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President's Annual Report
This year's commencement ceremonies held a particularly special meaning for me. Along with the Class of 2003, I also joined Claremont McKenna College four years ago, a freshman president and a new Californian. It is a unique privilege to usher exceptional students into their college years and then launch them four years later into the company of educated men and women. We have now welcomed the Class of 2007, another outstanding cadre of leaders-in-the-making. Before we embark on another four-year journey toward another commencement day, I wish to briefly welcome and introduce the newest additions to the CMC community, and to reflect on the College's remarkable achievements of the past year.
We are proud to welcome the 284 ambitious, smart, energetic, and competitive members of the Class of 2007, already making themselves known in Claremont. The 134 women and 150 men in the freshman class scored a median 1390 on their SATs, and nearly 83 percent were in the top 10 percent of their high school class. They are leaders in the true CMC tradition, active in student government, athletics, debate, music, drama, travel, and community service. CMC's excellent financial aid program, which enables CMC to admit all students on a need-blind basis and to meet all financial need, is critical to the College's ability to attract these outstanding students. Significantly, over 70% of the Class of 2007 received financial aid.
Additionally, joining us this year are two double-legacy students: Erin Hurley '07 and Christopher Davis '07. Erin's parents are Kathleen (Evans) '80 and Kelly Hurley '79. Coincidently, her mother, Kathleen (Evans) was the first woman to enroll at CMC when the College began admitting women in 1976. Chris' parents are Nancy (Nelson) '80 and George Davis '79. The Davis family has a special connection to Claremont; a cousin was a CMC student last year, and Chris' grandparents went to Pomona and Scripps colleges.
From its beginning, Claremont McKenna College's faculty has espoused the highest standards of the teacher-scholar ideal. Consistent with the goals articulated in the Strategic Plan, the College undertook 13 faculty searches to replace retiring faculty, begin converting visiting faculty to tenure-track appointments, and achieve modest faculty growth. These new members of the faculty are accomplished and distinguished individuals in the areas of economics, government, history, psychology, modern languages, and the sciences:
- Jay Conger, a renowned expert on leadership and organizational behavior, will hold the inaugural Kravis Research Chair in Leadership Studies. Joining CMC from the London Business School, where he was a professor of organizational behavior, Conger is a senior research scientist at USC's Center for Effective Organization. He is past chairman and executive director of the Leadership Institute at USC's Marshall School of Business, and earned a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Harvard University. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 scholarly articles and ten books, including Shared Leadership; Reframing the How's and Why's of Leading Others; and the Leader's Change Handbook.
- Brock Blomberg, associate professor of economics, will lead the economics curriculum of the Politics, Philosophy and Economics program. He was a senior economist on The Council of Economic Advisers and joins CMC from Wellesley College, where he taught macroeconomic theory, advanced econometrics, and economics and politics. He earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and has served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Tufts University, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Blomberg has published extensively and is currently researching the economic model of global terrorism, and the relationship between political variables and exchange rate movement.
- Lisa Meulbroek, the Fritz B. Burns Chair in Financial Economics, received a Ph.D. in applied economics, with concentrations in finance and industrial organization, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Additionally, she was a member of the Harvard Business School faculty for 11 years, with concentration in advanced corporate finance. She has published and presented extensively, and was a senior research scholar at the Securities and Exchange Commission and an associate at Goldman Sachs, as well as The Boston Consulting Group.
- Joshua Rosett, an associate professor of economics and who will teach in our accounting program, has been on the faculty of Tulane University since 1998 and also taught at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the U.S. Business School in Prague, and Southern Methodist University. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University, with expertise in the areas of financial reporting, measurement of intangible assets, and corporate governance and control. He has published extensively and is currently researching advertising, market share and investment for Internet firms. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
- Kenneth Miller, a 1985 cum laude graduate of Pomona College, returns to Claremont as assistant professor of government. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a graduate of Harvard Law School. He joins CMC from the University of San Francisco, where he taught public policy. As a lawyer, he is co-founder of the Sacramento office of Morrison & Foerster, LLP. Dr. Miller served two years as administrator of the John Gardner Public Service Fellowship Program jointly operated by Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also moot court and judicial council advisor, and was an intern in the office of Congressman David Dreier '75, Trustee.
- Arash Khazeni, assistant professor of history, is a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, with his dissertation on the economy of oil in southwestern Iran. Prior to joining the CMC faculty, he was a teaching fellow at Yale in the modern Middle East and Central Asia, the anthropology of Iran, and modern South Asia. He has served as a translator at Yale and for the Refugee Ministry of New Haven, and he speaks five languages, including Arabic, Persian, and Spanish. He has presented papers at the Middle East Studies Association and was awarded a research grant from the Council on Middle East Studies.
- Kristina Sessa, assistant professor of history, received her Ph.D. in ancient and medieval history from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was an instructor in the department of history. A magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, her focus of study includes Roman and Medieval history, and her dissertation examines Anecdote and Authority: Roman Episcopal Biography in its Late Antique Context. She also taught the history of Western philosophy at San Quentin State Penitentiary. She speaks six languages, and served as editor of Critical Sense: A Journal of Critical and Political Theory, University of California, Berkeley.
- Alison Paris, assistant professor of psychology, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan with dissertation research on the benefit of early intervention in children's reading and comprehension skills. Her interests include cognitive development, learning and motivation, developmental psychology, child development, and educational psychology.
- Tobias Gregory, assistant professor of literature, is an expert in 16th and 17th century literature and the history of English literature. He was on the faculty of California State University, Northridge, for four years, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Dr. Gregory has presented papers and lectures at the University of Texas, the Huntington Library, the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival, and the Renaissance Conference of Southern California, of which he is president. Additionally, he has received numerous awards, including a Mellon/ACLS Junior Faculty Fellowship, Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, and the Isabel MacCaffrey Prize awarded by the Spenser Society.
- Delia Greth, assistant professor of Spanish, earned her Ph.D. in second language acquisition and teaching from the University of Arizona, where she also earned bachelors and masters degrees in psychology and Hispanic linguistics. While in Arizona, she coordinated the Heritage Speaker Program and received numerous awards, including the Alma de la Gente academic scholarship for Mexican-American women.
- Minju Kim, assistant professor of Korean, received a Ph.D. in Korean linguistics and East Asian languages and cultures at UCLA, with her dissertation on the Grammaticalization of the Korean Existential Verb Issta. She is also a graduate of Yonsei University, Seoul, where she earned a bachelor's degree in German language and literature, and a master's degree in Korean studies.
Science and technology have proven essential disciplines in economic progress, as well as advancements in many areas, such as healthcare, environmental management, and national security. To support these increasingly vital and vigorous fields of study, we have added two new faculty members in the Joint Science department:
- Jennifer Armstrong, assistant professor of biology, earned a Ph.D. in biology from the University of California, San Diego, and is a graduate of New Mexico State University. She joins us from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she has taught for the past four years. A molecular cell biologist, she is conducting fruit fly research on cell differentiation, described by Professor David Sadava as the "frontier of modern biology." Her publications include Molecular Cell, Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, Journal of Experimental Botany, and Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology.
- Scott Williams, a 1995 Harvey Mudd alumnus, returns to Claremont as assistant professor of chemistry. He earned a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of Washington, and is completing his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, researching the thermodynamics and mechanisms of polar substituted alkenes. He has published in numerous journals, including the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and has presented papers in China, The Netherlands, and at three annual meetings of the American Chemical Society.
We are also involved in the five-college search to fill a new shared chair, the William R. Kenan Chair in Computational Neuroscience. This intensely interdisciplinary field examines the relationship between the activity of individual neurons and the brain itself, with implications in departments such as psychology, philosophy, and biology. Studies encompass brain trauma recovery, learning and memory, manic depression, and Alzheimer's.
