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'Earlham College' is a national, selective Quaker liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. It was founded in 1847 and has approximately 1,200 students. The current president is Douglas C. Bennett. In keeping with Friends' belief in equality, everyone addresses each other at Earlham by his or her first name, without the use of titles such as "doctor" or "professor."
While Earlham is primarily a residential undergraduate college, it does have two graduate programs — the master of arts in teaching and the master of education — which provide a route for teacher licensure to students with liberal arts undergraduate degrees. Additionally, there are two associated institutions located adjacent to the Earlham campus: Earlham School of Religion, a Christian graduate theological school in the Quaker tradition, and Bethany Theological Seminary, an independent Brethren institution offering graduate and non-degree programs.
Earlham College is listed in Loren Pope's book, ''Colleges That Change Lives''.
Earlham College sits on an 800 acre (3.2 km²) campus, the majority of which is undeveloped forest and meadow. The undeveloped "back campus" area is criss-crossed by trails for the enjoyment of the student body as well as serving as a readily accessible outdoor classroom. Earlham is nationally recognized for its strong programs in biology, Japanese studies, and peace and global studies. The Earlham libraries are known for their course-integrated program of information literacy instruction. Notably, Earlham ranks 8th in the nation (out of 1,302 colleges and universities) in its percentage of graduates who go on to receive a Ph.D. in the biological sciences and 26th in the percentage of students going on to Ph.D. programs in all fields. Earlham is known for its "Super Languages" program where a full year of a language is taught intensively for one semester. Earlham recently began offering two semesters of modern Arabic.
Earlham has an extensive outdoor education program, which features its own indoor climbing wall. Tucked into Earlham's "back campus" is a high and low ropes challenge course. Earlham also has an equestrian center that is student-run.
Earlham ranks high among liberal arts schools of its size with regard to student body diversity. Earlham has sizable black, Asian and Jewish populations. International students comprise over 10% of the student body. There are small numbers of Catholics, Unitarian Universalists, Muslims, Buddhists, Evangelical Protestants, Bahá'à students, and a large number of students affiliated with mainline Protestant denominations. There are also atheists, agnostics, and non-denominationalists. Between 10 and 20 percent of the student population belongs to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
The faculty at Earlham provide a rigorous curriculum and engage students in collaborative research. The student to faculty ratio is approximately 12:1.
Earlham College has a high number of faculty-led off-campus programs. Almost two-thirds of Earlham students go on a semester-length off-campus program to such destinations as Mexico, Vienna, Martinique, Northern Ireland, Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, New Zealand (formerly, the Southwestern U.S.), Japan and Tanzania. In addition, there are a number of shorter off-campus May terms, with destinations both within the U.S. and abroad (Galapagos, Senegal, Menorca, and Turkey, as recent examples). Earlham has a formal exchange program with Waseda University in Japan, which has existed informally for decades. Each year, about a dozen students from each school experience a year of student life at the other university. In addition, Earlham College works with the SICE program in Morioka, Japan, a program in which about twelve to fourteen students teach English in grade schools in Morioka.
Earlham College is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association.
Earlham has an entirely student-managed public radio station, WECI 91.5FM.
The Joseph Moore Museum is a natural history museum located on campus and run by students and biology department faculty. The focus is Indiana's natural history. It is open to the public (free of charge) and tours are available upon request.
Earlham College remains the only American institution of tertiary education that allows students to study aardvarks extensively in their native habitat in the Kakamega ForestFrom Earlham college website..
Earlham College is also a member of the North Coast Athletic Conference. An outstanding athletic school, Earlham has won championships in men's cross country and has an ultimate frisbee team. The athletics teams are known as the Quakers. They originally had been the Fightin' Quakers; although the name was meant tongue-in-cheek, it was changed in the 1980s to the Hustlin' Quakers after the college's board of regents decided that it was inappropriate for Quakers to fight. In the 1990s, the name was changed again to simply Quakers. Among the student body, the chant sometimes sung publicly is
:Fight, Fight, Inner Light!
:Kill, Quakers, Kill!
:Knock 'em Down, Beat 'em Senseless!
:Do It 'til We Reach Consensus!
Also:
:Fight, Fight, Inner Light!
:Kill, Quakers, Kill!
:Beat 'em, Beat 'em, Knock 'em Senseless!
