September 5, 2013
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The Scripps Voice SAS Welcomes All students Letter from the to Scripps Editors
By Megan Petersen ’15 and Aidan Harley ’16 Editors-In-Chief
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The SAS team has been busy at work over the last few weeks to bring students great entertainment opportunities and activities for the upcoming year. From left to right: (top) Secretary Teresa Iker ’14, Media Relations Chair Alison Kibe ’15, Campus Activities Chair Lauren Halberg ’14, 5C Events Chair Haley Godtfredsen ’16 , Sustainability Chair Leah Hochberg ’15, Student Activities Chair Francesca Simmons ’14 (bottom) Faculty-Staff Relations Chair Max Greenberg ’14, Dorm Activitites Chair Bella Mascheroni ’14, Co-Treasurer Madeline Ripley ’14, President Marta Bean ’14, and CLORGS chair Mia Pecora ’14
By Marta Bean ’14 SAS President
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elcome back to Scripps! SAS has been hard at work this past week planning for the school year ahead and is so excited for the upcoming year. Both the programming and executive boards have tons of new ideas and are hopeful that this year SAS can be more accessible, more transparent and more attentive to student concerns and ideas. This year we will be focusing on bringing awesome speakers to campus, creating meaningful and fun programming, and using your input to make it all happen. Although SAS is already working in groups to bring you awesome programming, we can only really only know what you want if you tell us. Our first BeHeard forum will be on Tuesday, September 10 at 8 p.m. in the Student Union, and will
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be all about what SAS can do for you. Come with your questions, suggestions and ideas about how we can use your student fees. Last year, this Be Heard forum was very popular and we generated a great conversation, so don’t miss it! In addition to the many BeHeard forums that will be held this year, you don’t have to wait until we hold a formal BeHeard event for your voice to BeHeard! Please remember that all SAS meetings are open to the public and you are more than welcome to attend. Let Theresa Iker, our secretary, know that you will be there and she will ensure that your concern is placed on our agenda. We hope that many of you made it to CLORGS tea and picked up your SASPORT! This awesome new booklet works just like a passport:
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The Motley Coffeehouse Turns 40, marking decades of service!
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when you go to events at the 5Cs, you can get the booklet stamped. Students with the most stamps get prizes at the end of the semester (including the grand prize, a celebration at LBV’s house!). So go to all the talks, dance performances, BeHeard forums and hall events that you can so that you can be eligible for these awesome prizes (not to mention, get more out of your Scripps experience!). If you would like to run for first year representative or hall senate and you did not get a chance to sign up at the CLORGS tea, please email our VP, Alex Frumkin at beheard@scrippscollege. edu and she can make sure you make it onto the ballot. Speeches for first year representative will be held in the student union on Tuesday, September, and elections will be held Wednesday, September. Elections for senate continued on page 3
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ello, everyone—as the new editors-in-chief of The Scripps Voice, we are so excited to welcome you all (back) to Scripps! From its writing and photographs to its management and design work, The Scripps Voice is completely created by students. It is our goal to publish a paper by you, for you, and we have lots of big ideas about how to best accomplish that goal. First, we received lots of great feedback from students and staff last spring. Thank you to those who responded. One of the most common critiques of the paper was that our staff and the views presented in our articles were often homogeneous, nonencompassing, and even onesided. We want to do everything in our power to change that this year. The Scripps Voice is a unique publication, created by women’s college students, and it is therefore especially important that it accurately represents Scripps’ student body. But, of course, we can’t do it by ourselves. In order to accomplish this goal, we need to have as many students contributing to the paper as possible. We have lots of space for articles, columns, and photos either in the paper or on our website, and we also always welcome guest contributors. Passionate about something? Write about it, and send it our way. Does your group have a great continued on page 3
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The Motley p r e pa r e s for By Julia Howard ’14 Staff Writer
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he time is almost here: the Motley will be opening its doors on Thurs., Sept. 12, and it is an opening you don’t want to miss. The Motley is celebrating its 40th birthday this year, and we want everyone from the community to come for the opening night birthday bash! The Motley will be open and serving drinks and delicious treats from 8 p.m. to midnight and there will be live music by Skylar Funk and Mildura, in addition to some other fun party tunes. It will be a night filled with dreamy drinks, dancing and downright good fun—we hope to see you there! You may have noticed this week as you passed through Seal Court that the Motley is starting to come alive again after taking a rest this summer. The machines are warming up, the product shipments are coming in, barista hiring and training is underway, and the managers are hard at work to get the Motley in tip- top shape for opening night. As all the managers are feverishly working to gear up for opening there are some exciting opportunities this semester we wanted to alert students about. If you are a musician and interested in performing in the Motley please contact our Music Manager, Lucy Blumberg at music. motley@gmail.com. Clubs and organizations that are interested in hosting an event at the Motley Please contact our Community Engagement Manager, Katelyn Muir at community. motley@gmail.com. If you are interested in baking for the Motley you should contact our Products 2 Manager, Catherine Holcombe at products2.motley@ gmail.com, and save the date for the Student Bake Off in your calendar- Fri., Sept. 20 at 3 p.m. In addition to the various opportunities for members of our community to actively participate in our space, we wanted to announce that our sponsorship
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Continued from Page 1 event coming up? Send us pictures! We’d also love previews of events coming up, so keep us posted on what you’ve got planned. We’re also excited to announce that, starting next semester, we will launch a YouTube channel with video columns. We’ll have more details on that towards the end of the semester, but for now the editors-in-chief will have our own video column launching each issue of the paper. Be sure to check it out on our website. Finally, we want you reach out to us with ideas, concerns, or questions. You can always email us at scrippsvoice@gmail.com or stop us if you see us around on campus. Have a great first weekend, Scripps. We can’t wait to hear from you.
