Why Not Invite the Guys? Discrimination Strikes Again!

I wonder what would happen if I were to have an email go out to all the women and say, ("Sorry ladies, this [fantastic ] opportunity is only open to CMC guys.) What do you think the outcry would be?

Any program that seeks to address "[Fill in arbitrary group]'s issues and that discriminates against another group cannot claim to be academic.

Maybe I'm just bitter because they get an extended vacation from the country of their origin. On second thought, maybe that's not exactly something I want in Dubai...


Here's the email.

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On behalf of Jessica Briggs:

Interested in helping plan a global women’s leadership conference in Dubai, UAE happening March 10-12?

Zayed University invites female college students to take part in the planning process for its third Women as Global Leaders conference by being part of the International Student Committee (ISC). KLI has sponsored CMC student participation in the first two ' Women as Global Leaders ' conferences and is excited to extend this unique opportunity to the women of CMC. (Sorry men, this opportunity is only open to CMC women.)

As a member of the ISC, your responsibilities would include:

• Working with other members of the committee to prepare and facilitate at least one roundtable discussion during the conference on a topic of the committee’s choosing related to the theme of “Learning Leadership”

• Participating in online discussions led by ISC Chairpersons

• Contributing ideas through regular suggestions and postings on an online WAGL forum

• Promoting the conference in your region to encourage student and faculty paper submissions and/or registration

• Attending on-site meetings

• Being engaged in the day-to-day activities of the conference and providing assistance as needed with conference operations

• Providing feedback to conference organizers

In consideration of your active participation, ISC members will receive:

• Complimentary roundtrip economy airfare from your country of origin to the UAE (booking will be made by Zayed University)

• Complimentary conference registration and accommodation

• Certificate of ISC participation

• Fun, friendship and a fantastic international experience! Additionally, every effort will be made to pair you with a Zayed University student in order to foster international relationships as well as to help coordinate ISC efforts locally.

For more information about the conference and Dubai, visit www.zu.ac.ae/leadership2008

KLI will be sponsoring two students to attend the conference in addition to this opportunity to help plan the conference. A separate application process will take place later this fall to select students to go with KLI staff/faculty . In considering either of these opportunities, be aware of the timing - the trip takes place the week before CMC’s spring break and will include a very full day of travel to Dubai and again on the return home. While travel plans will not be set until January, this opportunity will require you to be off campus March 9-13, 2008, possibly longer.

The ISC application can be obtained by contacting Jessica Briggs ([email protected] or x74162). Applications must be returned to Jessica by next Wednesday, October 17, 2007 and three will be submitted to the ISC chairs. Chairs will make their decisions by November 5. Contact Jessica or view the conference website for more information.

Peace Corps is Coming to Claremont McKenna

The Peace Corps is coming! The Peace Corps is coming to Claremont McKenna.

The most important question: does this mean Collins will be closed?!

Stop by the Peace Corps table to chat with Allan Paloutzian. Allan will answer your questions and relay experiences about his Peace Corps service as an agricultural volunteer in Nigeria. Come find out how you can make a difference in the world.

Date: Thursday, October 11, 2007

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Location: Collins Dining Hall (East Entrance)

Contact: Allan Paloutzian

Clarence Thomas and Bill Bennett on the Claremont Institute

Over at the Claremont Institute, there's a link to a Bill Bennett interview with Justice Thomas about Thomas's new book My Granfather's Son. I've finished the book and say that it's one of the best memoirs I've read. The Athenaeum needs to bring Thomas to speak.

Clarence Thomas: I suddenly reached a point, and a lot of it was during the eighties, when I had [Claremont Institute Senior Fellows] Ken Masugi, and John Marini... Claremont guys spend time with me and I had just gotten back into the notion that reading was fun. It expanded your mind. So we read Churchill, we read Lincoln, or we moved on to... we read Paul Johnson, you see what I'm saying?

Bill Bennett: Yes, Sir. How about [Claremont Institute Distinguished Fellow] Harry Jaffa, Crisis of the House Divided?

CT: [laughter] Of course... House Divided.

BB: Maybe the best political book of the last century on the meaning of America. Would you agree [it's] one of the great books?

CT: Of course it is one of the great books.

Bill Bennett's been blurbing us left and right and it's time we sent a thank you, even if he is already a fellow at the Claremont Institute. In a September 10, 2007 interview he did with Kathryn Jean Lopez of The National Review, Bennett put Professor Charles Kesler as one of the great political science professors.

BENNETT: ... Ask any professor if he’d rather teach 10,000 students than 10 if the demands on his time were not much greater than they already exist, and I think you’d find most of them would be honored. There are national treasures in higher education in this country, in many of our professors. Their lessons, their learning, should not be cabined to a select few and they should be financially rewarded better than they are. If you had the opportunity to have Harvey Mansfield or Robby George or Charles Kesler (to take just three examples) teach you political science, wouldn’t you jump at that? And if they knew you could be their student, without them or you leaving your living rooms, they’d jump too.

Teaching teachers to love teaching math - News

Apparently, The Daily Trojan of USC, says that Claremont McKenna is going to be involved in the Math for America program. This seems to directly contradict what was written by Harvey Mudd President Maria Klawe herself-- that Claremont Graduate School and not Claremont McKenna was participating. I blogged about this a week ago.

Compare for yourself.

Here's what Harvey Mudd President Maria Klawe wrote in the Mercury News.

The project currently operates a successful teacher-education program in New York City, and is now expanding into California through Math for America Los Angeles, a collaborative program that will be operated by Harvey Mudd College, Claremont Graduate University and the University of Southern California.

And here's the Daily Trojan:

USC, along with Claremont McKenna College and Harvey Mudd College, will serve as the training grounds for the fellows before they go into the workforce and employ their skills in a classroom.

I posed over at the Daily Trojan page, but if Claremont McKenna was involved with this program, why were we not told via email or through the website and why did Klawe or the Daily Trojan make a mistake?