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F E A T U R E:
Aramark Named New Food Service Contractor for The Claremont Colleges
Aramark was chosen over rival bidders Bon Appetit and Marriott, which had held the Claremonts’ contract for years, because it provided the most creative response to the Colleges’ requests for improved service, better food and increased flexibility at a substantial savings that will benefit students. Aramark also committed itself to pay to upgrade facilities at the Claremonts, including Pitzer, that will make workers’ jobs easier and safer.
To allay the concerns of Pitzer’s current hourly food service workers, a meeting was held last week to inform them of the College’s position with regard to their future employment. The College committed itself strongly to the position that Aramark not allow any hourly food service worker on its campus to lose pay, benefits, retirement or seniority as a result of the change in contractors. Copies of a question and answer sheet the food service workers received are available in the public information office in both English and Spanish.
Pitzer now goes back to the table with Aramark to hammer out the final details of an agreement governing Aramark’s operations on its campus. A negotiation team is now being assembled that will represent all members of the Pitzer community.
P R O F I L E:
Joel Fields ’85 to Receive Beverle Houston Award
Joel Fields, a prolific producer of television films and miniseries and partner in Hill/Fields Entertainment, will be honored with the 1998 Beverle Houston Memorial Award, given annually by Pitzer College to an alumnus or alumna in recognition of outstanding achievement in film, video production or criticism. The award will be presented at a dinner starting at 6:30 p.m. April 21 in the Founders Room of McConnell Center.
With partner Leonard Hill, Fields, 33, has been head of a Hollywood-based independent production company for the last four years, and served as executive producer on numerous television films and miniseries. These include: "Stolen Innocence" (CBS), "A Matter of Justice" (NBC), "Gone in The Night" (CBS), "Murder in Mind" (ABC) and "Detention" (ABC). Earlier, Fields was executive vice president of creative affairs at Leonard Hill Films.
The Beverle Houston Memorial Award is named in honor of the professor who created Pitzer’s film studies program and who contributed greatly to the creative life of Pitzer College. Past recipients of the award include alumni Brooke Breton, Jenniphr Goodman, Tetsumasa Kitamura, Jana Sue Memel and David Straus.
Fields graduated from Pitzer in 1985 with a degree in philosophy. His undergraduate studies included visiting programs at Harvard University and University College, Oxford, where he studied theater literature.
Fields has served on the national board of directors of Zero Population Growth and now serves on the board of Treepeople, a Los Angeles-based environmental organization committed to helping the country through education, communication, coalition building and planting trees.
Nearly 300 admitted students and their parents will be on campus Tuesday to participate in Pitzer's annual On-Campus Day. From 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. the admission office hosts a community fair outside Grove House. There will be desserts and a band in the Geo Dome. Students, faculty and staff are welcome to come and meet students and their families from the class of 2002. In case of rain, events take place in the Founders Room and McConnell living room. You may see people wandering around looking lost. Please direct them to the admission office.
Harry P. Pachon was recently elected a trustee of The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation. Pachon is president of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute and Kenan Professor of Political Studies at Pitzer and CGU. He has been a leading scholar and frequent publisher in the fields of U.S. citizenship and Latino politics for more than two decades. Pachon’s most recent publication, "The New Latinos: Colombians, Dominicans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans," was funded by the Haynes and Mellon foundations. His books include "New Americans by Choice: Political Perspectives of Latino Immigrants"; "Hispanics in the United States" (with Joan Moore); and "Mexican Americans" (with Joan Moore).
The Mellon Project of The Claremont Colleges presents "Mellon’s Greatest Hits," a conference highlighting the development of educational technology by Claremont faculty on Friday at noon in the Keck Learning Room of Honnold Library. These faculty, supported by the Mellon Project, have produced innovative pedagogical improvements via computer, communications or multimedia. The presentations will be followed by lunch in the Founders Room. Please RSVP to Jim Pinter-Lucke at x73677 or Lucke@mckenna.edu if you wish to attend the lunch following the presentations.
In preparation for the third annual Staff Appreciation Luncheon on May 21, the Staff Recognition Work Group is planning to present "Just for Fun" prizes, as they did last year, and would appreciate your input on some of the categories. Please indicate names of individuals or offices that you think should receive a prize for the following categories: Best Smile, Most Congenial Office, Office with the Best Treats, Office with the Most Questionable Coffee, Most Imaginative Office (Individual), Most Imaginative Office (Group). Submit your "nominations" to Cheryl Morales in the Registrar's Office.
Staff and faculty volunteers are needed to help remove the side-effects of El Niņo from Pitzer’s Arboretum on Saturday. The project, sponsored by the Community Service Committee of the Staff Council, will begin promptly at 9 a.m. with a tour of the outback by John Rodman. If you plan to help, contact Sharon Kaatman or Rosie Furios.
