" While the courts have generally In his classic smdy of tlle power and Steinbeck's The Grapes of upheld First Amendment rights elite in America during the 1950's wrath, ,banned from high school when they have become involved C. Wright Mills wrote: English,classes in Iowa and with censorship/book banning cases, in order for the courts to issue such rulings, they need to have the cases brought before them, a development that occurs "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should be left there. " Clare Booth wee House today. A former movie celebrity who, by mastering the mechanics for which that celebrity women's rights are relegated to a prepared him, has effectively political sneer, an epoch in which articulated a conservative ideology the power structure sees no America - a conservative country and, further, has promoted the constitutional contradiction in without any conservative idealogy institutionalizing of that ideology. advocating state-supported - appears now before the world a Similar conservative forces in institutions mandating prayer naked and arbitrary power, as, in the decade ofthe 1950's that so among its school children, an the name of realism, its men of preoccupied Mills have re-emerged epoch in which billions of dollars decision enforce their often this past decade; the difference for military spending take priority crackpot definitions upon world benveen the 1950's and the 1980's over the rights of the elderly, the reality. The second-rate mind is in is, in essence, the difference handicapped, and the poor, and an command of the ponderously benveen Eisenhower and Ronald epoch in which it is considered spoken platitude . .. Those who sit Reagan. It is the difference, "llloral" and "right" and in the seats of the high and the respectively, benveen failing to "American" to prevent our yOLillg mighty are selected and formed by master the "mechanics of people from being "contaminated" the . .. sources of wealth, the celebrity" and mastering them in by John Steinbeck, Anne Frank, or mechanics of celebrity, which a manner Lillparalleled in our the dictionary. History has prevail in their society . .. history. Utilizing the power of demonstrated time and again that Commanders of power unequalled the Executive branch of our the first priority a totalitarian in human history, they have government, a widely­ regime recognizes, whether from' succeeded within the history, they acknowledged "great the extremes of the right or the have succeeded within the communication," directed and lefi:, is to remove the access its American system of organized assisted now by cunning masters population has to any written irresponsibility. of power manipulation, have work other than what its own collectively been able to structure moral entrepreneurs deem as Mills' words are prophetic. the definition and expression of "correct" and "proper." There are America, since its founding, has the moral tone and climate of frightening indications that we are been a "conservative ideology;" this coLmtry. By flexing their currently moving toward that in our history, never before has ideological clout through judicial threshold. such an ideology been so appointments, their appointments Glenn A. Goodwin institutionalized. For to important commissions (the approximately the last ten years, Civil Rights Commission, the Ed. Note: Professor Goodwin has we have witnessed the emergence FCC, etc.), by utilizing their made television appearances, done and coherence of the radical unbridled power to make numerous radio talk show right in this country, an appointments to the inner circles interviews across the country, and institutionalization that has clearly of power, by setting free their had been the subject of a number received definition by what Mills attorney general to dismantle of newspaper articles on the topic called the "mechanics of celebrity." forty years of progressive of book banning and censorship. While only the sociologically naive legislation, and through their His efforts to spread the word of would attempt to explain a social active solicitation and receipt of an important First Amendment movement by relying solely on unparalleled support from issue contributed to his being the power of a single individual, fundamentalist religious factions named Chapter Activist ofThe all such movements require an in this cOLilltry, the radical right Year (1986) by the American Civil eloquent, even charismatic, has been able to systematically Liberties Union of Southern spokesperson. Such a institutionalize their ideology. California. spokesperson occupies the White American soci~ty is currently in 10& 11

'nuR .\0'\2 nuR A Pinch of Black Cats For some people, even this sentence Is difficult to read . ..

