CMC Currents: Claremont McKenna College's E-Newsletter / February 07, 2013

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With sensuality, humor, sprung rhythm and remarkable imagery, T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner Sharon Olds expresses truths about domestic and political violence, sexuality, family relationships, love and the body. Olds is the author of eight volumes of poetry. Michael Ondaatje calls her writing "pure fire in the hands," and David Leavitt, in the Voice Literary Supplement, describes her work as "remarkable for its candor, its eroticism, and its power to move." Her work is often built out of intimate details concerning her children, her fraught relationship with her parents and, most controversially, her sex life. Olds will visit the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum for a dinner lecture and reading on Monday, Feb. 11, sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies. The public portion of the program begins at 6:45 p.m., with free seating on a first-come basis. It was Olds' recent collection, Stag's Leap: Poems (September 2012, Knopf) that won her the T.S. Eliot Prize in a year that saw 131 submissions. She is also the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle award for The Dead and the Living (1984), which has sold more than 50,000 copies, ranking it as one of contemporary poetry's best-selling volumes.

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FEI Networking Trip to the Big Apple Sets Record
Ten is the number of times CMCers have spent winter break in New York City, meeting with some of the College's largest figures in finance––including Trustees Henry R. Kravis '67 and Douglas Peterson '80 P'14 P'15. It's also the number of venues visited over the record-breaking, three-day trip, sponsored annually by the Financial Economics Institute. Seniors Viken Douzdjian and Rachel Kitzmiller lay it all out for us.

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'Battle Hymn of a Freedman': Jazz Venue Rocks the Ath
Last Wednesday, the Athenaeum played host to a group of renowned jazz musicians celebrating the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The musical was a truncated version of 1976 alumnus C. Anthony Bush's gospel/jazz musical, "Battle Hymn of a Freedman: African-American Soldiers in the Civil War." The evening also included narrator Samuel Reece '74, and Grammy award-winning tenor saxophonist David Murray.

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Get on the Bus: Winter 2013 CMC Magazine Online
The Honor Roll edition of the College's magazine features Living on One founders Zach Ingrasci, Chris Temple, and Hannah Gregg––all of whom graduated last spring. Their recent bus tour across the United States to promote effective microfinance to end poverty is an example of a rising interest among CMCers in social entrepreneurship. You can read about others (in the password-protected version of the magazine) who also have launched socially minded businesses––from cricket protein bars to custom T-shirts.

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Men's Water Polo Coach Lonzo Named Coach of the Year; Four Stags Selected as All-Americans
After leading the men's water polo team to the 2012 SCIAC Tournament Championship, head coach Greg Lonzo has been named Division III Coach of the Year by the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) for the 2012 season. In addition, four Stags were selected to the Division III All-America team by the ACWPC.

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2013 Claremont Finance Conference Set for Feb. 23 CMC, with Pomona and Scripps colleges, has organized a day-long discussion with alumni speakers and professors on the topics of financial product innovation and the regulatory environment, investing, corporate strategy and entrepreneurship, and the new state of the financial services industry. The conference is co-sponsored by the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, and the Financial Economics Institute. Register now online. Full Story Visiting Professor Pens Op-Ed on Hagel Appointment Ilai Saltzman, the Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, published an op-ed in the Feb. 4 online issue of The Jerusalem Post. Saltzman's piece comments on the appointment of former senator and Vietnam War veteran Chuck Hagel to the position of secretary of defense. "More than anything else," writes Saltzman, "Hagel's appointment is designed to address the domestic concerns of the Obama administration during its second term in office." Full Story Brittan Sutphin '14 raises awareness of a dangerous condition Sudden cardiac arrests can happen to anyone, even a young, healthy athlete like Sutphin, who experienced an SCA as a high school swimmer. That near-death experience has inspired her study at CMC and her volunteer work with a number of organizations, including those that she has founded. Recently, she was honored at a Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome conference in Salt Lake City with a Hero of Young Hearts Award. Full Story		Spring Sports Season: Here and Now The days are getting longer and warmer, signaling the start of spring sports. While the winter teams head down the home stretch for their respective seasons, the spring schedule brings baseball, softball, women's water polo, men's golf and women's lacrosse, closely followed in the next couple of weeks by women's golf, men's and women's tennis, as well as track and field. For the spring sports currently under way, visit our spring 2013 season preview page for the scoop on your favorite team's upcoming season. Full Story Myth and Marriage in Jamaica Kincaid's latest In her new novel See Now Then, Jamaica Kincaid takes a lyrical, myth-infused approach as she tells the story of a failed marriage in a quaint New England village. Josephine Olp Weeks Chair and professor of literature, Kincaid is receiving wide attention and acclaim from a variety of media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time magazine, KCRW's "Bookworm," and NPR.org. Full Story "One Goal" Captures Hockey Team's Drive to Become Champions Award-winning photojournalist Allison Davis O'Keefe '00 recently introduced a stunning book of black-and-white images capturing the University of North Dakota hockey team's final season playing under the nickname the "Fighting Sioux." O'Keefe worked for CBS News and was part of an Emmy-winning team covering the 9/11 terrorist attacks. O'Keefe, who will be on campus in March as a guest of the Gould Center, was happy to sit for a Q&A about her new book, One Goal, including its joys and challenges. Full Story


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