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They may be less than ten blocks from the Scripps campus, but Core 3 students teaching elementary-school students are light years away from their everyday college life.

by Kristina Brooks

CLAREMONT, Calif. (May 8, 2009) — “Fabulous Flowers: Rare Books and Botanical Illustrations, 1491-1891″ is open through May 15 at the Clark Humanities Museum (9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 1:30-5 p.m., Monday through Friday). Admission is free and open to the public.

CLAREMONT, Calif. (December 2, 2008) — An exhibit on musical theater, “Broadway and America: Reflections of a Cultural History,” at Scripps’ Denison Library, is on view now through February 28, 2009.

CLAREMONT, Calif. (August 20, 2007) — Lani Guinier, the first black woman to hold a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School, opens the fall 2007 Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series, September 27, 7:30 p.m., in Scripps College Garrison Theater.

Nineteen Scripps students of diverse disciplinary backgrounds from neuroscience to philosophy became book artists in Professor Kitty Maryatt’s class last fall. An exhibition of their bookworks is on view in the Lang Arts Studio 112 at Scripps College until Monday, February 19, 2007.

CLAREMONT, Calif. (August 17, 2006) — Scripps College presents a discussion with filmmaker Byron Hurt in conjunction with the screening of his film Beyond Beats and Rhymes, Wednesday, September 6, at 7:30 p.m. at Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center.

Marc Katz urges students to be intellectually daring: “Ask the big questions. Consider everything on the table. Bite off more than you think you can. Surprise me.”