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"All your wishes will soon come true."
|Wok Star
|Season 1, Episode 17
|First Aired
|January 17, 2011
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|Jake Farrow
|Adam Weissman
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Wok Star is the 17th episode of Victorious. It aired January 17th, 2011, as a one hour special with The Diddly-Bops.
PlotJade writes a play and wants it to be produced, but the school refuses because it is too weird and disturbing. As a result, she vents her emotions by cutting up the trash can in the janitor's closet with a pair of scissors. The kids disagree with the school, and Tori then does everything to try and get the money so she will be able to produce her play. But things seem hopeful when the owner of a Chinese restaurant named Mrs. Lee offers to produce the play when Tori mentions it at the restaurant. Lee even shows the kids her wall of celebrities, which include such people as Dan Schneider, Angelina Jolie, whom she claimed tried to adopt her daughter Daisy, and Ginger Fox's assistant from the iCarly episode "iFix a Pop Star." Those hopes are crushed when she tries to make changes to the play, much to Jade's dismay. To make matters worse, Jade confesses to Tori that she invited her father to watch the play in a desperate attempt to prove that her artistic ambitions are more than he thinks but realizes that the changes made by Mrs. Lee will give him a reason to dismiss her ambitions.
At the Vega household, Tori and the gang find a way to keep Mrs. Lee from going to the play, by appealing to her obsession with celebrities. Trina and André pretend to be a non-existent diva celebrity named Jackie Bonet and her bodyguard, who stall Mrs. Lee's efforts to both see her daughter and take a picture of Trina by eating at a table for a long time. Tori reassures Jade that her play will go as she intended to, and much to her surprise, it goes without a hitch. When the show is over, Jade finally meets her father in the stands. Though there is still some lingering tension between the two of them, Mr. West admits he's impressed with her work. This is the first time Jade had seen him that happy.
Well WishesAlthough not shown in it's entirely, Well Wishes is the story of a girl (played by Cat) who accidentally falls down a well. She fears that no one will find her and that she may die. Thinking of her life and all the things she won't be able to do, she literally drowns in her own tears.
When Mrs. Lee came onboard the play, she didn't like Jade's original idea, and decided to make some changes to "spice it up." Among her recommendations are transforming the play into a musical and casting her untalented daughter, Daisy, as the girl's guardian angel.
In Jade's original ending, the paramedics manage to get the girl out of the well, but it's too late and she's already dead. Her father arrives and plants a loving and tearful kiss on his daughter's forehead. As if by a miracle, the girl is revived and looks up to see her father standing over her. The play ends somewhat ambiguously. Mrs. Lee's ending is unknown, but it's assumed that the girl flies out of the well, as instructed by her guardian angel, and everyone celebrates.
Despite the initial claims that the play was too weird and disturbing, Well Wishes was well-received by its audience. It's unknown if Well Wishes had a second showing after Mrs. Lee found out that the play wasn't done her way.
- This is the first time Jade hugs Tori. The second is in Locked Up!, but Jade pulled her to the ground afterwards.
- This is the second time a blooper had occured during the episode. First being Stage Fighting when Jade slips but still kept in character.
- Mrs. Lee mentions Batman in this episode.
- In the scene where the group is at Tori's house playing cards and talking, the song The Joke Is On You by Niki Watkins that was heard in the iCarly episode "iGet Pranky" and later in How Trina Got In (as her audition song) can be heard in the backround. While "iGet Pranky" was the first episode aired to use that song, this episode was filmed before that one.
- Ending tagline: "MORE power!" - Mrs. Lee
- Josh Peck from Drake & Josh makes a guest appearance as an audience member who tries to congratulate Jade. He tells Jade "Good work", but is shooed off by an annoyed Jade. On TheSlap.com, Jade mentions Peck by name.
- This is the second time Andre and Trina worked together. The first time was in Pilot.
- It is revealed that Jade can impersonate people.
- At the beginning of the episode when Beck asks Tori where Jade is, Tori nearly drops her book on the ground. It was a blooper that Dan Schneider decided to keep in. In the audio, you can actually hear Ariana Grande and Leon Thomas snickering, but the camera cuts to a scene of them where they're not reacting.
- André gets a fortune cookie that says, "Help! I am being held in a Chinese cookie factory!". This is like one of Sam's blogs on iCarly.com, which she wrote some fortunes, one said, "Help! I'm trapped in a fortune cookie warehouse!"
- Jade's locker is covered in scissors.