Pomona’s Environmental Quality Committee is hosting Green Fire, a series of events designed to celebrate Earth and to raise consciousness throughout the week about the role human beings play in the web of life. For more information about Green Fire events, call Jenn Kurz, x76419, or Angelo Gonzales, x76643. See listings for more details.
MONDAY
Pomona biology professor Bill Wirtz discusses "Overpopulation of Resources:
Haves and Have Nots" at 5 p.m. in the Blue Room of Frank Dining Hall,
Pomona. This is a Green Fire event.
Mark H. Willes, chairman and chief executive officer of Times Mirror Co. and publisher of the Los Angeles Times, speaks on "Reinventing the Newspaper" at 5 p.m. in the Board of Fellows Room, Harper Hall, CGU. For more information, call x18877.
A free Strength and Flexibility class is offered in the Gold Student Center at 6:30 p.m.
Lawford Anderson, professor of geology at USC, discusses "Only One Earth" at the CMC Athenaeum at 6:45 p.m.
Spoken Word Night gets underway at the Grove House at 9 p.m.
TUESDAY
The Pomona Stonehill Media Literacy Lecture Series presents "Citizen Ruth,"
an irreverent satire about the abortion debate, with Jim Taylor, Pomona
’84, co-writer, starting at noon in the Blue Room of Frank Dining Hall.
A water aerobics class takes place in the Gold Student Center pool at 3 p.m. Walk-ins are welcome at no cost.
Professor John Jurewitz discusses "Environmental Issues in the Current Restructuring of the Electric Power Industry" at 5:30 p.m. in the Blue Room of Frank Dining Hall, Pomona. This is a Green Fire event.
Aerobics classes are offered in the Gold Student Center at 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at no cost.
HMC’s Around the World Series screens "The Scent of Green Papaya" at 7 p.m. in Galileo-Pryne. For more information, call x18478.
Senior Jon Davis reads his poetry in the Grove House at 7:30 p.m. Paul Faulstich, assistant professor of environmental studies, leads a discussion entitled "Is Environmentalism Racist? The Sierra Club and Immigration" at 9 p.m. in the Marquis Library, Mead Hall. Refreshments by Residence Life.
WEDNESDAY Green Fire presents a recycling plant trip to Anaheim from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Rides are provided. Sign up with Malia, x72283.
Forest Ranger George Duffey of the Los Angeles National Forest discusses "The Role of Wild Places in People’s Lives" at 2 p.m. in the Blue Room of Frank Dining Hall. This is a Green Fire event.
Chung-Mu Choi, associate professor of East Asian cultures at UC Irvine, discusses "Construction of Popular Memory and the Public Epiphany in North Korea" at 4:15 p.m. in room 108 of the Hahn Building, Pomona.
Paul Faulstich, assistant professor of environmental studies, discusses "Landscapes and Humanity: Prospects for Preservation" at 5:30 p.m. in the Blue Room of Frank Dining Hall, Pomona. This is a Green Fire event.
Aerobics is offered in the Gold Student Center at 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at no cost.
Caltech president and Nobel laureate David Baltimore speaks at the HMC Spring Dinner Speaker Series starting at 6:45 p.m. in Galileo Hall.
The Student Senate meets at 8 p.m. in the Founders Room of McConnell Center. Anyone interested may attend.
Billy Collins, poet and author of "The Art of Drowning and Picnic Lightning," presents a literary reading at 8 p.m. in Crookshank 101, Pomona.
The Pomona College Choir and Glee Club performs at 9 p.m. in Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building. The concert is repeated Thursday at 9 p.m.
THURSDAY
Laurie Lesh from the department of earth and space sciences at UCLA
discusses "Life on Mars: The Good News and the Bad News from Stable
Isotopic Studies of Martian Meteorites" at 11 a.m. in room 214 of Seaver
South, Pomona. For more information, call x18675.
International Place Lunch and Conversation presents "The New Capitalism in the USSR Successor States," with Nathaniel Davis, professor of humanities, HMC, starting at 11:45 a.m. in the McKenna Auditorium. Meal Cards or $3.50; $5 community.
"Environmentalism on Campus" is the topic of a Women’s Union noon discussion in Upstairs Walker Lounge, Pomona. This is a Green Fire event.
Green Fire hosts an afternoon hike at Mt. Baldy from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Rides leave at the parking lot across from Walker.
A free water aerobics class is offered in the Gold Student Center pool at 3 p.m. Walk-ins are welcome.
Rick Worthington, associate professor of public policy at Pomona, discusses "Learning Landscapes: A Century of Environmental Transformation in Claremont" at 5:30 p.m. in the Blue Room of Frank Dining Hall, Pomona. This is a Green Fire event.
Mary Irish, director of public horticulture at Desert Botanic Garden in Phoenix, discusses "Using Desert Plants in Home and Pubic Landscapes" at 7 p.m. at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. For more information, call 626-1917.
Steve Ma of CalPIRG presents "Contemporary Water Issues," an orientation adventure slide show, at 7 p.m. in Seaver North Auditorium, Pomona. This is a Green Fire event.
