C L A R E M O N T
the
G R A D U A T E
U N I V E R S I T Y
Pedant
A newsletter for CGU students, which doubles
as a Hagelbarger’s placemat.
March 2009
CGU news
All the campus news
that’s fit to print. Get
the latest on the new
interim president, the
Writing Center’s new
spread, poets getting
paid, and how to get
in touch with your
inner child.
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Volume 1, Number 3
Teacher training
A Pedant’s guide to
becoming a professor.
Learn from three
ambitious students
who are intrepidly
carving out a
promising career path
in higher learning.
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Pondering the
great hereafter
with the Office
of Career
Management
Our busy grad-student minds are a
whirlwind of deadlines, theorems,
reading lists, to-do lists, brilliant ideas,
forgettable ideas, scheduling conflicts,
familial and relationship demands, and
lots and lots of caffeine (which only spins
the tumult faster). It’s rare that we ever
stop to think about life after graduate
school. Quoth Hamlet (a student himself
worried about the great hereafter), “If it
be not now, yet it will come: the readiness
is all.” The counselors at the Office of
Career Management can help make you
ready to avoid “the slings and arrows” of
unemployment or an unsatisfying job, and
onto a career that might make you an
“outrageous fortune.”
Research and awards
Henry Kravis awards
entrepreneurial
innovation, a BGSA
call for papers, and
getting schooled at
Oxford.
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Campus events
A full calendar of
events, including how
to get your monthly
Debussy fix.
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What aren’t you
learning in graduate
school?
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It doesn’t work that way. Your first
appointment is the beginning of a sustained
partnership in which you must patiently and
proactively work with a counselor.
Alas, poor Yorick! What will I do for a career?
Surely, you may be saying, I can continue to
put off worrying about how to pay that
student loan balance I can’t bear to look at.
Not so, says Office of Career Management
director Fatma Kassamali. Asked when
students should begin visiting the office for
consultations, she said bluntly: “The first day.
“Students should come in on their very first
day at CGU because it takes a long time to
crystallize your ideas about what you want to
do, what you are good at, and to strengthen
your job-finding skills,” she added.
The Office of Career Management offers a
range of services, not just geared toward
showing you the money, but also showing you
the way to a stimulating and fulfilling career.
However, don’t expect that on your first visit
a counselor will set you up with a wealthy
alumnus who just happens to have a six-figure
position open on the beach in the Caribbean.
“Don’t just come once,” says Kassamali. “It
takes more than one appointment to figure out
what you want to do and how to get there. I
think it’s really important that students take
advantage of our really strong counseling
staff. They’re well equipped to help guide you
to useful resources and information.”
For starters, you might want to attend one of
their workshops. They’re open to all students
and have, in the past, addressed topics such
as: job searching, resume writing, interview
techniques, skills assessment, salary
negotiation, and networking.
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CGU factoid
Can you guess which former
United States President
narrated a documentary on
the Claremont Colleges?
Find out on page 8
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editor’s note:
cgu news:
Though it might seem like the spring semester
just started, finals will be upon us before we
know it. Likewise, no matter how far along
you are in achieving your degree, when you’re
walking across that stage at commencement
I’m guessing more than a few of you will
wonder where the time went. And that’s why
it’s important you don’t put off preparing for
your future career, be it in academia or
elsewhere.
Dr. Joseph C. Hough
Jr. named interim
president of CGU
Send your e-mails to
brendan.babish@cgu.edu.
Electronic copies of this and past issues of the
Pedant are available on our website at:
www.cgu.edu/communications.
Special thanks
To Fatma Kassamali and the Office of Career
Management, Ambereen Dadabhoy,
Christopher Farrish, David Dunaetz, and
anyone else who generously gave their time to
our humble publication; and Stone Brewery.
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Moving the center
The Writing Center has risen from the
depths of the Harper Basement, and
moved on up to a deluxe cottage on 141
East 12th Street.
