Pitzer in the News
Academic Year 2004-2005

Professor Carmen Fought Quoted in Chicago Tribune Article On Language
June 28, 2005
It's been, like, 10 whole years since 'Clueless' helped spread Valley slang. Professor of Linguistics Carmen Fought lends her expertise on California dialect and how changes in language may be influenced by popular culture.

President Trombley Featured in June 2005 Inland Empire Magazine
June 1, 2005
President Trombley has been selected as one of five Inland Empire women who set the standard for achievement in their field.

“California Turns Toward Rehabilitating Juveniles”
Christian Science Monitor
May 27, 2005
     After decades of tough policies, America’s most populous state is poised to reverse its direction in its approach to the incarceration of youth—from punishment to rehabilitation.
     California and other states face several hurdles in moving toward a more rehabilitative model. One is funding. California has been struggling to overcome one of its biggest deficits in history. Lawmakers are being pulled in several directions as they look to cut programs from education to welfare.
     Others believe the punishment vs. rehabilitation debate ignores a larger struggle over social values. They say it leaves out discussion of reforming national attitudes about incarceration altogether—and the uneven percentages of blacks, Hispanics and whites in prison. “Until you have the larger discussion on jobs, civil rights, it’s hollow to talk about rehabilitation,” says Barry Sanders, a historian at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif.

“Ex-Riordan Aide Is Transition Head”
Los Angeles Times
May 24, 2005
     Los Angeles Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa announced Monday (April 23) that the woman who ran former Mayor Richard Riordan’s City Hall staff will head his transition staff.
     The announcement came as Villaraigosa’s landslide victory over Mayor James K. Hahn last week continued to attract nationwide attention.
     Robin Kramer, 51, has a wealth of experience in Los Angeles city government and has also worked many years for private foundations.
     Kramer, a Pitzer trustee, is a 1975 graduate of the College.

“The Paradox of the Hedge”
Los Angeles Times Magazine
May 22, 2005
     The magazine article explored hedge-lined lawns common around the Los Angeles area and the significance of those hedges.
     Even without the broken glass and its exclusionary brutality, most enclosed frontyards simply become dead space, the article explained. They go unused because they are realms of compression, not expansion; shadow, not light. Which are manifestations of the innermost qualities themselves, a subject that Pitzer College Professor Barry Sanders has been mulling over. Buried deep in the idea of hedges, he says, is a fear of phantoms. “Spooky things happen there,” Sanders says, “nefarious stuff. Beginning in the late Middle Ages, all sorts of double-dealings were done on these edges, and the men doing them were called ‘hedgemen.’ This is where the seamy folks hung out.

“LECG Continues Growth in North America and Europe; Expands Into Italy With Addition of Office in Milan”
Market Wire
April 19, 2005
     LECG (NASDAQ: XPRT), a global expert services firm, today announced 13 director-level additions to its expert talent pool, including two internal promotions. New experts include: Greg Harman, James Hass ’75, Kathi Kedrowski, Bill Kerr, Sergio Lamonica, Daniele Loro, Mohan Rao, Daniel Ryan, Shane Shook, Greg Smith, Luigi Tardella, Guido Valentini, and J. Douglas Zona. In addition, LECG opened an office in Milan, Italy, offering global competition policy/antitrust, business valuation, and strategic advisory services.
    Expert Hires
     James Hass, a director in Washington, D.C., specializes in advising on securities litigation and complex bankruptcies, particularly in the financial services and healthcare industries. Previously, he was an investment banker with Lehman Brothers, where he managed financings for mortgage and project issuers. Mr. Hass also served as a bankruptcy advisor to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. He has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Pitzer College, where he is a trustee.

“The Man Date”
The New York Times
April 10, 2005
     The delicate posturing began with the phone call.
     The proposal was that two buddies back in New York City for a holiday break in December meet to visit the Museum of Modern Art after its major renovation.
     “He explicitly said, ‘I know this is kind of weird, but we should probably go,’” said Matthew Speiser, 25, recalling his conversation with John Putman, 28, a former classmate from Williams College.
     The weirdness was apparent once they reached the museum, where they semi-avoided each other as they made their way through the galleries and eschewed any public displays of connoisseurship. “We definitely went out of our way to look at things separately,” recalled Mr. Speiser, who has had art-history classes in his time.
     While some men explicitly seek man dates, and others flatly reject them as pointless, most seem to view them as an unavoidable form of socializing in an age when friends can often catch up only by planning in advance. The ritual comes particularly into play for many men after college, as they adjust to a more structured, less spontaneous social life. “You see kids in college talking to each other, bull sessions,” said Peter Nardi, a sociology professor at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., who edited a book called “Men’s Friendships.” “But the opportunities to get close to another man, to share and talk about their feelings, are not available after a certain age.”

