Students enrolled in the spring semester of CMC's Washington Program enjoyed an informal pizza dinner with Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) in his Capitol Hill office recently. The students were able to hear McDermott's per…

Professor John Roth, the Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy and director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, is focusing his summer research on a number of Holocaust studies p…

Susanne Mahoney Filback, associate dean and director of career services, has been elected the executive chair of the Board for the Consortium of Liberal Arts Schools and Independent Colleges. CLASIC is a professional or…

Deepak Shimkhada , assistant professor of philosophy and religious studies, was one of several presenters for the 2006 annual Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference, hosted June 17 at Washington State University…

Associate professor of economics Manfred Keil, who will serve as the new chair of the economics department for the 2006-07 academic year, will attend a July 11-13 retreat in Los Angeles on behalf of the Posse Foundation…

It's been said that the Pacific Ocean has no memory, but that won't be the case for CMC and Scripps College alumni who elect to board an expedition ship that will ply the waters of Baja, California, this January.The ful…

By Nick Owchar '90Nick Owchar is Deputy Book Editor of the Los Angeles Times and serves on the CMC magazine Editorial Board. A World War II veteran once sent me a memoir of his experiences as a wartime aviator, packaged…

Roderic Camp, the Philip M. McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim, will be part of an international panel of scholars participating in a July 7 symposium on the outcome of the Mexican presidential race. The Roundtable on…

The CMC Alumni Association commemorated the golden anniversary of its incorporation with a gala dinner June 8 at the landmark Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. More than 130 guests attended the festivities, which celebrated th…

Polo shirts, torn jeans, threadbare cardigans. What's shabby chic to some graduating seniors is plain shabby to others suddenly confronted with workaday wardrobes and introductory careers outside the collegial shell. Bu…