Sunday, November 11, 2012
Men's Water Polo
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- Time: 8:00 AM
Sunday, November 11, 2012 - Monday, November 12, 2012
translation by Jon Laskin
and Michael Aquilante
directed by Jamie Angell
November 8-10 at 7:30pm
November 11 at 2:00pm
A suspect in a bombing has mysteriously fallen from a fourth floor window. What follows in Nobel Laureate Dario Fo’s brilliant farce includes government corruption, police brutality, transcripts of the trial, impersonation of a judge, and an investigative journalist - all in this hysterical and biting commentary on the nature of justice and human behavior.
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Monday, November 12, 2012
Core Distinguished Speaker Series Presents Jesus Trevino '68
The Occidental College Core Program Announces the 3rd CSP Lecture Series Distinguished Visitor Jesus Trevino.
Jesus Trevino (Oxy '68) is an award-winning writer and director whose television directing credits include Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Bones, NYPD Blue, ER, The Practice, Chicago Hope, among many others. Mr. Revino began his career in film and television as a student activist documenting the 1960s Chicano cibil rights struggle with a super-8 camera. Throughout the late '60s and early '70s he was both a participant and a chronicler of the events and issues of the day.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Celebration of Life for Bill Tingley
Please join us for a campus celebration of the life of Bill Tingley, Oxy's former vice president for admission and financial aid, who had such a lasting impact on Occidental. A reception will immediately follow the program.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Lecture and Presentation of "The Brick People" - Alejandro Morales
Lecture and presentation of "The Brick People", a novel and documentary by Alejandro Morales.
The Brick People is a historical novel that traces the growth of California from the nineteenth to the twentieth century by following the development of the Simons Brick Factory. The bricks that laid the foundation of modern California were manufactured by the people that ventured froM Central Mexico to stoke the furnaces of industry. With an attention to historical reality blended with myth and legend, Morales recounts the epic struggle of a people who forge their destiny, along with California's. The Brick People provides a portrayal of the history of California and those who built it.
Alejandro Morales is currently a professor of Spanish and Chikan@/Latin@ Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and has published many novels in Spanish and English.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
"Berkeley in the 60's" Film Showing
Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature.
Six years in the making and with a cast of thousands, Berkeley in the Sixties recaptures the exhilaration and turmoil of the unprecedented student protests that shaped a generation and changed the course of America. Many consider it to be the best filmic treatment of the 1960s yet made.
This Academy Award-nominated documentary interweaves the memories of 15 former student leaders, who grapple with the meaning of their actions. Their recollections are interwoven with footage culled from thousands of historical clips and hundreds of interviews. Ronald Reagan, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mario Savio, Huey Newton, Allen Ginsburt, and the music of Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez and the Grateful Dead all bring that tumultuous decade back to life.
Any questions, please contact Peter Dreier at dreier@oxy.edu or Sylvia Chico at schico@oxy.edu.