This quaint, blue-grey chalet is within casual
strolling distance from anywhere on campus,
lying two blocks north of its old location in
Harper Hall, and just across the street from
the old student apartments.
The iDoctor is in
CGU’s Board of Trustees have announced
that Dr. Joseph C. Hough, Jr. will be the
university’s interim president. Hough has
agreed to lead CGU for the next 18
months while a formal search for a new
president is conducted.
He and his wife, Heidi, are returning to
Claremont, where they had lived for 25 years.
Hough then served on the faculty of
Claremont School of Theology and was chair
of the Religion Department at Claremont
Graduate School. He also served as dean of
the Claremont School of Theology from 1974
to 1987.
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The new lodgings are replete with tutoring
rooms, conference rooms, offices, a new
kitchen with coffee and tea maker, and a
spacious living room to wait in comfortably
for your appointment, browse the center’s
resource library and bulletin board, or to
spiritedly discuss split infinitives with fellow
students. For more information and pictures,
check out their website at www.cgu.edu/
pages/726.ASP.
Though we are always trying to provide you
with tips on getting the most out of your time
here at CGU, this issue’s features are devoted
to realizing your career goals. If you’re
already taking advantage of the opportunities
to gain experience and network, that’s great.
Maybe we can still provide some tips that will
help you augment your efforts. If you aren’t
doing anything outside your classes to fulfill
your career goals, stop putting it off. Get busy.
I know you want to see who gets voted off
American Idol this week, but don’t do it at the
expense of your career.
Lastly, as always, we would love to hear from
our constituents, the CGU students. If you
have any questions or comments, including
story ideas, please contact us. We want to
make this a valuable resource for you, so let
us know what information you consider
valuable.
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Most recently, Hough was president of Union
Theological Seminary in New York City.
While there, he guided Union through a
strategic plan that made the Seminary fiscally
viable, invigorated its academic programs,
and strengthened historic ties with
neighboring institutions.
Hough’s first day is set for March 10.
Has your dog used your iPod as a chew
toy? Have you spilled a tasty pint of ale
on your iBook while studying at the Back
Abbey? Look no further than the Huntley
Bookstore for the cure for what ails your
Apple products.
No, the friendly staff at our bookstore don’t
double as computer technicians by night, they
pass the work off to Cornice. Cornice is a
local authorized data and repair service that
can do everything from memory upgrades to
open-motherboard surgery.
Visit www.cornicemac.com for more
information, and remember that the Huntley
Bookstore also has incredible deals on Apple,
Sony, and Dell computers; software packages;
and other technical wares.
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A slice of sky looking pretty in pink.
Kingsley Tufts: poet, poetry benefactor, pioneer
of the poetic mustache.
Everybody must get to
the Stone Center
All the pretty colors
CGU awards the
bardic tradition
Feeling beat down by the demands of adult
responsibility? The bar at Heroes isn’t the
only place in Claremont to get in touch
with your inner child. After a casual
browsing of the book stacks at the George
G. Stone Center for Children's Books
(SCCB), you’ll be transported back to the
days when classroom temper tantrums
were not only tolerated, but therapeutic.
Hey man, wanna have your mind blown?
Cruise over to Pomona College and check
out CGU alum James Turrell’s outdoor
installation “Skyspace: Dividing the
Light.”
Is it Shakespeare’s Sonnet XVIII that
begins: “Shall I compare the Kinglsey &
Kate Tufts Poetry Awards to a summer
job’s pay?/ They art more lucrative and
distinguished.” No? Anyhow, these
awards are among the most prominent in
the literary world, and they’re
administered by CGU.
A bibliophile’s fountain of youth.
Founded in 1962, the Stone Center is a special
library associated with CGU's School of
Educational Studies. In addition to its
circulating collection of more than 20,000
trade books for young people (toddlers
through young adults), the center has a
noncirculating collection of historically
significant children's literature and reference
materials on children's books and their use in
classrooms.
