Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Marshall Acuff, Jr., chief portfolio strategist, Salomon Smith Barney; "Investing: Past, Present, and Future"
 

Lou Cannon, journalist; author, President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (1991) and Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD (1998); "The Reagan Legacy"
 

Elaine Thornburgh, harpsichord; Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin; "Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750"
 

Ariel Dorfman, distinguished research professor of literature and Latin American Studies, Duke University; author, Last Waltz in Santiago and Other Poems of Exile and Disappearance (1988) and Death and the Maiden (1992); "To Be Completely, Absolutely, and Irreversibly Bilingual"
 

Mark Blitz, Fletcher Jones professor of political philosophy, CMC; author, Heidegger's Being and Time and the Possibility of Political Philosophy (1981) and co-editor, Educating the Prince (2000); Ryan Nayar '01; Rhonda Carter '02; Ben Hoyt, director of business development, Horizon.com; Debate Union alumnus; Dan Pawson '03, moderator; "This House Supports Negative Political Advertising"
 

Susan Ehrlich, judge, Arizona Court of Appeals; co-author, Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Criminal Justice and Legal Occupations (1996) and author, On the Move: The Status of Women in Policing (1990); "The Federalization of the Law"
 

Tashi Namgyal, former chief security officer for the Dalai Lama; "Tibet and Tibetans Since the Chinese Invasion"
 

Mike Thornton; Mike Loomis; Andy Clemence; Tracey Stephens; Ann Schmitt; former Congressional staffers-turned-comedians; Marc Irwin, piano; "Capitol Steps: There's Something Funny Going On in Washington" (McKenna Auditorium)
 

David Sadava, Pritzker Family Foundation professor of biology, CMC; author, Cell Biology: Organelle Structure and Function (1993) and co-author, Life: The Science of Biology (1997); "Cancer Myths and Realities"
 

Richard Leo, professor of criminology, law and society, U.C. Irvine; editor, The Miranda Debate: Law, Justice, and Policing (1998) and co-author, Adapting to Miranda: Modern Interrogator's Strategies for Dealing with the Obstacles Posed by Miranda (1999); "Miscarriages of Justice in the 21st Century: Coercion, False Confessions, and the Wrongful Conviction of the Innocent"
 

Gish Jen, author, Typical American (1991) and Who's Irish?: Stories (1999); "Cultural Identity in a Hyphenated America"
 

Mark Masters, director, American Jazz Institute ensemble; John Nagourney, vibraphone; Kye Palmer, trumpet; Danny House, alto saxophone; Bill Perkins, tenor saxophone; Brian Williams, baritone saxophone; Bill Roper, tuba; Cecilia Coleman, piano; Putter Smith, bass; Sherman Ferguson, drums; Tom Hynes, guitar; Dave Woodley, trombone; Paul Klintworth, french horn; "American Jazz Institute Chamber Orchestra: The Teddy Charles Tentet"
 

Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst, National Public Radio (NPR); author, Clearing the Air (1977) and "Forgive Us Our Press Passes" (1998)
 

Howard Figler, author, The Complete Job-Search Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Get the Job You Really Want (1979) and Liberal Education and Careers Today (1999); "Liberal Arts: What Are You Going To Do With It?"
 

John J. Pitney, Jr., professor of government, CMC; author, The Art of Political Warfare (2000) and co-author, Congress' Permanent Minority?: Republicans in the U. S. House (1994); "Bush, Gore, and the Art of Political Warfare"