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I M P O R TA N T D AT E S T O REMEMBER: Megan Petersen photo | Stephanie Huang ‘16
Tu e s . , S e p t . 1 0 , a t 8 p . m . What can SAS do for you? Be Heard Forum in the Student Union Tu e s . , S e p t . 1 7 , a t 8 p . m . S p e e c h e s f o r F i r s t Ye a r R e p resentative
Megan Petersen ’15 and Aidan Harley ’16, editors-in-chief
Wed., Sept. 18 Elections for first year rep! Aidan Harley photo | Aidan Harley ‘16
Wed., Sept. 25 Elections for Hall Senate!
program has reopened for the semester. We have different sponsorship applications. One is only for Scripps students that would like individual funding for your thesis or a project. Our community sponsorship is open to any organizations at the 5Cs, and students at the 5Cs can apply to our Corn Mug Sponsorship program. All applications can be found on our website, motleycoffeehouse.com, and any questions can be referred to the Assistant Head Manager, Eden Olsen, at assistanthead. motley.com. We look forward to reviewing your applications! Finally, I would like to personally introduce myself, Julia Howard, as this year’s Head Manager of the Motley Coffeehouse. I am incredibly excited to work with such a talented, dedicated and fun group of managers and
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baristas, and am also looking forward to collaborating with members of the community. Please email me if you have any questions, concerns, suggestions
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for the Motley at head.motley@ gmail.com.
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4•Student Life SCRIPPS COLLEGE HUMANITIES INSTITUTE
Re-visioning
FALL 2013
FOOD Sovereignty:
U.S. Supply and Consumption All events are free and open to the public. Unless otherwise noted, all events are in Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center. Food production, distribution, and consumption in contemporary U.S. society remain problematic. The logic of capitalism and modernity has institutionalized factory farming; the legacy of colonialism and the more recent phenomenon of globalization have cast a long shadow on the production, consumption, and diverse meanings of food. Food production and consumption are presented as seemingly “timeless” or impermeable in their opaque structures, but community organizations have challenged such views. From this perspective, scholars, critics, and community activists have mounted successful fronts to reconfigure and reimagine these processes through alternative strategies and discursive practices to produce new centers of knowledge in contemporary debates. For example, scholar Julie Guthman, in the field of community studies and geography, has offered ideas concerning the emergent field of environmental epigenetics, questioning how toxins influence bodily function and phenotype. Indian philosopher and eco feminist Vandana Shiva in her seminal work, Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, focuses on case studies of the global South that highlight ethical and moral issues among biotechnology, corporate agricultural policy, and the global food supply. These challenges and debates open a critical space for discussion over a number of specific intellectual currents in defining food sovereignty. This semester’s program will pursue a line of critical inquiry across Cándida F. Jáquez Director, Scripps College Humanities Institute Associate Professor of Music, Scripps College Adjunct faculty, Claremont Graduate University
Faculty Co-collaborator Nancy Neiman Auerbach Mary Wig Johnson Professor of Teaching Politics and International Relations
For more information on the Scripps College Humanities Institute, please call (909) 621-8237 or visit our website www.scrippscollege.edu/hi
LECTURE
LECTURE
FILM
Tuesday, September 10, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 1, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, November 5, 7:30 p.m.
Food Justice: An Action-Research Agenda
The Hunger Cycle: An Exploration through Community-based Theater
The Price of Sugar
ROBERT GOTTLIEB Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College
PETER HOWARD Playwright and founding member of Cornerstone Theater Company of Los Angeles, home of The Hunger Cycle, a series of world-premier plays that dive into the complex issues of food and hunger: food equity, access, nutrition, and health
LECTURE
Tuesday, September 17, 7:30 p.m.
Feeding the Future— A Short History of Good and Bad Ideas to Feed the World RAJ PATEL Award-winning activist, academic, and author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System Visiting scholar, UC Berkeley Center for African Studies Generously co-sponsored by the Alexa Fullerton Hampton Fund
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Tuesday, October 8, 7:30 p.m.
Grow your own food? Reflections on the Limits and Possibilities of Food Justice JULIE GUTHMAN Professor of social sciences and faculty affiliate, Community Studies Program, UC Santa Cruz Co-director, UC’s Multicampus Research Program in Food and the Body FILM
NOON LECTURE
Tuesday, October 15, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, September 25, 12 p.m. Hampton Room, Malott Commons
Fair Tomatoes: A Story about Justice, Dignity, and Sustainability
“Never Be Silent:” On Trayvon Martin, PETA, and the Packaging of Neoliberal Whiteness
Film screening followed by Q&A with filmmaker ERNIE ZAHN of NPeaches USA, 2013, 25 min.
Bill Haney, director USA, 2007, 90 minutes LECTURE
Tuesday, November 12, 7:30 p.m.
Conservation and Food Sovereignty: The Worldwide Movement to Re-vision Landscape Management JOHN VANDERMEER Asa Gray Distinguished University Professor and chair of the department of ecology and evolutionary biology, University of Michigan NOON LECTURE
Wednesday, November 20, 12 p.m. Hampton Room, Malott Commons
Indigenous Perspectives on Food Sovereignty: Efforts on the Navajo Nation to Rebuild a Self-Sufficient Food System DANA BAH’ŁGAI ELDRIDGE Policy analyst Diné Policy Institute at Diné College Tsaile, Arizona, Navajo Nation
A. BREEZE HARPER, PhD Research fellow, department of human ecology, UC Davis, and founder of the Sistah Vegan Project
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Feeding the Future –
A Short History of Good and Bad Ideas to Feed the World Tuesday, September 17 at 7:30 p.m. Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center
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