Checkout privileges are free to all students,
faculty, and staff of the Claremont Colleges.
General collection books may be held up to
four weeks and special collections books for
one week (and beware the dreaded 10 cents
per day overdue fines). There is no book drop,
so books must be returned during regular
hours: Monday through Thursday from 1 to 5
p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
The Stone Center also puts on various events.
This includes its weekly series: “Saturday
Story Time” – where, no, you may not ask the
librarian to read your chemistry textbook out
loud while you sip chocolate milk and fall
asleep on the floor. For more information go
to www.cgu.edu/pages/3613.asp.
Turrell, a native Angelino, graduated from
Pomona College in 1965 with a degree in
perceptual psychology, and received an MFA in
art from CGU in 1973. Since then, Turrell has
become internationally regarded as an artist of
the highest order. His work has appeared in
major museums worldwide and he’s received
several prestigious awards, including a
Guggenheim and MacArthur “Genius Grant”
fellowship.
Turrell’s work is concerned with the way we
experience light and space. His installations
often compel the viewer to become more aware
of the sometimes passive act of “seeing.” His
pieces frequently engage the natural world,
seeking by various methods of framing, a
reexamination of how we experience it.
Such is the case with “Dividing the Light,” in
which a large metal canopy, with a square
opening in the middle, envelopes a courtyard,
exposing the sky to viewers seated below,
beside a pool that mirrors the open roof. On
Sundays and Mondays the canopy is
illuminated by alternating colors that brilliantly
contrast the changing sky. The lighting
programs occur twice a day: about 25 minutes
before sunset and about 100 minutes before
sunrise.
“Dividing the Light” is located in the Draper
Courtyard beside the Lincoln and Edmonds
building on the campus of Pomona College.
The public is welcome but groups of 10 or
more must make arrangements with the
Pomona College Museum of Art at
909-621-8283.
Established in 1992, the Kingsley Tufts
Poetry Award is given annually for a work by
an emerging poet who is past the very
beginning but has not yet reached the
acknowledged pinnacle of his or her career.
While some poetry prizes discover and honor
new voices, and others crown an indisputably
major body of work, this award aims to
sustain a poet who is laboring somewhere in
between. And did I mention the award purse
is $100,000 (that’ll buy a lot of quills).
The Kate Tufts Discovery Award is given
every year for the first book published by a
poet of promise. Though less dazzling in the
quill-buying department, this award accounts
for a not-too-shabby $10,000; not to mention
the visibility one receives by garnering this
prestigious award.
The panel of judges is a who’s who of poetic
heavyweights, including New Yorker poetry
editor Paul Muldoon and former United States
Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Last year, they
selected Janice Harrington for the Kate Tufts
Award, while the big prize went to former
Southern Californian Tom Sleigh for his outof-this-world collection Space Walk.
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Christopher Farrish is a
student who plays the
professorial part even
better than he looks it. As
you can see, that’s saying
something.
Professorial Preparedness 101
Wearing horn-rimmed glasses, tweed
jackets (with leather patches, natch), or
smoking a bruyére pipe won’t do much to
make you a tenured professor. If you’re
preparing for a career in academia, no
amount of well-considered facial hair can
sprout a promising career like learning to
act ahead.
Just as the most ambitious of us were taking
graduate courses when we were undergrads, if
you want to make it in the academic world,
now’s the time to access the inner professor
you always sensed was there, yearning to
pontificate. According to most experts, getting
straight As and writing a spectacular
dissertation aren’t always enough to break
into this ridiculously competitive job market;
you have to distinguish yourself by
demonstrating success in the responsibilities
you’ll be expected to take on later.
But what are these “responsibilities?” You’ll
find no “Professorial Preparedness 101” on
any course catalog. What there are plenty of,
though, are CGU students who are sterling
examples of professors-in-the-making.
