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1. Highlighting certain events already fully funded but rich with potential for discussion beyond the sponsoring body and its usual constituency. For example we have:
1. encouraged faculty-student reading groups by buying books and giving a modest honorarium to the faculty leader in conjunction with such events as public lectures by Octavia Butler, Barbara Ehrenreich, and David Baltimore;
2. paid transportation costs to “Nickel and Dimed” at the Mark Taper Forum for a class in which Ehrenreich’s book was a required reading;
3. organized, publicized, and provided honoraria for a Blue Room faculty panel on issues related to the performance of the musical “Hair,” and
4. provided tickets to “Hair” for students attending residence hall dinners prior to performances of the musical and honoraria for the faculty and staff members who made presentations at those dinners.

2. Highlighting and providing funding for certain events that come with a built-in constituency and strong departmental and/or program ownership and are likely to be of interest to a broad segment of students, faculty, and staff. For example, we have:
1. helped fund lectures by Michael Moore and bell hooks;
2. helped fund “See Here: A Colloquium on Attention and the Arts” and “Love and Joy About Letters; and
3. helped fund a performance of the San Francisco Mime Troupe.
    

3. Working with student representatives of the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) in order to combine faculty and student funding sources for public events when such events serve the mission of the Committee as stated above.
    
4. Seeking proposals for the academic year 2007-08. Securing certain speakers and performers requires scheduling at least a year in advance. So, too, does some of the related curricular and extra-curricular activity of the sort described above. Use our on-line proposal form to request highlighting and/or funding for events in the academic year 2007-08. The Committee will select events based upon their wide appeal and their potential for sparking broad discussion on important questions. The deadline for this round of proposals is Friday, October 12, 2007.

If you need funding assistance for an event that you know to be of interest primarily to your own colleagues and constituency, please apply to Associate Dean Kenneth Wolf. Her office has a modest public events fund for such use.

Please get in touch with any member of the Public Events Committee, listed below, if you have questions, reactions, or ideas of your own for accomplishing what we have outlined above. Obviously, the mission we have set for Public Events cannot be accomplished without your support and participation.

Proposal Form