TImothy Brennan's dyslexia was "I was looking for a small The only Friday the 13th of the so intimidating that the 21-year college which also had all the year now safely behind us, we can old Pitzer student almost decided facilities of a large university," he turn our attention to a disquieting against attending college. explains. "When I noticed the question: Has the progress that Brennan worried that his Recording for the Blind studio, introduced the square egg maker reading problem, which turns the that made a big difference." to our society also affected one of written page into an almost Brennan is not without any its hitherto lmtouchables - its indecipherable jumble, would reading skills, but the~' are . superstitions? prevent him from keeping up with minimal. He can read about 15 Such things are on the mind of his courses. pages in three hours, a pace Donald Brenneis, professor of "I really thought it would be too slow for his scholastic anthropology at Pitzer College, impossible for me to survive; the requirements. The slow reading whose expertise includes studying odds seemed very great," he says. also impairs his assimilation of these beliefs, which seek to relate "I thought, 'How can I get by if I the information because there is a cause and effect. can't read as well as the other lack of continuity at that grinding "It is remarkable how durable students?' " pace. superstitions are," he muses. But Brennan has survived and The tapes, however, do have a "Some of them have survived for even excelled because of the few drawbacks. The reading speed centuries." Recording for the Blind program for some is too slow, while others But everything (hopefully not a at the campus' McAlister Center. may be too fast. It also takes time mirror) has its breaking point. Brennan joins other dyslexics to listen to the material, usuallv "Take the old practice of and blind persons at the center, more than a normal reader uses. knocking on wood to ensure that which provides recordings of all Still, it's better than if he were things will keep going well," the sorts ofliteramre, from novels to to try to read it himself. professor says. "It is becoming textbooks. The center provides the service more and more difficult, as wood "It (the center) has allowed me for free, which is fine for Brennan. becomes less and less evident." It to survive in college; it is the key "I don't think I could afford it isn't uncorrunon for someone to to me doing well at Pitzer," if it cost me for each tape," he utter the words, wind up striking Brennan explains. explains. Formica, and frantically search for The center depends mainly on Once he graduates, Brennan the real item, which probably is volwlteer readers who tape books says he will continue to use the going to be particleboard anyway. and try to keep pace with the center. There i also one in Los New superstitions are cropping G needs of visitors. Angeles, he notes. up every day. For instance, if you Brennan, for instance, asks the "It will be nice to have that easy finish this story, you will be happy center to keep pace with his classes access. I think I'll use the centers and healthy the rest of your life. in political science, modern for some time." Baseball has long been a fertile European history, and physics, Mark C. Smith field for superstition: Cubs among others. infielder Glenn Beckert always Brennan says it's sometimes used to touch second base with his difficult getting the tape he needs, left foot en route to his position. but the center is always responsive. Former pitcher Bobo Newsom He often orders a textbook or used to be notorious for picking other reading material from the up every piece of paper he could center and a tape is usually find near the mOlmd. In fact, provided in a week. opponents would drive him nuts "My professors also tell me of by tearing up paper near the hill as other books that might replace they returned to the dugout. the original text if there is any The first thing shortstop Marty I problem," Brennan notes. Marion would do before the first "Sometimes the center already has pitch was find a stone near his that book recorded." position and keep it in his pocket The center is part of a national for the entire game. chain that provides tapes. If the In the era when outfielders left books have been recorded in their gloves on the field between Claremont or at the 28 other innings, Dixie Walker always made centers nationwide, Brennan can sure his was face down. order the tapes from the master Not shaving or not changing library in Princeton, N.]., which clothes during a winning streak, carries 62,270 tapes. not stepping on the foul line, not Brennan prepared for Pitzer by taking a different place on the attending a private high school in bench - all are part of the the San Fernando Valley, where he tradition of the grand old game. lived before moving to the campus But for how much longer? "The dormitories. more uncertain an event, the more consequential the outcome, and and Stepping on Cracks