Pursuant to the Strategic Plan, last year the faculty initiated a targeted curriculum review that is focused on developing recommendations to strengthen CMC's distinctive academic program. The curriculum review has so far addressed the following issues:
- Strengthening science and math requirements as soon as the Joint Science Department has adequate staffing to support an expanded curriculum;
- Developing recommendations to improve the effectiveness of CMC's general education requirements and majors system;
- Developing recommendations to improve the effectiveness of the senior thesis; and
- Implementing standards for information technology "fluency" to ensure that every CMC graduate has broad computer competence.
Beyond these planning efforts, our faculty continually strives to develop their course offerings and advance the mission of the College. Two of many examples include:
- Professor Robert Faggen's Gould Center seminar course on the role of public intellectuals in American society. Guest speakers included Paul Krassner, firebrand counter cultural satirist; Herbert F. York, nuclear physicist and founder of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory; and Louis Menand, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Metaphysical Club.
- An excellent speaker series from P. Edward Haley, the W.M. Keck Foundation Chair of International Strategic Studies, complementing his seminar course on The United States, Israel, and the Arabs. Speakers included Kanan Makiya, Iraqi opposition leader; Meron Benvenisti, former mayor of Jerusalem; William Quandt, vice provost, the University of Virginia; and Lee Hamilton, a 34-year leader in Congress and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Today's sweeping global changes have created an even more interdependent world. Everything from communications, financial investments and commerce, to politics, science, and technology, must now be viewed not only in an American, but also a global, context.
In response to these challenges and as discussed in the Strategic Plan, the College has strengthened its globalization focus. In 2002-2003, CMC and Pitzer College completed the first of a four-year Freeman Foundation grant to develop a program in Asian political economy. As part of this program, two distinguished visiting scholars were on our campus: David Lambertson, former U.S. ambassador to Thailand, and Chong-Wook Chung, former senior secretary for foreign policy and national security in the office of the president of the Republic of Korea, and his nation's first ambassador to the People's Republic of China.
Last spring we were also pleased to host the 2003 Podlich Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Michael Berenbaum. A renowned and eloquent scholar and leader, Dr. Berenbaum is the former director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and former director of Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation.
As the world around us continues to change, the College evolves to meet the needs of educating tomorrow's global leaders. Examples of new classes developed last spring for the 2003-04 academic year reflect this commitment:
- Economics of Population examines demographic changes in both industrialized and developing nations through an economic perspective.
- International Security in South Asia, introduces students to the security environment of South Asia and the impact of nuclear proliferation.
- God and Money, Religion and Violence, and Religious Autobiography and the Quest for Self-Knowledge, three new courses in Philosophy and Religious Studies, focus on the role of affluence in shaping moral and religious values, as well as the personal quest for meaning and its relationship to images, ideas, and institutions.
Without a doubt, information technology impacts the ways in which students will learn, as well as their performance beyond CMC. Over the last several years, the College has made substantial investments in infrastructure and associated information technology personnel, and this remains a key initiative. Led by Professor Cynthia Humes, Associate Dean for Academic Computing, CMC is pursuing two major grant-based initiatives: one from the Mellon Foundation, and one from the Atlantic Philanthropies. Under the Mellon program, CMC heads a very well received program to coordinate technology training and support across The Claremont Colleges. Demand for the workshops and services offered through this program have been strong, and participants report great satisfaction with the offerings. Through the Atlantic Philanthropies grant, CMC has begun implementing a technology fluency initiative, which will teach technology skills across the curriculum.
The teaching facilities of the college have also been augmented by these technology initiatives. This year, the Fletcher Jones classroom was rebuilt with new workstations; additionally, the audio-visual systems in all Roberts North classrooms were updated. Each classroom in the Roberts North building now hosts a dedicated computer in the lectern, eliminating the need for faculty to reserve laptops in advance.
A hallmark of the Claremont McKenna College experience is the important role of our research institutes, which allow our students to work closely with faculty scholars across a broad range of interests. As approved last spring by the Board of Trustees, the College has launched its tenth institute, The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights. Founded and led by Professors John Roth, the Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy, and Jonathan Petropoulos, the John V. Croul Professor of European History, the Center will provide an important leadership voice in this rapidly evolving field of scholarship.
The study of the Holocaust has been part of the CMC curriculum for nearly 30 years, placing the College among the forerunners in these rapidly emerging fields of study. Central to the mission of educating future leaders is instilling our students with the knowledge and compassion necessary to interpret and succeed within a world rife with cultural and spiritual conflict, terrorism, and human rights violations. Although focusing primarily on study of the Holocaust and genocide, the Center's intellectual range will also include recent discussion and human rights legislation developed in response to the Holocaust. In the CMC institute tradition, the Center will engage students by supporting undergraduate research and internships, and involving students in graduate-level scholarship.
Since the founding of its first institute nearly 35 years ago, the extent of the programming offered by CMC's institutes remains virtually unparalleled among liberal arts colleges. Highlights include:
- The Kravis Leadership Institute, together with the Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children, hosted the 13th annual Kravis-de Roulet Conference, examining the efficacy of work/life corporate policies, and perspectives on work and family life.
- The Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies and the European Union Center of California sponsored a two-day conference on Evaluating Success and Failure in Postcommunist Reform.
- The Gould Center's spring seminar, Democracy and Art, featured a wide range of speakers, field trips and other special events.
- The Lowe Institute of Political Economy hosted an international panel examining The Macroeconomics of Low Inflation and the Prospects for Global Deflation. The Institute also hosted Paul Volcker, who delivered the annual McKenna Lecture on International Trade and Economics.
- The Reed Institute of Decision Science co-sponsored two conferences with the Southern California Chapter of the American Statistical Association last October and November. The Institute also originated a student-faculty colloquium, Probability and Statistics, with Pomona College. In other welcoming news, Director Janet Myhre, the Dengler-Dykema Professor of Mathematics and Mathematical Economics, was elected president of the Southern California Chapter of the American Statistical Association, effective fall 2003.
- The Roberts Environmental Center recently involved 12 students in EEP clinics, analyzing corporate environmental and sustainability reports; employed four students--three during the academic year, and one in the summer; and supported seven students with summer internships. The Center also gained visibility in the corporate world, analyzing 170 corporate environmental and sustainability reports from the Fortune Global 500 and Fortune 500, and posting the results to a new REC Web site, a major work product of the Center's research. On campus, the Center sponsored five speakers at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, and last year negotiated a $60,000, five-year grant from the U. S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, to study the efficacy of reseeding following forest fires.
- The College's first institute, founded in 1969, the Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World, examined American Citizenship in the Age of Multicultural Immigration in a three-day conference co-sponsored with the Claremont Institute.
- The Rose Institute for State and Local Government hosted its annual conference on California's water challenges, and also made news by teaming with the prestigious Kosmont group for the new Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business survey.
This year saw world events pushing into the classroom experience, with students and faculty delving into vigorous examination of global issues and domestic policy. In addition to classroom discussion, the war in Iraq was the focus of several campus events, including:
- Symposium on the War in Iraq, a faculty panel discussion and forum led by William Ascher, vice president and dean of the faculty and the Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics;
- The Consequences of War in Iraq, a faculty-student panel sponsored by the Claremont Independent and the CMC Peace Coalition;
- US Foreign Policy: Iraq and Beyond, an open forum moderated by Professor Edward Haley;
- The UN's Relevance in a Post-9/11 World, a lecture by Robert Orr, senior fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies; and
- Dissenting Views on the War in Iraq, a panel discussion with Donal O'Sullivan, visiting lecturer in history, and faculty from the Claremont Graduate University and Pomona College.
In addition, throughout the Mid-East turmoil, International Place continued its important work in providing a gathering place for all students to discuss world issues. A highlight of I-Place programming, the popular International Festival celebrated its 25th anniversary last year, with record numbers of volunteers and visitors from throughout the community. I-Place also plans special events, field trips, and programming with local sponsor families, as well as the popular Thursday Lunch and Conversation series, with topics including U.S. policy toward Korea, Japan's financial crisis, and the war in Iraq.