:Tell Me, Do We Have Consensus?
A popular cheer that was emoted by the Earlham College Fightin' Quakers football cheerleaders (circa 1979), when the opposing team had possession of the ball, was:
:Fight exuberantly!
:Fight exuberantly!
:Compel them to relinquish the ball!
Earlham has the only student-run Hash House Harriers running group, founded in 1989 and still continuing at present (2007). While only loosely connected with national organizations, the student group maintains weekly runs and has been described by visitors as the "Galapagos of Hashes" for the creativity and development of hashing practices. The Hash run takes place on the "back campus" during all seasons. In 2004, a student died as a result of injuries sustained while on The Hash. Community reaction and Campus Safety & Security response has since waned.
Earlham was one of the first colleges in the country to initiate student and faculty led wilderness programs, back in 1970. These programs were designed for incoming first-year and transfer students who received credit for them. The program is divided into the Water August Wilderness and the Mountain August Wilderness and lasts for approximately three weeks; the former canoes in Wabakimi Provincial park in Ontario and the latter hikes in the Uinta Mountains in Utah. Students in the past have taken ice climbing, white water kayaking, rock climbing and canoeing for credit. The program leads backpacking and canoeing trips to places like Big Bend National Park and runs a May Term (a condensed three week term after the spring semester) course which trains students to lead its August Wilderness program. Some of these students go on to lead wilderness courses for Outward Bound and similar organizations after graduation.
A great deal of effort is made at Earlham to stress its emphasis upon reaching consensus on any issue of importance. For example, student organizations are strongly encouraged not to operate according to majority vote or steering committee but instead to adopt Quaker-based consensus governance. This principle supposedly guides the institution as a whole [1].
Therefore, when matters exist for which consensus is not reached among all members of the Earlham community, the lack of consensus, in and of itself, can become an issue. Thus, these matters are known as "non consensus issues."
Earlham's "dry campus" policy is controversial among members of the student body and some faculty members. Drinking is fairly commonplace; some students refer to the campus as "pleasantly moist." In August 2007, as part of New Student Orientation for the incoming class of 2011, the Earlham faculty revealed their new approach to dealing with alchohol issues. Although the official alcohol policy remains the same, the primary focus is now on education and personal responsibility, as opposed to enforcement.
Tension sometimes arises between students and the Quaker Indiana and Western Yearly Meetings over issues of sexuality. Western and, to an even greater degree, Indiana Yearly Meeting tend to be more conservative on issues such as condom distribution, pregnancy, and homosexuality. This tension has been a recurrent feature of Earlham life for decades.
Earlham College only recently developed a progressive pregnancy policy, despite its progressive reputation. Before this there were few explicit guidelines in the event that a student became pregnant. The new policy states that pregnant women may reside in on-campus housing, but are also offered a housing exemption if they so desire.
There is no Greek system on campus- the closest thing might be theme halls and houses. Themes include Japan House, French House, German House, Spanish House, Environmental House, Quaker House, Interfaith House, the Cunningham Cultural Center (African/African-American House), Creative Writing House, International House, Middle Eastern House, the Jewish Cultural Center, Peace House, Miller Farm, etc. Theme halls include single gender halls (known as the Nunnery and Monastery), a co-op hall, Polyglot Hall (for language-lovers), and a Chef's Hall.
Most students stay on-campus during the weekends. This is partly because most students come from outside Indiana. Also, the Student Activities Board, Earlham Film Series, student bands, theater productions, etc. offer a variety of activities on the weekends.
Other points of contention were political, mostly involving the invitation of conservative speakers to campus. While some students are hostile to these speakers because of their political views, other students enjoy the chance to hear speakers with divergent points of view.
In late of March, 2005, William Kristol, editor of ''The Weekly Standard'', was hit in the face with an ice cream pie by a student during a lecture he gave on campus
[2]. This event made national and international news and was carried by many leading news outlets.
Many students and faculty at the lecture showed strong disapproval of the act, and applauded when Kristol resumed his talk.
Other conservative (and libertarian) speakers who have been invited to Earlham in the past such as Richard Nixon (a lifelong Quaker; he was a freshman Representative at the time of his Earlham appearance), Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar, Christina Hoff Sommers, Michelle Easton, Alan Dowtey, Kay Hiemenowitz, Ward Connerly, Andrew Sullivan and Stanley Kurtz received warm receptions, despite their difference in opinion with many students and faculty. Famed columnist and right-wing political pundit Ann Coulter's visit to Earlham in November, 2001 was much more provocative, however.