"Mirrors have been a part of . nonvithstanding, it is magically superstition," the professor says. replaced 'in many families by a "It is the feeling that they are of dollar. another world. I believe the Thus, the value of superstition television writer Rod Serling soon becomes apparent to the sometimes made use of them, young, Brenneis says. ''When kids pulling a person through one and tell a lie, tlley cross their fingers. into another dimension." They do it .all the time. They feel "In many households, whenever this cancels it out." there is a death, all mirrors in the And growing up doesn't change home are covered. Mirrors have things much. "When I was in always had a special kind of grammar school I really believed significance. Ghosts and vampires tllat I shouldn't step on a sidewalk are thought not to appear in crack. Years later, when I was them." headed to take an important exam Altll0ugh in many nations it is in college, I still made it a point felt tlut breaking a mirror not to step on cracks. I was forebodes seven years of bad luck, hedging my bets." the more it might cost a person either the Soviets have no use for Now, as a professor, he comes then the more likely it is that he such trifles or else they are in for across students who take exams .swill have superstitious beliefs," 77,000 years of tough times . only with their lucky pens, or who Brenneis says. "But nowadays, Earlier this year, in a Ukrainian say they wear the same pair of ' ,_ Ii. with the multiyear, guaranteed mirror factory, workers socks during every exam. / 'It" contracts the athletes receive, they intentionally smashed 11,000 Observing it all is a 40-year-old ~ 0. are probably going to be less and defective ones. adult, who is married to the less concerned with superstitions." "The fear of walking lmder Claremont city attorney, who has They might even forget the ladders dates at least to medieval a doctorate in social anthropology war~g of former basketball times in Western Europe," from Harvard, and who admits to center B ill Russell that it is Brenneis says. ''An invisible periodically tucking in his shirt lmlucky to be behind at the end of monster known as a basilisk was when, in fact, "it isn't coming out the game. said to perch on ladders and turn as many times as I try to tuck it Still, the oldies and goodies people who walked underneath to in." carry ' n, such as the time- honored stone. Nowadays, we rationalize. Don't feel smug. Remember the I ~ beliefthat it is bad luck if a black We say that if we walk beneath a wisdom of Francis Bacon that • cat crosses your path. This is ladder, a bucket of paint might fall there is a superstition in avoiding p<\. ~icularly true for mice. on us. Still, there is that nagging superstition. "A sort of intermediate value of remembering of the superstition." Dave Larsen superstitions is that if something The professor says the munber Times Staff'Wi'itel' bad does happen, you have an 13 has long been regarded as ClffJyright, 1986, LosAngeles avenue to figure out why," inauspicious, one reason being Times. Reprinted by pmnission. Brenneis said. "If a black cat is in that in Christianity, the Last tI e driveway when you leave on Supper was anended by 13, of Ed. Note: Professor Brenneis took vaeation, and you return witll a whom one was the betraying "superstition" to the airwaves this dent in fhe fender, you can say: disciple Judas. Indeed, Otis fall, doing over forty radio talk 'Maybe tllere's something to that, Elevator Corporation said a show interviews across the countty after all.' It's a way of not having couple of years ago that 90% of and stopping off in Toronto to do to write it off as just random the new buildings for which it his bit for Canadian National misfortune." does installations don't have a 13th Television. For some people, the educator floor. On the other hand, the says,~ " supersnhmon.. s gIve. a sense American colonies numbered 13, of comfort, and control over the and nobody has ever objected to a world, of being able to make sense