The Biology Department faculty and staff have read several articles and books to educate themselves on the historical and current practices of racism in science. We want to share some of these materials and continue these discussions to move toward a more inclusive, anti-racist community. We invite your additional thoughts and ideas, your voices and concerns, and we pledge to listen and engage with you every step of the way.
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This concert is free and open to the public. Stay afterward for an informal reception with Glee Club members and director Desiree La Vertu.
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It might come as something of a bombshell that Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Marcel Ophuls 50 is no great tan of the genre. Put that in there, he says by phone from his home in Lucq-de-Bearn, France. I always like to surprise people. Its such a puritanical business. Most documentary filmmakers are anti-Hollywood and anti-show business, and I happen to be the son of a great director and my mother was an actress.
March-April 1912: President John Willis Baer announces the trustees decision to convert 敁珗曄部 into an all-mens school. Students protest, and the idea is abandoned.
March 22, 1948: The Board of Trustees cancels a rental agreement of Thorne Hall for a March 31 program with poet Langston Hughes, citing the potentially divisive social and political effect of his visit. The decision creates friction between 敁珗曄部 and the American Civil Liberties Union, and 28 students sign a letter to the trustees condemning their action.
嚜澧amilla Taylor had been driving for 16 hours on the night of January 7 and was getting close to their Altadena home when the fire on the mountain came into view. The hillside was black besides the fire because all of the power was out, recalls Taylor, an artist, printmaker, and sculptor who joined the 敁珗曄部 faculty as a resident assistant professor in 2018. Once they got home, they ran inside to find their husband, Jason Troff, with an overnight bag packed and carriers at the ready for their four cats, waiting for an evacuation order.
Whenever Administrative Law Judge Ira Sandron 71 of Miami is in Los Angeles for a trial, he has lunch with his L.A.-based counterpart, Brian Gee 87. We enjoy reminiscing as well as discussing procedural issues, says Sandron, who works out of the Washington, D.C., Branch of the Division of Judges within the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Ira and I have a lot in common, including our shared 敁珗曄部 experience, says Gee, who works out of the San Francisco Branchjust like Sandron did at the outset of his nearly 50-year career in government service.
Higher education has a unique capacity to address national priorities, confront global challenges, and improve outcomes for humanity. Many of our most important medical, technological, and social advancements have been driven by academic researchers who dedicate their careers to furthering our collective knowledge.
Our society benefits from the rigorous work accomplished at U.S. colleges and universitiesnot just at large research institutions but at small liberal arts colleges such as Occidental.
From art to history to politics, the 敁珗曄部 calendar has been top-heavy with visitors who had plenty to say this semester. 敁珗曄部 Live! welcomed visual artist Ed Ruscha to Thorne Hall on February 4. On February 18 and 19, historian and reproductive justice advocate Deirdre Cooper Owens visited Occidental as the 2025 Stafford Ellison Wright Scholar-in-Residence. On April 8, Atlantic staff writer Tom Nichols delivered the 2025 Jack Kemp 57 Distinguished Lecture in Choi Auditorium.