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Three of them – Ambereen Dadabhoy, David
Dunaetz, and Christopher Farrish – have
regaled the Pedant with advice that, when
taken together, resembles a virtual
professorial preparedness syllabus, chock-full
of assignment-like suggestions of what
they’ve done that will help put you far ahead
of the graduate school curve.
It all starts with building a good resume, or as
we in the biz call it: the curriculum vitae (the
chief difference being that a resume is
expected to be succinct, while a CV can be –
nay, should be – long). According to
Dadabhoy: “A good CV is perhaps the
weightiest weapon in your arsenal. You
should definitely get someone to look over
your CV and give you feedback on it. I would
also advise students to check out other
people's CVs as models.” The same goes for
Farrish, who suggests just short of keeping
your CV under your pillow at night, to “keep
it updated and keep it clean. Tailor it to your
career goals and check-in with it monthly. If
I’m not adding something new to my CV
every semester, I’m not working hard
enough.”
Paul Gray and David E. Drew, CGU
professors and the authors of What They
Didn’t Teach You in Graduate School: 199
Helpful Hints for Success in Your Academic
Career (see page 8), even recommend getting
your CV professionally done. They say, “It
should be neat but not gaudy. Include
everything in your resume that is remotely
relevant. Some search committees use a
checklist of skills, experiences, and other
criteria they expect for a position . . . A
committee may blindly drop you from
consideration if its members don’t put a
checkmark next to each of their items.”
Okay, you’ve got it. You need to work on your
CV. But what if you have nothing to put in it?
Start getting your work published, for
Pedant’s sake. Instead of sending your end-ofsemester research papers down the River
Lethe to join the rest of your forgotten work
in crowded computer files, send them to
journals where they’ll be eternalized in print.
Dadabhoy, who states, “It’s very important to
continue to stay engaged with your work,” is
currently revising chapters of her dissertation
to send them out for publication in journals.
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And while getting published is more
important in some disciplines than others, you
can never publish too much. Or, if you’re
having trouble getting work into print, you
might look into coauthoring a paper with a
professor. This a great way to learn the
publishing ropes from one of our many Yodas
on campus, all the while building a lasting
relationship with a faculty member who may
know people who know people.
Which is also one of the chief reasons you
should be attending conferences – aside from
the fact that they’re also great CV fodder and
a place to catch up on cutting-edge research –
you get to meet people just as obsessed with
things like fourteenth-century basketry as you
are. Only, don’t be discouraged by academic
conference epithets like “nerd camps.” Gone
are the high school years when bullies might
hide near the entrance, waiting to nab
conference goers and hang them from the
flagpole by their briefs. In graduate school,
everyone goes to conferences, even bullies.
“Conferences are crucial,” says Farrish. “It
doesn’t matter if you’re not presenting, just
going and listening plugs you into the
mainline of what’s ‘hot’ in your field. Plus,
they’re a blast.” Which is precisely the
attitude to have. Go to a conference to have
fun. Make friends. Make a basketful of
basket-like networks of basket-loving friends,
if that’s what you’re into.
“A network of academic friendships is really
important,” says Dunaetz. “For this, you can’t
beat face-to-face contact. You want to develop
a lasting, emotional connection with people in
your field and who you may work with one
day. So the main thing you want to be doing is
cultivating trust. Most people and professors
are looking for colleagues they can get along
with and who they trust.”
Not only is developing a trusting relationship
with a national (even international) network
of academic friendships important, it’s just as
crucial to build them here at CGU. Which
means getting involved. Go to on-campus
Ambereen Dadabhoy glowing with accomplishment.
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meetings, participate in student government,
join study groups, start glee clubs, anything to
strengthen connections with your fellow
Pedants.