“Study says immigration patterns changing with new border security”
Associated Press
March 31, 2005
     Undocumented immigrants from Mexico are staying longer and are more likely to bring their families to the United States as a result of stepped border security, experts said at a conference on immigration and homeland security Thursday.
     “They are staying in the U.S. longer because we’ve succeeded in making it too costly and dangerous to cross back,” Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego, told the audience of federal and local officials, immigration attorneys and community activists.
The conference, hosted by the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, began with a minute of silence in honor of farm-worker activist Cesar Chavez’s birthday Thursday.
     “Tomorrow, thousands will be on the border to enforce laws and take the laws into their own hands,” said Jose Calderon, professor of sociology and Chicano studies at Pitzer College said during a break in the conference. “People are scared. This is the time to find some solutions.”

“Jewish Students Return from Alternative-Break Programs with Sore Muscles, Full Hearts”
Hillel
March 28, 2005
For many college-aged students, spring break means sun, the beach, parties and living carefree for an entire week. For other students, spring break is a chance to give back to communities less fortunate than their own.
Throughout the month of March, Hillel delegations from schools across the United States participated in alternative-break programs, doing social-justice work throughout North and South America and the former Soviet Union.
This year marked the first time Hillel at the Claremont Colleges participated in an alternative-break program. Four students representing all but one of the Claremont Colleges spent their break in El Salvador working on several agricultural projects for struggling farmers.
“There’s a whole world outside of the U.S., where people live very differently than we do here,” said Betsy Marder, a senior at Pitzer College. “We have access to a wealth of resources, and I believe we have an obligation to use them to help those who need it.”

“How FAS kept the Tiger well-trained even if it didn’t look before it leaped”
Irish Independent
March 24, 2005
     The self-serving and accidental use of EU funds over a decade ago for training may have been the best way to spend them.
     There is, it seems, not an elephant in the living room, but a very large octopus. And, just like the aforesaid elephant, no one seems to have noticed.
     Sometimes it takes a visitor to notice such things, or at least to mention them. In this case, the visitor is Nigel Boyle, Associate Professor of Political Studies at Pitzer College in California. The octopus is the State training agency FAS.
     He compares FAS to an octopus because it is “all tentacles, relatively small brain, invertebrate, omnivorous and uses an ink-based defense when attacked” – the latter a reference to the FAS fondness for glossy public relations materials.

“Immigration in dire need of reform”
Daily Bulletin
April 10, 2005
     Much of the debate about how immigration should be regulated and what rights foreign-born residents should have centers on the impact of their presence on native workers and on the economy in general.
In the minds of a large number of native-born Americans, immigration imposes a cost that far outstrips the benefits new residents bring with them.
     The net drain for native-born Americans, they argue, comes in lost jobs and the cost of providing public services to people who don’t pay taxes.
     “Immigrants, in many cases, by their work in some small businesses, result in more jobs because their work helps save some of these businesses,” said Jose Calderon, a sociology professor at Pitzer College in Claremont.

“New College to Host CIEL Student Research Symposium April 14-15”
US Fed News
April 8, 2005
     Undergraduate students from seven of the nation’s most innovative learning environments gathered in April to present research at a symposium designed to explore avenues of inter-campus sharing and distance learning. The symposium, which was held at New College of Florida, the official honors college of the state university system, was sponsored by the Consortium for Innovative Environments for Learning and took place on April 14-16. New College is located in Sarasota, Florida and is one of the seven campuses which comprise CIEL. Other member colleges include Pitzer College, Alverno College, Daemen College, The Evergreen State College, Fairhaven College of Western Washington University, and Hampshire College. These schools all share a philosophy of progressive education, and are committed to highly student-centered and heavily collaborative teaching and learning.

“Portrait of Pop: A reader of personalities, a pusher of buttons”
The Associate Press
March 17, 2005
     Gregg Popovich is not exactly thrilled to be coaching the Western Conference team in the All-Star game, and on this subject – as with many others – he isn’t afraid to say how he feels.
     There isn’t a whole lot of phoniness in the league’s second-most tenured coach, a former military man who spent part of the Cold War in the U.S. Air Force and spent eight years after that – living in a dorm during on session – honing his craft at Division III Pomona-Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif.
      A gray-haired basketball lifer with a ruddy face and a worldly vision, he is not one to indulge in the bacchanal of self-promotion that the NBA showcases once a year.
     “When I first came into the league about 15 years ago, I went to one, and that showed me I’d never need to go again,” he said.