The opportunity to study off-campus continues to be a vibrant hallmark of a CMC education. Over the past five years, participation by our students in the international educational experience is stronger than ever, with opportunities to study in 43 nations - from Botswana to the United Kingdom. Consistent with our mission to prepare future leaders, CMC's Washington Program remains a key element of the total educational experience for many of our students. Now in its 33rd year and considered an "elder statesman" among educational opportunities in our nation's capital, the Washington Program combines full-time internships with classes designed to complement serious discussion of contemporary political issues. The Program places our students squarely in the center of the political and government experience, with internships in the U.S. Department of State, the White House, legislature and congressional offices, advocacy groups, foreign policy institutes and think-tanks, ranging from the United Nations Development Program, to the Kennedy Center.
A distinguishing characteristic of CMC is the vibrant extracurricular programming that strengthens the classroom experience. The Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum continues to engage CMCers just as it did when its doors first opened two decades ago, providing a facility to enhance the College's already successful guest speaker programming. Alumni around the world invariably recall with fondness the many events at the Ath. Later this year, we look forward with special pleasure to commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum.
Last year's Athenaeum speakers included:
- Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours
- Il SaKong, former finance minister of the Republic of Korea
- Dr. Nafis Sadik, UN special envoy and former director, UN Population Fund
- David Brooks, Weekly Standard senior editor, on The Suburbs and American Politics
- Gary Comstock, renowned ethicist, on the case against agricultural biotechnology
- Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell — just days after winning the 2003 Pulitzer Prize.
Other special campus guests included award-winning filmmaker Spike Lee, whose CMC-sponsored lecture at Bridges Auditorium drew a crowd of more than 2,200; and two outstanding Res Publica Speaker Series guests, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, visiting on election day 2002, and Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, who discussed ethical globalization.
The UNOVA President's Leaders Forum is a student-centered program that brings distinguished alumni and friends of the College back to campus. In 2002-03, Leaders Forum participants included Trustees Thomas Leppert '77, Turner Corporation chairman and CEO; Robert Lowe '62, Lowe Enterprises chairman and CEO, with his spouse, Beth Lowe, a noted community volunteer; and Gary Biszantz '56, president and owner of Cobra Farm and chairman of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, with his daughter, Suzanne Biszantz, president of Reebok's Greg Norman Collection; past Trustee Alison Winter P'02, division president of the Northern Trust Corporation; Stephen McGruder '65, partner, Lord, Abbett & Company, with his spouse, literary critic Angeline Goreau; and Vincent Cheng, chairman and CEO of Hang Seng Bank, and his spouse, Mariana, who is active in major nonprofit organizations, including the Medical Council of Hong Kong, and parents of Simone Cheng, Class of '06.
This vibrant and important program provides informal interaction both in and out of the classroom setting, and is a highlight of our academic year. We look forward to welcoming another diverse cadre of outstanding leaders to campus with this year's program.
Given the many opportunities for intellectual exploration and discussion, it is not surprising that, year after year, our students excel, explore, and lead. We bid farewell to the Class of 2003, whose achievements in the last academic year included:
- National awards for three members of the Class of 2003, with Elise Kim and Joy Nakama named Fulbright Scholars, and Alexis Orton a Junior Fellow of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
- A strong third place national finish for the Debate Union, in competition against 287 teams in the National Parliamentary Debate Association national championship tournament. This continues the team's strong record of excellence following the previous year's first-place finish.
- Raza Ahmad '04, from Islamabad, Pakistan, starred in his own play, and plans to return to his country with a theater and literature degree with leadership sequence, using the stage as a medium for social change.
- Several CMCers, lead by Graham Tharp '05 and Jeff Simonetti '05 created the new Claremont Colleges Auto Enthusiasts Club. This fast-paced program combines an entrepreneurial spirit with a love of automobiles and projects bringing students and alumni together through mutual interests. The group organized a successful inaugural Claremont Concours on campus this spring.
- Holding true to interest in the world around them, CMC students rolled up their sleeves and participated in a wide range of community service internships, with programs including Habitat for Humanity, Little League, Mt. Baldy trail conservation, and assistance to senior citizens.
On the playing field, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps athletes again distinguished themselves in a range of sports, bringing home the SCIAC All-Sports Trophy for the 11th consecutive year. Highlights include:
- The debut of women's lacrosse as a CMS varsity team after two decades as a club sport. The Athenas took the field with an impressive attitude and a 10-3 inaugural season.
- Stags track and field won their 12th straight SCIAC conference title, with the Athenas finishing a strong second.
- Bearing out the season-long motto of "champions in training," Athenas swimmers won the SCIAC championship, their first since 1999 and their fifth in CMS history.
- The Athenas soccer team had an excellent season, finishing as SCIAC champions.
- Men's football opened the season with a stirring 7-0 record, the best start in Stags history, finishing with an excellent 7-2 overall record and second place in SCIAC.
In addition to their teaching excellence, the scholarship and professional achievements of our faculty reflect the intellectual vitality of CMC, and the College's continued impact on public policy issues. This year, a number of our faculty were recognized for their outstanding contributions to their respective fields, including:
- Edward Haley, the W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of International Strategic Studies, was appointed a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He will be in residence there for the spring semester, where he will also complete his new book on post-Cold War American diplomatic strategy.
- Diane Halpern, professor of psychology and director of the Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children, was elected president of the American Psychological Association (APA). With more than 155,000 members, the APA is one of the largest and oldest professional organizations in the world, and election of its president from within a liberal arts college is virtually unprecedented. Her term begins in January.
- Eric Helland, associate professor of economics, will serve this year as a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers.
- Lisa Cody, assistant professor of history, received a contract from Oxford University Press for her first book, The Birth of Nation: The Conception of Britain in the 18th Century.
- Jay Martin, the Edward S. Gould Professor of Humanities, completed his 21st book, The Education of John Dewey, published by Columbia University Press.
- Emil Morhardt, the Roberts Professor of Environmental Biology and director of the Roberts Environmental Center, edited Clean, Green & Read All Over: Ten Rules for Corporate Environmental and Sustainability Reporting.
- Ralph Rossum, the Salvatori Professor of Political Philosophy and American Constitutionalism and director of the Rose Institute for State and Local Government, was appointed by U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige to the board of directors of the Fund for Improvement of Post-Secondary Education.
- John Roth, the Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy, was appointed to the board of directors of the California Council for the Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
In the College's Strategic Plan, we identified the need to upgrade some facilities, as well as identify plans for new construction. The dedication in October 2003 of our new North Quad renovation and expansion will cap a busy summer of construction. The North Quad project provides much-needed additional living quarters, as well an overall improved residential experience. We continue to move toward Phase I of a new Athletic and Recreation Center, with an anticipated start in May 2004, pending final approval by the Board of Trustees. The new facility will provide gymnasium and fitness space, and is possible through a lead donation from Trustee Gary Biszantz '56. Construction begins this fall on a new building on Claremont Boulevard for advancement staff offices, and Collins Dining Hall dining areas will undergo renovation in the summer. We are also beginning discussion on a proposed new campus center. Torrey Sun, vice president for student affairs, leads the committee, which includes students, staff, faculty, and trustees.
From the Pacesetters of our first graduating classes, to newly minted alumni making their presence known around the world, our alumni play a huge role in the life and vibrancy of the College. The CMC Alumni Association (CMCAA) completed another outstanding year, with programming ranging from chapter events to a Galapagos adventure. The excellent leadership of last year's CMCAA President Lorraine Bains '88 was reflected in the many successes of the association's 19 chapters. Major CMCAA events were held in New York, Sacramento, San Francisco, Denver, and Warsaw, Poland, with Euromeet XV organized by Heather Callender-Potters '87 and Kunal Khemka '99. And under Leonard Co '03, a new chapter took root in Japan. In 2003, Bains, the first woman to lead CMCAA, passed the gavel to another outstanding alumna, Gigi Birchfield '82, whose term promises to be equally productive and successful.
