SMC Foundation Allocates $1 Million
to Madison Theater
 The
SMC Foundation has allocated $1 million of undesignated
funds to the college's Dustin
Hoffman-backed Madison Theater
Project, a proposed 500-seat education and performing arts
facility. The gift brings the total raised for the project
to $4.5 million.
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SMC
Retraining Low-Wage Apparel Workers
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Seeking to provide apparel workers
higher pay and better opportunities in an industry facing
increased overseas competition and automation, SMC has
launched a $200,000 program to train low-wage employees
in computerized knitwear production.
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 Youth
"Hipopera," Laudatory Literature & Cuban Song
Cultural eclecticism has marked
SMC over the last month. Teenagers in our Spring Opera Intensive
performed a "hipopera;" our literary magazine, Santa
Monica Review,
was honored at Beyond Baroque; and Cuban art songs were featured
in a CubaFest 2002 concert.
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SMC
Newsmakers
Why is math professor Andrew
Nestler emerging as a national expert on The
Simpsons?
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out >>
Footnotes (or musings from the editor)
Sometimes other voices are better than
our own. More
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We have a winner for
March!
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In Memoriam
Emeritus College creative writing instructor
Douglas F. Muir
died March 9 in Irvine at the age of 69. An award-winning
novelist and documentary filmmaker, he taught poetry, creative
writing and film classes at UCLA, UC Irvine and other campuses
besides SMC.
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