Day Labor Issue Heats Up
The Arizona Republic
Feb. 9, 2005
     Chandler will offer to host the Valley’s first regional day labor forum as the city grapples with morning throngs of workers lining Arizona Avenue and an under-used private day labor center.
     The Human Relations Commission voted unanimously Monday to make the offer at a Feb. 23 regional meeting set to discuss day labor issues in Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale, Chandler and Gilbert.
     In 1997, the Pomona City Council passed a law that made it a criminal misdemeanor to solicit work on the streets, sidewalks or parking lots. The law also required the creation of a day labor center. Community activists and Pitzer College students established that center and got $102,000 in city funding.

Pitzer Grad to Attempt Mexico-to-Canada Hike
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Jan. 22, 2005
     Michael Jay Lissner has a long walk ahead of him. The recent Pitzer College graduate plans to hike from Mexico to Canada this spring and summer, equipped only with about 8 pounds of gear to carry him along a winding 2,650-mile path through the mountains, deserts and forests of the Pacific Coast states.
But the challenge, one that has beckoned since he first set foot on the Pacific Crest Trail as a child, is only one of the several goals this 22-year-old has set.
     “Occasionally people would ask me, ‘Are you doing this for a cause?’ or ‘Why are you doing the trip?’ ” said Lissner, who has spent the past two years seriously preparing for the trek. “So that kind of made me want to do it for a cause.”
     As he waits for the April start of his epic journey, Lissner is using the trip as a way to raise money for AIDS research.

Volunteers
Washington Journal
Jan. 21, 2005
     Washington native Peter Balvanz recently assisted with the relief efforts in Thailand following the tsunami that devastated the nation in December.
      Balvanz was vacationing in Thailand with his friend, Tirian Mink, this winter, when the tsunami hit. The two headed to the western city of Takua Pu, which had become a hub for the relief effort, to lend a hand two weeks after the catastrophe.
     Balvanz, a 1995 Washington High School alum and the son of Washington residents Tim and Jane Balvanz, is currently a teacher and assistant to the program director of Pitzer College’s study abroad program in Kalimpong, India. Mink is from Portland, Oregon, and has been teaching English and traveling through Taiwan over the past year.

Dee Mosbacher, Nanette Gartrell
The New York Times
Jan. 16, 2005
     Dr. Diane Mosbacher and Dr. Nanette Kathryn Gartrell were married Thursday at the Delta Victoria Ocean Pointe Resort, in Victoria, British Columbia. Sharon Russell, a marriage commissioner in the province of British Columbia, officiated.
      Dr. Mosbacher is 56 and is known as Dee. She is a documentary filmmaker and psychiatrist in San Francisco. Her film “Straight From the Heart,” about religious parents coming to terms with the homosexuality of their children, was nominated for an Academy Award in 1995. Dr. Mosbacher’s most recent film, “Radical Harmonies: The Story of the Women’s Music Cultural Movement,” was voted best documentary at the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in 2002.
     Dr. Mosbacher graduated from Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., received a doctorate in social psychology from Union Graduate School and received a medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine.

Teaching Children Diversity
The Jakarta Post
Jan. 17, 2005
     To reduce prejudiced behavior in society, children must be taught to embrace multiculturalism. Studies in multicultural development claim that bias is learned in childhood. An emerging democratic country, Indonesia has often experienced conflicts between ethnic and religious groups, such as in Aceh, Ambon, and Papua. This is inconsistent with Unity in Diversity (Bhineka Tunggal Ika) as cited in the Pancasila.
     The family, as a child’s first environment, plays a significant role in developing multiculturalism. As Robert Munroe of California’s Pitzer College proposes, children who grow up valuing diverse cultures can cooperate easily. Childhood is arguably the most important component of the human life cycle, as that is when most physical and psychological development occurs. Reducing bias and stereotypical thinking during childhood may greatly contribute to a young adult’s understanding of diversity.

Zornes’ Creative Spirit Still Driven at 97
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Jan. 13, 2005
      Milford Zornes will be celebrating his 97th birthday this month, but you won’t find him taking it easy. The renowned painter will be spending the next few days preparing for yet another upcoming exhibit.
“You forget that you’re old – you can’t be thinking that you’re old all the time when you live a freelance art career,” said Zornes of Claremont.
     The Nichols Gallery will display Zornes’ work in “Milford Zornes: Recent Watercolors and World War II Sketches” Jan. 21 through Feb. 18 at Pitzer College in Claremont.

