Saturday, February 2, 2013
Baseball
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- Time: 7:00 PM
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Baseball
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- Time: 10:00 PM
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Southern Comfort Food with Vegheads
Join Vegheads for Southern comfort food!
Join the Vegheads for our first dinner of the spring semester! Following on the tails of last week's fascinating lecture by Byron Hurt on the sociocultural ties and health implications of soul food, Vegheads will be doing our own take on Southern comfort food! Our menu includes: sweet tea, veggie gumbo, dirty rice, cornbread, collard greens, and sweet potato pie!
Join us for dinner at 7 p.m. with $7 cash, or help cook or clean and pay just $5! For those who'd like to help cook, we'll start around 5 o'clock. Please RSVP!
Check out what we're cooking up: oxyvegclub.blogspot.com
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Sunday, February 3, 2013
Men's Basketball
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- Time: 3:00 AM
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Baseball
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- Time: 7:00 PM
Sunday, February 3, 2013
New Play Festival Callbacks
Auditions are open to any Oxy student. Information on all auditions can be found at http://www.oxy.edu/theater/
Sunday, February 3, 2013 - Monday, February 4, 2013
Super Bowl Bash!
Join the OSL to watch the Super Bowl with the hottest food and the biggest screen on Campus!
Monday, February 4, 2013
Ama Baafra Abeberese on Electricity Cost and Firm Performance in India
The Economics Department invites the college community to attend a talk by Economics Search Candidate Ama Baafra Abeberese from Colombia University. The talk is entitled "Electricity Cost and Firm Performance: Evidence from India."
Despite the widely acknowledged importance of infrastructure for economic growth, there has been relatively little research on how infrastructure affects the decisions of firms. Using data on Indian manufacturing firms, this paper provides evidence on how electricity prices affect a firm's industry choice and productivity growth. I construct an instrument for electricity price as the interaction between the price of coal paid by power utilities, which is arguably exogenous to firm characteristics, and the initial share of thermal generation in a state's total electricity generation capacity. I find that, in response to an exogenous increase in electricity price, firms reduce their electricity consumption and switch to industries with less electricity-intensive production processes. I also find that firm output, machine intensity and labor productivity decline with an increase in electricity price. In addition to these level effects, I show that firm output and productivity growth rates are negatively affected by high electricity prices. These results suggest that electricity constraints faced by firms may limit a country's growth by leading firms to operate in industries with fewer productivity-enhancing opportunities.
Monday, February 4, 2013
Jill Schneiderman - "Think Fast, Live Slow"
The Occidental College Core Program Presents the Fourth 2012-2013 CSP Lecture Series Speaker Jill Schneiderman and her talk "Think Fast, Live Slow."
What does it mean to live compassionately on Earth during what geologists are now calling the Anthropocene? After some introduction to geoscientific perspectives on time, Schneiderman will consider definitions of violence offered by peace studies scholar Johan Galtung and environmental writer Rob Nixon. She will explore the implications of both the concepts of time and violence for how human beings individually and collectively might eke out a just and sustainable future on Earth. Reflections on the writings of Jesuit paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, "geologian" Thomas Berry, and Rabbi Art Green provide inspiration.
Jill S. Schneiderman is Professor of Earth Sciences at Vassar College. Her interests include environmental issues, feminism, and the history of science. She is editor of and contributor to For the Rock Record: Geologists on Intelligent Design (University of California Press, 2009) and The Earth Around Us: Maintaining a Livable Planet (Westivew Press, 2003).