Oxy in the News

Dec. 11, 2006

  • Kyle Sweeney '00's appointment as head football coach at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois was reported in the Dec. 7 Springfield (Ill.) State Journal-Register.
     
  • Peter Dreier, Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, was quoted in Steve Lopez's Dec. 6 Los Angeles Times column about developer Geoff Palmer's unwillingness to build low-income rentals.
    Dreier also is quoted in a profile of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in the December issue of Los Angeles magazine. He wrote a Nov. 27 Los Angeles Business Journal op-ed piece commenting on the passage of a Proposition 1C, a $2.9 billion statewide housing bond, and co-authored a Nov. 10 column in American Prospect about the success of minimum wage initiatives in six states.
     
  • Mary Stephens '62's retirement as Yolo County Librarian after 37 years of distinguished service was reported in the Dec. 4 Davis Enterprise. 
     
  • Mesh Flinders '03, co-creator of the lonelygirl15 Internet phenomenon, was the subject of a lengthy story in the December issue of Wired magazine. 
     
  • Eric Sternlicht, adjunct assistant professor of kinesiology, was quoted in a December Men's Fitness article about sugar. 
     
  • Oxy head baseball coach Elliott Strankman's selection as manager of the Green Bay (Wisc.) Bullfrogs in the Northwoods League was reported in the Dec. 1 Green Bay Press-Gazette. The NWL is a summer league for college players. 
     
  • A staff-written obituary for attorney Richard Beswick '62 ran in the Nov. 27 Redlands Daily Facts. 
     
  • A short story titled "Mercy" by Desiree Zamorano, director of Oxy's Community Literacy Center, ran in the Nov. 19 issue of West, the Los Angeles Times' Sunday magazine. She also was featured in the Nov. 27 edition of La Bloga, a blog focusing on Chicano literature, writers and fiction.
     
  • The Occidental football team's 27-23 playoff loss to No. 8-ranked Whitworth College on Nov. 18 was reported in the following day's Spokane, Wash., Spokesman Review. The team's previous success was the subject of stories in the Nov. 4, Nov. 11 and Nov. 13 editions of the Pasadena Star-News. Los Angeles Times sports columnist T.J. Simers paid tribute to Oxy's 26-game regular-season win streak in his Nov. 5 column: "Twenty-four more wins in a row for USC and they catch Oxy."
     
  • A feature story on Daniel Tromello '09 and his brother Mike '05 ran in the Oct. 26 Ventura County Star. Daniel is a free safety with the Oxy football team, while Mike is a former Tiger linebacker now in his second season as assistant coach with the team.
     
  • The 22nd-ranked men's cross country team's trip to the national championship meet - its first since 1995 - was reported in the Nov. 14 Pasadena Star-News. The article mentioned juniors Kevin Chaves and Alex Ramon, who finished in third and sixth place, respectively, in the NCAA West Regional Meet.
     
  • The Occidental men's basketball team's 85-39 loss to Division I Utah State was reported in the Nov. 8 Logan (Utah) Herald Journal.
     
  • Dr. Jack Griffith '64, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Medicine, was the subject of a Nov. 14 UNC press release. Griffith received the Great Gold Medal of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, for his work in the field of biochemistry and molecular biology of DNA-protein interactions. 
     
  • Carlos Mateo Paz-Soldan '89's appointment to the board of advisors for the Latin America Advisor - a daily publication of the Inter-American Dialogue - was highlighted in a Nov. 13 press release issued by Sal Ewing LLP, a Washington, D.C., law firm where Paz-Soldan is employed.
     
  • Charles "C.J." Robertson '10 was mentioned in a Nov. 12 Portland Oregonian feature story about his father, Joe Robertson, president of Oregon Health & Science University.
     
  • The death of former Nevada state Controller Kathy Augustine '77, which is being investigated as first-degree murder by her husband, was the subject of a story in the Nov. 12 Los Angeles Times.
     
  • Karen Gould '70's selection as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Cal State Long Beach was reported in the Nov. 9 Long Beach Press-Telegram.
     
  • Frosh Kevin Paiz-Ramirez's selection as a Gates Millennium Scholar was featured on the Albuquerque (N.M.) Public School District website. 
     
  • The Pasadena Playhouse production of "Sister Act: The Musical," based on the book by Cheri Steinkellner '77 and her husband, Bill, received widespread media coverage. A Nov. 8 Pasadena Star-News review called it "a divine winner,"  while a Nov. 6 Los Angeles Times piece said the musical "has Broadway blockbuster written all over it."  A lengthy Nov. 5 Times story considered the challenges of reworking a hit film for the stage.
     
  • Oxy Trustee J. Eugene Grigsby '66 was quoted in a Nov. 7 Los Angeles Times story about the intersection of race, politics and medical care and how it relates to the operation of the Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center in South Los Angeles. Grigsby heads the National Health Foundation.
     
  • Xiao-huang Yin, professor and chairman of American studies, wrote a column for the Nov. 6 Philadelphia Inquirer that addressed China's unprecedented store of foreign currency.
     
  • Occidental's participation in the Los Angeles Archives Bazaar at the Huntington Library was mentioned in a Nov. 5 Los Angeles Times story. The bazaar showcased exhibits from 30 universities, libraries, museums, and other groups. 
     
  • Ventura City Manager Rick Cole '78 was named a 2006 Public Official of the Year in the November issue of Governing magazine. 
     
  • Rebecca (Murphy) Jones '91 wrote a guest column for the Oct. 30 Baltimore Sun that explored the affordable housing crisis in the city.
     
  • The Rev. Noriaki Ito '71 was profiled in the Oct. 28 issue of the Los Angeles-based Rafu Shimpo newspaper. Noriaki was honored by the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple for 30 years of service to various Los Angeles-area communities.
     
  • A story on Dennis Hayashi '74, a candidate for judge in the Alameda County Superior Court, ran in the Oct. 25 issue of San Francisco's Hokubei Mainichi newspaper.
     
  • A photo of Miko Quisumbing '07 dressed as Oswald the Tiger ran in the Oct. 22 Los Angeles Daily News.
     
  • Robert Freeman, a two-time president of the Occidental Board of Trustees in the early 20th century, was highlighted in an Oct. 20 Pasadena Star-News story about his great-grandson Bob Rowe. Rowe, an artist, created nearly two dozen oil paintings of Freeman in various moments of his life. The art was displayed recently at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church.
     
  • Director Terry Gilliam '62's latest film, "Tideland," was reviewed in the Oct. 20 Los Angeles Times. Reviewer Sam Adams said the movie, based on the book by the same name, "has the effect of a prolonged shriek, too high and shrill for individual words to make themselves heard."
     
  • Ralph Manns '54's selection as a 2006 American Fisheries Society award recipient, was reported in an AFS press release. 
     
  • Mark Rubio '88's departure as boys' soccer coach at Hoover High in Glendale was reported in the Oct. 10 Glendale News Press. Rubio left to become dean of attendance at Crescenta Valley High.
     
  • Robert Navarro '99 is among a handful of composers recently commissioned by ESPN to rearrange, compose and beef up the classic Monday Night Football theme heard every Monday night on ESPN, according to Postmagazine.com.