SPRING 2005 EVENTS AT HARTLEY HOUSE 

Please contact Doreen O’Connor-Gómez if you have any questions!
doconnor@whittier.edu or (562) 907-4280

SPRING 2005
HARTLEY HOUSE EVENTS

Feb 13: Make Valentine’s Day cards for sweetie! 6-8pm.

Feb 15: Post V-Day Campaign. Celebrate the 2005 Vagina Monolgues production with delicious desserts and refreshments. 7-9pm. Featured Speaker: Dr. Dana Dovitch is a psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles, California. She is a leading authority on women's issues with expertise in reproductive health and post-abortion healing, eating disorder treatment, and individual and relationship problems. She has frequently been seen on television including appearances with Dr. Joyce Brothers and Joan Lunden, and Entertainment Tonight. Dr. Dovitch has been adjunct faculty at Antioch University, a supervising instructor for the Wagner Human Services Program at the University of Judaism, a teacher at the Union Institute and a regular speaker in the health services department of the Los Angeles Times. She is a frequent guest lecturer at medical schools and for graduate psychology programs and women's organizations. Dr. Dovitch earned a Masters degree in Art/Education from California State University at Northridge and a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, Los Angeles. She later earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from Sierra University, Los Angeles.

Feb 24: Alpha Pi Delta presents Jennifer Koza of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), 6:30pm.
SIFE is a global, non-profit organization that is literally changing the world through highly dedicated student teams on more than 1800 university campuses in 46 countries. Student SIFE Teams teach important concepts through educational outreach projects, including market economics, entrepreneurship, personal and financial success, and business ethics to better themselves, their communities and their countries.

FEB 26: JGWS Dinner and Evening with South American harpist ALFREDO ROLANDO ORTIZ, 6-9PM

March 9: Screening of the film MFUNI, 6:30pm, with popcorn and refreshments! Contact Andrea Barber (abarber@whittier.edu) for more info.

March 11: The Faculty Research Sharing Series opens with Dr. Rebecca Overmeyer-Velazquez of the Sociology Department; 4-6pm.

March 13: Field trip to see Los Empeños de una casa de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, at the Bilingual Foundation for the Arts in LA. Carpools will depart around 1:45pm; Play at 3pm; return to campus around 6pm. For more information, contact doconnor@whittier.edu. Tickets are GRATIS!

March 15: Al Sharpton at the Shannon Center, 7pm. Reserve your tickets early!

March 16: Psi Chi induction ceremony, 6-8pm. For more info contact Lori Camparo at lcamparo@whittier.edu. Pizza and refreshments will be served.

March 17: "Globalization: What's The Issue?" Fireside chat with Dr. Dennis O. Flynn, Professor of Economics at Pacific University. He is a leading scholar on the history of globalization, and has published extensively on the role of silver, the Spanish empire, and China during the 16th to the 19th centuries in creating a newly integrated world. He and his frequent co-author, Arturo Giraldez, provide fresh, non-Eurocentric perspectives on how, when, and why the world become interconnected. Fireside chat at 7pm; Dinner (be reservation only; contact rmarks@whittier.edu) at 5:30pm.

March 18: at 12 noon, followed by lunch, in the Club: "Stop the Femicides!" -- Relatives report from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Mothers and sisters of disappeared women discuss the Juarez abductions and killings. The women work with Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa, formed by relatives and friends of the disappeared to counter the impunity surrounding these crimes of femicidio serial (serial killings of women). Nuestras Hijas conducts public protests and has initiated a series of judicial actions. The members of Nuestras Hijas demand "That the municipal, state and federal authorities be directed to take joint responsibility for the investigation of the murders and disappearances of women, and to deal with the prevention of violence against women." Make lunch reservations by contacting doconnor@whittier.edu before March 14.

March 23: KPOET Career Panel, 4-7pm. The purpose of this panel is for students to get an insight into the various possibilities of the Radio Broadcasting career and the Music Industry. We will have professionals from various outlets such as DJ hosting, entertainment law, and sound production for film and television. Contact: Deanna Adams (dadams@poets.whittier.edu) for more info.

April 4: Firozzeh Dumas, author of Funny in Farsi. Firoozeh Dumas, author of the book Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America. Firoozeh and her family emigrated from Iran in 1972, and settled in Whittier where she went to Leffingwell Elemntary School. Her book is a series of anecdotes that chronicles her experiences and those of her family as they settled in Southern California. Firoozeh believes that we all have stories to tell. She attended Berkeley where she met and subsequently married her husband, who is French. After years as a stay-at-home mom, she decided to start writing about her life, which was published as Funny in Farsi. She is now developing a one-woman show that will further document these stories. Fireside chat at 7pm; sit down dinner (reservations required; contact doconnor@whittier.edu) at 5:30pm.

April 7, April 14, April 21: Movie series on Science and Discovery. For more info contact Niraj Pant at dpniraj@yahoo.com.

April 8: The Faculty Research Sharing Series continues with Dr. Wendy Furman-Adams of the English Dept., 4-6pm.

April 22: The Faculty Research Sharing Series features Lana Nino of the Business Administration Department.

April 23: Sigma Pi Sigma induction ceremony, 9am-12 noon. For more info contact Niraj Pant at dpniraj@yahoo.com.

April 25: Lunch and lecture with Professor Gilda Ochoa: "Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power, Conflict and Solidarity." Prof. Ochoa’s talk focuses on how Mexican Americans experience the controversies over immigration and the Spanish language within their own communities. She will address various questions from her research project: What is the relationship between Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants? Why might some Mexican Americans feel a sense of connection with immigrants and support bilingualism while others attempt to distinguish themselves from their neighbors? Professor Ochoa uses interviews, participant observation and historical records to examine how a group of Mexican Americans in the Los Angeles County city of La Puente are responding to assimilationist ideologies, economic changes, and historical and contemporary dynamics in schools and other neighborhood arenas. Contact Doreen at doconnor@whittier.edu to reserve your spot!

May 2: Children’s author Zilpha Keatley Knyder, lunch and discussion (1:30-1:30 pm). For more info contact Kathy Ralph at kralph@whittier.edu.

May 4: Psi Chi Alumni panel, 7-8:30pm. For more info contact Lori Camparo at lcamparo@whittier.edu

May 6: The Faculty Research Sharing Series comes to a close with Tony Barnstone of the English Department and Johnson House.