We are delighted to welcome to the Board of Trustees five new members:
- Julie Spellman '89, has become the first alumna elected as a regular member of the Board. She is a graduate of Columbia Law School and a partner in the New York law firm Cravath Swaine & Moore;
- James McElwee '74, joins the Board of Trustees as a regular trustee. A graduate of the Wharton School, he is general partner of Weston Presidio Capital, and currently serves as national chair of the CMC Alumni Fund;
- Robert Poy '90, CMCAA president in 1998-99, for a three-year term as alumnus trustee;
- CMCAA president Gigi Birchfield '82 for a one-year term as an ex-officio member; and
- Parents Club president Hilda Kassardjian P'04 for a one-year term as an ex-officio member.
We also wish to recognize and thank our departing Trustees for meritorious service to the College:
- Lorraine Bains '88, completed a one-year term as CMCAA president and ex-officio member of the Board, serving on three committees, including the Executive Committee;
- Bruce Bean '67, joined the Board in 1987, serving on three committees, Academic Affairs, Building and Grounds, and Research Institutes. He is president of Tartan Transportation/Delta Waseca, Inc.;
- Don Henriksen, who joined the Board of Trustees in 1981, has a long history at the College. As vice president for research from 1987-1992, he guided the establishment of three institutes, the Lowe Institute of Political Economy, the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies and the Roberts Environmental Center. He has also served on several key committees as well as the boards of four CMC research institutes and the CMC magazine Editorial Board.
- Robert Long '60, P'94, '02, who joined the Board in 1997, served on four committees and provided additional guidance on the Strategic Planning Committee on Information Technology;
- David Mgrublian '82, past president of CMCAA, completed his three-year term as an alumnus Trustee, serving on four committees as well as the Land Planning Committee of the Claremont University Consortium;
- Patti Meyers P'03, completed her one-year term as Parents Club president 2002-03 and ex-officio member, serving on two committees;
- Alison Winter P'02, a division president of Northern Trust Corporation, departs the Board after a three-year term serving on the Budget and Audit, College Advancement and Student Affairs committees.
Despite a challenging environment, we again finished the year with an excess of revenues over expenses, reflecting the dedication of all departments to careful and thoughtful financial management. These results include, of course, our continued commitment to key principles of the College, including fulfilling need-blind admission and meeting all need.
Last year's decline in the equities markets and the resulting impact on endowments have been issues of great concern to colleges and universities of every size and stature, across the nation. As the market began to decline in 2001, the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees began a review of its guidelines for the College investment portfolio. Their actions also included a number of steps, including revising the equities orientation of the portfolio to over-weight value over growth; replacing the three growth equity managers; significantly reducing asset allocation ranges; and adding a new yield-oriented investment portfolio to reduce volatility.
For the first time in three years, CMC's endowment ended the year in positive territory of 1.36%, or 111 basis points above the S&P 500 index for the year ending June 30, 2003. This is 193 basis points ahead of the Dow Jones index of negative 0.57 for the same period.
In addition, the College's fund-raising efforts exceeded slightly the $17 million goal. This is particularly impressive given the profound impact of recent economic challenges on charitable giving overall. We have also filled several important development staff positions approved last year by the Board of Trustees, and look forward to another strong year from the advancement team.
The College also received several key gifts in 2002-2003 that support a number of priorities identified in the Strategic Plan, including:
- Two new endowed chairs in the Department of History, gifts of John V. Croul'49, and Linda and Abbott Brown P'00;
- Operating funds to support the launch of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, from AnneMerie Donoghue and Leigh Crawford '94;
- $1.2 million in trustee pledges toward the College's most important current capital projects, Phase I of the Athletic and Recreation Center, and the North Quad expansion;
- An endowment to fund fellowship awards and related grants in the form of financial aid, merit awards, or preferential packaging for upper-level students interested in careers involving asset management and investment management, a gift of Michael Larson '80; and
- A $700,000 grant from the Irvine Foundation to primarily support the College's efforts to recruit a more diverse faculty.
As we pause to note the many achievements of our students, faculty, and staff, we also remember the many contributions of past generations to the CMC community. This year, two of our esteemed professors, Gordon Bjork and Steve Smith, retired after a combined seven decades at CMC. Professor Bjork is a Rhodes Scholar and former college president whose zest for teaching resulted in co-founding CMC's Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program with Ward Elliott, the Burnet C. Wohlford Professor of American Political Instutions. He also developed the legendary course, Theory and Practice of Commercial Banking, better known as Bank Sim. Based on a seminar Professor Bjork originally created for the California Banker's Association, the course simulates realistic banking operations. Professor Smith's course, Theories of the Good Life, is equally regarded among CMCers. Known as a capstone educational experience, it was described by one colleague as the most pragmatic and goal-oriented class in the CMC curriculum. We are grateful for Professor Bjork and Professor Smith for many years of passionate commitment to their colleagues, our students, and the greater community.
In 2003, we sadly lost two remarkable and unforgettable members of the CMC family with the deaths of Orme Phelps and Harold McClelland, both distinguished professors emeriti of economics and former deans of the faculty. Orme Phelps, a guiding intellectual leader, touched the lives of CMC students during seven decades as a revered member of our community. The son of a Civil War veteran, he was a rising star at the University of Chicago when he joined Claremont Men's College in 1947, one of the original faculty members hired by President George C.S. Benson. Harold McClelland, who earned his doctorate from Harvard University, joined the College in 1958. During a 1995 student interview, Professor McClelland described CMC as "one of the major success stories, if not the preeminent success story, in higher education during the past half-century." This splendid and apt description owes so much to those early faculty members, and colleagues who later joined them. Their contributions to the College were many, and Professors Phelps and McClelland will be missed.
In a time of a recall election, volatile economies, and unpredictable events in the world, the coming months will undoubtedly bring both challenge and opportunity to all of us at CMC. I look forward to working with our splendid faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends toward another memorable and rewarding year.
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Bush's 'red legacy' will outlast a proposed 'blue legacy'
War Abroad and Poverty at Home
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The "world's only superpower" is so broke it can't even finance its own wars.
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Even if George Bush creates marine reserves in every ocean in order to leave behind a so-called 'blue legacy' to polish up his overspent and warring presidency, the red ink he's leaving behind for the American people to swim in will drown it out–and that's not even mentioning the red life's blood of millions of people spilled with Bush at the helm.
Years ago, when I was a member of The Fray at Slate Magazine, I wrote against the wasting of American soldiers, weaponry, and money as being part of al-Qaeda's long range plan to take down our nation. You can hardly imagine the crude barbs directed at my stupidity for saying that super-rich America could be ever bankrupted and weakened by any means. Some of them were in on the game, but not the average self-imagined elitist.
Seems The Fray's many neocon Bush supporters of the day believed that America's pockets were deep as the oceans and absolutely impossible to deplete.
Why, according to them, little me (writing as 'peacely2′) bordered on being unpatriotic and quite mad, as you may imagine. Vitriol met all my attempts to warn against wasting our treasure.
But it's 2008 and our treasure is lost after several years of Bush speculation and waste, so I hope those incredulous Fraysters have their credit card bills up to date, because it's no longer a cerebral argument or a rude bragfest.
Perhaps their eyes have been opened by recent developments, now that the wolf is at the door along with the barbarian at the gate–and thanks must go to the neocons, their puppetmasters, minions, enablers, and dupes…pocket-liners all, at US taxpayers' expense.
And I must remember to thank George W. Bush above all for he's been the mouthpiece of globalists everywhere.
