Archive for 2007
Students Confront Realities of Racism
March 22nd, 2007 | Press Releases
Seventeen Westmont students spent their spring break in Mississippi and Alabama engaging and responding to issues relating to racism and social justice.
The Racial Equality and Justice (REJ) group worked with the John M. Perkins Foundation in Jackson, Miss., which purchases and renovates houses and makes them available to single mothers and Katrina survivors. The students [...]
Westmont Receives Key to Ensenada
March 21st, 2007 | Press Releases
Ensenada Mayor César Mancillas and his wife, Beatriz, presented Westmont with the key to the city during last week’s 30th annual student-led spring break service trip there. The city-wide celebration of Potter’s Clay included flamenco dancers and a large dinner.
More than 220 students and three dozen community volunteers took part in last week’s outreach, constructing [...]
Faculty to Present Eclectic Program
March 14th, 2007 | Press Releases
Members of the music faculty at Westmont will present a free recital featuring music from Buxtehude to Debussy on Tuesday, March 20, at 8 p.m. at Westmont’s Porter Theatre.
The program features vocalist Grey Brothers in Dietrich Buxtehude’s rarely heard cantata, “Herr, nun lasst du deinen Diener.” J.S. Bach once walked 200 miles to hear Buxtehude [...]
Think Before You Speak
March 14th, 2007 | Press Releases
Voiceless Communication Wins at Entrepreneurial Forum
A student venture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign won top honors at the Fourth Annual Spirit of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (S.E.E.D.) Collegiate Venture Forum at the Andalucia Hotel March 2-3. A panel of experienced judges chose Ambient Corporation as Best Emerging Venture Investment Opportunity for the biotechnology [...]
Students Spend Spring Break Serving
March 9th, 2007 | Press Releases
More than 220 Westmont students and three dozen community volunteers are spending their spring break building homes, running medical/dental clinics, competing with local sports teams and leading vacation Bible schools. This is the 30th year for Potter’s Clay, the student-organized service trip to Ensenada, Mexico. The week-long trip begins Friday, March 9, and the volunteers [...]