While there have been some notable exceptions, the majority of speakers invited to Earlham reflect left-leaning viewpoints. A short list of left-leaning visiting campus in recent years include Cornel West, bell Hooks, Rashid Khalidi, Frances Moore Lappé, Gerry Adams, Hanan Ashrawi, Ralph Nader, Jackson Katz, Angela Davis, Anthony Romero, Leslie Feinberg, Adam Shapiro, Dianne Nash, George Lakoff, Victoria Jackson Gray Adams, Michael Shellenberger, Howard Zinn, Nikki Giovanni, Ali Abunimah, Malik Shabazz, Helena Cobban and Margaret Cho.
In addition, Earlham has hosted a wide variety of well-known (and less well-known) entertainers, often with a politicized theme. Recent entertainers have included Aretha Franklin, Bill Cosby, Sinbad, The Indigo Girls, David Sedaris, Blues Traveler, Talib Kweli, Aesop Rock, The Chicago Kings, Bitch and Animal, Jessica Delfino, Melissa Ferrick, Alix Olson, Wesley Willis, The Second City, The San Francisco Mime Troupe, Matisyahu,The Dekel Boro Jazz Trio, former student David Rovics, and many others.
★ W.C Alee-Dean in the colleges, University of Chicago, Chairman of the zoology department, University of Florida, elected to the National Academy of Sciences
★ Carl W. Ackerman-- former head of Columbia University Journalism School.
★ John S. Allen-- the founding president of the University of South Florida.
★ C. Ernest Beane - General Counsel for MWABank. Also on its board of directors.
★ R.T Bonnin- Granddaughter of Sitting Bull, former president of National Council of Indian Americans.
★ Howard Boyer - Former editor at Harvard University Press who published the work of prominent scientists like Stephen Jay Gould, Edward O. Wilson and Ernst Mayr.
★ Richard Butler- Former executive director of Church World Service.
★ Justin Cannon - Founder of a website for Gay Christian Singles.
★ Shelby M. Chodos -Managing Director of Commonwealth Capital Partners, Inc., a private investment firm in New England.
★ Al Cobine - Big band leader and tenor saxophonist. Worked closely with Henry Mancini and often associated with the Pink Panther theme song.
★ Joseph John Copeland - former president of City College of New York
★ Tony DeBlase - Designer of the Leather Pride flag.
★ Joseph M. Dixon, Former Governor of Montana.
★ Liza Donnelly, Cartoonist for the New Yorker
★ John Porter East- former U.S. Senator for North Carolina.
★ Jim Fowler, star of Wild Kingdom.
★ Tim Grimm - Actor in various theater and cinema productions, co-star of Harrison Ford vehicle Clear and Present Danger.
★ Michael C. Hall - Actor on HBO's Six Feet Under and current star of Showtime's Dexter.
★ Margaret Hamilton - headed the team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo Program
★ Robert M. Hirsch, Chief Hydrologist and head of water science for the United States Geological Survey.
★ Thomas J. Hochstettler - President, Lewis & Clark College.
★ Deborah Hull - Former CEO of MedCases, Inc. and Ovid Technologies.
★ Anne Hunter - Children's book author and illustrator. Titles include ''Possum's Harvest Moon''.
★ Mary I. Hussey- Semitic text authority. First women to teach at American Society for Oriental Research in Jerusalem.
★ C. Francis Jenkins- inventor, showed movies in 1892.
★ Walter Jessup - Former head of the Carnegie Corporation
★ Mat Johnson - Novelist. Professor at The University of Houston Creative Writing Program
★ O.O Kuhn-Radio figure. Started career at Richmond Palladium-Item
★ Frances Moore Lappé - activist and author of three-million-copy bestseller: ''Diet For a Small Planet."
★ John Loose - Corning, CEO [3].
★ James S. Malek - Provost, Ithaca College.
★ Howard Marmon- Former president of American Society of Automotive Engineers.
★ Jana Matthews - Boulder Quantum Ventures, CEO [4].
★ Steve Miller - Former Associated Press bureau chief in Germany.
