Speakers, Spring 1988

 

Monday,
January 25
John Maguire, president, Claremont Graduate School; Cornish Rogers, professor of pastoral theology, School of Theology, Claremont; "Martin Luther King, Jr. Remembrance"
 
Tuesday,
January 26
CMC Student Philosophy Colloquium, "Philosophy Today"
 
Wednesday,
January 27
Harry Jaffa, Henry Salvatori professor of political philosophy and American Constitutionalism, CMC; author, Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1959) and The Conditions of Freedom (1975); "A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War and the Bicentennial of the Constitution"
 
Tuesday,
February 2
Loren Smith, professor of law, University of Delaware; author, Judicialization of the Administrative Process: The Fine Print (1986) and co-author, Black America and Organized Labor: A Fair Deal? (1979); "Federal Election Laws" (4:00 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
February 2
Theodore Puck, director, Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research, Denver; author, The New Biology and Its Human Implications (1985); "The Nature of Cancer"
 
Thursday,
February 4
Paul Conrad, chief editorial cartoonist, Los Angeles Times; author, Pro and Conrad (1979) and Drawn and Quartered (1985); "Political Cartoons: A Visual Commentary"
 
Wednesday,
February 10
Richard Combs, Deputy Chief of Mission, American Embassy, Moscow; "What's Going on in Gorbachev's Soviet Union?"
 
Friday,
February 12
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
 
Saturday,
February 13
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
 
Sunday,
February 14
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
 
Wednesday,
February 17
Richard Combs, Deputy Chief of Mission, American Embassy, Moscow; "Gorbachev and U.S.- Soviet Relations: What's Next?"
 
Thursday,
February 18
John J. Pitney, Jr., assistant professor of government, CMC; Gordon Bjork, Jonathan B. Lovelace professor of economics, CMC, author, Private Enterprise and Public Interest: The Development of the American Economy (1969) and Life, Liberty and Property: The Economics and Politics and Land Use Planning and Environmental Controls (1979); Ross Eckert, professor of economics, CMC; Rodney Smith, professor of economics, CMC, author, Troubled Waters: Financing Water in the West (1984); Dick Sweeney, professor of economics, CMC; Tom Willett, Horton professor of economics, CGU and CMC, co-editor, Exchange Rates, Trade, and the United States Economy (1985); "Who's Going to Win in 1988: Will Economics Decide the Election?"
 
Monday,
February 22
Christine Wong, assistant professor of economics, U.C. Santa Cruz; author, The Political Economics of Reform in Post-Mao China (1985); "The Political Economy of Reform in China: Prices, Taxes, and Local Interests"
 
Tuesday,
February 23
Judith Kipper, political analyst, Brookings Institute; editor, The Arab-Israeli Military Balance and the Art of Operations (1987); "Prospects for Israeli-Palestinian Peace: The Revolution of Stones in the West Bank of Gaza"
 
Wednesday,
February 24
Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1986); Andrew W. Mellon professor of humanities, Boston University; author, Night (1961) and The Testament (1981); "Conversation with Elie Wiesel" (11:00 a.m. McKenna Auditorium)
 
Wednesday,
February 24
Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1986); Andrew W. Mellon professor of humanities, Boston University; author, Messengers of God (1976) and The Fifth Son (1985); "An Evening with Elie Wiesel" (8:00 p.m. Bridges Auditorium)
 
Saturday,
February 27
Margaret Papandreou, president, Women's Union of Greece; "What is Next After the INF Treaty?" (4:00 p.m. Bridges Hall of Music)
 
Monday,
February 29
Arthur Wolf, professor of anthropology, Stanford University; author, Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945 (1980) and editor, Family and Population in East Asian History (1985); "Women in Traditional China: Agents or Objects?"
 