- It is shown that the gang must really care about Jade, as everyone was in on the plan to keep Jade's play the original way, even Trina. Cat didn't really have a part in it, however, as she was on stage.
- Cat gave the idea of distracting Mrs. Lee with a celebrity, in order to keep her away from the play.
- This is the first time on the show Cat is described to have said "something pretty smart".
- Mrs. Lee's daughter Daisy is played by Jade-Lianna Peters who voices Kai-Lan on the Nickelodeon show Hao Kai-Lan. Mrs. Lee also says that Angelina Jolie tried to adopt her daughter. This is a reference to Jolie adopting babies from Africa and Asia.
- Robbie's fortune sticks to his finger when he tries to set it down and he has to shake it off. It is unknown whether this is a blooper or not.
- When Cat comes to Tori and Jade right before the play starts, she says she has dropped her bra in the toilet. This is the same bra that iCarly uses for the George the Bra skit. Ariana Grande later confirmed that the bra used for the shot was bigger than her actual chest size.
- This episode reveals a possible reason for Jade's mean attitude towards others. It is shown she has a bad relationship with her father possibly causing her pain so she reacts with anger.
- This is the seventh episode where the title is said.
- Jade talks like a 1940's movie star with a heavy Southern accent whenever she imitates Tori for the first time. This later occurs in other episodes.
- This is probably a reference to Judy Garland.
- This is the second time Jade dragged Tori in the janitor's closet. The first time was in Jade Dumps Beck.
- Mrs. Lee says that when her daughter auditioned to be at Hollywood Arts, they said she was talentless and irritating. This quote was later used to describe Trina in Helen Back Again.
- Trina's fake actress name is Jackie Bonet. Bonet may be a reference to Daniella Monet's real name seeing how Bonet and Monet rhyme.
- The gang is seen playing a edited version of poker. This later reappears in later episodes, such as The Gorilla Club and The Worst Couple.
- One of the pictures of celebrities on Mrs. Lee's wall is the show's creator, Dan Schneider.
- Mrs. Lee says "underpants in a twist." The normal quote is "panties in a twist." However, we know that Jade hates the word "panties" (The Wood). It's not known, however, how Mrs. Lee knew that or if that is her way of saying it.
- Sam also hates the word panties, as said in the iCarly episode iSam's Mom.
- When Trina dresses up like a celebrity, it is clearly meant to copy 'That's So Raven' when in an episode, Raven dresses up like a celebrity to save her dad's job at a resturant.
- This is the first time we see Cat in pigtails, second time is in April Fools' Blank, another time is in One Thousand Berry Balls.
- When Mrs. Lee is reading her notes, Jade has a Gears of War logo on her bag.
- Right before Mrs. Lee leaves for the play. She said something to the waiter in Mandarin. It meant "Get my camera. Take the photo quickly." (拿我照相机。快照)
- This is the first time Batman has been mentioned in the show. It was later mentioned in Cupcake On Terror Street.
- This is the third time that Jade and Tori start to get along and be friends. The first time was in Jade Dumps Beck when Tori helped her and Beck get back together and the second in Freak the Freak Out when Tori helped Jade and Cat get revenge on Haley and Tara.
- At the end of the play when Jade's dad asks if Tori is Jade's friend, Jade says "ehhh" as in she has some kind of respect for Tori, due to the fact that Tori helped her play become a success.
- At the start of the episode when Tori's binder is about to fall out of her hands and she says "Oh my God!", which seems like Victoria Justice actually almost dropped the binder since it was unnecessary and the dialogue was awkward but the scene might have still been used because the cast just ignored it and kept acting along.
- During the poker scene at Tori's house, everyone is sitting on the same side of the table, which was obviously done for camera purposes. In reality, the sitting position would be awkward since one side of the table was crowded and yet, on the other, there was a big gap.
- During the scene at Wok Star, everyone is sitting on the same side of the table, which was obviously done for camera purposes. In reality, the sitting position would be awkward since one side of the table was crowded and yet, on the other, there was a big gap.
- Where Jade and Tori are standing during the play, they can be seen by the audience which is unprofessional.
- Mrs. Lee would be arrested if Trina was a real celebrity. It can be argued that André (the security guard) promised that she could have her photo taken, so some of her actions such as forcefully taking the picture can be justified.
Running Gags
- Mrs Lee telling Daisy to say things with "MORE POWER!"
- Robbie's fortune cookies giving him unpleasant fortunes.