★ Richard K. Nakamura - Deputy Director, National Institute of Mental Health.
★ Larry Overman - Organic Chemist. Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
★ Polly Penhale - U.S. Environmental Officer for Antarctica, U.S. National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs.
★ Leslie Talbot Pennington - served on the American Unitarian Association Board of Directors
★ Robert Quine - named by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
★ Marc Reisner - Author of the books "A Dangerous Place" and Cadillac Desert'' the latter of which was described in his New York Times obituary as "a seminal work about the environmental cost of Western water projects." -
★ Willard A. Roberts- Helped develop fluorescent and black light for GE.
★ David Rovics - Folksinger and songwriter, famous for his anarchic lyrics.
★ Olive Rush - Artist
★ Stephen Schutt - President, Lake Forest College.
★ William E. Simkin- helped prevent national strikes and resolved thousands of labor disputes as the Federal Government's chief labor mediator and as a leading private arbitrator.
★ Lisa Margaret Smith - United States magistrate judge for the Southern District of New York.
★ Wendell Meredith Stanley - American biochemist. He shared a 1946 Nobel Prize for discovering methods of producing pure enzymes and virus proteins.
★ Howard A. Stern - former radio personality, currently teaching Mathematics in the New York City school system.
★ David C. Stump, M.D. - Human Genome Sciences, Executive Vice President.
★ Edwin Way Teale - naturalist writer, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1966. Elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Staff Writer at Popular Science.
★ Frederick Van Nuys, U.S. Senator from Indiana 1932-1944.
★ Amy Walters - Producer, National Public Radio.
★ Zack Warren - Ran the Boston Marathon while juggling in 2 hours, fifty-eight minutes. [5].
★ Robert Wissler - biochemist, discovered the damaging effects of smoking and cholesterol on the vascular system.
★ Kenneth Wollack - President of the National Democratic Institute [6].
★ Donald N. Wood - Author of multiple books, including ''The Unraveling of the West: The Rise of Postmodernism and the Decline of Democracy''.
★ Stanley T. Wray- awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross of the Royal Air Force.
★ Harry N. Wright - former president of City College of New York.
★ Landrum Bolling - President of Earlham from 1958 to 1973, Current Director at Large of Mercy Corps. Back channel between Yasir Arafat and Jimmy Carter.
★ Wayne C. Booth - (former) Professor of English- Literary Critic; author of ''The Rhetoric of Fiction'' and ''The Company We Keep''.
★ John Elwood Bundy, impressionist painter.
★ Ferit Guven - Associate Professor of Philosophy. Author of ''Madness and Death in Philosophy''.
★ Del Harris, former Earlham basketball coach; current NBA coach.
★ John Hunt - (former) Professor of English, Faulkner Scholar.
★ Caroline Higgins - Professor Emerita of Peace and Global Studies and History, author of the book "Sweet Country", listed in by David Horowitz.
★ Jackson Holbrook Bailey - Asian studies educator.
★ John Iverson - Professor of Biology. Turtle Expert. [7].
★ Tom Kirk - Director of Earlham's Lilly Library, named Academic Librarian of the year in 2004
★ Paul Lacey- Professor Emeritus of English. Literary executor to the late poet Denise Levertov. Presiding Clerk of the American Friends Service Committee (since 2005).
★ Robert L. Kelley- Former president, made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government.
★ Dale Edwin Noyd — decorated fighter pilot and Air Force captain who became a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.
★ Howard Richards - Professor Emeritus and founder of Earlham's Peace and Global Studies program/department; author of several books pertaining to the Philosophy of peace and justice.
★ Peter Suber - Senior Research Professor of Philosophy, creator of the game Nomic, and a leader in the open access movement.
★ Earlham College - official website
★ The Earlham Word - Student Newspaper
★ Earlham College - official athletics website
★ Earlham LiveJournal Community
★ Earlham Action Against Rape website
★ WECI 91.5 fm Richmond
★ Earlham Student Film Guild Website
★ Earlham College - campus map
★ USA Today article
★ Joseph Moore Musem
★ Ealrham College, Where the Nuts Control the Squirrels - Extra-official website
# America's Best Colleges 2006
# Earlham Facts > Fast Facts > Faculty > Full-time
# Earlham Facts > Fast Facts > Enrollment
# Earlham Style Guide > Sports Style
'Earlham College' is a national, selective Quaker liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. It was founded in 1847 and has approximately 1,200 students. The current president is Douglas C. Bennett. In keeping with Friends' belief in equality, everyone addresses each other at Earlham by his or her first name, without the use of titles such as "doctor" or "professor."
