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Next month PBS will rebroadcast the 14-hour series Eyes on the Prize, introducing a new generation to the triumphs and tragedies of ordinary people during the first wave of the Civil Rights Movement, a tumultuous and era-defining moment in American history. Judy Richardson worked on the Academy Award-nominated film from its first incarnation in 1978 and was the education director for the series, which first aired in 1987. She also co-produced Malcolm X: Make It Plain, a Peabody-winning biography for PBS’s American Experience.

Currently Richardson makes African-American history documentaries as a senior producer with Northern Light Productions; her films include Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters for the History Channel. She’s also producing a PBS documentary on the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre, and recently completed all the videos for the National Park Service’s Little Rock Crisis Visitor Center, about the Little Rock Nine’s historic 1957 struggle to desegregate Central High School in Arkansas.

To all of her film work, Richardson brings a long-time involvement with social justice issues. In the South in the 1960s, she worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on projects in Alabama, in Georgia, and in Mississippi, during its fabled 1964 “Freedom Summer.” She was office manager for current NAACP chair Julian Bond (then Communications Director of SNCC) during his successful first campaign for the Georgia House of Representatives. She also founded the then-largest African-American bookstore. In the 1980s, she was the director of information for the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice where she worked on a campaign against police brutality in New York City, and on a campaign to counter Reagan Justice Department intimidation of elderly Black voters.

Judy Richardson lectures nationally, and conducts professional development workshops for teachers, all focused on the Civil Rights Movement and its relevance to the issues we face today. She has written for several academic journals, and is co-editor of Hands on the Freedom Plow, which chronicles the civil rights activism of more than fifty SNCC women in the Southern Freedom Movement of the early '60s.

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The following models of printers are available for purchase to Carleton faculty/students/staff on Wednesday, January 16 from 4 to 7 p.m. in MPC's Eagan Surplus Store. There will be a 10% discount available to the Carleton community for equipment purchased. Indicate that you are with Carleton College when you make your purchase.

Here is a sample list of some of the printers available with pricing.

Regular MPC Surplus store hours are Wednesdays 4 to 7 p.m., Thursdays 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Fridays 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. MPC's Surplus Store is not open on weekends. You are welcome to visit the store on Thursdays or Fridays if it works for your schedule.

Directions to MPC
MPC is located close to the corner of I-35E and I-494, at 2805 West Service Road, Eagan, MN 55121, and the phone number is (651) 681-8099. If driving from the south, take I-35E to Lone Oak Road (County Road 26) Exit, West on Lone Oak Road, North on Eagandale Blvd., and East on West Service Road.

MPC Surplus store URL Web site.

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New Year, New Titles!
The New Year is under way and new titles are arriving daily. Our January Browser’s Dozen is a hand-picked selection of titles offered at 25% off. Among them is John Allen Paulos’s Irreligion, in which the author presents his world view in twelve chapters that refute the twelve arguments most commonly offered for believing in God. Readers in Scandinavia take their crime fiction seriously and The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo won the prestigious Glass Key prize for the best Nordic crime novel. This modern-day mystery has tendrils reaching back to World War II and a real nail-biting conclusion. Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish is a memoir filled with tenderness and humor. The author reveals how her family gave its members a legacy of kinship, kindness, and pleasure on an Iowa farm in the midst of the Great Depression. Stop in to check out the rest of the Browser’s Dozen.

Several other titles have caught our attention. The author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma has written the highly anticipated follow-up In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. Michael Pollan argues that real food, the kind our great-grandmothers would recognize, needs to be defended from the food industry on one side and nutritional science on the other. His refreshing admonition is to “Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly Plants.” This is a lively and thoughtful manifesto on how to make thoughtful choices while bringing pleasure back to eating.

And for the politically minded, Carl Bernstien’s A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton has just arrived in paperback. From Hope to Higher Ground: 12 Stops to Restoring America’s Greatness is Mike Huckabee’s current book.

Calendar Sale
Our calendars are now on sale at a 50% discount. We still have a good selection so stop in and find one to keep you on track.

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Agents of Change―Students and Research
Focusing on students as both agents of research, as well as objects of research, we’re pleased to offer these programs for winter term through the Perlman Center. We also examine research that is making news in higher education and beyond. As always, we feature another installment of the Faculty Scholarship Forum, as well as two reading groups that promise to promote collegial exchange and, perhaps, even happiness. We hope that you will make time to join us for as many of these fine sessions as you are able to attend.

Winter 2008 reading and discussion group: Human Responses to Climate Change
Selections from two books: 1) Igor Krupnik and Dyanna Jolly, (eds.). 2002. The Earth is Faster Now: Indigenous Observations of Arctic Environmental Change, Fairbanks, Alaska: Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, and 2) Elizabeth Kolbert, 2006, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change: Bloomsbury USA

Ken Tape '99, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, will join us January 16. Tape is a Headley House visitor during the first weeks of winter term.

Wednesdays: January 16 and February 13, Headley House, 815 East Second Street
4:30 to 6 p.m.
To join, contact Jennifer Cox Johnson (jcoxjohn@carleton.edu)

Thursday, January 17
When You're in the Hot Seat: Talking About Your Research with the Public
Ken Tape ‘99, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska
Co-sponsors: Mellon Faculty Life Cycles Grant, Environment and Technology Studies, Geology Department, and Dean of the College office

Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Alumni Guest House Meeting Room
Lunch provided for 50

Monday, January 21
Tied to the Track? The Career Paths of Women Scientists and Engineers as Seen from Three Vantage Points, a conversation with Sandra Laursen

Sandra Laursen, Co-director and Research Associate
Ethnography & Evaluation Research (E&ER)
Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS)
University of Colorado at Boulder
Co-sponsors: Carleton Interdisciplinary Science and Math Initiative (CISMI), Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Mellon Faculty Life Cycles Grant

Headley House, 815 East Second Street
4:30 to 6 p.m.
Refreshments provided

Tuesday, January 22
How Do Students Benefit from Undergraduate Research in the Sciences?

Sandra Laursen, Co-director and Research Associate
Ethnography & Evaluation Research (E&ER)
Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS)
University of Colorado at Boulder

Introduction by Tricia Ferrett, Professor of Chemistry
Co-sponsors: Carleton Interdisciplinary Science and Math Initiative (CISMI), Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Mellon Faculty Life Cycles Grant

Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Alumni Guest House Meeting Room
Lunch provided for 50

Please note two reading groups forming for winter term and open to the campus community: 1) Human Response to Climate Change and 2) Stumbling on Happiness. We welcome all to our events, and we hope that you will make time to join us. Books are now available in the LTC, Willis 207.

Please contact Jennifer Cox Johnson or use this link if you wish to join us.

Watch for all winter term events from the LTC.