He defined his presidential job early on, you know–as "catapultin' propaganda," and he's filled those boots rather too well with his natal Ascendant (Asc = his nibs himself) at "8 Leo"…
"A Bolshevik propagandist."
In his book on the Sabian Symbols, "An Astrological Mandala" Dane Rudhyar adds to this word picture. You may not like it, but I'm giving it to you anyway…
"A Communist Activist Spreading His Revolutionary Ideals"…
Keynote: The emotional and ideological attempt to return to a state of non-differentiation and chaos as a prelude to a new type of order."
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A new study provides further proof that regular use of the the HIV antiretroviral drug Truvada can reduce one's risk for contracting HIV – without increasing sexual risk behavior.
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Over more than two decades in Africa, UCSF researchers have approached their scientific work with a dual aim: treat disease while helping to sustainably build up the local health care system.
November 25, 2013
After heading the Obama administration's global effort on AIDS, Eric Goosby is returning to his roots at UCSF to apply his experiences to improving public health programs.
October 01, 2013
UCSF researchers received six of 78 awards announced this week by the National Institutes of Health for innovative, high-risk, high-reward research.
September 30, 2013
Three Gladstone scientists have won research awards from divisions of the National Institutes of Health equaling an approximate total of $12.5 million over five years for their groundbreaking research to overcome HIV/AIDS.
July 10, 2013
A new study by UCSF researchers points to changes in intestinal bacteria as a possible explanation for why successfully treated HIV patients nonetheless experience life-shortening chronic diseases.
June 25, 2013
Two veteran UCSF doctors who have been battling the AIDS epidemic for decades retraced past efforts and described their ongoing quest for a cure for HIV in the Academic Senate's Third Annual Faculty Research Lecture.
May 13, 2013
UC San Francisco, a frequent high-performing team at AIDS Walk San Francisco, will again for the gold – the honor given to the top fundraising organizations participating in the annual event.
March 05, 2013
Community intervention with free mobile HIV testing and counseling, same-day results and post-test support led to a 14 percent reduction in new HIV infections in targeted communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to results of a large randomized, controlled trial.
October 16, 2012
The National Institutes of Health has awarded more than $15 million over the next five years to the UCSF-Gladstone Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) to continue its pioneering translational AIDS research.


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The intention of these painting projects is to encourage you to explore new subjects and techniques, to challenge yourself. Note that all paintings submitted will be deemed to be available for critique, though comments will not always be given.
You'll notice each month also lists projects from previous years. You're obviously very welcome to tackle these painting projects too. If submissions are still being accepted for a project, there will be a link to the online submission form on the page. Another option for feedback is to post a photo in the projects folder in the Painting Forum.
January Painting Project 2013: Opaque Colors
Previous January Painting Projects:
Three Colors
Chromatic Black
Limited Color Palette (lemon yellow, phthalo blue, burnt sienna)
A Color and Its Complementary
February Painting Project: Love Symbolism
This challenge of annual painting project is to create a painting or card to give to someone you love. Read project instructions...
Previous February Painting Projects:
• Scribble Painting
• Expressive Self-Portraits
• Expressive Figures
• Expressive Portraits
February/March Painting Project 2013: Opaque-Colors Portraits
The challenge of painting project is to paint a portrait using opaque colors. Read instructions...
Previous Painting Projects:
Inside a Forest
Big Brush Painting
• Knife Painting (Open Subject)
• Knife Painting: Essence of a Season
• Trees
• Clouds and Cloudy Skies
• Changing Seasons
• Portrait of a Flower (with photos of setup)
• Painting Done from Sketches or Studies (open subject)
April/May Painting Project 2013: Abstracted Landscapes
Seeing Red by © Marion Boddy-Evans
Last year we worked at abstracting nature generally, and the year before that with geometric abstracts. This April/May takes us into abstracting landscapes, an overall scene not a close-up detail. Read the project instructions...
Previous Painting Projects:
Geometric Abstracts
Abstracting Flowers
• Abstracting Nature I and Abstracting Nature II
• Abstracting a City Scene
• Abstracting an Urban Scene
June/July Painting Project 2013: Nature in Detail
This project involves painting something directly from nature in detail, observing with your own eyes from the object, not from photographs. Read the instructions.
Previous Painting Projects:
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Impressionist Sun Painting Project
Urban Transportation
Unusual Angles
• Realistic Water Drops
• Landscapes
• Children's Book Illustration
• Summer Amusement
August/September Painting Project 2013: Single Object Still Life
Last year the challenge was to paint a still life with at least one paint tube. This year the focus is on composition, with a single object set in strong negative space. Read details...
Previous Still Life Painting Projects:
Short and Tall
Paint Tube Still Life
Still Life with Two Objects
• Still Life with Fruit
• Still Life with Blue
• Still Life With Red
Still Life Featuring a Chair
Miniature Painting Project
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Previous September Painting Projects:
Miniature Landscapes
Miniature Still Life with Five Objects
Miniatures (Open Subject)
October Project 2013: In the Style of Munch
Last year's "in the style of" project took a look at the still life paintings of the Italian artist Morandi. This year it's getting expressive with Edvard Munch. Read instructions...
Previous October Painting Projects:
Still Life in the Style of Morandi
In the Style of LS Lowry
• In the Style of Matisse
• In the Style of Whistler
Tribute to Van Gogh
November Painting Project 2013: Mixing Media with Munch
Previous November Painting Projects:
Mixed Media (Open Subject) Project
Using Color Expressively (Like a Fauvist)
Mixed Media: Open Subject
Linocut Printing
December Painting Project: Holiday Cards
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Sustainability in Prisons
An Environmental Studies major spent a quarter studying abroad in Italy. Read how this led to a capstone project about bringing social farming to local prisons.
Tikvah's Garden Fund
Tikvah's community of friends at the UW are inspired by her life to build a garden that captures her joyful spirit and brings people together in nature.
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Washington state on its way to becoming the 7th state to recognize gay, lesbian marriages
After a rigorous debate and a 28-21 vote, on Wednesday night, the Washington state Senate approved a measure that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state.
In addition to the measure, more than 10 amendments were introduced.
Several amendments, including one that strengthened legal protections for religious groups and organizations, passed. An amendment that mandated a referendum clause be added to the bill, failed, however.
Under the measure that passed Wednesday, the nearly 10,000 couples currently registered in domestic partnerships would have to dissolve their relationship or get married. Domestic partnerships that aren't dissolved before June 30, 2014, would automatically become marriages under the proposed law.
Domestic partnerships would stay intact for couples in which one partner is a senior citizen, so that gay seniors don't have to worry about losing their pensions or other benefits such as Social Security.
The bill's next stop is the Washington state House of Representatives. The House is expected to approve the bill.
The state's governor, Chris Gregoire has said that she supports the bill and would sign it into law.
If the bill is signed into law, opponents have promised to challenge it at the ballot with a referendum. They will have to submit more than 120,577 signatures of citizens in opposition to the bill by June 6.
If opponents aren't able to collect enough signatures, homosexual would be able to start getting married in June.
If signed into law, Washington would become the seventh state to recognize same sex marriages.
Those who support gay marriage are working to pass similar legislation in New Jersey and Maryland.
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After a talent manager saw her photo in a friend's portfolio, Eva Mendes quit studying marketing at California State Northridge to pursue acting. After a string of horrible films like Children Of The Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) and Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000), her decision to show some skin (and by some, we really mean all) as Denzel Washington's wife in Training Day (2001) had casting folks and directors lining up to show her the money. Over the next four years, she banked blockbusters (2 Fast 2 Furious, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, Out of Time, Stuck On You, Hitch) like nobody's business and became the new face of Revlon. The Latina looker, who appeared in Will Smith's "Miami" music video, also lent her beestung lips, perfectly arched brows and trademark cheek mole to Calvin Klein. The packed schedule, lack of privacy and easy access to the nightlife eventually took a toll and Mendes checked herself into rehab Utah's Cirque Lodge for several weeks. Mendes has since seemed to be pickier when choosing roles as an actress (The Other Guys, Girl In Progress) and has shown interest in going behind the camera as a director and producer. She quietly split from longtime love George Augusto and became the envy of many when she was spied holding hands with Ryan "Hey, girl" Gosling at Disneyland. The Place Beyond The Pines costars met on the set and have been linked since 2011.
