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| Our Mission |
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The Public Events Committee takes its mission to be the
enhancement of intellectual community at Pomona College. We
mean to facilitate campus-wide, cross-disciplinary
intellectual and social exchange among students, faculty,
and staff.
There is already a vast and varied array of intellectually
stimulating lectures, exhibitions and performances on campus each year. However,
the sheer quantity of these events and their attachment to individual
departments or programs inhibit their capacity to generate a broad and diverse
audience. The result is an absence of campus-wide interdisciplinary discussion
of any particular public event. Therefore, the Public Events Committee seeks to
sponsor or co-sponsor events that will increase our store of shared intellectual
experience and provoke more multidisciplinary discussion throughout the College.
Proposal Form |
| Our Methods |
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We are eager to hear your ideas as to how we can accomplish
our mission, but for starters we are doing the following:
- Highlighting certain events already fully funded but rich
with potential for discussion beyond the sponsoring body and
its usual constituency. For example we have:
- 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;
- paid transportation costs to “Nickel and Dimed” at the
Mark Taper Forum for a class in which Ehrenreich’s book was
a required reading;
- organized, publicized, and provided honoraria for a Blue
Room faculty panel on issues related to the performance of
the musical “Hair,” and
- 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.
In the future highlighting might also include publicizing
the events we sponsor in an annual Public Events
calendar-poster and discouraging the scheduling of any other
events at the same time. While we do not wish to diminish
the profusion of events that currently characterizes
intellectual life on this campus, we do mean to draw special
attention to six to ten public events each academic year.
- 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:
- helped fund lectures by Michael Moore and bell hooks;
- helped fund “See Here: A Colloquium on Attention and the
Arts” and “Love and Joy About Letters; and
- helped fund a performance of the San Francisco Mime
Troupe.
- 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.
- 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 |
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Resources |
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To have paper advertisements (i.e. table tents, flyers,
and/or banners) made for your event, you can contact the
ASPC Office, where there is a
Graphic Artist Request Form to be completed for these
purposes.
For technical arrangements contact Joe
Brennan in Media Services. His extension
is 77355 and his e-mail address is
joseph.brennan@pomona.edu.
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| Committee Members
2007-2008 |
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Graydon Beeks
Andre Cavalcanti
Miriam Feldblum
Neil Gerard
Eric Grosfils, Chair
Kathleen Howe
Cynthia Peters
Mollie Ruskin
Brigitte Washington |
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