Jade: Who sings while they're plunging down a well?
Mrs. Lee: Batman.
Tori: Love me? Love me now? Yeah you do. Come on, give Tori a squeeze.
Jade: Here, I'll playfully punch your arm as if we were friends.
Tori: I'll take it.
Beck: (reading his fortune) All your wishes will soon come true. Sweet.
Robbie: (reading his fortune) Your life will be filled with disappointment. Of course...
Mrs.Lee: Say hi to them.
Daisy: Hi.
Mrs. Lee: MORE power!
Daisy: HI!
Mrs. Lee: (about Beck) He's so handsome. Like a pretty pony.
Robbie: I use male makeup!
Beck: You know, maybe you shouldn't tell so many people about that.
Tori: You know he's (Sinjin) only trying to make your play better.
Jade: So?
Tori: So, now he's got pee running down his leg!
Jade: I am not responsible for Sinjin's bladder control or lack of it.
Tori: What about your bat mitzvah money?<br /
Robbie: First, it was a bar mitzvah! I'm a boy!
Rex: Theoretically.
Robbie: And I've already spent the last of the money on leather pants and male makeup.
Jade: (talking to Mrs.Lee) This is my boyfriend, Beck.
Beck: I am the boyfriend! (gives a slight wave)
Cat: (talking to Jade and Tori) I was getting into costume and I dropped my bra in the toilet (holds up pink and wet bra)
Jade: (to Tori, using her impression of Tori) Nothing to worry about! Tori: I don't talk like that!
Cat: [about Mrs. Lee] But what if she's not there?
Andre: I think Cat just said somethin' smart...
Cat: I'm sorry?
Cat: Bingo!
Beck: You got a plan?
Cat: No, I don't wanna play this game anymore, I wanna play bingo.
Jade: (Referring to her play) Do you know how much money it would cost?
Cat: No....
Tori: Okay, how much money do you think it would cost?
Jade: I don't know, two, three grand.
Tori: Then it shouldn't be that hard to find someone to put up the money.
Jade: You'd really find me someone to put up the money to produce my play?
Tori: No, I meant-
Jade: (To Andre, Cat, Beck and Robbie) Hey! Did she not say: (Imitating Tori's voice) It shouldn't be that hard to find someone to put up the money.
Andre, Cat, Beck and Robbie: No, she didn't mean it that way.
Jade: (To Tori) So you'll do that right?
Tori: (Nervously) Sure.
Mrs. Lee: What's the play about?
Robbie: It's about a girl who fell out of a well and drowned with her own tears.
Rex: (Laughs) That's hilarious.
Andre: You're sick, Rex.
Rex: What happened man? We used to be tight.
Beck: Then,
Tori: She thanked me for ruining her life.
Andre: At least she thanked you.
Jade: I invited my dad to come see my play on opening night.
Tori: And?
Jade: He hates me.
Tori: But.. Why would anyone... hate... you?
Jade: He doesn't understand creative people. He thinks that wanting to be an actor , a writer or a director is stupid. So I invited him to my play, 'cause I thought it was gonna be good and hopefully make him finally have some respect for me. But then you let your restaurant lady turn in to a joke! Which is just gonna make my dad think he was absolutely right about my dreams being stupid and pointless. Thank you for ruining my life!
Tori: Pshh, dads.
Jade: There, there he is.
Tori: Who?
Jade: My father.
Tori: Wow, he looks like...
Jade: Like he hates my guts?
Tori: I was going to say cold and judgemental.
Jade: That works too.
- * Unknown Name* by Daisy Lee
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No matter who won Tuesday's presidential election, roughly 50 percent of the country was going to be upset with the outcome. Neither Obama nor Romney had a massive mandate, but rather a mosquito's chin hair chance of cobbling together 270 electoral votes.
I just took a shot at both candidates, but I'm sure some of you have already gotten out your little correspondence stock and your little half-gnawed crayons to let me know how biased you think I am. Take a deep breath, have a sip of your favorite beverage and read the previous paragraph again.
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Over the past few days I've witnessed — in person and on social media websites — comments that range from the bizarre to the idiotic. One person threatened to start a riot if his candidate of choice wasn't elected. Another person wrote if his candidate wasn't elected, he was moving his entire family to Canada.
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I finally realized this was the equivalent of trying to argue with a busted lawn sprinkler and gave up.