Pacesetters for College Athletes
Boston Globe
Jan. 8, 2005
      Some college students know how to run for their lives. Take cross-country athletes. They do not get the ink. They do not get the television time. They do not have governors, alumni, and 70,000 fans fawning all over them, telling them how critical they are to the mental health of an entire state.
     But to borrow from the Wizard of Oz, they have one thing a whole lot of their big and bad brethren in football do not have – a diploma. As college football players and coaches breathe fire and roar. “I am the great and all-powerful,” the meek and mild pitter-patter of little munchkins in the woods reminds us that “student-athletes” need not be a fantasy.According to recommendations by the Knight Commission on college sports, teams should not be allowed in post-season bowls, tournaments or meets if they do not have a graduation rate of 50 percent of more. That recommendation would knock out 27 of the 56 colleges -- one short of half -- from the current holiday bowl games for big Division 1 schools.
     The schools graduating 80 percent or higher were Tufts, Bates, Williams, Haverford, Carleton, Chicago, Emory, and Pomona-Pitzer.le»

Snuffing Radical Islam's Fire
Los Angeles Times
Dec. 12, 2004
Opinion piece by Gregory Orfalea, Director of the Center for Writing
     Just as Saddam Hussein was a handy punching bag for U.S. fury over Osama bin Laden, Yasser Arafat had, long before his death, become a convenient scapegoat for failures in Western diplomacy over the 50-year-old Palestinian tragedy. We just don't get it, and we better soon. full article»

City to Start Recycling Pilot Project with Students
Claremont Courier
Dec. 8, 2004
     A group of Pitzer College students will likely see a class assignment become a city pilot project.
In a meeting last week with Mark Harmon, utilities manager for the city, the group of seven students got the go-ahead for a pilot project of their proposal to add recycling receptacles to the sidewalk locations in the Claremont Village.
     Right now, there are about 50 trash cans located throughout the village for pedestrian use, but no recycling bins. As part of an environmental studies class, the students developed a proposal to add street side recycling containers to the area.

First Street Homemade Foods: Pitzer Grad Turns Personal Chef
Claremont Courier
Dec. 4, 2004
     If a dinner of spinach and wild rice soup with toasted pumpkin pesto sounds delicious, or if risotto with butternut squash, gorgonzola and toasted pecans makes your mouth water, you might want to stay in for dinner. Wendy Van Wagner will bring the entrees to you.
     First Street Homemade Foods specializes in whipping up unique, healthy diners for families on the go. For $80 per week, Ms. Van Wagner creates family-size meals of salads, main dishes and sides. The organic dishes are perfect for busy families who want nourishing meals but are too busy to cook – hence her motto, “focus on your family, not your kitchen.”
     The real jumpstart for the venture came after Ms. Van Wagner graduated from Pitzer College last year. The recent graduate was having trouble deciding on a career path after gaining a degree in anthropology and dance and working as an art teacher in Berkeley.

Gender Roles Form Rules of Friendship
Orlando Sentinel
Nov. 26, 2004
     Chicagoan Sydney Honold keeps in close touch with two women with whom she has been friends since the early ‘90s, even though they now live in other cities. Honold, 43, and her friends e-mail each other often, have phone conversations at least every couple of months, and see each other a couple times a year while traveling for work.
Her husband, Randy, on the other hand, goes long periods without contact with even his close friends, “Maybe we’ll send an e-mail once in a while,” says Randy, 44. “For the most part we don’t talk to each other.”
     “Men tend to define their friendships in terms of things that they do together, women define their friendships more as sitting around talking about their feelings, their relationships, their emotions,” says Peter Nardi, professor of sociology at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., and the editor of Men’s Friendships (Sage).

Guest Observer: Judge Mablean Ephriam Returns to Claremont
Claremont Courier
Nov. 24, 2004
     Mablean Ephriam has presided over Fox TV’s “Divorce Court” since 1998 (more than 1,000 shows). Prior to that she was in private practice, specializing in family law, and before that she served as a Los Angeles deputy city attorney, prosecuting domestic violence cases. Born and raised in “South Central” and one of 9 children, she came to Claremont and Pitzer College in the first wave of African-American students recruited to address serious deficiencies in racial and ethnic diversity at the colleges in the late 1960s. Think for a moment of the courage that took.
     With her experience as a leader at Jefferson High School, she became a prominent voice in the black student movement here – a movement that culminated in the formation of the Black Student Union and the establishment of the Black Studies Center, now in its 35th year. Ms. Ephriam spoke movingly and wittily about those days, as she told her inspiring story to a rapt, predominantly undergraduate audience at Pitzer College’s Sixth Annual Black Student and Alumni Dinner.

