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| President's Breakfast Rescheduled Ophelia, You're Breaking Our Heart! Lecture Looks at 'Journeys of Choice' Galileo, the Church and the Cosmos Staff |
President's Breakfast Rescheduled
Ophelia, You're Breaking Our Heart!
The lecture is free and open to the public. Willis’ talk is the Paul C. Wilt Phi Kappa Phi Lecture for the spring semester. Professors Cheri Larsen Hoekley (English) and John Blondell (Theatre Arts) will respond. Willis has co-edited an anthology of contemporary American poems, "In Shakespeare," with Santa Barbara City College Professor David Starkey. The two received more poems from their contributors about Ophelia in Hamlet than about any other character in Shakespeare’s canon. In his lecture, Willis will trace the history of the way in which Ophelia has been understood and discuss possible reasons for her current cult-figure status. "In a Fine Frenzy" (University of Iowa Press) will be released on April 23, Shakespeare’s birthday. Willis will read selections from the anthology at 7:30 p.m. April 28 at Borders Bookstore in downtown Santa Barbara. Lecuture Looks at 'Journeys of Choice'
The event is free and open to the public. Questions raised during the discussion will include: Do travelers today have anything to learn from those who have gone before? What traditions of travel shape our journeys? Willis has taught English at Westmont for 16 years and his areas of expertise are environmental studies, literature and writing. An avid backpacker, he features the outdoors in much of his work. Willis has published more than 300 poems in journals and anthologies such as "Ascent," "Wilderness," Christian Century" and "Best American Poetry 1996." His most recent books are "Poison Oak" and "The Deep and Secret Color of Ice." Willis’ essays, reviews and short stories have appeared in such places as "Image," "River Teeth," "Books and Culture" and "Best Spiritual Writing 1999." He has published two eco-fantasy novels, "No Clock in the Forest" and "The Stolen River." An expert in the late medieval and Renaissance art, DeBoer joined the Westmont art faculty in 1999. She received a doctorate in the history of art from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and served as a Lilly Fellow at Valparaiso University from 1996-1998. She has received several fellowships, including a Fulbright and a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. Four to Join Foundation Board Brown joined Montecito Bank & Trust in 1990 and has served as president and chief executive officer since 1994. He began his banking career in the Midwest following graduation from Wichita State University, and he completed a graduate banking school program at the University of Virginia. He worked for Bank of America for nearly 10 years, including an assignment in Santa Barbara. A member of the California Bankers Association, Brown serves on the executive committee of the board of directors; he also belongs to the administrative committed of the American Bankers Association’s Government Relations Council and the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation board of directors. Carlson is president of Education Design Foundation which she funded from the sale of investment property. The foundation donates books about art and architecture to libraries in California and Vermont. A former resident of Vermont, she spends three months a year there. Carlson attended Radcliffe College and received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard in 1975. She earned a master’s degree in architectural history and a doctorate in American cultural studies, both from UC Santa Barbara. She taught the history of Western art at Westmont from 1986 to 1990. Carlson is also a writer and once served as the associate editor of the town newspaper in Carlisle, Mass. She has been married for 20 years to Robert Carlson. A partner in the Corporate Practice Group, Santa Barbara, Haslem specializes in corporate law, finance banking and real estate. Prior to joining Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, he worked in the New York and Los Angeles offices of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. He belongs to the bar in California, New York, Oregon, Washington D.C. and Washington. He is also a licensed Real Estate Broker. His community involvement includes service on the executive advisory board of the Central Coast Venture Forum, the board of directors of the Central Coast MIT Enterprise Forum, the board of directors of the Lobero Theatre Foundation and the executive advisory board of the Central Coast Commercial Lenders. A native of Santa Barbara, Ortale attended local schools and graduated from UC Santa Barbara. She volunteers for CALM (Child Abuse Listening Mediation) and serves as co-chair of their Celebrity Authors Luncheon, which raises funds for the treatment of abused children. An active member of Calvary Chapel, she is involved with many of their outreach programs. She has been married to her husband, Richard, for 22 years. Upcoming Chapel Speakers Francis Chan (3/9), the pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, is one of the most sought-after youth speakers in California. He has spoken to thousands of young people throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia and can be heard on his radio program, "Truth Be Known." He has an outrageous sense of humor, and genuine love for Christ and a commitment to teach straight from the Word of God. He is a graduate of the Master’s College and Seminary. John Ortberg (3/30) is a teaching pastor at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park, Calif., and previously served as teaching pastor at Willow Creek Community Church. He is the best-selling author of "Everybody’s Normal Till You Get to Know Them," "If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat," "Love Beyond Reason," and "Old Testament Challenge." He has written for Christianity Today and is a frequent contributor to Leadership Journal. Schedule change: Please note that Stan Gaede will speak on March 4 and Ben Patterson will speak on March 7 (their dates have been switched). ReelTalk: Super Size Me
