Ross urges rehabilitation, not punishment
What do the infamous California Three Strikes law and American high schools’ disciplinary systems have in common? According to Robert Ross, they’re both hurting America’s youth more than they’re helping.
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Berlin decodes Silicon Valley’s mythology, place in the West
In 1959, a 22-year-old woman, who Silicon Valley Archives project historian Leslie Berlin called “V,” moved with her four daughters from Los Angeles to Santa Clara County. V’s parents had moved there to escape the Dust Bowl in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and found jobs in a Del Monte peach cannery.
Former governors to discuss West’s environmental issues
At 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater, a panel of three — including journalist Juliet Eilperin, former governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt, and former governor of Nevada Robert List — will be explaining how environmental issues unique to the West are tied up in national politics.
West: Museums serve as ‘cultural authorities’ on the West
Native Americans have a far greater geographical reach than the American West, W. Richard West said in the Amphitheater on Wednesday. But they have served as an “undeniably potent originating element” in the canvas of the West, making their history, art and culture a dynamic and complicated subject for museums to represent.
Truelove champions integration of water, energy in California
Just as white settlers displaced, divided and exploited many native groups in their expansion across the West, they conceptually and practically split up the West’s natural resources, said water and energy policy analyst Cynthia J. Truelove on Tuesday in the Amphitheater.
Guest column: Integrating water and energy: California’s response to climate change
When I received the invitation to participate in Chautauqua’s focus on the American West, I anticipated speaking about the demands that climate change has placed on local, regional, state and federal actors across the West to overcome barriers to the integrated management of water and energy.
From West Coast, McLennan explores religious expansion
The Rev. Scotty McLennan, the dean for religious life at Stanford University, will examine the role of religion in the American West, specifically in California, the state he’s lived in for the last 14 years. He will give his lecture, titled “Religious Pluralism in the Developing American West,” at 2 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy.
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