Arafat’s Death May Tip Scales
San Bernardino Sun
Nov. 15 2004
     The death of Yasser Arafat a major figure in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would open a window for the violence in that region to decrease, a local Middle East expert said.
     But a lot depends on what President Bush and his administration decide to do. “Bush is disengaged from the Middle East peace process… and has given a green light to Sharon’s abandonment of the road map,” said Ami Mezahav, a sociology professor at Pitzer College who studies the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Rally for Justice Sunday at Pitzer
Claremont Courier
Nov. 13, 2004
     Justice for Israel and Palestine, a student organization, sponsored a rally for justice in Israel and Palestine on Nov. 14 at Pitzer College. The event was open to the public.
     “Our organization officially supports a two-state solution, however, we are open to new and creative ways for resolving the conflict as well, and encourage dialogue about these issues,” stated Pitzer student Raumene Rahatzad in press materials. “We demand that the Israeli occupation end and that there be a creation of a Palestinian state.”

Eldorado Author Dives Into Area History for a Book
The Santa Fe New Mexican
Nov. 17, 2004
     The year was 1782. The Revolutionary War continued to ravage the land on the East Coast, slavery persevered among the Spanish and neighboring tribes and a grisly murder was committed at the palacio in old Santa Fe.
This is the scene local author Pamela Christie depicts in her self published book, The King’s Lizard. While most of the characters and events portrayed in the book are fictional, The King’s Lizard is set in 18th century New Mexico.
Christie received her education at the Caitlin Gabel School in Oregon, Bryn Mawr College, Pitzer College and the University of California at Berkeley. She began writing her book about three years ago after she studied and read about New Mexico history. This is her first book, she said, but probably not her last.

Society Honor
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Oct. 28, 2004
     The American Association for the Advancement of Science recently elected on of Pitzer College’s founding faculty, Dan Guthrie, the rank of fellow. The association is the country’s largest scientific society.
     Guthrie was honored for “distinguished contributions to the Southern California Academy of Sciences as the Academy’s treasurer; editor of The Bulletin; annual meeting coordinator and webmaster; and for invaluable work with Research Training Program of the Junior Academy.” Guthrie is a naturalist whose research focuses on human interactions with the environment and how humans have affected the fauna of California, especially on the Channel Islands.

Pitzer Writers Festival Takes 9/11 as Theme
Claremont Courier
Oct. 27, 2004
     The official 9/11 Commission Report is on book shelves now, filled with facts, figures and thorough analysis about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. And although the book is written in reader-friendly terms, to really get to the heart of a subject, sometimes it’s better to see it though an artist’s eyes.
     Pitzer College did just that in its first annual writer’s festival, themed “September 11: The Writer’s Imagination and Conscience,” bringing together prominent national figures and respected authors to unravel the experience and the consequences of that day.
     As their event materials stated, the festival organizers sought the perspectives of creative writers in order to “focus the power of their vision and imagination on an issue of critical importance to our world.”

Osama Hiding in Pakistan
The San Bernardino Sun
Oct. 22, 2003
     The Pentagon knows where Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan, it just can’t get to him, a member of the 9-11 Commission said Thursday, Oct. 21.
     Commissioner John Lehman’s remarks echoed those made on Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who asserted the al-Qaida terror kingpin was alive and operating in the western part of that country.
     Bin Laden is living in South Waziristan in the Baluchistan Mountains of the Baluchistan Region, Lehman told The Sun after delivering a keynote speech on terrorism at Pitzer College in Claremont to kick off the college’s three-day writers festival.
     Editor’s Note: This article, which was copyrighted by The Sun, appeared in newspapers, Web sites and blogs around the world.

9-11 Commissioner Speaks to Writers
The San Bernardino Sun
Oct. 22, 2004
     When the 9-11 Commission first met in 2002, a key priority was crafting a report that could be read and understood by the average American, said panel member John Lehman.
     The final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States was released July 22, and with millions of copies sold and a National Book Award nomination, Lehman says the success of the commission’s report shows that government documents do not need to be turgid, bureaucratic snoozers.
     Lehman spoke at Pitzer College’s Writers Festival on Thursday, Oct. 21, and said the event’s theme, “Sept. 11: The Writers Imagination and Conscience,” was appropriate.

