9 April, 2015
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Barbara Pierce Bush discusses global health and ngo’s By Joelle Leib ‘17 Staff Writer
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arbara Pierce Bush was invited to speak at Garrison Theater on March 24 as part of the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Public Affairs Program, which seeks to bring conservative voices to campus. In her speech entitled “Confronting Today’s Global Health Challenges,” Bush highlighted the success of her international organization Global Health Corps (GHC), which champions global health equity, and encouraged Scripps students and the greater Claremont community to pursue a career in social justice. Five years ago, the then-28-yearold Bush founded Global Health Corps with the mission that all people deserve access to quality healthcare. To accomplish this, GHC partners with existing organizations in the United States and eastern and southern African countries, identifies where the organizations can improve, and places two talented and creative fellows--one international and one native--to work with each organization for a year. Bush says she hopes that her fellows will not only create significant change while they are in the program, but that also upon their departure they will continue to contribute to the healthcare field from their jobs in a multitude of
Trustee Liza Pohle and Barbara Pierce Bush speak at Garrison Theater. Photo courtsey of Eric Reed for the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.
sectors, including business and technology. Thus far, GHC has worked with 450 exceptional fellows and will welcome 150 new fellows, selected from a pool of over five thousand applicants, this July. During her father’s first term as president, Bush was a student at Yale University interested in math and design who dreamed of becoming an architect after graduation. Her career path took an unexpected turn
in mid-2003, the summer before her senior year, during which Bush was able to take two weeks off from her trendy design job in New York City to visit Uganda, Nigeria and Senegal with her family. At the time, President George W. Bush sought to implement the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to alleviate the tremendous impact of the AIDS epidemic in African nations by administering life-saving drugs for
free to people who would otherwise have no access to them. “When we landed on that trip, I was struck for a number of reasons,” Bush said. “One reason that I was struck was that there were hundreds of people waiting in line for drugs that if you were born in the United States you would easily have access to. And I’m sure y’all have seen this and CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Launching the LASPA Center By Taylor Galla ‘18 Staff Writer
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his past Thursday, April 2, Scripps College had the official launch of the LASPA Center, a brand new center which will provide resources to Scripps women to develop their leadership skills and potential. The official mission of the LASPA center reads, “The mission of the LASPA Center for Leadership is to develop and support future generations of women leaders, providing them with the necessary attributes, knowledge and skills to succeed in the 21st century.” The project is more than five years in the making, after a generous $5
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million donation from Eileen Shock Laspa ‘67 and Jude Laspa HMC ‘65. After extensive searches for a director and development of the center and its ideals, the center has officially launched and is soon to be up and running. The launch took place on Scripps’ Alumnae Field and consisted of distinguished female speakers who talked about Leadership, Service, Integrity and Creativity. Haley Godtfredsen ‘16 attended the event and said, “I’m really excited about this center. I’m excited to see in which direction they take it because there has been a lot of controversy over that. So seeing how it will actually be implemented on campus is interesting. I’m also
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excited for the speakers tonight and for the launch party.” The speakers were accomplished and admirable women from all facets of work environments and included Eli Winkelman ‘07 who founded “Challah for Hunger;” Martha Gonzales, an activist feminist music theorist and professor of Chicano/ Latino studies at Scripps; Laurel J. Richie, president of the WNBA; and Lynn Rosenthal, the White House Advisor for Violence Against Women. All of them exemplified the four pillar words (Leadership, Service, Integrity and Creativity) of the LASPA center and demonstrated to everyone in the audience just what this center is about. The words “We Act” were displayed
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extensively all over the launch as the slogan and mood of the event and of the center in general. It encoures young women to act in many different ways-- for example, to act in the workplace, to act through selfadvocacy in relationships, and to act in the classroom, just to name a few. The launch consisted of workshops, a strolling reception and a keynote address from Lynn Rosenthal, along with the revealing of the winners of the LASPA Action Grants. The Action Grants’ goals, according to the LASPA Center Grants page on the Scripps portal, are “to provide opportunities for students (1) to transform knowledge, passion and CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
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Learn about the new LASPA Center, launched on April 2.