baker's dozen. "Furthermore, I of g90d and bad fomme. For know a colleague in anthropology instance, someone who has spilled who deliberately married on the salt, rather than risk bad luck, will 13th, in defiance of the toss a pinch over his shoulder and superstition," Brenneis says. "That feel, well, I dealt with tllat couple has been married 30 years problem." no\v." Then tllere is the thought, He goes on to point out that in Brenneis goes on, that if one most cluhlres, superstition begins doesn't do what is appropriate on at an early age. Exhibit A is any a holiday - perhaps not having child's baby tooth. In America, the turkey on Thanksgiving - the tradition is to put it lmder the occasion is incomplete, and pillow at night and, low inflation something bad may happen as a result. 12& 13

Harvard's Appeasement

I will not tolerate Joel Fields' Sure, Harvard's manunoth egos been so bruised that some of awkward attempt at comparing bureaucracy and uncaring facade is us become compelled to compare the quality process of education disappointing and discouraging. ourselves to Harvard to negate the between Pitzer, Harvard, and Yet, persevering students myth of the Pitzer hoax? Enough! Oxford. Fields' atticle, entitled, surmount these obstacles and Pitzer's strengths are adequate. We "The Harvard Hoax" (Participant, discover that their meritorious need not say more. Swnmer, 1986), reassured my demands are met with the same As an alumnus of both Pitzer conviction that the academic warm nurmrance I received at and Harvard, I assure you no endeavors of irresponsible Pitzer. compelling reason necessitates the smdents will end in tragedy no On a less emotional note, I find need to compare ourselves to matter which educational Fields' "David Horowitz type" of Oxford or Mt. San Antonio instimtion they attend. economic paradigm (which Commlmity College. "Receiving He infers, after one semester, equivocally notes that we invest and integrating" an education is a that Harvard's educational in, purchase, and conswne an long and sometimes mysterious experience positions its smdents education) shallow. For example, process that can take place in the to sit back and passively what standards should smdents best or worst environments, and participate while watching use when" .... demanding an among the most and least superstar professors perform. educational equivalent for their prepared individuals. Citing a philosophy professor's fifty-thousand dollar investment With Pitzer about to celebrate lack of interest toward meeting ... "? its twenty-fifth birthday, our gifts with undergraduates, and a So what is Fields advising his need only consist of our gruesome tenure process, Fields friends, " .. . If you're going to commitment to excellence in finds Harvard not academically spend all of that money on a whatever we do. In doing so, we exciting, deceitful, and w1iversity education ... you assist in the building of a disappointing. Alas, "I felt ought to know who will be reputation in which aspiring cheated," says Fields. delivering the educational goods, students will "ache for an In a sigh of relief, I am briefly and how they will be delivered?" education" at Pitzer as Fields once consoled when he ponders upon Nice; however, he kept tacit on ached for Harvard. sharing culpability for inaction by important attributions as to how Your article angered me, Mr. saying, the educational goods are to be Fields. You preswned incorrectly "Maybe that (being cheated) was received and integrated. when writing, "Pitzer. Does the partially my fault. After all, I was Money plays a small role in the name mean anything to you? process of acquiring (as opposed Pitzer College? Thought not." Yes! the consumer and I should have demanded more of the product I to gaining access to) an education. The name Pitzer means a great was purchasing. " Money only pays for the passage deal to me. Otherwise, I might of our academic itineraries. not have had the opportunity to To my dismay, Fields casts his Thereafter, it is our responsibility make my dreams and nightmares terse deliberation aside and in deciding to be either active or come true at Harvard. continues to describe Harvard as a passive in communicating our In closing, I end with a quote lavish leviathan. But who's kidding educational yearnings to smdents from a man who openly expressed whom? Some of Pitzer's professors and professors. his contempt for having to endure have ice on their shoulders (at Granted, the "smdentlprofessor boredom and frustration as a