Tuesday,
March 1
Jim Nichols, Jr., professor of government, CMC; author, Epicurean Political Philosophy: The Dererum Nature of Lucretius (1976); Charles Kesler, professor of government, CMC; author, Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding (1987); John Roth, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; editor, Philosophy of Josiah Royce (1982) and co-author, Approaches to Auschwitz (1987); Henry Gibbons, professor of history, Claremont Graduate School; "The Closing of the American Mind: The Meaning and Merit"
 
Wednesday,
March 2
Peter Drucker, Marie Rankin Clarke professor of social science and management, Claremont Graduate School; author, Power and Democracy in America (1980) and Men, Ideas and Politics: Essays (1971); "Vision, Trust, and Commitment" (4:00 p.m.)
 
Wednesday,
March 2
Henry Kravis '67, founding partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR); "Leadership Effectiveness: A Practitioner's Perspective" (6:45 p.m.)
 
Wednesday,
March 2
Warren Bennis, professor of business administration, USC; author, Leaders: The Strategy for Taking Charge (1985) and Organizational Development: Its Nature, Origins, and Prospects (1969); "Leadership Effectiveness: A Scholar's Perspective" (7:30 p.m.)
 
Thursday,
March 3
Alice Eagly, professor of psychology, Purdue University; author, Sex Differences in Social Behavior: A Social Role Interpretation (1987); "Gender and Leadership Style" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Thursday,
March 3
Fred Fiedler, professor of psychology, University of Washington; author, A Theory of Leadership Effectiveness (1967) and Leader Attitudes and Group Effectiveness (1981); "Harnessing the Organization's Intellectual Energy"
 
Monday,
March 7
Patricia Schroeder, U.S. House of Representatives (D), (Colorado-1st district); "Women in Politics" (McKenna Auditorium)
 
Tuesday,
March 8
Stanley Hauerwas, professor of ethics, Duke University; author, A Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer in Christian Ethics (1983) and A Community of Character (1985); "God, Medicine, and the Problems of Evil"
 
Monday,
March 21
Alan Bloom, professor of economics, University of Chicago; translator, Politics and the Arts (1968) and author, "The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students" (1988)
 
Tuesday,
March 22
Tibor Machan '65, professor of philosophy, Auburn University; author, The Pseudo-Science of B.F. Skinner (1974) and Human Rights and Human Liberties: A Radical Reconsideration of the American Political Tradition (1975); "Judge Bork: The Debate and Its Aftermath"
 
Wednesday,
March 23
Vita Koval, senior researcher, Institute of the International Labor Movement, USSR; "Soviet Reforms: Technological Change on Soviet Society"
 
Thursday,
March 24
Rebecca Schull, performance artist; "Journey into the Whirlwind" (McKenna Auditorium)
 
Monday,
March 28
Mortimer Adler P'89, director, Institute for Philosophical Research; author, A Guidebook to Learning: For a Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdom (1986) and We Hold These Truths: Understanding the Ideas and Ideals of the Constitution (1987); "Philosophy for Everyone" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Monday,
March 28
Mortimer Adler P'89, philosopher; author; Ten Philosophical Mistakes (1985) and "We Hold These Truths: Understanding the Ideas and Ideals of the Constitution" (1987)
 
Tuesday,
March 29
Richard Bernstein, visiting professor of philosophy, Frankfurt University; author, Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics and Praxis (1983) and Philosophical Profiles: Essays in a Pragmatic Mode (1986); "The Rage Against Reason"
 
Thursday,
March 31
CMC Republicans vs. CMC Democrats, "Election '88: Who's Going to Win?"
 
Monday,
April 4
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); "Surviving the End: Malamud, Vonnegut, and Pynchon (4:00 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
April 5
Jerry Lewis, California congressman, (R-35th district); Susan McGrievy, ACLU transexual rights committee attorney; Brett Barbre; Mickey Wheatley, gay activist; civil rights attorney; "The Politics of AIDS"
 
Wednesday,
April 6
Leon Sullivan, founder; Opportunities Industrialization Center; author, The Sullivan Principles (1977) and Build, Brother, Build (1969); "Keck Lecture on International Understanding: Curing Explosive Disillusionment in America and the World" (McKenna Auditorium)
 