Thankfully, I had no emotional investment in Tuesday's presidential election. To be honest, my voting is motivated by guilt. As I type this, somewhere there's a veteran going through his or her sixth month of rehab just to be able to button a shirt. If you realize this is happening and still don't vote, then you're a waste of space.
Others were emotionally involved to the power of 10. Last night while attempting to (gasp) report on the election, someone got in a colleague's face and exclaimed, "The Free Press is the reason we lost! It's your fault!"
This is — of course — natural fertilizer obtained from a large male bovine, but I wonder if their side had won, would we have been given the credit for that as well? I don't remember receiving a gift basket when this group has done well in the past.
I'm trying to figure out how we helped one side over the other. We've allowed Republicans and Democrats to write columns stating their opinions, yet even when both articles have been printed side by side in the paper, we get complaints from both sides accusing us of showing favoritism. It's like giving twins $20 each for their birthday, and then having both of them complain the other got more money.
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All of this sounds completely logical when spoken out loud, but several people went outhouse-rat crazy over the story. According to them, we were pushing a Republican agenda and were in the bag 100 percent for Stephen LaRoque.
I once had the grand idea of inviting the sources of these idiotic accusations to the office for a summit. Once behind closed doors, my plan was to pull out a comprehensive binder of our political coverage, point out it was straight down the middle, and then hold these people's noses in it the same way you'd train a dog to stop peeing on the rug.
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Just this morning, the same colleague who had a finger shoved in his face by someone the night before suffered yet another humiliation in the name of political backwash. While standing in line at a gas station to pay for some Gatorade and a copy of "Cat Fancy" magazine, he noticed a woman rummaging through the newspaper racks in a rather annoyed fashion.
She then realized there was a guy who worked for The Free Press standing behind her.
"You work for The Free Press, don't you?" she asked.
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"Why in the world did y'all have to put Obama's picture on the front page today?" she breathlessly asked in a booming voice heard three counties away. "I usually buy The Free Press, but I ain't buyin' one with all that Obama crap on it."
My colleague — and everyone within earshot — were too shocked to really say anything, so I offer the following retort:
Lady, who were we supposed to put on the front of the paper, Dwight Eisenhower? It's called a NEWSpaper, not a ONLYPRINTNEWSIFITFITSINWITHWHATIBELIEVEpaper. We didn't fabricate the story; Obama did win, okay? I'm not saying you have to be happy about it, but I am saying we have to report it.
If Romney had won Tuesday, he'd be on the front page, and I'm sure plenty of nut jobs on the other side would have reacted the same way you did. Putting Barack Obama's picture on the front page doesn't mean The Free Press is for or against Barack Obama — it's simply a case of stating a fact.
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Misenheimer, NC---The Pfeiffer women's soccer team lost a non-conference game to Lenoir-Rhyne by a score of 3-1 Monday afternoon. The Falcons are now 2-5 on the season while the Bears improve to 4-2.
Lenoir-Rhyne got on the board first when Rebecca Lin scored off a corner kick only seven minutes into the game.
The Bears doubled their lead to 2-0 in the 20th minute when Lauren Rosch took a through ball and beat the Falcon keeper.
Pfeiffer came right back and scored five minutes later. Megan Blevins took a pass from Michelle Vaudreuil and slipped the ball past the Bear keeper to cut the Falcon defecit to 2-1.
In the 32nd minute the Bears scored on a Michelle Garcia penalty kick after a controversial foul called in the box. The Bears took a 3-1 lead into halftime.
The Falcons controlled time of pssession in the second half and had several good scoring opportunities but could not find the back of the net and lost 3-1.
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The Business of the Media
Is corporate ownership of newspapers, TV, radio stations, and cable outlets a good thing? Jeff Klein spent 15 years in senior management positions with the Los Angeles Times and Times Mirror, a $3 billion media company. Currently, he is the CEO of 101communications, a multimedia B2B publisher serving the information technology market. 101communications has been a player in the consolidation movement in the media industry, particularly focusing on trade magazines. Their business plan is to purchase a number of independent magazines in the same trade and then sell them as a package after establishing a market with advertisers to buy space in the entire group. This facilitates ad sales and gives small trade magazines the resources of a larger company. This consolidation has been criticized, though, for homogenizing the media.
In his Athenaeum talk, Klein will address concerns about media consolidation: Does it cause "sameness" in the news and information we receive? Is it better than the family dynasties that once owned the media? Has corporate ownership changed the way copyright law is being used here in the U.S. so that it discourages competition? What has been the impact of the internet? What is the future of publishing?