(You might even join our CGU Facebook
page. Sure, it’s not face-to-face networking,
but as Farrish imparts, “Facebook isn’t a bad
resource for keeping up to date with
colleagues and friends outside of our
community.” However, keep this in mind
when posting photos and making comments
on your page, some hiring committees look at
things like social networking sites and may
not be impressed by the photo of you in Las
Vegas with the . . . maybe it’s better to leave
that alone. You get the point.)
“It's important to have a network while you’re
in graduate school,” seconds Dadabhoy.
“Make connections with students and faculty
you can share your work with and get critical
feedback from. My dissertation committee
was very helpful while I was in school, and I
find that even now they give me unparalleled
support. These are the people who will be
writing letters for you when you go on the
market, and you want to make sure that they
have good things to say about you.”
Another good way to befriend and work
closely with faculty is to work with them; for
instance, coauthoring a paper or working as
their research or teaching assistant. Alas,
because we are a graduate-only university,
TAships are harder to come by at CGU
(RAships a little less so), but they are out
there. The best way to find them is to ask
around, talk to professors, gossip with
department administrators, hassle advisors,
hustle deans, work angles, cultivate
anonymous sources who’ll only meet in
parking garages. Anything. There’s funding
available, the bottom line is you have to make
it happen. “Do or do not, there is no try,” a
professor may tell you.
Why is a TAship something you should
consider? Because learning how to teach is
vital to professorial success, whatever
the field. According to Dunaetz,
“learning to be a good teacher is super
important.” If you can’t find a teaching
opportunity at the Claremont Colleges
to hone your pedagogical skills, you
might have better luck at other area
institutions like the University of La
Verne or Citrus College, just to name a
few within driving distance.
Or, you may have luck recommending
yourself for a position that hasn’t even
been conceived yet. Says Dunaetz,
“When I noticed that CGU didn’t have
David Dunaetz learning from his students how to be a
good teacher.
a French instructor, I asked about it and found
out they just couldn’t find anyone, so I
suggested myself.” Or heck, take a summerschool job. Nothing will strengthen your
public-speaking chords like talking over
fifteen-year-olds. Whatever the case, the
earlier you begin training the better, because
good student evaluations are important to
many schools.
So what if you’re already an academic
superstar with a stellar CV to prove it? Or
maybe you aren’t; at least not quite yet. No
matter where you are in your development,
checking job postings is a useful exercise.
“I look at them even if I'm not looking for a
job,” says Dadabhoy. “I find that job postings
often reveal a trend in hiring, and can help
you develop in an area you may not be too
well versed in. And it's essential to see what's
out there when you finally do decide to do a
job search. I frequently check the job listings
on the Chronicle of Higher Education. I think
it's one of the best sites around. Their CV
Doctor has helpful hints on making your CV
stand out, and their articles tackle a number of
pertinent issues facing graduate students.”
Finally, probably your best resource is the
professors you have now. Visit them during
their office hours, ask them how they got to
where they are, and what they think you
should be doing to get where you want to be.
They’ll likely tell you that while wearing a
scarf in Southern California makes a daring
fashion statement, it won’t do as much to get
you the job you’re working so hard for quite
like acting ahead.
Another excellent resource for students is the
Preparing Future Faculty Program. However,
due to unexpected budgetary issues, this
program has been suspended for the Spring,
2009 semester. To find out more, check out:
swww.cgu.edu/pages/392.asp.
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In fact, networking accounts for as high as 85
percent of all new jobs, according to some
career experts. The Office of Career
Management counselors can teach you the
essentials of this delicate social art,
transforming you into a glad-handing,
resume-hurling, slick-talking übermensch or
überwomensch, as it were.
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bulletin board:
So once you’ve assessed your skills, honed
your networking abilities, and drafted a stellar
resume, it’s time for your counselor to prepare
you to leave the nest. First, they’ll register you
with Expericence.com or NACElink.com,
online recruiting databases that send your
resume and information to thousands of
companies worldwide, all eager to snatch up
as many talented Pedants as they can.
Experience.com will also update you on
networking events that occur every Friday.
