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Attention retro enthusiasts. The Ventura College athletic department will sell old uniforms and practice gear from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. today on the patio adjacent to the VC Sportsplex.

Items from nearly every VC program are available from 1980s to present, including basketball uniforms and warmups going back to the Phil Mathews era, football uniforms going back to the Phil Passno era and baseball uniforms going back to the Gary Anglin era.

“We’ve never been given this chance before,” said Ventura equipment manager Peder Nielsen. “There’s some really nice stuff… It’s all been in storage.”

The garage sale will continue into the football scrimmage this evening.

This is hilarious and educational. Ze Frank explains how to vent one’s impotent rage when replying to e-mails while maintaining one’s professional integrity. Herein lies Ze Frank’s exquisite advice.

Congratulations to the editors of the Marquette Law Review on the publication of a new issue.  This issue features papers presented at the Criminal Appeals Conference here in June 2009.  All of the articles can be downloaded from the Law Review’s website.  Here are the contents:

• Criminal Appeals: Past, Present, and Future , by Chad M. Oldfather and Michael M. O’Hear
• Stories of Crimes, Trials, and Appeals in Civil War Era Missouri, Frank O. Bowman III
• Scottsboro, by Michael J. Klarman
• A Fair Trial, Not a Perfect One: The Early Twentieth-Century Campaign for the Harmless Error Rule, by Roger A. Fairfax Jr.
• Justice on Appeal in Criminal Cases: A Twentieth-Century Perspective, by Paul D. Carrington
• The Impact of Government Appellate Strategies on the Development of Criminal Law, by Andrew Hessick
• Death Penalty Appeals and Habeas Proceedings: The California Experience, by Gerald F. Uelmen
• Taking Strickland Claims Seriously, by Stephen F. Smith<

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August 23, 2010
For Immediate Release

Women around the world often face similar daily struggles – how to care for their families while maintaining their careers and personal lives. On Thursday, Sept. 2, Utah Valley University will host its annual Women’s Symposium, this year entitled “Women’s Perspectives from Around the Globe.” Women leaders from Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Brazil, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, and Malaysia will offer their perspectives on the unique challenges that women face in today’s world.

“These women are powerful leaders in their own right,” said Rusty Butler, associate vice president for International Affairs & Diplomacy at UVU. “They are former diplomats, professors, entrepreneurs and business women who put their lives on hold so that their husbands can serve their respective countries in senior diplomatic posts.”

The speakers, wives of current and former consuls general and ambassadors to the United States, will explore the challenges, choices and opportunities they face in juggling home, family, careers and diplomatic life.

Susan Madsen, an associate professor of management with UVU’s Woodbury School of Business and a noted international women’s leadership studies scholar, will join Tcholpon Akmatalieva, wife of former Kyrgyz Ambassador Baktybek Abdrisaev and a university professor, to moderate the symposium. In addition to particip

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August 21, 2010
Contact: Jim Tranquada, (323) 259-2990

Occidental College has been named one of the country’s best colleges in the latest editions of several major college guides, including U.S. News & World Report, Princeton Review’s The Best 373 Colleges, the Fiske Guide to Colleges, The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges, Peterson’s 440 Great Colleges for Top Students, and Forbes‘ “America’s Best Colleges.”

High school counselors polled by U.S. News ranked Occidental No. 20 among national liberal arts colleges, and Oxy was again was recognized by the Insider’s Guide as one of a handful of colleges and universities with the strongest undergraduate focus. Fiske bestowed four-star academic and quality-of-life ratings on Oxy, and Princeton Review gave Oxy’s Financial Aid Office a score of 97 out of 100.

Occidental was ranked No. 36 overall by U.S. News among the country’s best liberal arts colleges.

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