Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Er Tai Gao, exiled dissident essayist and painter; Fellow, International Institute of Modern Letters, University of Nevada; author, In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp (2009) and co-author, Chan Heart, Chan Art (2007); "In Search of My Homeland"
 

Dan Choi, U.S. Army infantry officer, Iraq, 2006-2007; First Lieutenant, New York Army National Guard; "Truth and Consequences: One Man's Fight To Openly Serve His Country"
 

David West P'12, CEO and president, The Hershey Company; "Lunch with a Leader: The Confectionery Industry" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Minxin Pei P'12, Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 professor of government and director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, CMC; author, China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (2006) and From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (1994); "Obama Goes to Beijing: Charting a New Course or Following Bush’s Footsteps?"
 

Nelson Lichtenstein, professor of history; director, Center for Work, Labor and Democracy, U.C. Santa Barbara; author, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Global Capitalism (2009) and American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century (2007); "Wal-Mart from Bentonville to Guangdong: The 21st Century Face of Global Capitalism"
 

Anna Simons, professor of defense analysis; Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey; author, The Company They Keep: Life Inside the U.S. Army Special Forces (1997) and Networks of Dissolution: Somalia Undone (1995); "Finding a Sovereignty Solution for Afghanistan" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Chester Spatt, Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn professor of finance; director, Center for Financial Markets, Carnegie Mellon University; author, Systemic Risks in our Global Marketplace (2009) and forthcoming, Equilibrium Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Under Asymmetric Information; "Economic Principles, Government Policy and the Market Crisis"
 

Charles Sprague '10 and Natalia Bailey '10, "CMC Forum Debate Night at the Ath: Should CMC Expand to 1400 Students?"; Shamil Hargovan '10 and Ben Kraus '11, "CMC Forum Debate Night at the Ath: Should CMC's Alcohol Policy Change?"; Patrick Atwater '10 and Elise Viebeck '10, "CMC Forum Debate Night at the Ath: Is CMC Male-dominated?"
 

Cheryl Maxson, associate professor, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, U.C. Irvine; co-author, Street Gang Patterns and Policies (2006) and Responding to Troubled Youth (1997); "Responding to Street Gangs: Using Evidence to Build Effective Policy"
 

Geoffrey Forden P'10, research associate, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author, Evaluation of the Chinese A SAT Test (2007) and How the World's Most Underdeveloped Nations Get the World's Most Dangerous Weapons (2007); "Iran: A Challenge for Today's Nonproliferation Regime"