Finally, a counselor may eventually be able to
set you up with a one-on-one with the most
schmoozeable alumni in your relevant
academic fields (if that happens to be in
Caribbean Beach Studies, more power to you).
To make an appointment for a consultation, email the office at career.center@cgu.edu, call
(909) 621-8177, or hoof it to 1263 North
Dartmouth Avenue. Also, don’t forget to check
out their website (http://www.cgu.edu/pages/
166.asp); it’s filled with information, links,
and career advice.
Just remember, the great hereafter bears fast
upon all of us. The sooner you begin planning
your employment future, the better. With the
help of the Office of Career Management, the
job you want is within your grasp, the
readiness is all.
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Charles Young’s guide
to eating: Mexican
Charles Young, professor of philosophy in the
School of Arts & Humanities, has put
together a list of local good eats for those
new to the area. We’ve serialized it and will
be publishing extracts over the next couple of
issues:
Another useful step to take in the quest for a
great career is to work with your counselor to
find an internship. This is an excellent way to
scout the industry you’re considering, so that
after a summer of stamp licking, you should
have a good idea if this is the career path for
you. (If it is, this is also a great opportunity to
showcase those networking skills, given that
your tongue hasn’t gone numb.)
Even if you’re only looking for part time
work, say, as a sign twirler, a counselor can
help you craft a resume that even the most
exclusive pizzeria couldn’t turn down. Bring
your resume to the office for a complete
substantive and stylistic overhaul, changes that
could make the difference between a desk in
the corner office and a spot in the breadline.
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Though you may get the urge, we don’t recommend
showing off your new body in the Honnold Library.
Don’t blame it on the
Rains Center
If you’re feeling a little out of shape after
the holidays, don’t blame the winter
weather for keeping you indoors and
immobile; join the Rains Center.
All CGU students, faculty, and staff are
invited to sign up (sorry, no spouses or
family). Membership includes use of the
Voelkel Gym, Memorial Gym, the Rains
Center Fitness Room, Sessions Courts, and
Haldeman and Pendleton Pools during
specified hours.
Membership for one semester is $60, $100
for two, and $135 for the entire year
(September 1 through August 31). To apply,
visit the front desk on the second floor of the
main building, located on the campus of
Pomona College near the intersection of 6th
and Dartmouth Avenue.
This March, look out for the next issue of the
Flame. It will be a special edition issue devoted to
faculty research. Copies will be distributed around
campus or you can visit the Flame Online by going
to the Office of University Communications
website at: www.cgu.edu/pages/4612.asp. You
may also request that a hard copy be sent to you
by e-mailing mandy.bennett@cgu.edu.
The competition in Mexican food in Southern
California is so fierce that natural selection
guarantees that anyone who's been in business
more than six months is doing something right
and doing it cheap. If you see a line coming out
some door, stop: the people are there for
something. I can't explain Taco Bell. A few
special treats:
Barbacoa at Los
Jarritos No. 1 (246
S. Towne,
Pomona). Only
Sunday morning.
Bring an appetite.
No. 2 (3191 N.
Garey, Pomona) is
popular with the
Colleges' crowd.
Menudo on
Sunday morning,
if that matters to
you.
The author at work.
Shredded beef tacos (with hot sauce) at Juanita's
(1735 Indian Hill, Pomona). It's a walk-up with
just a table or two. Plan to go to a park. The
burritos are not bad, either. Tacos for a buck
twenty-five on Tuesdays.
Fish tacos at El Taco-Nazo (320 E. Foothill,
Pomona). Yes, I said fish tacos. The incarnation
in Upland between Popeye's and Tasty Goody
uses batter that's too thick, and produces tacos
that are soggy with oil. The Pomona location
does it right. Fish tacos for a buck on
Wednesday. I think they’re now called Senor
Baja, vel sim.