Tania Modleski, professor of English at UCLA, discusses "My Life as a Romance Reader" at 7 p.m. in room 101 of the Hahn Building, Pomona.
The CMC Athenaeum presents "Oedipus at Colonus," a theatrical production directed by Thomas Leabhart of the Pomona College theater department, at 8 p.m. The performance will be repeated Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. in Seaver Theatre courtyard, Pomona. Reservations are required; call x18525 or x18186 for details.
Japanimation films in Avery Auditorium start at 10 p.m.
FRIDAY
Pomona-Pitzer Invitational for men’s and women’s track and field begins at
10 a.m.
The Pomona Latin American Studies Lecture features John Carlos Rowe, UC Irvine faculty, on "American Studies in the Age of Globalization" starting at noon in Oldenborg Center.
The Claremont Mellon Project presents "Mellon’s Greatest Hits" at noon in Honnold Library. For more information, see Faculty News above.
The Friday at Noon Concert features "Beethoven: The Last Sonata," with violinists Mei Duo and Rachel Huang and pianist Hao Huang, at 12:15 p.m. in Balch Auditorium, Scripps.
Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Society and co-founder of Greenpeace, discusses "Direct Action Environmentalism" at 7 p.m. in Seaver Theatre, Pomona. This is a Green Fire event.
The Pomona College Band, directed by Graydon Beeks, performs at 8 p.m. in Bridges Hall of Music. The performance repeats Sunday at 4 p.m.
Scripps Dances, a concert featuring the dance works of faculty and student performers and choreographers from The Claremont Colleges and guest choreographer Stephanie Gilliland, begins at 8 p.m. in Mudd Theater, CST. Admission is $5 general; $4 faculty and staff; $3 students and seniors; free to School of Theology students with ID.
SATURDAY
Green Fire offers a re-vegetation and tree-planting trip to Crystal Lake with
junior high students from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Rides are available. To
sign up, call Benjie at x75832.
Pomona-Pitzer baseball plays Redlands at 11 a.m.
The Chamber Choir and Claremont Concert Orchestra, directed by Michael Deane Lamkin, performs music by J. S. Bach, Schoenberg, Kubik, Hall Johnson and Hairston at 8 p.m. in Balch Auditorium, Scripps. The performance repeats April 19 at 3 p.m.
Green Fire throws a Green Party from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Social Room I, Pomona. Cost is $2 or $1 with a mug.
The Gold Mine starts serving Los Borrachos, mouth-watering Mexican cuisine, at 11 p.m.
SUNDAY The Rachel Express, pan-Asian food, starts at 10:30 p.m. in the Gold Mine.
PAct shows "Good Burger" at 7 p.m. and "In & Out" at 10 p.m. in Avery Auditorium.
Kahoutek is coming! Clear your calendars on April 25 for 13 hours of non-stop entertainment, arts and crafts, international food, poetry, dance and more on the mounds.
The Ecology Center is hosting an Environmental Justice Symposium on April 24 at 2 p.m. Prominent local and international speakers discuss projects that destroy ecosystems and societies. Come hear about issues that take human and non-human lives. Look for details in next week’s Pitzer Press.
Student Senate applications are available in Scott 130 and in the Gold Student Center. Here’s your chance to participate in the decision-making process!
Applications for Summer Research Grants in the Social Sciences and Humanities are due by 5 p.m. on Wednesday in Fletcher 208. See Sandy Hamilton for application forms.
The Monrovia Health Center is having a health fair on Saturday, providing free health services including HIV and TB testing, STD screening, immunizations and more. The health center is looking for volunteers to help on that day. If interested, e-mail aduio@scrippscol.edu or call (909) 399-3930.
The Queer Resource Center list server is running. This list will communicate information about events that the Queer Resource Center is sponsoring, which are open to the whole community; in addition, it will relay information about other queer community events. Subscribers may sign up anonymously. E-mail to: mailserv@pomona.edu, with no subject. The entire body should read: subscribe qrc-l . If you have any questions about the list, e-mail qrc@pomona.edu.
Volunteers are needed for a tree planting project at Big Bear on April 25. For more information, contact Mark Figueroa, community service coordinator, at x18822.
Entries are sought for photographic works to become part of the permanent collection of photography, featuring Pitzer's external studies programs, to be mounted in the Nichols Gallery. A call is going out to all students, faculty, staff, alumni and trustees who would like to submit photography reflecting their external studies experiences. Deadline for entries is June 5. The photos should be unframed color or black and white prints, 8 inches by 10 inches or larger, either horizontal or vertical. The subject matter should relate to the external studies program or other international themes. Photos should be accompanied by a brief statement or description of the work. Anyone interested in contributing an image for the permanent collection should call Yvonne Manipon at x16033 or Tom Manley at x18104.
A free GRE Practice Test and Strategy Session will be offered by the Princeton Review on April 18 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. To register, contact the Center for Career and Community Services at x18519.