Jeff Klein graduated from CMC summa cum laude and received a law degree from Stanford and master of journalism from Columbia. He is also the father of Kevyn Klein, CMC class of '08.
Europe- The Vulnerable Giant
The recent expansion of the European Union to twenty-five countries, the relative decline of the United States Dollar vis-a-vis the Euro, and the mere fact that the European Union has surpassed the United States in terms of population as well as the aggregate Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has spurred a series of new books arguing that Europe is destined to become the new superpower of the coming century, supplementing if not supplanting the United States on the world stage. How should the United States gauge and respond to the ascendance of the new expanded Europe?
Professor Ilya Prizel in his address entitled "Europe- The Vulnerable Giant" breaks with the standard evaluations and reinterprets common assessments of the place of Europe in the international system. Prizel will question the force of Europe's "re-emergence" in the international arena at the end of the Cold War and in the twenty-first century. In his address. Prizel will examine the slew of both domestic and external structural challenges that Europe faces. Prizel will argue that Europe is not prepared to meet these challenges and, given its emerging political structures, these burdens ultimately will lead to Europe's accelerating decline.
Ilya Prizel is professor of political science and history at the University of Pittsburgh, and the editor of the leading journal, East European Politics and Society. He is one of the country's foremost scholars on Eastern Europe. He has published numerous articles and books, including National Identity and Foreign Policy: Nationalism and Leadership in Poland, Russia and Ukraine (1998); Postcommunist Eastern Europe: Crisis and Reform (1992); Ethnicity and Foreign Relations: The Case of Ukraine (1993); and Latin America through Soviet Eyes: The Evolution of Soviet Perceptions during the Brezhnev Era 1964-1982 (1990).
Ilya Prizel's lecture is sponsored by The Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies.
Prospects for Peace in Palestine
Lunch 11:45 a.m., Lecture 12:15 p.m.
Israelis and Palestinians have been locked in conflict for the past century. Periods of relative tranquility and even hope have alternated with periods of intense violence, marred by desperate acts and reprisals that seemed to doom any hopes of a peaceful settlement. Sadly, the past four years have been a time of terrorism, targeted assassination, economic loss and great suffering on both sides. Literally in the past few weeks, hope has revived following the election of Mahmoud Abbas as president of the Palestinian Authority and the decision of the Israeli government to support his efforts to halt attacks against Israel and to begin a gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops from Palestinian cities in the West Bank and Gaza.
Walid Kazziha brings an exceptional perspective to this agonizing conflict. Educated at the American University in Beirut, the University of Edinborough and the School of Oriental and Asian Studies in London, Professor Kazziha is director of the graduate department of political science at the American University in Cairo. The main focus of his work has been the politics of the Middle East with a focus in recent years on the resurgence of Political Islam in relation to more than one region, and in relation to Muslim communities living in Western societies. Professor Kazziha is the author of numerous books and articles including Revolutionary Transformation in the Arab World (1975) and Political Consciousness and the Crisis of Political Liberalization in the Arab World (2000).
Professor Kazziha's Athenaeum address is sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights.
Confessions of a Star Trek Writer
It's not just anyone who can tell Captain Jean Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise or Captain Kathryn Janeway of the U.S.S. Voyager what to do and say. But for the last 15 years, that's exactly what Brannon Braga has been doing. As a writer, producer, and creator with Star Trek, Brannon Braga has put words in the mouths of Starfleet officers, Klingons, and the Borg queen. All in all, he has been credited with writing more than 100 episodes for the various Star Trek series, including the highly regarded series finale of Star Next: The Next Generation, for which he won a Hugo Award for excellence in Science Fiction Writing.
After first working with Star Trek: The Next Generation, Braga moved to Star Trek: Voyager when the series premiered in 1995. Currently, Braga serves as co-creator and executive producer of the UPN television series Star Trek: Enterprise. His work with Trek has not been limited to the television shows — he also co-wrote two of the feature films, Star Trek: Generations (1994) and Star Trek: First Contact (1996). First Contact, which earned close to $150 million worldwide during its theatrical release, is the highest grossing of the 10 Trek movies. Braga also received a story credit for his work on Mission: Impossible 2 (2000). He is currently in the process of developing a new television series for Paramount.
A native of Bozeman, Montana, Braga attended Kent State University before studying Theater Arts and Filmmaking at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1990, he received a writing internship from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which led to his writing and producing position on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
His talk is sponsored by the Gould Center as part of the series Philosophy through Science Fiction.
