Archive for November, 2010

SES Professor Carl Cohn to talk schools with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan

  Claremont Graduate University Professor Carl Cohn will join U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in leading a panel discussion on the world’s best school systems. The talk, hosted by global consulting firm McKinsey & Company, is set for Dec. 7 in Washington, D.C. The discussion is inspired by a report released by McKinsey & [...]

Worldwide awareness (photos): AIDS quilt helps us remember lives lost

PULLMAN More than 350 panels of the AIDS quilt will be on display Nov. 30Dec. 2 in the CUB ballroom.   The quilt is recognized as the largest ongoing community art project in the world. It began with a single 3×6 foot panel 23 years ago and today includes more than 47,000 panels that educate and generate [...]

QBs Taylor, Ponder end rivalry in ACC title game

The final chapter of the Christian Ponder-Tyrod Taylor rivalry will be written Saturday – and the winner will walk with the ACC title. The two-signal callers will me in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game in Charlotte, N.C., culminating a rivalry that began on a chilly November afternoon three years ago. Both athletes have improved [...]

Fight over DREAM Act heats up

With the U.S. Senate inching closer to a vote on the DREAM Act, the fight over the proposed immigration reform measure is heating up, and in some cases, getting pretty ugly. As anyone who reads the comments on MySA.com knows, immigration triggers more anger and vitriol from readers than any other topic we cover. Drama [...]

Create Your Own Career Fair

If something is not available to me, I’ve always been one to go out and create it myself. When I was in college, I hosted my university’s first (and possibly to this day only) public-relations career fair. It was an incredible success, with more than 200 students and 30 employers in attendance. How can you [...]