Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

A distinctive
feature of social and
cultural life at CMC

 

Past Semester Schedules

 
Tue, February 13, 2001
Richard Lewontin, Alexander Agassiz research professor of biology, Harvard University; author, The Triple Helix (2000) and It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions (2000); "Genomemania"
 
Wed, February 14, 2001
Jennifer Warnes, vocalist; Billy Watts, guitar; Skip Edwards, keyboard; David Jackson, bass; Lee Spah, drums; Hani Nassen, percussion; Matt Cartsonis and Chris Darrell, mandolin; "An Evening with Jennifer Warnes"
 
Thu, February 15, 2001
Barry Menikoff, professor of English literature, University of Hawaii; editor, forthcoming Kidnapped; Or the Lad with the Silver Button (2001) and Tales from the Prince of Storytellers (1993); "F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hollywood"
 
Mon, February 19, 2001
Steven Pinker, professor of cognitive science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author, How the Mind Works (1999) and The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (2000); "How the Mind Works: Words and Rules"
 
Tue, February 20, 2001
Robert Goldich '71, national defense specialist, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; "No Such Thing as Total Civilian Control of the Military" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Wed, February 21, 2001
Robert George, McCormick professor of jurisprudence, Princeton University; author, Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (1995) and In Defense of Natural Law (1999); "Civil Liberties and Public Morality"
 
Thu, February 22, 2001
Ralph Rossum P'01, Henry Salvatori professor of political philosophy and American constitutionalism, CMC; author, American Constitutional Law: Cases and Interpretation (1983) and Reverse Discrimination: The Constitutional Debate (1980); "The Seventeenth Amendment and the Death of Federalism"
 
Mon, February 26, 2001
Victor Pestoff, professor of political science, Sodertorns Hogskola, Sweden; author, Between Markets and Politics: Co-operatives in Sweden (1991) and "Beyond the Market and State: Social Enterprises and Civil Democracy in a Welfare Society" (1998) (12:15 p.m.)
 
Tue, February 27, 2001
John Wooden, former men's basketball head coach, UCLA; author, Practical Modern Basketball (1966) and "They Call Me Coach" (1972)
 
Wed, February 28, 2001
Carol Mayo Jenkins, chorus; Monique Sims, Antigone; Mary Carver, nurse; Emily Deschanel, Ismene; Josh Adell, Haemon; Steve Gilborn, Creon; Lance Davis, first guard; Greg White, second guard; Matt Sullivan, messenger; Cosmo Sher, page; "Interact Theater Company: Jean Anouilh's Antigone" (1944)
 
Thu, March 1, 2001
Mary Rose O'Reilley, author, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd (2000) and Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice (1998); "Being Mindful When Your Mind is Already Too Full"
 
Mon, March 5, 2001
Peter Navarro, associate professor of economics and public policy, U.C. Irvine; author, The Dimming of America: The Real Costs of Electric Utility Regulatory Failure (1984) and forthcoming If It's Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks: The Investor's Guide to Profiting from News and Other Market Moving Events (2001); John Jurewitz, director of regulatory policy, Southern California Edison; Benjamin Zycher, senior economist, RAND Corporation; Robert Michaels, professor of economics, C.S.U. Fullerton; Rod Smith, senior vice president of Stratecon Inc. and president and managing director of J&M Water Development LLC; author, Troubled Waters: Financing Water in the West (1984) and Trading Water: An Economic and Legal Framework for Water Marketing (1988); Tom Borcherding, professor of economics, Claremont Graduate University, author, Egg Marketing: A Case Study of Monopoly (1980) and editor, Budgets and Bureaucrats: The Sources of Government Growth (1977), (moderator); "California's Energy Crisis: Who's to Blame and What to Do" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Tue, March 6, 2001
Nathan Rosenberg, Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. professor of public policy, Stanford University; author, How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World (1987) and The Emergence of Economic Ideas: Essays in the History of Economics (1994); "American Universities as Economic Institutions"
 
Wed, March 7, 2001
David Abshire, president, Center for the Study of the Presidency; co-author, Putting America's House in Order: The Nation as a Family (1996) and "Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency" (2001) (12:15 p.m.)
 
Mon, March 19, 2001
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former U.S. senator (D-NY); author, Secrecy: The American Experience (1999) and Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy (1996); James Q. Wilson, Ronald Reagan professor of public policy, Pepperdine University; author, The Moral Sense (1993) and The Politics of Regulation (1982); "A Dahrendorf Inversion? The Twilight of Family in the North Atlantic Region" C-SPAN, Webcast
 

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