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Prepare yourself for expanded career opportunities and job satisfaction in the counseling field. This COAMFTE and CACREP-accredited online Master's program in Marriage and Family Counseling/Therapy includes a rigorous combination of distance education and face-to-face preparation. Curriculum includes on-line course work, residential colloquia, and clinical field experiences to prepare you for state licensure eligibility. You'll apply family systems theories and therapeutic techniques to address a wide range of relationship issues, and to assess and treat mental and emotional disorders and problems within the family system.
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With your Master's in Marriage and Family Counseling/Therapy from Capella, you'll integrate and apply research and theories in the practice of marriage and family therapy, including relational/systemic theories, theories of individual and family development across the life span, and other foundational theories in marriage and family therapy to clinical practice. You'll also learn to think critically and write effectively in the discipline by analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating the theoretical and practice issues relevant to family dynamics and systems theory in the field of marriage and family therapy. Discover specifically what you'll learn — and how you can apply it.
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DMA Publishes 30th Edition of 'Statistical Fact Book'
March 7, 2008 The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) yesterday announced the publication of its Statistical Fact Book, now celebrating 30 years as one of DMAs best-selling research offerings. From basic benchmarks to detailed data, this book provides marketers with easy access to information that will help them make informed decisions.
With 17 chapters, 222 pages, and more than 300 charts and graphs, the answer to just about any direct marketing question is at a marketing professionals fingertips with this best-selling reference book.
DMAs Statistical Fact Book has always contained the answers to nearly every question a marketing and advertising professional possibly could ask, said Anna Chernis, DMAs senior research manager and the books editor. However, what truly distinguishes this reference book, which is updated annually, is how it has kept up with the times most notably, the enormous impact that technology has had on direct marketing over the past three decades.
In fact, the 1979 edition of our Statistical Fact Book introduced a chapter titled The New Technology, Chernis said. Even all of those years ago, DMA had a vision of a time when people would be shipping signals rather than paper. Of course, now that vision is reality. Consequently, not only does the 30th edition of our Statistical Fact Book offer chapters dedicated to Interactive Media and Email, it refers to the Internet throughout the entire book. This is just one way how this book, which covers the complete end-to-end direct marketing process, has evolved with the times.
DMAs new Statistical Fact Book includes the following chapter titles:
· Direct Marketing Overview
· Direct Mail
· Creative
· Catalog
· Television/Home Shopping
· Interactive Media
· Email
· Hispanic Market
· Lists/Databases
· Consumer Demographics
· Business-to-Business
· Financial Services
· Nonprofit
· International
· Customer Service/Customer Relationship Management
· USPS Information
· Power of Direct Marketing
In addition to a wealth of DMA research, the Statistical Fact Book provides information from more than 60 prominent sources. All told, multichannel direct marketers will find answers to just about every question they have, as well as to hundreds they never thought to ask.
Here are just a few nuggets of wisdom from the 30th anniversary edition of this DMA best-seller:
· Direct mail (other than catalogs) is still the principal direct marketing promotion method.
· The average US consumer receives 26.2 pieces of any type of mail per week.
· About 81 percent of households either read or scan advertising mail sent to their homes.
· The average person takes 34 hours and 19 minutes between first visiting an online retailer and purchasing a product or service.
· Ninety (90) percent of Internet users are email users.
· Eighty-four (84) percent of consumers say they open email offers.
· Keyword search advertising accounts for 40 percent of all online ad spending.
· Six out of the top 10 infomercials are health and fitness related.
· Forty-five (45) percent of multichannel marketers do not currently advertise on social networking, blog, or other word-of-mouth outlets.
· Permission-based, business-to-business email lists command the highest price. In November 2007, these lists cost $273 per thousand.
· Direct marketers in the nonprofit arena find nonprofit newspapers and magazines to be the most effective advertising channel.
Members and non-members can purchase a copy of the Statistical Fact Book, 30th Edition through DMAs online bookstore by clicking here. The book is $260 for members and $470 for non-members.
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Kenyas' Scientists breakthrough in the war on tsetse fly
Scientists in Kenya have made a breakthrough in the war on tsetse fly by identifying which animals the fly feeds on, in research designed to support strategies to break the fly's life cycle and stop the spread of the killer disease trypanosomiasis.
The disease costs Africa around $4.5bn a year with around three million cattle dying from tsetse-transmitted trypanosomes every year. In addition, an estimated 70,000 people in 36 countries of sub-Saharan Africa are currently infected with the disease. The most recent epidemic, in Uganda in 2008, caused 48,000 deaths.
However, tsetse flies are notoriously difficult to observe in nature, since they don't form swarms, preferring to rest alone in bushes waiting for a source of warm blood to wander by. In this, their choices are mainly guided by their sense of smell. This has created big challenges for scientists and public health officials, who need to observe the insects' hosts to identify what animals they feed on.
A group of farmers assisted by scientists are now courting certain parasites and insects on their farms to act as natural enemies to other plant threatening parasites, in a model described as 'sending a thief to catch a thief'.
Insects that include Ladybird beetles, spiders, bats and red fire ants, all long vilified as farmers' greatest enemies, are now becoming farmers' friends as multiple applications of synthetic pesticides by farmers fail to resolve the problems responsible for four fifths of the country's harvests losses. Kenya currently spends close to Sh5bn a year on pesticides, much of it to battle insects.
However, the new farmers' friend insects either secrete unique fluids that chase away pests, or feed directly and swiftly on the pests. According to many farmers, it takes just a week to rid a farm of pests with natural enemies, as against months when using synthetic pesticides.
Ladybird beetles have been in the frontline of the new techniques. The beetles, both in the adult and larvae stage of growth, prey on aphids, leafhoppers, mealybugs, mites, scales and whiteflies, which are known to devour cereals. A single ladybird consumes approximately 200 - 300 aphids over its lifetime of 1-3 months. Farmers have even begun growing wild sunflowers, with a higher pollen count than domesticated varieties, to attract the Ladybirds.
Rove beetles, another of the new friends, eat all stages of a wide range of insects in the soil or in the foliage, including bean flies, cutworms, scale insects and spider mites. Young larvae search the soil for cocoons of flies and after eating the pupa emerge sometime later as adults.
Last year, a unique parasitic wasp was even introduced into the country by the International Centre for Plant and Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Agricultural Ministry and Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) and has recorded impressive results in parts of Rift Valley where it was dispatched to tackle the notorious African fruit fly that feeds on mangoes and avocados.
Orchards that have introduced the wasp, such as Lakita Orchard in Naivasha, have delivered yields of around 10 tonnes a hectare compared with 4 tonnes a hectare when they were using synthetic pesticides.
Beating the fruit fly has been vital to export revenues. The proliferation of the fly on avocados led to an export ban to South Africa that was only recently lifted, and which cost Kenya Sh200m a year for 4 years, particularly hurting smallholders, which account for 85 per cent of Kenyan avocado exports.
Farmers in Busia county of Western Province have even moved from the bugs and parasites to courting bats as predators to fight moths and other insects. "Besides eating tons of insects they have also been feeding on cucumber beetles and even Stink bugs which damage our tomatoes," said Wekesa, a large scale farmer in Busia who claims bats are the most effective natural enemy of all because they form large colonies and have a huge appetite. One bat can feed on 2kgs of insects nightly, and they forage over large distances.