Mediating Evil, War, and Terrorism
LUNCH 11:45 a.m., LECTURE 12:15 p.m.
Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States declared a "war on terror." This ongoing conflict has been described as a clash of civilizations and a battle against the forces of evil. In this presentation, acclaimed mediator Kenneth Cloke will explore the dynamics and language of deadly conflicts. What causes conflicts to escalate? Are there ways of cooling down these hot disputes so that further loss of life can be prevented? The values and political assumptions that underlie conflict resolution in serious disputes will be explored, and potential solutions will be proposed. This talk is part of the ongoing speaker series in psychology and law.
Kenneth Cloke is the director of the Center for Dispute Resolution in Los Angeles. He holds a law degree from Boalt Hall and a Ph.D. from UCLA. During his long and distinguished career, he has served as a mediator and arbitrator in international, workplace, educational, commercial, and family disputes. As an international leader in the practice of alternative dispute resolution, Kenneth Cloke has worked as a consultant and trainer in Brazil, China, Cuba, Ireland. Nicaragua, Pakistan, and Thailand. He is the author of several books on conflict resolution, including, Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution (2001).
Tattoos on the Heart: Empowering Those for Whom Hope is Foreign
Father Gregory J. Boyle, S.J. is a Jesuit priest and Director of Homeboy Industries/Jobs For A Future, an employment referral center for at-risk youth and economic development organization. Begun in 1988 for at-risk and gang-involved youth, Jobs For A Future is now a nationally-recognized center that assists 1,000 people a month in re-directing their lives. Through its unique and multi-service approach, Jobs For A Future offers hope to those for whom hope is often foreign by providing employment opportunities, counseling, and many other services (including free tattoo removal). By seeking to address the root causes of gang violence, Jobs For A Future creates opportunities so that at-risk youth can plan their futures and not their funerals. "Nothing stops a bullet like a job" is the guiding principle.
In 1992, as a response to the civil unrest in Los Angeles, Father Boyle formed Homeboy Industries, to create businesses that provide training, work experience, and above all, the opportunity for rival gang members to work side by side. The following economic development enterprises have been created since the first venture, Homeboy Bakery; Homeboy Silkscreen; Homeboy/Homegirl Merchandise; Homeboy Graffiti Removal, Homeboy Maintenance; and Homehoy Landscaping.
Father Boyle was born in Los Angeles. He received his B.A. in English from Gonzaga University, an M.A. in English from Loyola Marymount University, and an STM degree from the Jesuit School of Theology. Before becoming pastor of Dolores Mission, Father Boyle taught at Loyola High School and worked with Christian Base Communities in Cochabanba, Bolivia. He has also served as Chaplain of the Islas Marias Penal Colony in Mexico and Folsom Prison. Father Boyle is a nationally renowned speaker at conferences for teachers, social workers and criminal justice workers about the importance of adult attention, guidance, and unconditional love in preventing youth from joining gangs. His Athenaeum address is sponsored by the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College.
15th Annual Kravis-de Roulet Leadership Conference
"Best Practices in Leadership"
Leadership in a Morally Divided World
Joanne Ciulla is Professor and Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond where she is one of the founding faculty members of the school. Dr. Ciulla is a leading authority on leadership and ethics.
Professor Ciulla has also held the UNESCO Chair in Leadership Studies at the United Nations International Leadership Academy in Jordan, and academic appointments at La Salle University, the Harvard Business School, The Wharton School, and Oxford University. In 2003 she received an Outstanding Faculty Award from The State Council of Higher Education of Virginia.
Ciulla writes and lectures on leadership ethics, business ethics and the philosophy of work. Her books include The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work (2000), and The Ethics of Leadership (2002). She recently co-authoring a business ethics book called Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader, which will be published by Oxford University Press (2005). Ciulla is currently writing about the origins of leadership.
Ciulla also lectures and consults with business and government agencies in the U.S. and abroad. She has appeared on numerous TV and radio programs and was featured in Bill Moyers "World of Ideas II" series. Ciulla serves on the editorial boards The Leadership Quarterly, The Business Ethics Quarterly, and Leadership. She is also on the board of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation.
Workplace Recovery after Major Organization Transition: Best Practices in Leading Organizational Change
Lunch, 12:45 p.m., Lecture, 1:15 p.m.