Chicken at Juan Pollo. (156 W. Foothill,
Upland). The best chicken ever. An occasional
pilgrimage to the original (South Euclid in
Ontario, a mile or so north of the 60) is
appropriate, even if they did tear it down to
build a clean one.
Popeye's (1620 W. Foothill, Upland) is Cajun,
not Mexican, but it's good enough to be
Mexican. Their Spicy is the best fast food fried
chicken ever, and not many moms can do better.
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research and awards:
Summer schooling at
Oxford
BGSA calls for papers
Henry R. Kravis award
for entrepreneurship
This July, instead of reading Graham Greene
novels on the beach, live one by spending the
month in jolly old England, all the while
knocking off a T-course requirement by
studying at Oxford.
The Black Graduate Student Association
(BGSA) at CGU is calling for papers for its 2nd
Annual African Research Conference: “Critical
Perspectives: Exploring African Diasporic
Communities.” The event will take place Friday,
April 3 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Keynote speakers
will include Dr. Kumea Shorter-Gooden and
Assemblywoman Amina Carter of California’s
62nd Assembly District.
This is the competition for students and alumni
who think they have what it takes to exhibit the
imagination, creative flair, and general aptitude
required of an innovator and/or entrepreneur in
today’s world.
The class, MGT 401/TNDY 401K “Global
Strategy and Trade,” will be taught at St.
Peter’s College, Oxford from the 18th to the
31st. Professors Kees de Kluyver and Emile
Pilafidis will discuss what subjects will be
covered by the course, cost, housing
arrangements, registration, and will address
all your questions Tuesday, March 3, from
5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Burkle 16. Everyone is
welcome to attend.
If you’re unable to come but interested in the
course, email bernadette.lambeth@cgu.edu or
emile.pilafidis@cgu.edu. Tally ho!
Students are invited to share completed or
proposed research that pertains to Africa, its
inhabitants, and its descendants in the African
Diaspora. All submissions of individual research
papers, research panels, poster presentations,
artwork, or demonstrations adhering to the topic
will be considered.
Send your abstract (300 word maximum) and
the title of your presentation or image and
description of your artwork to bgsa@cgu.edu by
February 28, 2009. Enter “BGSA Conference”
in the subject line of your email.
In conjunction with the naming of the Peter F.
Drucker Graduate School of Management,
Henry R. Kravis, a founding member of the
Board of Visitors, established a competition to
encourage innovation and entrepreneurship.
Each year students and alumni of the Claremont
Colleges are encouraged to submit concept plans
of their innovative ideas. Certificates of
participation will be granted, and those who
demonstrate real promise as innovators and/or
entrepreneurs are chosen as finalists. At the
award ceremony, the judges, a group of
experienced entrepreneurs and venture
capitalists, give direct feedback to the finalists as
to the strengths and potential of their plans. All
finalists will receive a Henry R. Kravis Award
certificate. Top finalists will receive a monetary
award as well.
Students and alumni of any of the Claremont
Colleges may enter this competition. Finalists
will be required to present their concept plans on
Friday, April 3, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. for evaluation.
For more information or to find out how to
apply visit: www.cgu.edu/pages/4775.asp?
item=2628.
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England and her Oxford Colleges. The ground from which the
academic clay of our five Cs was shaped.
Leisure with dignity 7
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cgu events calendar
March 2 – Comedian Bill
Santiago performs his unoman show: “Pardon my
Spanglish,” 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.,
Dom’s Lounge, Pomona
College.
March 3 – The Institute on
Signifying Scriptures
Distinguished Speaker Series
presents internationally
acclaimed author and scholar:
Charles H. Long: “Critical
Perspectives on Religion in
the 21st Century,” 4:00 p.m.,
Albrecht Auditorium.
March 4 – Visiting Artist
Lecture Series: Russell
Crotty, 4:30 p.m., Albrecht
Auditorium.
March 6 – SBOS’s Stauffer
Colloquium Series: Dr.
