Speakers, Fall 1988

 

Monday,
September 12
Peter Freese, professor of American Studies, Paderborn University, West Germany, author, Growing Up Black in America: Stories and Studies of Socialization (1977) and The American Short Story I: Initiation (1984); "Culture vs. Economics: The Depiction of the Businessman in American Literature"
 
Tuesday,
September 13
Albert Talalla, Ambassador of Malaysia to the United States; "Career Foreign Service"
 
Wednesday,
September 14
Howard Rosenberg, television critic, Los Angeles Times; "How Much Television Affects Your Life"
 
Thursday,
September 15
Howard Rosenberg, television critic, Los Angeles Times; "Election Media Manipulation"
 
Tuesday,
September 20
Jose Guilherme Merquoir, Brazilian Ambassador to Mexico; author, Foucault (1987) and Prague to Paris: A Critique of Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Thought (1986); "Images of Culture in Modern Times"
 
Monday,
September 26
Larry David '66, international businessman; "The Effect, Present and Future, of China's Modernization on International Trade"
 
Tuesday,
September 27
Abraham Triestram, liaison officer for the Netherlands, NATO; "NATO and Current European Political Opinions"
 
Wednesday,
September 28
Richard Wilbur, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1987-88); author, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems (1947) and Things of This World (1956); "Readings"
 
Thursday,
September 29
Leroy Hood, professor of biology, California Institute of Technology; co-author, Immunology (1978) and Biochemistry: A Problem Approach (1974); "Biotechnology and the Medicine of the Future"
 
Friday,
September 30
Daniel Weintraub, vice president for international programs, Planned Parenthood Federation of America; "Teen Pregnancy" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
October 4
Norman Cousins, adjunct professor of medicine, UCLA; author, The Pathology of Power (1988) and The Healing Heart (1984); "Healthy Individuals and Healthy Societies"
 
Wednesday,
October 5
Pierre Salinger, ABC's chief foreign correspondent; co-author, Above Paris (1984); "An Evening with Pierre Salinger" (McKenna Auditorium)
 
Monday,
October 10
Roger Mahony, archbishop, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles; "God and the Hungry"
 
Wednesday,
October 19
Alfred Balitzer P'88, assistant professor of government, CMC; author, A Nation of Associations (1981) and A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan (1983); John J. Pitney Jr., assistant professor of government, CMC; Rod Smith, professor of economics, CMC; author, Troubled Waters: Financing Water in the West (1984); Tom Willett, Horton professor of economics, CGU and CMC; co-editor, Credit Exchange Rates, Trade, and the United States Economy (1985); Ross Eckert, professor of economics, CMC; "Bush vs. Dukakis: Who's Going to Win?"
 
Monday,
October 24
Ed Rollins, manager of Reagan/Bush campaign in 1984; Bob Beckel, manager of Mondale/Ferraro campaign in 1984; "Managing a Presidential Campaign"
 
Tuesday,
October 25
Eileen Padberg, political consultant; Carmen Perez, vice chair, California Democratic party; "Women Swinging the Vote"
 
Wednesday,
October 26
Lyn Nofziger, political consultant; Charles Manatt, former chairman, Democratic National Committee; "Partisan Perspectives on Campaign '88"
 
Thursday,
October 27
Bruce Babbitt, Arizona governor; "What This Election Means to You" (McKenna Auditorium)
 
Monday,
October 31
Paul Conrad, political cartoonist, Los Angeles Times; author, Drawn and Quartered (1985) and Pro and Conrad (1979); "The Election From a Political Cartoonist's Point of View"
 
Tuesday,
November 1
Patricia Dillon, professor of economics, Scripps College; co-author, Political Business Cycles (1988) with Tom Willett, Horton professor of economics, CGU and CMC; co-author, Reaganomics: A Mid-Term Report (1983); King Banian, professor of economics, CMC; Craig Stubblebine, professor of economics, CMC; co-author, Reaganomics: A Mid-Term Peport (1983); "The Economy and the Current Presidential Election" (4:15 p.m. Bauer Forum)
 
Tuesday,
November 1
David Dreier '75, U.S. House of Representatives (R), (CA-33rd district); "What the Election Means to You"
 
Wednesday,
November 2
Ralph Juhnke, assistant professor of psychology, CMC; "Political Psychology and Philosophy"
 
Thursday,
November 3
Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter; author, Max and Helen (1982) and Every Day Remembrance Day: A Chronicle of Jewish Martyrdom (1987); "Bringing Nazi War Criminals to Justice" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Thursday,
November 3
Claremont Colleges Debate Union, "Election Debate"
 
Sunday,
November 6
Night Blooming Jazzmen, "Election Jazz Brunch" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
November 8
Dan Mazmanian, director, Center for Politics and Policy, Claremont Graduate School; author, Third Parties in Presidential Elections (1974) and Can Regulation Work? (1983); Alan Heslop, Don H. and Edessa Rose professor of state and local government; director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government, CMC; author, World Capital Shortage (1978); "Election Edition Commentary"
 
Monday,
November 14
Ma Yuzhen, consul general for the People's Republic of China in Los Angeles; "China Today"
 
Tuesday,
November 15
Robert Streeter, Edward L. Ryerson distinguished service professor emeritus of literature, University of Chicago; co-editor, The Province of Prose (1956); "Lonely in America"
 
Wednesday,
November 16
Robert Gallo, chief, Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute; author, Human T-cell Leukemia Lymphoma Virus (1984) and Retroviruses and Human Pathology (1986); "Discovery of the AIDS Virus" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Thursday,
November 17
Karen Elliott House, foreign editor, The Wall Street Journal; "The Middle East-Who Wins?"
 
Tuesday,
November 22
Steven Spiegel, professor of political science, UCLA; author, The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America's Middle East Policy From Truman to Reagan (1986); "The U.S.-Israeli Elections: What They Mean for the Middle East"
 
Monday,
November 28
Datin Paduka Rafidab Aziz, minister of trade and industry of Malaysia; "Women in Government" (Green Room)
 

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