Mitch Marks leads JoiningForces.org in San Francisco and is a consultant to a broad variety of organizations in the United States and abroad. Dr. Marks is a renowned expert on the processes and impact of mergers and acquisitions. He has worked extensively with firms to plan and implement mergers, restructurings, strategic changes, downsizings, alliances, large scale change and other major transitions. His areas of expertise include corporate culture, team building, organizational effectiveness, leadership development, executive coaching, senior team development, human resources management, and the strategic planning and implementation of organizational change. Clients have included firms in the financial, manufacturing, health care, entertainment, high technology, government, publishing, consumer products, and communications industries.
Reports of Mitch's work have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Economist, U S. News and World Report, Business Week, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He is the author of five books, including Joining Forces: Making One Plus One Equal Three in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances (1997). He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan and has lectured at the Harvard Business School and Smithsonian Institution.
Hotel Rwanda: A Lesson Yet to Be Learned
Lunch 11:45 a.m., Lecture 12:15 p.m.
Ten years ago, the country of Rwanda descended into madness. Over the course of 100 days, almost one million people were killed as the majority Hutus set out with clubs, guns, and machetes to exterminate their Tutsi countrymen, while the rest of the world turned away.
Paul Rusesabagina risked his life and lives of his family to turn the Rwandan hotel he managed into a sanctuary. Driven by compassion and generosity of spirit, and armed with nothing but some convincing words, Rusesabagina saved the lives of 1,268 people, most of which were children, from being savagely executed.
Rusesabagina was born June 15, 1954 to a farming family and attended 13 years of primary and secondary at a Seventh Day Adventist missionary school. In 1984 he enrolled in the Kenya Utalii College in Nairobi in the Hotel Management course, which he completed in 1984 in Switzerland. He was employed by Sabena Hotels and promoted to general manager. Rusesabagina was at the Mille Collines Hotel in Kigali for almost the entire span of the genocide. In 1996 he went to Belgium as a refugee. From that time to date, he has worked as a businessman and owns a transport company. He is also still involved in charitable organizaions aiding survivors of the Rwandan tragedy and is in the process of setting up a foundation in his name for further assistance.
Paul Rusesabagina served as special consultant to United Artists and Lion's Gate Films' production of this year's award-winning film, Hotel Rwanda (2004). His visit to CMC is jointly sponsored by the Athenaeum and the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights.
The lunch is for CMC persons only, the lecture is open to all with overflow seating in McKenna Auditorium.
Is Russia Returning to Dictatorship?
Russia today under President Putin enters a turbulent period in its domestic political development and is in the process or reshaping its international role. On the one hand, Russia continues to be the U.S. partner in the antiterrorist struggle and tries to maintain constructive relations with other Western powers. On the other, Russia's leader openly turns to authoritarian means to consolidate power. Professor Lilia Shevtsova will discuss whether Putin's authoritarian modernization will succeed or whether it will plunge Russia into a new crisis. Her address will examine what Russian domestic developments mean for international relations in general and for the U.S.-Russian partnership in particular.
Lilia Shevtsova, professor of political science at Moscow State Institute for International Relations and Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Moscow, comes to Claremont from Russia in order to analyze recent developments in Russian politics. Shevtsova has written over 400 articles in the Russian and Western press and has authored and co-authored numerous books, including Socialism and Catholicism; Inside the Russian Enigma; Democratization in Russia; Yeltsin's Russia: Myths and Reality (1999); Regime of Boris Yeltsin; Political Russia; Civil-Military Relations and Democracy; New Russia; Europe by Nature; Political Parties in Russia; Political Leadership: From Gorbachev to Putin; State Beyond Crisis: Post-Colonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective; Krieg in Kosovo.
In addition to her extensive teaching and her prolific scholarship, Shevtsova has served on many important commissions in Russia and internationally. Until the early nineties, Shevtsova worked as a department head and then the First Deputy Director of the Institute for International Economic and Political Studies at the Academy of Science. From 1991 to 1992, Shevtsova was member of the Commission investigating the activity of the Communist party of the USSR. In 1997–2002 she was chair of the Program on Eurasia and Eastern Europe of SSRC (New York). In 1999–2002 she was member of the Social Council "In Defense of Freedom of Press" headed by Mikhail Gorbachev. Since 1993 she's been member of editorial boards of the journals Polls, Pro at Contra, Journal of Democracy, Demokratizacija, Megapolis, Moscow News. She is also currently a member of Women in International Security Advising Board, and a member of the Executive Council of Russian Political Association.
Lilia Shevtsova's lecture is sponsored by The Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies.
