Wednesday, November 14, 2012
CALPIRG Info Session and On-Campus Interviews
CALPIRG is a consumer group that stands up to powerful interests whenever they threaten our health and safety, our financial security or our right to fully participate in our democratic society.
They're joining us on campus for an info-session on November 14th and will be recruiting for their full-time Campus Organizer opportunity on the 15th. Apply to their position on TIGERlink (job #7030) for the chance to interview.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Curve Fitting!
Gordon Belot
Professor of Philosophy
University of Michigan
Some philosophers maintain that rational disagreement is impossible: that two people faced with exactly the same evidence should have exactly the same beliefs. We will consider some arguments that have been given in support of this view These are variations on the following thought: if there can be different rational responses to the same body of evidence, then two jurors could reach opposite views about the guilt of a defendant without either being irrational---but then why should I vote to find the defendant guilty if I recognize that it would also be rational to find the defendant innocent?
We will also consider an objection to this approach. If there is a unique rational response to each body of evidence, then there must exist an optimal inductive method. But one can show that there can be no optimal methods for certain problems that provide idealized models of scientific inquiry. Finally, we will evaluate the damage done by this objection.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
"Paul Goodman Changed My Life" Film Showing
Paul Goodman was once so ubiquitous in the American zeitgeist that he merited a cameo in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Author of legendary bestseller Growing Up Absurd (1960), Goodman was also a poet, 1940s out queer (and family man), pacifist, visionary, co-founder of Gestalt therapy—and a moral compass for many in the burgeoning counterculture of the ’60s.
Paul Goodman Changed My Life immerses you in an era of high intellect (that heady, cocktail-glass juncture that Mad Men has so effectively exploited) when New York was peaking culturally and artistically; when ideas, and the people who propounded them, seemed to punch in at a higher weight class than they do now. Using a treasure trove of archival multimedia—selections from Goodman’s poetry (read by Garrison Keillor and Edmund White); quotes from Susan Sontag, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Noam Chomsky; plentiful footage of Goodman himself; plus interviews with his family, peers and activists—director/producer Jonathan Lee and producer/editor Kimberly Reed (Prodigal Sons) have woven together a rich portrait of an intellectual heavyweight whose ideas are long overdue for rediscovery.
“Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.”
–Grace Paley
“There has not been such a convincing, genuine, singular voice in our language since D. H. Lawrence.
Paul Goodman’s voice touched everything he wrote about with intensity, interest, and his own terribly appealing sureness and awkwardness.”
–Susan Sontag
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Study Skills
Is stress getting the best of you? Are you falling behind on all the work you have to do? Are you prone to avoiding your work?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions... and would like to learn helpful tips on:
· decreasing stress
· managing time
· learning the most effective way to avoid procrastination
You're invited to "Walk-In Hours" to practice new study skills.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Peace Now Speaker
Join JStreet U Occidental for a presentation by Hagit Ofran, Israel's widely acknowledged foremost expert on West Bank and East Jerusalem settlements.
Her position as the director of Peace Now's Settlement Watch project presents her with the responsibility of monitoring, scrutinizing, and analyzing Israeli construction and planning of settlements in the West Bank.
She will be speaking to us about her daily visits to the occupied areas and the upcoming Israeli elections. This event is coming at a crucial moment in Israel's history as settlement planning continues and new leadership is selected.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Faces & Places: Samuelson Alumni Center Open House
Come to this afternoon break!
The new Samuelson Alumni Center will stand as the symbol of the important role Oxy alumni have in the life of the College. This long anticipated building, site of the former Fiji House, will be a place for small alumni gatherings as well as a meeting place for faculty and students. Situated at the main entrance to campus on the corner of Alumni Avenue and Campus Road, the building is an homage to architect Myron Hunt, architect of Oxy's original core campus buildings. The Mediterranean-style building will house the Office of Alumni Relations as well as guest suites for visiting alumni and distinguished campus visitors.
Refreshments will be served.
Friday, November 16, 2012
"Cuban Reform and Prospects for US-Cuban Relations"
"Cuban Reform and Prospects for US-Cuban Relations"