least this was the case when I learning relationship" may take college student. attended). With regard to Pitzer's longer than one semester to There are few men who do not tenure process, I am sure fierce develop at Harvard, but once love better to give advice than to battles occur producing screams of established the benefits are similar give assistance. injustice by some professors who (and at times greater) to those Henry are told, "no thanks." produced by Pitzer. David Thoreau Class of1837 Nevertheless, it is not fruitful to Harvard contrast Pitzer with Harvard when weaknesses of the latter are the Silverio Calzada, Jr. '80 sole source for comparison. Pitzer has taken enough of that abuse from students of the other . Remember, "Pitzies to bed and Scripsies to wed," or "if you want to improve your grade point average, take some courses at Pitzer?" Have our Calendar

DECEMBER

3 James Galway, flutist, Bridges AuditorilU11, 8:00 PM 6-7 Nutcracker Ballet, Bridges Auditoriwn, 2:30 PM and 7:30 PM 4-6 Madrigal dinners, Marian Miner Cook Athenaewn, CMC 10,12 12 Last day of class for Fall semester

JANUARY 19 Spring semester begins on campus 20 Board ofTrustees Meeting, Founders Room, Pitzer campus, 9:45 AM 22 President's New Student Reception, sponsored by Alunmi and Admission Offices, San Francisco, 7:30 PM 25 Emerson String Quartet, Bridges Auditoriwn, 3:30 PM 27 Alunmi Council Meeting, Pasadena, 7:00 PM 28 President's New Student Reception, sponsored by Alunmi and Admission Offices, Los Angeles, 7:30 PM

FEBRUARY 5 The Chieftains, traditional Irish music, Bridges Auditoriwn, 8:00 PM 7 Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Bridges Auditoriwn, 8: 00 PM 11 President's New Student Reception, sponsored by Alunmi and Admission Offices, Chicago, 7:30 PM 15 The Irish Rovers, Bridges Auditoriwn, 7:00 PM 19-20 Famous People Players, Bridges Auditoriwn, 8:00 PM 27 Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano, Bridges Auditoriwn, 8:00 PM

Special note to the Classes of 1967, 1972, 1977, and 1982: Don't forget to save the dates of May 29,30, and 31, 1987, for your Reunion Weekend. Details will be sent in February, but count on it being a great time - and an opportunity to see your Scripps, CMC, HMC, and CGS friends, too! 14 & 15

The Scoop

CLASS OF 1968 CLASS OF 1972 with the kids these days," he reports. Berween features Bob has JOAN WILSON ANDERSON GABRIELLE DOLPHIN been working in the industrial film (Claremont, California), is now (Piedmont, California), reports, market. "It's very fulfilling, doing headed for a job making money "Since I've started my own industrials. You have so much for the Coro FOlmdation, a business, I've faced the 'biological control over the look and the feel fellowship program for future window closing', and decided to of your projects." Projects have public servants. A graduate have a baby ... no husband but a included "Chain Saws Have of Pitzer with a degree in beautiful bouncing baby boy, Feelings Too!" for Black and psychology, and Johns Hopkins Samuel Benjamin Elliot Dolphin!! Decker, "Asbestos: Safer Than You University with a master's degree I bring the whole of my anthro Think" for the National Insulation in education, Joan began her training and experience to bear in Board, and several promotional work with fund-raising as the rearing the young tike and have films for the Bobby Fiedler for coordinator for the Statue of even found an Ethiopian "mama" Senate group. His next project in Liberty Ellis Island FOlmdation's to care for him once I return to development is a docu-drama on Grass Roots Campaign projects. work. I am working at Children's Dr. Tom Schol, the inventor of In November 1984, she became Hospital in Oakland - office the zinol-pad. And of-course, the western regional director for manager in the Neonatology "Teenage Proctologist IV." the foundation. After two years of Department. Funds that don't JEAN PRINVALE traveling around the western go to child care go into my (Sacramento, California), writes, states, Joan is looking fonvard to entrepreneurial endeavors ... and "After eight exciting years with spending a bit more time with her living expenses. My family the California Senate, it was time two sons, Ryan, 11, and Matt, 13. business is developing a "Mobile to move on. I'm now an analyst PHYLLIS (AHOUVA) 911," a vehicular location device. with the State Department of STEINHAUS (, CA.), It's time has come, it's inevitable Education in the School recently called Werner Warmbrunn ... but seed money is hard