The film was nominated for an Academy Award as the best documentary. Ominously, 37 percent of American children and adolescents carry too much fat and two out of every three adults are overweight or obese. Is it our fault for lacking self-control, or are the fast-food corporations to blame? Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock hit the road and interviewed experts in 20 U.S. cities, including Houston, the "Fattest City" in America. From Surgeon Generals to gym teachers, cooks to kids, lawmakers to legislators, these authorities shared their research, opinions and "gut feelings" on our ever-expanding girth. During the journey, Spurlock also put his own body on the line, living on nothing but McDonald’s for an entire month. It all adds up to a fat food bill, harrowing visits to the doctor and compelling viewing for anyone who’s ever wondered if man could live on fast food alone. The film explores the horror of school lunch programs, declining health and physical education classes, food addictions and the extreme measure people take to lose weight and regain their health. The event is free and open to the public. WASC Visit In December 2004, the committee completed a Capacity and Preparatory Review that includes five essays reflecting on the data in our institutional portfolio. One of the major issues in the essays is the assessment of the adequacy of our resources and structures to carry our educational objectives. In March, a team of five educators representing WASC will make its first visit to the campus. The groups will meet with administrators, faculty, students and WASC committee members March 8-10. Their discussions will focus on capacity-related issues and on the Capacity and Preparatory Review. The next part of the WASC process, which will examine educational effectiveness, will take place in 2006. For more information about the WASC review or to read a copy of the Institutional Proposal and the WASC Capacity and Preparatory Review, see the college’s Web site. Click on Academics and then on Institutional Portfolio, second on the left. The Web site provides a great deal of valuable information about Westmont and locates this data in a place that is easy and convenient for faculty and staff to access. It will remain in place even after the WASC review is over. Galileo, the Church and the Cosmos
The event, sponsored by the Pascal Society is free and open to the public. According to Lindberg, the story of Galileo’s campaign on behalf of the heliocentric model of the universe is one of the most dramatic events in the history of relations between Christianity and science. Lindberg offers a different perspective on the traditional portrayal of a battle in the perennial warfare between science and religion. "This traditional story is filled with factual errors," says Lindberg. "But a fault at least as serious is its treatment of the Galileo affair as an exclusively ideological conflict (theological dogmatism nuffing out scientific freedom), neglecting the overwhelming importance of human interests and local circumstances. And when human fears, rivalries, greed, revenge, ambition, animosity, personality and the like are taken into account, the story takes on an altogether different cast." In Lindberg’s retelling, the ideological side of the story will be balanced with its richness as a human event. Lindberg is an eminent scholar who has received numerous grants and awards from various organizations, including the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the History of Science Society, the Medieval Academy of America and the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of more than 65 books and articles on topics ranging from Roger Bacon to the relationship between science and Christianity to the history of optics. Lindberg is a graduate of Wheaton College who received a master’s degree in physics at Northwestern University and a doctorate in history and philosophy of science at Indiana University. He is co-editing the forthcoming eight-volume "Cambridge History of Science." Lindberg has been a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Bellagio Study Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow. He was president of the History of Science Society and received the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society in 1999 for lifetime scholarly achievement. His book, "The Beginnings of Western Science," won the 1994 Watson Davis Prize of the History of Science Society and the 1995 John Templeton Foundation Prize for Outstanding Books in theology and natural science. Condolences
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