Thursday,
April 7
Bruce Heischober, director of the recovery center, Redlands Community Hospital; "Immunity and Recreational Drugs" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Thursday,
April 7
Randall Robinson, co-founder, Free South Africa Movement; "Free South Africa" (McKenna Auditorium)
 
Friday,
April 8
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont concert choir; "Americana Festival"
 
Saturday,
April 9
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont concert choir; "Americana Festival"
 
Sunday,
April 10
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont concert choir; "Americana Festival"
 
Friday,
April 15
Werner Fornos, president, Population Institute; "Facts about the Population Crisis" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Saturday,
April 16
Laura Cohen ’91, vocalist and Lise Kristiansen ’91, piano; "Caro mio ben and Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man"; Scott Reekstin ’88, vocalist; "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables"; Cheryl Rivin ’89, vocalist; "I Don’t Know How to Love Him"; Lorraine Ware ’88, violin; Matthew Gleason ’88, guitar, Mike Lindeman ’91, piano; "Concerto in D Major for Violin, Guitar, and Piano"; Lisa Coel ’90, vocalist, "Out Here on My Own"; David Scott ’88, vocalist, "Prelude Op. 25 No. 5"; Scott Reekstin ’88, Cheryl Rivin ’89, Lisa Coel ’90, Rob Smith ’89, vocalists; "Operator and Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square"; Marilyn Bell ’91, vocalist; "Selve amiche, ombrose piante"; "Celebration of the Arts: CMC Student Musical Performances"
 
Tuesday,
April 19
John Lehman, Jr., secretary of the navy; author, forthcoming Command of the Seas (1988); "Defense and Foreign Affairs" (4:00 p.m. Bauer Center)
 
Tuesday,
April 19
E. P. Pister, associate fishery biologist, California Department of Fish and Game; "Freeway to Extinction"
 
Tuesday,
April 26
Gary Guertner, professor of strategy and national security policy, U.S. Army War College; author, The Lost Frontier: An Analysis of the Strategic Defense Initiative (1986); "Soviet Strategy Since World War II" (12:45 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
April 26
Frank Gaffney, Jr., visiting fellow, American Enterprise Institute; co-author, An Article by Article Review of the INF Treaty (1988); "SDI, INF, and the Arms Control Process" (2:00 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
April 26
Spurgeon Keeny, Jr., president, Arms Control Association; author, Half the World's Children: Diary of UNICEF at Work in Asia (1957) and Nuclear Power: Issues and Choices (1977); "The Status and Prospects for Strategic Arms Control" (3:00 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
April 26
Gary Guertner, professor of strategy and national security policy, U.S. Army War College; author, The Lost Frontier: An Analysis of the Strategic Defense Initiative (1986); Frank Gaffney, Jr., visiting fellow, American Enterprise Institute; co-author, An Article by Article Review of the INF Treaty (1988); Spurgeon Keeny, Jr., president, Arms Control Association; author, Half the World's Children: Diary of UNICEF at Work in Asia (1957) and Nuclear Power: Issues and Choices (1977); P. Edward Haley, professor of international relations, CMC; author, Qaddafi and the United States Since 1969 (1984) and Lebanon in Crisis: Participants and Issues (1979) (moderator); "Current Issues of U.S. National Security" (4:15 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
April 26
Lawrence Korb, dean of public and international affairs, University of Pittsburg; author, The Joint Chiefs of Staff: The First Twenty-Five Years (1976) and National Security Policy Organization in Perspective (1981); "The Likelihood and Implications of a START Agreement"
 
Wednesday,
April 27
Dinner Theater, "Frankenstein (1818) Pre-performance Dinner" (8:00 p.m. Bridges Auditorium)
 
Thursday,
April 28
William Gould IV, Charles A. Beardsley professor of law, Stanford University; author, Strikes, Dispute Procedures, and Arbitration (1985) and Black Workers in White Unions: Job Discrimination in the United States (1977); "The Future of Industrial Relations in the West"
 

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