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Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

A distinctive
feature of social and
cultural life at CMC

 

Current Semester Schedule

Athenaeum events are posted here as detailed information becomes available.

Wed, February 2, 2000
Elaine Brown, former chairman, Black Panther Party; author, "A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story" (1992)
 
Tue, February 1, 2000
Jared Diamond, professor of physiology, UCLA School of Medicine; author, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (1992) and "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" (1999)
 
Mon, January 31, 2000
Sylvia Earle, marine biologist, president, Deep Ocean Exploration and Research; author, Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (1996) and Dive (1999); "Swimming with Sharks: Women in the World of Business"
 
Thu, January 27, 2000
Charles Plott, Edward S. Harkness professor of economics and political science, California Institute of Technology; author, Market Stability: Backward Bending Supply in a Laboratory Experimental Market (2000) and "Markets as Information-Gathering Tools" (2000)
 
Wed, January 26, 2000
Ernesto Cortes, Jr., southwest regional director, International Areas Foundation; author, Reweaving the Social Fabric (1996) and co-author, Organizing's Past, Present and Future: Reclaiming Our Birthright (1998); "The Importance of Politics in a Democratic Society"
 
Tue, January 25, 2000
Joseph Lowery, co-founder, Southern Christian Leadership Conference; "The Challenge of Equality in the 21st Century"
 
Mon, January 24, 2000
Les Murray, poet; author, Subhuman Redneck Poems (1998) and "Readings from Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse" (1998)
 
Thu, January 20, 2000
James Lawson, co-founder, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; "Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, November 18, 1999
Walter Zelman, president and CEO, California Association of Health Plans; co-author, The Managed Care Blues and How to Cure Them (1998) and author, The Changing Health Care Marketplace: Private Ventures, Public Interests (1996); "Managed Care Reform in California: What Happened and Why?"
 
Wed, November 17, 1999
John Froines, professor of toxicology and director, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, UCLA; "Current Environmental Issues in Public Health"
 
Tue, November 16, 1999
Ruben Martinez, associate editor, Pacific News Service; author, The Other Side: Fault Lines, Guerrilla Saints, and the True Heart of Rock'N'Roll (1992) and The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City, and Beyond (1993); "Border Ballad"
 
Mon, November 15, 1999
Mort Sahl, political satirist; author, Heartland (1976) and Mort Sahl's America (1997); "Humor in American Politics: It's Not Funny Anymore...Is It?"
 
Fri, November 12, 1999
Michael Scriven, professor of psychology, Claremont Graduate University; author, Reasoning (1977) and Theory and Practice of Evaluation (1987); "Making the Grade" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Thu, November 11, 1999
Ron Lehman II '68, director, Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; "Science Cooperation, International Security, and Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Former Soviet Union"
 
Wed, November 10, 1999
Thomas Ehrlich, senior scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; co-author, The Courage to Inquire: Ideals and Realities in Higher Education (1995) and author, forthcoming "Civic Responsibility and Higher Education" (2000)
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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