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The Reynolds Gallery showcases the independent projects of 16 talented ������Ƶ seniors at an art exhibit Thursday, April 12, through Saturday, May 5. There will be an opening reception and awards presentation for the Senior Art Major Show Thursday, April 12, from 4-6 p.m. The reception and exhibit are free and open to the public.

Cultural Struggles of Britain's South Asian Immigrants

Internationally recognized speaker Thema Bryant-Davis will explore the many influences affecting recovery from traumatic experiences in “The Cultural Context of Trauma Recovery” Friday, April 13, at 3:30 p.m. in ������Ƶ’s Hieronymus Lounge. Refreshments will be served prior to the free lecture.The talk will examine traumatic experiences including child abuse, sexual assault, intimate partner violence, medical trauma, war, community violence, and school traumas. Dr.

Seventeen ������Ƶ students spent their spring break in Mississippi and Alabama engaging and responding to issues relating to racism and social justice.

The Racial Equality and Justice (REJ) group worked with the John M. Perkins Foundation in Jackson, Miss., which purchases and renovates houses and makes them available to single mothers and Katrina survivors. The students painted, cleaned and completed other renovations to several homes.

Ensenada Mayor César Mancillas and his wife, Beatriz, presented ������Ƶ with the key to the city during last week’s 30th annual student-led spring break service trip there. The city-wide celebration of Potter’s Clay included flamenco dancers and a large dinner.

Members of the music faculty at ������Ƶ will present a free recital featuring music from Buxtehude to Debussy on Tuesday, March 20, at 8 p.m. at ������Ƶ’s Porter Theatre.

Voiceless Communication Wins at Entrepreneurial Forum

A student venture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign won top honors at the Fourth Annual Spirit of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (S.E.E.D.) Collegiate Venture Forum at the Andalucia Hotel March 2-3. A panel of experienced judges chose Ambient Corporation as Best Emerging Venture Investment Opportunity for the biotechnology firm’s development of a new form of voiceless communication.

More than 220 ������Ƶ students and three dozen community volunteers are spending their spring break building homes, running medical/dental clinics, competing with local sports teams and leading vacation Bible schools. This is the 30th year for Potter’s Clay, the student-organized service trip to Ensenada, Mexico. The week-long trip begins Friday, March 9, and the volunteers return Friday, March 16.

Nine student ventures from across the country will take part in the Fourth Annual Spirit of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (S.E.E.D.) Collegiate Venture Forum at the Andalucia Hotel March 2-3. The opening luncheon, Friday, March 2, at 11:30 a.m., features keynote speaker Dr. Yulun Wang, founder and CEO of InTouch Health. Tickets are $50, and reservations are required.

������Ƶ student musicians will perform two concerts in March. The first is an Instrumental Chamber Concert March 2 at 8 p.m. in ������Ƶ’s Deane Chapel. Chamber musicians will also present a recital featuring vocal and instrumental chamber groups March 6 at 8 p.m. in Porter Theatre. The concerts are free and open to the public.

Eighth President Wins Unanimous Support from Trustees

The ������Ƶ Board of Trustees named Gayle D. Beebe as the college’s eighth president. Beebe has served as president of in Michigan for the past seven years and will take over the Montecito college at the beginning of the next academic year, July 1, 2007.

Jeff Schloss, professor of biology at ������Ƶ, will discuss “Evolutionary Theory, Biblical Faith, and the Mystery of Altruism,” in a Phi Kappa Phi lecture, Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. in Hieronymus Lounge.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Schloss explores whether the New Testament’s command to selflessly love one another is biologically possible under evolution’s survival of the fittest.

������Ƶ is putting a new spin on a classic Greek comedy in hopes of staging an entertaining play with a moral edge. John Blondell, ������Ƶ professor of theatre arts, directs the 14-student cast performing “The Clouds,” by Aristophanes, Feb. 23-24 and March 1-3, all at 8 p.m. in ������Ƶ's Porter Theater. There will also be a performance at 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 3. Admission is $15; $7 for students.

The ������Ƶ Chamber Orchestra in partnership with the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra will perform in the opening event of the Santa Barbara International Guitar Festival, Friday, Feb. 9, at 8 p.m. in Victoria Hall Theatre.

A second performance will be held at El Montecito Presbyterian Church, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 for general admission; students are free.

The performance by ������Ƶ’s 40-member orchestra will include a cameo appearance by the 50-member College Choir, along with guest faculty soloist Patrick Anderson on guitar.

Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author James Ault will show his latest film and lecture on “Toward a New Christianity: The Rise of African Christianity and Its World Significance,” Thursday, Feb. 8, at 3:30 p.m., in Founders Dining Room at ������Ƶ.

Four Santa Barbara college professors will participate in a panel discussion on Thomas Friedman’s book, “The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century,” as part of ������Ƶ Downtown: Conversations About Things that Matter. The event is free and open to the public, Thursday, Feb. 15, at the University Club, 1332 Santa Barbara St., at 5:30 p.m. Seating is limited.

A day of events at ������Ƶ, Wednesday, Feb. 7, will focus on ending slavery and human trafficking. ������Ƶ alum David Batstone, University of San Francisco professor of ethics, will speak in chapel at 10:30 a.m.

  The ������Ƶ welcomed two new members to the board who are both parents of ������Ƶ graduates. Peter Thorrington and Bruce Bickel join 29 other members who oversee the operation of the college.

The ������Ƶ theatre arts department’s popular student production, “The Car Play Project,” which had an overwhelmingly successful run in November and December, will be pulling into downtown Santa Barbara, Thursday, Feb. 1, at 6 p.m., in the plaza directly behind the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. The production is free, though seating is expected to be limited.

The ������Ƶ Choir will perform the 1970s rock musical “Godspell,” Friday, Feb. 2, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 3, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Montecito Covenant Church.

The show is co-directed by alumna Sharon Williams and student Jessica Weber. The cast includes 10 students and two recent ������Ƶ alumni.

������Ƶ Brings One-Woman Play on Apartheid to Santa Barbara

A deeply personal story about apartheid in South Africa in the early 1960s comes to the stage in Santa Barbara next month. performs “The Syringa Tree” at the , Friday, Feb. 16, at 8 p.m.

Thomas L. Friedman, one of the world’s most highly respected commentators on international affairs, will speak at ������Ƶ’s second annual President’s Breakfast, Wednesday, Feb. 28. He will discuss “The World is Flat: Speaking on the Next Phase of Globalization,” at 7 a.m. in the Grand Ballroom at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort. Tickets went on sale Friday, Jan. 26, and sold out in three hours.

A public poetry reading in the Los Padres National Forest will honor the life and work of William Stafford, former U.S. poet laureate. The gathering will be Saturday, Jan. 27, at 2 p.m. in the First Crossing Day Use Area on Paradise Road off of Highway 154 in Santa Barbara County.

One of California’s premier figurative realist painters and draftsman will exhibit his work at ������Ƶ’s Reynolds Gallery this spring. Harry Carmean will show his figurative drawings, Thursday, Jan. 18, through March 9. An opening reception with Carmean will be held Thursday, Jan. 18, at 4 p.m. at the gallery.

An assistant professor of philosophy from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., will come to Westmont to talk about how cultural myths of female and male eating relate in important ways to how men and women generally react to desire. Christina Van Dyke’s lecture “‘I’ll Have a Salad and Diet Coke’: Eating as a Gendered Act,” will be at Kerrwood Hall in Hieronymus Lounge, Friday, Jan. 12, at 3:30 p.m. The free talk is open to the public.

The ������Ƶ Board of Trustees has elected Steve Stong as its new chair, replacing David Eaton who has completed his six-year term. Denise Adams has been elected vice chair, filling the vacancy left by Stong.

The board of trustees oversees the operation of the college.

Students attending ������Ƶ’s San Francisco Urban Program will now enjoy a new kitchen facility.
The Clunie House, ������Ƶ’s historic Victorian campus at the corner of Lyon and Fell streets, has completed a major culinary renovation.

Randall VanderMey, ������Ƶ professor of English, will read from his latest book, “Charm School: Five Women of the Odyssey,” at a poetry reading Sunday, Dec. 17, at Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 West Anapamu St., at 2:30 p.m.

More than two dozen entrepreneurial students have put their innovative business ideas to the test in hopes of competing in the 17th annual ������Ƶ Collegiate Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition, Thursday, Dec. 7, at 4:45 p.m. in Kerrwood Hall’s Hieronymus Lounge. The competition is free and open to the public.

������Ƶ’s theatre arts department continues to push the boundaries of theatrical space with “The Car Play Project,” Thursday, Nov. 30, through Saturday, Dec. 2, at 7 p.m. at Hubbard Hall parking lot. About 40 students will perform 16 original plays simultaneously inside 16 parked vehicles. Each play is less than 12 minutes and the entire show will last two hours.