Scientists have also developed other natural enemies in the laboratories like the Diamond Black moth, which is very swift in feeding on the large grain borer that is catastrophic to both maize and woods. Scientists have been releasing them onto farms when there is an acute invasion of parasites in farms.
The moth provides swift pest control but does not harm the crops and allows for naturally grown food. "I strongly feel when we afford to control all pests without touching any chemicals will be when we say we have passed on a healthy chemical free future to our generation, and one way is embracing an agricultural system that imitates a natural system," said Dr Ladslas Ritwo, a scientist from the University of Nairobi College of Agriculture and a consistent crusader of organic pest control methods.
Written by Bob Koigi for African Laughter
Goat keepers are recording new cases of a goat disease traditionally confined to pastoralist areas, which is now spreading into other areas including Central and Eastern province, causing a slump in goat prices, by as much as 75 per cent, and prompting the building of a new vaccination facility.
The disease, scientifically known as Peste des petits ruminants (PPR), or plague of small ruminants, threatened to wipe out large swathes of livestock in North Eastern in 2006-2008, when 5 million animals predominantly goats and sheep were infected with 50 per cent of them dying.
The disease also threatened food security in these areas where the population is predominantly pastoralist and relies on livestock for food and income. Aggressive and concerted efforts between government and organisations such as The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) greatly reduced cases of new infection. But the gains are now being reversed due to pastoralist migrations with the spread being attributed to close contact between infected and the non infected small ruminants.
Areas in Laikipia and even Kieni in central Kenya have now recorded new cases of the disease, whose immediate symptoms include lassitude, fever, discharges from the eyes and nose, sores in the mouth, laboured breathing and diarrhoea. Farmers rearing the goats have already recorded sever business impacts, with the majority of their goats either dying or the farmers being forced to dispose of the goats at cheaper prices since buyers are wary of the disease.
Muthoki Kihekia, who has reared livestock for a decade in Laikipia, says he has always managed to sell his goats for Sh3000 to Sh4000 when they are in good health, but the goats are now selling for as little as Sh1000, a fact he attributes to buyers flight to safety. "No one wants to buy goats, because they hear that the outbreak of the PPR disease has never been fully been addressed. When we sell them due to lack of pasture, it's like we are disposing of them, because they attract a very low price," said Muthoki.
Victor Lomde, another seasoned herder from Turkana District has never recovered from the 2006 plague that claimed 300 of his goats in three months. He, however, made a resolve to have all the remaining livestock vaccinated.
"My veterinary surgeon has taught me a lot. This vaccine works wonders, it's like the vaccine they give children to prevent them from Polio. Once you have it, you are covered. There have been pockets of outbreaks since 2007, but I can comfortably say that I haven't recorded any deaths any more."
The disease, which typically claims the life of the infected ruminant within a month, can easily be contained through frequent disease prevention and control interventions. The PPR vaccine provides protection for about three years for small ruminants.
The spread of the disease, which until recently was considered to be a parochial disease of West Africa, has received international attention, with the FAO recently announcing that its member countries, Kenya included, had passed a resolution shifting the attention of the organisation from rinderpest, an equally notorious and fatal disease among cattle, to the goat disease, after declaring rinderpest eradicated globally.
This followed an announcement in May that the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) at its General Session had passed a resolution to the effect that all countries in the world had been formally accredited as free from rinderpest, which had previously been a huge menace to cattle.
As part of the call by FAO to member states to address the plague in their respective countries, the Kenyan government is working on building a KARI vaccine production centre, which will increase the capacity of producing the PPR vaccine with the hope of improving the flock immunity from currently less than 30 per cent to 70 per cent, and reduce annual losses related to the plague by at least 60 per cent by 2013.
Written by Bob Koigi for African Laughter
Kenyan and American scientists have opened renewed research to find an anti-tick vaccine to control East Coast Fever, which still kills thousands of the country's cattle, by stopping cattle from becoming carriers that pass the disease to uninfected ticks.
The research at the International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya (ILRI) is taking a two-pronged approach to eliminating the disease, which is not a contagious disease, but spread through a parasite that ticks pick up when they bite infected animals.
Farmers in many parts of Africa use a vaccination method against East Coast fever known as infect and treat, where they infect animals with live parasites and then treat them with drugs to help them recover.
This immunizes cattle against a full case of the deadly fever, but means that uninfected ticks that bite the vaccinated animal can still get infected, and spread the parasite on to other animals. The new research is now targeting better ways of killing the parasite itself, through vaccination.
"The development of combined vaccines conferring protection against pathogens transmitted and the respective vector may be a prerequisite for the success of vaccine development against protozoan pathogens, including Theileria parva, the causative agent of East Coast fever (ECF), an acute tick-borne disease causing high rates of morbidity and mortality in cattle in 12 countries in sub Saharan Africa," said ILRI, unveiling the new research.
"As the livelihood of small-holder farms, often managed by women, is dependent on one or two cattle, the financial burden due to loss of income and livestock products impacts on the quality of all aspects of family life," it added.
For these reasons, "ILRI is undertaking a research to analyse the transmission of piroplasms from T. parva infected cattle to uninfected nymphal ticks. T. parva is mainly transmitted by the brown-ear tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus."
"Additionally, we will attempt to isolate and characterise novel tick gut antigens of R. appendiculatus with the final goals of enhancing the performance of existing tick vaccines that are based on the BM86 antigen."
According to scientists, current vaccines also require cold storage, adding to their cost and making it difficult to use them in many areas of Africa.
For more than four years, American and Kenyan scientists have studied diseases carried by ticks. The work in the US centered on the parasite that causes Texas cattle fever, which is common to the Americas. But this year, the scientists began a new study in Africa aimed at developing a new vaccine for the East Coast fever parasite that does not require infecting and treating animals or the need for cold storage.
Written by Bob Koigi for African Laughter
However, research scientists at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Nairobi have now identified the feeding patterns of the flies through a process known as DNA barcoding
Catherine Muturi, a Master's student at Egerton University, used special traps developed at ICIPE, to catch tsetse flies in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, focusing on areas where humans and livestock are regularly exposed to the insects.
The trap is a kind of scarecrow that looks enough like a cow to trick the tsetse fly. Lured by the smell of cow's urine contained in a bottle, they flies are attracted by the blue cloth on either side of the trap. The black cloth in the middle invites the flies to settle. They then fall into the trap and die.
The flies were then dissected and blood meals were DNA barcoded to determine the sources. Initial barcode analysis of the blood meal showed that most tsetse flies fed from single sources.
Out of 13 engorged tsetse flies caught in the Nguruman area of Kenya, six had fed on African savanna elephants and five on warthogs, while one fly each had fed on an African buffalo and a baboon.
All 12 flies sampled in Busia had fed on cattle.
In the Serengeti ecosystem, wildlife like African buffalo, giraffe, warthog, African savanna elephant and spotted hyena were the "blood donors" to the tsetse flies.
"In Busia, where livestock are the more likely sources of blood, spraying cattle with a suitable insecticide can be an effective strategy," said Dr. Daniel Masiga, research scientist and Head of the Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics Unit at ICIPE. "However, in areas where wildlife species are the main source of blood for tsetse flies, trapping devices or insecticide treated targets are appropriate."
In the latter case, tsetse flies pick up a lethal dose of insecticide when they land on cloth treated with the chemical. Scientists at ICIPE have previously shown that certain chemicals, for example those found in bovine urine, attract tsetse flies.
"Knowing precisely what tsetse flies feed on helps us guide control efforts," says Masiga.
By Bob Koigi for African Laughter
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What action is not enough to correct the problems in America because the issues go far deeper -- who occupies Capitol Hill or the White House.
Economic social issues and religion are all intertwined but how.
He joins me now from Seattle welcome -- Thanks -- good to be with you let's -- to have you here you know you wrote this book along with.