to Improvement Program and have to say she had spent three years come by. But Pitzer has taught me loved the challenges of managing in Israel after college. She has stamina ... So on with the good a $300,000 office budget and a 15 year old daughter and is fight. My love to Sheryl Miller ... computerizing 5 years of data and currently a security broker and and Norverta Williams if she is work. I'm now also working on management consultant in San still there." my thesis for a master's in Diego. She also teaches a class in education from Ue. Davis. My career counseling. CLASS OF 1973 thesis is on long-term planning MARILEE CASTENHOLZ models for /colleges CLASS OF 1970 (Carlsbad, California), reports, which is what I hope is my next VIRGINIA HARPER ALLEN "We have just made a move to career stage. I have my own home (San Luis Obispo, California), Carlsbad while my husband, in Sacramento - with its master writes, "LOVED the Participant! Berke, is in graduate school at 'cat' to keep me company - and Bravo! I concur with the survey UCSD. I am busy tending a would love to hear from fellow findings, more on life at Pitzer and flower garden and using the dried Claremonters nearby." careers of Pitzer alums. I am doing flowers in my home craft business. a variety of things: artist (carried I love staying home with my son, CLASS OF 1978 by New Gallery, Santa Barbara), Terence David McKelvey, and the JUDY SPIEGEL (Los Angeles), conservator for a private art crafts are a nice balance to the after having received her graduate collection, art consultant for San demands of an active rwo year degree in Public Health from Luis Obispo Coastal Schools, old." UCLA, worked for three years as grant recipient from State Arts manager of a women's clinic in the Council, and president of the CLASS OF 1975 Los Angeles area. For the past San Luis Obispo County Art HERMINIA CUBILLOS three years, since the first public Association." (Washington, D.C.), is currently funds were awarded, she has been legislative director/senior policy employed with the City of Los CLASS OF 1971 analyst for the National Council of Angeles as director of training for BERNARD KARMATZ La Raza in Washington, D.e. AIDS Project. She is finding this (Claremont, California), is position to be an exciting and currently completing a doctorate CLASS OF 1976 worthwhile endeavor. in psychology at the United ALEX BARNES (, HELEN ASBURY (Cincinnati, States International University. England), is a software engineer Ohio), reports she is beginning a In Claremont he is with an for a multinational and has doctoral program in clinical organization called Spectrum, lived in London for three years. psychology, at Wright State which is an evaluation and He practices karate, drinks ale, University in September of this coUnseling service that began in and occasionally sees other Co-op year. the fall oflast year with a team of survivors when they're in town. psychologists and psychiatrists. CLASS OF 1977 He has many plans for the future. Bernie oversees the organization Meanwhile he takes every and markets the services, as well as BOB PENN (Pasadena, precaution to avoid SHC doing selected case work. California), has just finished his (Spontaneous Human third fearure film , "Teenage Combustion). You can't be too Proctologist III," for independent careful. distribution. "It's a rwist on the Photo: Monique King '8 7

CLASS OF 1980 Corps in Paraguay, South America. The first half of my KAREN VOGEL (Eugene, J. service was spent in a very small Oregon), was recently recognized town (400 inhabitants) in the by the Universiry of Oreg;on for southern swamplands. I had been distinguished teachmg With the trained and was working as an presentation of the 1986 Graduate agriculrural extentionist, a pretry Teaching Fellow Award. K~ren far cry from my Psychology/ received a $500 award dunng the Organizational Smdies major at generalllfliversiry commencement Pitzer. Although I was lucky in J llfle. Karen's smdents called her enough to be proficient in Spanish lecmres inspiring and clearly (acquired through Guatemalan presented, and they praised her wanderings during a semester off), approachabiliry as an adviser as Paraguay is a truly bilingual well as her infectious entl1Uslasm COllfltry, adding Guarani, an for her subject. She has just Indian language, to the roster of accepted a full-time position as things to be learned. As Third. an an assistant professor at the World collfltries go, Paraguay IS Universiry of Vermont. aberrant: low population densiry, SILVERIO