Gregory Herek speaks on
“Beyond 'Homophobia':
What Social Science Tells Us
About Sexual Prejudice,”
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Friday Noon Concert:
“Dvorzak: Piano Trio in F
Minor, Op. 65,” 12:15 p.m.,
Balch Auditorium.
March 7 – Hooray kids! It’s
“Saturday Story Time:
Feathered Friends,” 10:00 11:00 a.m., Stone Center for
Children's Books.
March 11 – Tap, tap, tap: is
this thing on? It’s “Open Mic
Night at the CGU English
Colloquia,” 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.,
Humanities Resource Center.
March 13 – Friday Noon
Concert: “Debussy: Sonata,
Ravel: Tzigane,” 12:15 p.m.,
Balch Auditorium.
March 14 – Whoa again!
“Saturday Story Time:
Feathered Friends,” 10:00 11:00 a.m., Stone Center for
Children's Books.
March 16-20 – Spring
Break! Don’t forget to wear
sunscreen, especially those of
us who spent ample time
losing pigment in the library.
March 21 – Oh my gosh,
another one! “Saturday Story
Time: Feathered Friends,”
10:00 - 11:00 a.m., Stone
Center for Children's Books.
Graduate tips
the
CGU Professors Paul Gray and
David E. Drew, authors of What
They Didn’t Teach You in
Graduate School: 199 Helpful
Hints for Success in Your
Academic Career, have been
kind enough to allow us to
publish one helpful hint from
their book in each issue. This is
so that one day you don’t raise
your fist in the air and curse
CGU for not teaching you
to . . .
17. JOB HUNTING IS A
RESEARCH PROJECT, and
you should treat it as such.
Gather as much information as
possible. Read the ads. Contact sources. Follow up leads. Be
aggressive. Use your contacts. The chance of landing a good
appointment is higher if you search broadly than if you sit in your
office waiting for one or two possibilities. Begin job hunting early
and make it a project you do along with other work. If you are a
graduate student, don’t wait until your dissertation is finished to
start looking.
8 Otium cum dignitate
March 24 – CGU English
Colloquia: Elaine Showalter,
of Princeton University
presents “American Women
Writers and American
Literature,” 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.,
Board of Trustees Room,
Harper Hall.
March 25 – Visiting Artist
Lecture Series: Iva
Gueorguieva, 4:30 p.m.,
Albrecht Auditorium.
March 28 – Claremont
Symposium on Applied
Social Psychology,
8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.,
Albrecht Auditorium.
April 2 – Stauffer
Colloquium: Dr. Janet
Clinton discusses “The role
of evaluation in long
term community health
evaluations,” 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
April 3 – Friday Noon
Concert: “Music by Haydn,”
12:15 p.m., Balch
Auditorium.
For more CGU events and
important dates visit:
www.cgu.edu/pages/2059.asp
or
www.collegescalendar.org/.
April 1 – Visiting Artist
Lecture Series: James Gobel,
4:30 p.m., Albrecht
Auditorium.
Pedant is . . .
Brendan Babish — Managing editor
Kevin Riel — Head writer
Liz Nurenberg –– Colorist
CGU factoid
You guessed it, the “Great Communicator” himself, Ronald Reagan
is the voice behind “A Continuing Vision of Greatness: the story of
the Claremont Colleges.” This wistful, half-hour long journey guides
us back into our institution’s past and idealistic promise.
Celestially scored by the Choruses of the Claremont Colleges and the
Orchestra of Pomona College, this Cold-War era film seeks to “tear
down this wall” of social modesty, boastfully exhibiting the five C’s –
by spotlighting past students learning Russian, atomic science, and
how to economically stabilize business cycles (guess we’re still
working on that) – as crucial weapons in the arms race for societal
superiority.
If you’d like to see this blast from the past go to: www.cgu.edu/
cgupodcasts. It’s worth it if only to see what passed for high-tech
equipment in those days.