Artist Mixes Business and Pleasure
Home Accents Today
Oct. 14, 2004
     Meryl Strichartz left Orange County, Calif., and transplanted herself in Kenosha, Wis., to follow her dream of starting her own business, Glass Art by Strichartz. The 39-year-old self proclaimed mix of artist and business woman graduated with a bachelor of arts in sociology and a minor in studio art from Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., and got her MBA from the University of Wisconsin while launching her business.
     “Coming from a sprawling suburban Mecca, I didn’t think I would survive far from a Nordstrom’s or sushi restaurant, but much to everyone’s surprise I fell in love with the Midwest.” Meryl said.

California Writers Club, Inland Empire
Writers Club
Oct. 11, 2004
     Inland Empire California Writers Club is proud to announce its participation with Pitzer College in their First Annual Writers Festival, Oct. 21-23, 2004. The theme of the Writer’s Festival will be September 11 - The Cultural Impact. The Festival will bring together creative writers (poets, novelists, dramatists, and essayists), to explore the meaning of the 9/11 terrorist attacks for American culture. By attracting writers from a variety of disciplines -- fiction, poetry, nonfiction, screenwriting, and journalism -- a diversity of perspectives will be developed on the theme. We expect to have a total of nine to 12 writers participate in the Festival.
     Editor’s Note: Previews of the Writers Festival appeared in the calendar sections of the Los Angeles Times and a variety of other national and local publications.

Long Time, No See is No Big Deal for Guy Friends
Chicago Tribune
Oct. 6, 2004
     Chicagoan Sydney Honold keeps in close touch with two women with whom she has been friends since the early 1990s, even though they now live in other cities. Honold, 43, and her friends e-mail each other often, have phone conversations at least every couple of months, and see each other a couple of times a year while traveling for work.
     Her husband, Randy, on the other hand, goes long periods without contact with even his close friends, “Maybe we’ll send an e-mail once in a while,” says Randy, 44. “For the most part we don’t talk to each other.”
     “Men tend to define their friendships in terms of things that they do together, women define their friendships more as sitting around talking about their feelings, their relationships, their emotions,” says Peter Nardi, professor of sociology at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., and the editor of “Men’s Friendships” (Sage).

Pitzer Honors Professor with Annual Humanities Lecture
Claremont Courier
Sept. 29, 2004
     Pitzer College is pleased to announce the establishment of the Stephen and Sandra Glass Annual Humanities Lecture showcasing leading international figures in the humanities. Professor Glass, Pitzer’s John A. McCarthy Professor of Classics, is being honored for his four decades of service to the college, his essential work as a member of Pitzer’s founding faculty, and his continued commitment to the Pitzer community.
     According to a Pitzer release, “the Glass Annual Humanities Lecture will make a significant contribution to the cultural life of the Claremont Colleges community. The fund is a most appropriate tribute to Steve and Sandy Glass’ many contributions to the college as a whole.”

John S. Bracken Named Program Officer in MacArthur’s General Program
Ascribe Newswire
Sept. 27, 2004
     The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has named John S. Bracken Program Officer in the General Program, which carries out the Foundation’s media grantmaking and special initiatives.
     In this position, Bracken’s responsibilities will include grantmaking related to public interest media and to intellectual property rights and the public domain.
     Bracken is a native of Chicago. He earned his bachelors degree from Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., and has a masters degree from the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania.

GE Appoints Jonathan P. Graham Head of Litigation
Business Wire
Sept. 22, 2004
     GE today announced the appointment of Jonathan P. Graham as Vice President, Litigation and Legal Policy, effective Oct. 4.
     Graham will join GE from Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C., where he is a partner whose practice has focused on commercial litigation, international disputes and criminal defense matters. While at Williams & Connolly, Graham litigated matters across many different areas from constitutional law and intellectual property to administrative law and securities law.
     Graham is a graduate of Pitzer College and the University of Texas School of Law, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Law Review. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Joseph Sneed of the United States Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Graham joined Williams & Connolly in 1988.

Apprentices Take Law Into Their Own Hands
Los Angeles Times
Oct. 10, 2004
    Photos of a defiant Cesar Chavez line the walls. A weathered packing crate, a keepsake from one of the United Farm Workers' first table-grape contracts, sits on a bookshelf flaunting its Aztec eagle label.
   It is here, in a home office near Oxnard's agricultural heartland, that [Pitzer graduate] Jessica Arciniega has come to learn the law.