CALZADA fertile land, benevolent weather, (Somerville, Massachusetts), and little urban drift. During the writes to tell us that he and three month training I heard spouse, Lola Delgado, are having endlessly that obesiry, not caloric a blast in Boston. Silverio has malnutrition, was the prevalent received his M.Ed. in COlmseling health problem. As an . and Consulting Psychology from extentionist, one of my major Harvard Universiry in 1985. To work goals was to assist farmsteads date, he is a third year doctoral to diversity the range and growmg smdent in the same program at times of their crops and also to Harvard with an emphasis in promote vegetable gardens, for, behavioral medicine. "I'm busy CLASS OF 1979 although Paraguay boasts ideal developing a new form of growing conditions, Paraguayans JOHANNA SIEGMANN psychotherapy utilizing music and do not traditionally consume any (New York, New York), reports, special effects equipment suc~ as vegetables except onion and garlic. "I have changed careers from holography, fog, water atomizers, The diet is very heavy m starches advertising to acting. So far I\'e etc." A warm hello to Peter Nardi and meat. Anyway, my work at been in three shows (two in and to Chicanos of Pitzer. au that time also included small Spanish) and I'm currentl~ animal husbandry: pig working on a fourth (also m CLASS OF 1981 vaccinations and introduction Spanish). I travelled ~o El P~so JOHN EDWARD GLASS of improved race chickens, with a group to partiCipate m the (Pasadena, California), was construction of smokeless stoves Golden Age Drama Festival, and married May 24th to Julie Kay (most Paraguayan women cook have done much extra work on Ball ('83 Pomona College over open 'fires which are set on. films, and some radio spots. My Graduate) at the Church of the the floor) and information immediate goal is to get an agent Angels in Pasadena. Julie is an dissemination on the safe use of to start sending me out! But, I am accollflt executive at New Image pesticide. In November of 1984 very lucky: in just the two years Public Relations, an entertairunent I was selected to work as a I've been doing this, I'm already a firm in Los Angeles. John is coordinator of a grant fund of member of all the major llflions! currently teaching at the Altadena AID monies which is used to I feel '87 holds a great deal of Christian Children's Center. They sponsor Peace Corps Volllflteers promise for my career. I also feel a honeymooned in Maui and projects. The posmon reqUIred great yearning to remrn to Honolulu. They are currently extensive traveling throughout the California." residing in Pasadena. COllfltry on dirt roads of various VICKY A. TEAGUE (Los JAY BRIAN GASSNER degrees of passabiliry. (My Angeles, California), received her (Hllfltingron Beach, CAl, did repertoire of anecdotes grew vastly M.B.A. from Cornell Universiry graduate work in Microbiology during this period.) When not on Gr:;tduate School of Management and Japanese at Cal State Long the road, I worked out of the in Ithaca, New York, in 1982. Beach between 1981 and 1983. central Peace Corps office in Since that time she has been Between 1983 and 1984 he was ASllflcion and reveled in ciry life working as a c.P.A. for Arthur employed by Securiry Pacific after the stillness of my rural post. YOllflg & Company in the Los Corporation. He is currently. While living in the capital, I Angeles area. She reports she entering the United States Air investigated different graduate will be marrying Craig S. Steele Force as a pilot. school programs and ended up (Harvard B.A. '74, Caltech M.S. ELLA PENNINGTON (Los applying to four. Tomorrow I '85), who is currently completmg Angeles, Califoria), writes, "It has begin my second academiC career, his Ph.D. in computer science at been only two months since I in pursuit of a master's of pubhc Caltech. remrned to the USA after more than three years with the Peace 16