A Bridge to Islam: A Documentary Film Directed by Jean-Louis Boudart
Chaque connaissance est une naissance. Victor Hugo said that every introduction is a new birth. In January 2004, nine students traveled across the world to test the truth of this adage. Lauren Weeth (CMC '05), Katie Rouze (Scripps '05), Karen Chu (CMC '05), and Suzanna Rempel (Scripps '05) were among the inaugural class of a new study abroad program, aimed at improving cross-cultural understanding between America, France, and the Muslim world. At its inception, the program sought open-minded juniors to begin a serious and honest self-examination of how their own cultural biases prevented them from opening up to other cultures. Even before the first students arrived in Marseille, the French national media took an interest in the unique nature of the program, and soon a national syndicate had arranged to make a documentary of the experience—for which Weeth and Rouze were chosen as the primary subjects.
The film follows these students as they engage in intensive study of North African history, theology, and cultural studies through the American University Center of Provence. In France, they tackle internships at organizations serving Marseille's North African population, learn Arabic and belly dancing, and talk with important members of the city's Arab-Muslim community. With candid guidance from renowned Islam expert Bruno Etienne, and a pivotal two-week homestay in Fez, Morocco, the students confront their prior ignorance in order to engage with a culture that post-9/1 1 America seems increasingly willing to paint as "the other."
Lauren Weeth will introduce the film and lead the discussion following its conclusion.
Saving the Orangutans of Borneo
There are so many words that can describe Borneo, including verdant, vast, and vibrant. It is the world's third largest island with an extremely diverse flora and fauna that includes over 380 species of birds, 222 species of mammals, and over 3,000 species of trees. Borneo is one of 17,000 islands that comprise the country of Indonesia and it is one of two places on the planet where the orangutan lives.
Unfortunately, as is the case with many other tropical paradises, Borneo's forests are rapidly disappearing and the orangutans with it. More than 80% of the forests have already been logged. If the rate of destruction continues at its current clip, the rainforests and its orangutan residents could vanish within the next 10 years.
Scripps College graduate Debra Erickson will present an overview of the work that Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) is conducting in Central Borneo to protect the orangutan and its dwindling habitat. Erickson works with Dr. Birute Mary Galdikas, the first scientist to conduct a comprehensive study of the orangutan in the wild. Erickson is Conservation Director of OFI and has previously worked for ZILOG, Inc., Anheuser-Busch Companies, SeaWorld of California, SeaWorld of Florida. the San Diego Zoo, the San Diego Wild Animal Park, and Busch Entertainment Corporation in the areas of product development, marketing, public relations, education, and conservation.
Formerly a student of professor of biology Dan Guthrie of the Joint Science Program (CMC/Scripps/Pitzer) Debra Erickson's Athenaeum presentation is sponsored by the Roberts Environmental Center at Claremont McKenna College.
The Dewey Redman Septet: An Evening with Dewey Redman
DEWEY REDMAN, tenor saxophone
TIM HAGANS, trumpet
DAVE WOODLEY, trombone
DANNY HOUSE, alto saxophone
CECILIA COLEMAN, piano
DAREK OLES, bass
JOE LABARBERA, drums
Dewey Redman is one of the most adventurous tenor saxophonists of our time. Downbeat magazine calls him "the greatest living tenor saxophonist." Born in Texas in 1931, Redman took up the clarinet at 13, but switched to alto sax to play in his high school marching band with buddy Ornette Coleman. After getting a masters degree in education, he moved to San Francisco, taught in public schools— and freelanced as a tenor saxophonist with the likes of Pharoah Sanders and Wes Montgomery. In 1967, he moved to New York and formed a close musical association with his friend Ornette Coleman that lasted until 1974. During this time, while on tour with Coleman's avant garde quartet, Redman recorded Tarik (1969).
After Coleman. Redman joined Keith Jarrett's quintet where his versatility brought a unique quality to Jarrett's group. There were frequent recordings during this period that led to even greater exposure. Albums with Charlie Haden, Carla Bley, Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, and Leroy Jenkins were the result. During the mid-1970's, Redman had the opportunity to record several albums as a leader. Two albums for the Impulse! label: Ear of the Behearer (1973) and Coincide (1974) are classics. Musics (1978) and Sound Sign (1978) were recorded for the Galaxy label. His most recent recording, In London (1996), finds him in top form.
Dewey Redman is a consummate artist in his prime. His message is clear, masterful and dynamic.
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