Jay Robinson is that his name.
Yeah James Provost James Evans yes and as he's -- -- with your Catholic why is it important for you to do to this sort of you know combine your efforts to write this book.
Well it's funny because one of the things that we call for in this book -- the -- -- for people of faith actually come together.
We argued that he has a lot of concerns that are concerned to Protestants Catholics and Jews.
But we actually share a lot of the same fundamental principles and so we argue that -- -- -- -- -- -- to come together around those principles is also fighting over the things that.
We disagree with -- so it's funny because James and I have positive -- Catholic working together -- sort of illustrating what it is that we're calling for believers do in general.
May your say that -- the -- said there are well -- idea isn't destructive policies out there what are they.
Well certainly you know that tendency from what we -- progressive philosophy to just politicize everything so that.
Every responsibility ends up in the hands of the federal government James and I both believe.
The government has a proper role to play especially in defending us from danger and and -- in the rule of law.
-- -- don't think everything should be in the hands of the state we think -- lot of the things.
Dealing with of the poverty and underprivileged that ought to be properly -- part of church and of the private sector and so.
That's one of the things that we -- we really disagree with you also disagree.
I would go with some of the the social issues were debating right now like -- health and human services -- in which.
As fundamental issues of conscience -- -- believers and others.
Are now being overridden by a particular federal policy and so you frankly than the fact that evangelicals and Catholics have come together.
To to fight against his health and human services mandate in particular is an illustration I think of what can happen when people of faith come together around some common -- -- -- -- in an election -- sort of has.
This month drug that America is worse off than it's ever been before I mean is it really that bad or is it this is just sort of the election cycle Matra.
Well you're exactly right about that happens every four years of and we could sort of piece together some videos of people saying that.
I I do think this is an unusual year not just some sort of for political reasons but.
Everyone certainly everyone in Washington every staff member of congress understands the fiscal plight -- and and that with entitlement spending and -- -- budget where and I fundamentally unsustainable.
-- -- we're gonna have to do something drastic everyone knows that in Washington DC the problem is whether you're Republican or Democrat.
In congress there's no political incentive to actually speak the truth of the American people and so James are hoping.
With this book -- to took -- reveals some things that are that you people have to deal with in the budget so that.
Politicians can tell us the truth and will be rewarded for a rather than -- to develop.
-- thank you were talking about how religion economic socialist is they're all intertwined give me example how all of this trial of is intertwined you can't separate them from one another.
Absolutely and that's that this sort of point of the title indivisible.
One example would be child poverty and we think of childhood poverty as a key economic issue but what we discover is that the number one predictor of childhood poverty.
In the United States.
Is whether there's a father in the home -- -- and -- towards an economic issue childhood poverty is directly connected.
To an issue having to do what the -- from the fan when there's a lot of examples we give like that in the book.
And we actually argue that this idea that there should be sort of social issues and economic issues it's -- kind of artificial way of dividing up the world the dividing up the electorate pundits speak that way.
The when I'm talking to people you know and an ordinary settings in churches in colleges most people don't think of themselves is just social conservatives are economic conservatives they tend to -- these.
Ideas together and that's what we try to do in the book is to say why these issues have to go together.
You know you also write about eight -- Christians believe about the free market one of those eight minutes.
Well -- much on one would be if somebody gets read somebody else has to get more of you often hear this that you know somebody's got more than their fair share of the pie.
That's a really insidious myth because it misses the fact that people create wealth so.
It was the late Steve Jobs for instance he didn't steal ipads and iphones from homeless people he.
Was part of -- process that created those things he created wealth.
That wasn't there before both for himself and for others and so somebody you get fabulously wealthy in a market economy -- like taking wealth from someone else would like creating an and that's a really important.
Back to want to keep in mind we're thinking about questions like equality and fairness and social justice it's not just a matter slicing up a finite pie.
When in -- you can actually make the pie girl bigger and slice it up differently that's that's a really important thing people fail to remember.
-- also and another -- it's another important thing that it just because.
People on.
You know are wealthy that doesn't mean they're -- I think that's a really -- point to make the same time how do you guard against the people who do.
Do you know immoral things things are not ethical even in a free market.
Well it's important realize that a real free market only -- where you have the rule loss of the free market -- -- -- anarchy -- the law of the jungle where there.
The powerful just steal from them from the week.
-- -- free market with the rule while we can't steal from each other killer -- each other and so when we do things even if it's a business person next -- In order to really make a profit succeed as of as many probably -- to provide something that people freely by.
When he defraud someone he's justly punished and so we have of course a handful of examples of corporations like Enron that did unscrupulous and immoral things what's funny is that the market over time it tends to judge those kind of companies.
Quite partially it is the companies that think of other customers of what they needed actually succeed in the long run.
You know what is really the most important thing of your of your ten principles.
-- right downtown principles that ought to guide our policy -- -- what's really the top.
Three of those.
We'll look at the very most important one -- -- the idea that -- every human individual has intrinsic value indignities in other words where you're from productive ever smarter -- dumber.
Young or old you have value your creature made the image of god and so that if you just stable recognize that by the second most important would be.
That marriage and family are fundamental social institutions are based on human nature we see them every culture and every religion and every time and place.
The institution a real of marriage exists and so we argued that a limited government.
Rather than trying to redefine what marriage is actually should recognize the -- political.
Reality of marriage and its laws and its institutions.
May finally economic truth is that when we're free when we're free and protected by the rule of law.
Human beings can create wealth that wasn't there before that's really important economic point it's an interesting philosophical theological point to that we create wealth.
We were freeing -- transform the world around us.
You also humans and so as the role of social issues that have been -- hot button issues.
-- in the country today and you know.
The question is how do you get not get stuck on one of these issues let me just bring marriage for instance.
Here is that your marriage in the belly of the fundamental social institutions but -- we're fighting over how to define that.
So here you've got a situation wary even though it is.
This may be one of the issues surrounding why America it isn't strong you've got another issue driving -- which is how do you define it.
Well that's right and so I think that's why it's so important in this case.
That we say what is marriage does the word marriage actually referred to a reality that exist prior to society prior to the state.
Course it does it also is a conventional word that can we we can redefine we argue that.
Just like the individual who exists with his -- prior to government prior to -- social contracts -- institution of marriage because it exists everywhere in particular ways.
Pre exists any kind of social or legal system and so limiting government can't.
Redefine how we say what is it actually in the real world.
Throughout history and then we we sort of adjust our cultures and our laws and customs accordingly but it is a difficult.
Issue and we think James Robinson and -- are both Christians but we think you you need to make public arguments that are.
Accessible and available to people -- -- or not people of faith when you're talking about these issues and not just.
Simply -- outside a Bible verse or something like -- out which of course is not going to be significant someone who doesn't.
-- share of their conviction and you have the -- scriptures all the arguments in the book that we make.
We're we're we speak is certainly as Christians ourselves and try to articulate how we think.
-- Christians ought to think about this issue but we also present.
Public arguments the arguments from economics or from the natural law that we think should be persuasive to open minded people whatever faith -- -- -- They see your point is you know whether or not you believe it McChrystal standpoint it's got to be able to be translated into.
A language that can be presented in the -- public square.
Exactly I think it's very important maybe -- most important points in our book is that we -- -- people of faith.
Fail in this regard we had -- here in Seattle where I am in the recent debate on marriages that many people of faith felt like getting involved in the debate.
That -- -- -- -- translate their views into something that would be accessible to people that didn't -- there.
Religious faith and of course that the people faith -- through argued against the redefinition of marriage.
It's state of Washington ended up losing I think in part because we don't necessarily know how to translate these things well for a fellow Americans -- -- whom we disagree.
Well I thank you very much.
Family and freedom before it is too late I want to thank you so much I'm more being on a spirited debate on foxnews.com life.
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