health degree at UCLA. I'm very MARTHA QUINTANA (Los have, unfottunately, more or eager to hear from any Pitzer Angeles, California), is currently less lost touch with RUSS classmates and encourage them to visiting her parents in Taos, New LEDONNE. He moved off of give me a call or drop me a line." Mexico, and she repotts she has the Hill and took up another accepted a new position with Don profession - aerobics." CLASS OF 1982 Fletcher, founder of Coro, and his CLASS OF 1985 CHRIS FRISCO (Los Angeles, project Liaison Citizen. California), received his degree of RASHMI KUMAR! (La Mesa, CLASS OF 1984 Juris Doctor from Southwestern California), is presently a graduate University School of Law, Sunday, JULIE ROSENBERG student at San Diego State May 18, 1986. (Durham, Notth Carolina), is University and is doing her master DON CEGLAR (Boston, currently enrolled at Duke of science in business Massachusetts) is currently University and is going for a administration. enrolled in the M.B.A. program at master's in public policy. JOEL FIELDS (Beverly Hills, Harvard Business School. This KATRELYAANGUS (Sierra California), who is currently in the summer, however, was spent Madre, California), plans to film industry, has been promoted working in Oklahoma City for continue her studies and pursue to manager of development with Tranunel Crow Company, a real the M.A. at California State Los the Leonard Hill Films Company. estate developer. Angeles. She repotts.she is ED KANIA (San Gabriel, currently in the process of writing CLASS OF 1986 California), was married to Dawn another atticle for Tournaments SUSAN KLEIN (Newpott Clemens ('81 Pomona) on August Illuminated. Beach, California), as oOune 9th at Little Bridges. They JIM STANLEY (Berkeley, 30th, is repottedly working as a honeymooned in Africa for four California), has completed a year­ quality assurance associate for the weeks, and upon their return, Ed long advanced professional acting Institute for Biological Research will resume his position as a labor program at Drama Studio London and Development, Inc. and has lawyer for Pettit Mattin and Dawn USA in Berkeley, and joined the moved her residence to that area. and will be teaching at San Dimas RepettoryTheater in Santa Rosa PAUL HUBLER (Los Angeles, High School. for the summer. California), is currently a paralegal CAMMARIE JOHNSON JOHN HOEL (Alexandria, for the law firm of Munger, Tolles, (Jamaica Plain, MA), is working Virginia), writes, "Since February & Olson. at Fernald School with a mentally 1985 I have taken a job with 'TAMMY LAVANTY (Claremont, retarded population and she will Congressman Batt Gordon. I have California) just returned from statt graduate school for a master's worked my way up to being the meeting STAN CASSELMAN in psychology this fall. second most senior legislative '85 for the opening of Clay Rmc, ELLEN WEISSBUCH person on the staff. My issues a national exhibition of (London, England), is working in include agriculture, energy, current works in clay at Galeria ceramics, painting, textile design, environment, education, labor, Mesa in Phoenix, Arizona. One of and recovering her shott-term public works, and judiciaty. Lavanty's vessels (from the same memory. She knows the right job Needless to say, I am kept quite series as the one on the cover) was is just about to find her. busy, but I enjoy what I'm doing. selected for the exhibition which is Basically, my responsibilities open through December 13, 1986. CLASS OF 1983 include answering all mail in these "Other than that," she repotts, "I issue areas, attending hearings, LISA ELLEN SPIWAK (Los am busy with a functional att with Batt if applicable, briefing Angelos, California), received business which Monique King '87 Batt prior to or after the hearing, her Juris Doctor Degree from and I statted. Our painted clothing preparing issue positions, Southwestern University School and glass-bead jewelry is selling in recommending votes and writing of Law, Sunday, May 18, 1986. a number of boutiques in Laguna, newspaper columns and speeches JUNE K. BLOOMFIELD (Los . Santa Monica, and Los Angeles. If which fall in my areas. I have also Angeles, California), received you see a tag that reads developed a very good working her Juris Doctor Degree from 'Motamara,' buy whatever it's knowledge of our office computer School of attached to. Help an alum . ..." system and have experienced first Law, Saturday, May 17, 1986. hand the benefits and effects of JEANETTE WOO (Alhambra, direct and follow-up mailing. As California), has been appointed far as Pitzer alums go, I have kept assistant director of admissions in touch with several members for Pomona College. She had of my class. JAMES BARRETT formerly served in the admissions is working on the Hill for office of in Congressman Roy Dyson of "Los Angeles, first as a counselor Maryland. TODD EACHUS and then as assistant director. is the office director for Congressman Frank Guarini'from New Jersey and is married and has a one year old child of which I am the godfather. GRACE POWER is working on her MBA and is interning patt time at the Small Business Administration. I