Hundreds of students, alumni, and neighbors will don mittens and scarves to celebrate Christmas season at the fifth annual Christmas Tree Lighting on ������Ƶ’s Kerrwood Lawn, Wednesday, Dec. 6. The lights on the 150-foot redwood tree will aglow at 5 p.m.

Santa Claus will be inside Kerrwood Hall to pose for free pictures with children. Warm apple cider and cookies will also be available.

, professor of , will serve as ������Ƶ’s interim academic dean, filling a vacancy left by .

Don’t plan on sitting down and watching an ordinary recital for ������Ƶ’s next dance performance. In fact, most people at “Danceworks” won’t be sitting at all.

The ������Ƶ Windancers will perform “Danceworks” Friday, Nov. 17, and Saturday, Nov. 18, in at 8 p.m.

One of the leading experts in the fields of mission history, the history of world Christianity and mission theology will speak at ������Ƶ. Dana Robert, co-director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University, will present “Global Christianity: Issues for North Americans in the 21st Century” at a free public lecture, Thursday, Nov. 9, at 3:30 p.m., in Hieronymus Lounge. She will also speak in chapel, Friday, Nov. 10, at 10:30 a.m.

A ������Ƶ-sponsored lecture will explore the complex issue of immigration in the United States, Thursday, Nov. 9, at University Club, 1332 Santa Barbara Street, at 5:30 p.m. The ������Ƶ Downtown lecture, “Immigration and the American Experience,” will feature Dave Lawrence, professor of political science, Rick Pointer, professor of history, and Diana Villanueva-Hoeckley, a ������Ƶ student with a unique immigration story.

An anonymous donor has given $75 million to Westmont, the second largest gift ever for a national liberal arts college. ������Ƶ Chancellor David K. Winter announced the gift on Friday, Oct. 27.

There will be representatives from at least three dozen graduate programs taking part in this year’s ������Ƶ Graduate School Fair. The fair will be held Friday, Nov. 3, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., on the Magnolia Lawn. It is free and open to the public.

Representatives from around the country will speak to students and alumni about what their programs have to offer.

Joyce Luy, ������Ƶ’s dean of admission, says that between 75 and 80 percent of ������Ƶ students attend graduate school at some point in their life.

The ������Ƶ Chamber Orchestra will celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth at two concerts, Friday, Nov. 3 in Abravanel Hall at the Music Academy of the West, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 5 at First Presbyterian Church, 21 East Constance, at 7 p.m. General admission is $5, students are free.

A widely-published author and winner of two National Jewish Book Awards will speak as part of the annual ������Ƶ-UC Santa Barbara Hebrew Bible Lecture. Michael Fishbane, Nathan Cummings professor of Jewish studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School, will speak on “The Ideals of Torah and Torah-study in the Psalms,” Thursday, Nov. 2, in Hieronymus Lounge, at 7 p.m.

Eighteen nationally and internationally known artists will display custom-made teapots, cups and other unique ceramic works Thursday, Nov. 2, through Dec. 15. in ������Ƶ’s Reynolds Gallery. There will be an opening discussion and reception for “Form and Function: A Ceramics Invitational,” Thursday, Nov. 2, at 4 p.m.

Singers from eight high schools will join ������Ƶ’s men’s and women’s chorales, chamber singers and college choir for the Fall Choral Festival Concert, Friday, Oct. 27, at the Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 East Cota Street, at 7 p.m. The concert is free, but seating is limited.

The American Double, a violin-piano ensemble, will perform a unique concert featuring all of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom’s works for violin and piano. “The Bolcom Project” will be performed as part of the Kerrytown Concert House Classical Series, Sunday, Oct. 22, at 4 p.m. at the concert house, 415 North Fourth Avenue in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Andrea Gurney knew she wanted to become a psychologist when she was 13 years old. When Gurney’s parents separated, she moved with her mother and sister from New York to Arizona. She remembers going to a family therapist at that time and how it helped provide stability and helped the family to openly communicate with one another.

A day of events at ������Ƶ this month will celebrate Mark Nelson, new Dr. Kenneth and Peggy Monroe professor of philosophy. The endowed chair was created by former ������Ƶ professor Kenneth Monroe, who died in 1987, and his wife, Peggy, who died in February 2004.

Nelson started teaching at ������Ƶ this fall, after spending his last 12 years teaching at the , one of the largest universities in the United Kingdom.