While Earlham is primarily a residential undergraduate college, it does have two graduate programs — the master of arts in teaching and the master of education — which provide a route for teacher licensure to students with liberal arts undergraduate degrees. Additionally, there are two associated institutions located adjacent to the Earlham campus: Earlham School of Religion, a Christian graduate theological school in the Quaker tradition, and Bethany Theological Seminary, an independent Brethren institution offering graduate and non-degree programs.
Earlham College is listed in Loren Pope's book, ''Colleges That Change Lives''.
Campus, Curriculum and Community
Earlham has an extensive outdoor education program, which features its own indoor climbing wall. Tucked into Earlham's "back campus" is a high and low ropes challenge course. Earlham also has an equestrian center that is student-run.
Earlham ranks high among liberal arts schools of its size with regard to student body diversity. Earlham has sizable black, Asian and Jewish populations. International students comprise over 10% of the student body. There are small numbers of Catholics, Unitarian Universalists, Muslims, Buddhists, Evangelical Protestants, Bahá'à students, and a large number of students affiliated with mainline Protestant denominations. There are also atheists, agnostics, and non-denominationalists. Between 10 and 20 percent of the student population belongs to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
The faculty at Earlham provide a rigorous curriculum and engage students in collaborative research. The student to faculty ratio is approximately 12:1.
Earlham College has a high number of faculty-led off-campus programs. Almost two-thirds of Earlham students go on a semester-length off-campus program to such destinations as Mexico, Vienna, Martinique, Northern Ireland, Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, New Zealand (formerly, the Southwestern U.S.), Japan and Tanzania. In addition, there are a number of shorter off-campus May terms, with destinations both within the U.S. and abroad (Galapagos, Senegal, Menorca, and Turkey, as recent examples). Earlham has a formal exchange program with Waseda University in Japan, which has existed informally for decades. Each year, about a dozen students from each school experience a year of student life at the other university. In addition, Earlham College works with the SICE program in Morioka, Japan, a program in which about twelve to fourteen students teach English in grade schools in Morioka.
Earlham College is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association.
Earlham has an entirely student-managed public radio station, WECI 91.5FM.
The Joseph Moore Museum is a natural history museum located on campus and run by students and biology department faculty. The focus is Indiana's natural history. It is open to the public (free of charge) and tours are available upon request.
Earlham College remains the only American institution of tertiary education that allows students to study aardvarks extensively in their native habitat in the Kakamega ForestFrom Earlham college website..
Athletics
Earlham College is also a member of the North Coast Athletic Conference. An outstanding athletic school, Earlham has won championships in men's cross country and has an ultimate frisbee team. The athletics teams are known as the Quakers. They originally had been the Fightin' Quakers; although the name was meant tongue-in-cheek, it was changed in the 1980s to the Hustlin' Quakers after the college's board of regents decided that it was inappropriate for Quakers to fight. In the 1990s, the name was changed again to simply Quakers. Among the student body, the chant sometimes sung publicly is
:Fight, Fight, Inner Light!
:Kill, Quakers, Kill!
:Knock 'em Down, Beat 'em Senseless!
:Do It 'til We Reach Consensus!
Also:
:Fight, Fight, Inner Light!
:Kill, Quakers, Kill!
:Beat 'em, Beat 'em, Knock 'em Senseless!
:Tell Me, Do We Have Consensus?
A popular cheer that was emoted by the Earlham College Fightin' Quakers football cheerleaders (circa 1979), when the opposing team had possession of the ball, was:
:Fight exuberantly!
:Fight exuberantly!
:Compel them to relinquish the ball!
The Hash
Earlham has the only student-run Hash House Harriers running group, founded in 1989 and still continuing at present (2007). While only loosely connected with national organizations, the student group maintains weekly runs and has been described by visitors as the "Galapagos of Hashes" for the creativity and development of hashing practices. The Hash run takes place on the "back campus" during all seasons. In 2004, a student died as a result of injuries sustained while on The Hash. Community reaction and Campus Safety & Security response has since waned.
Wilderness Programs
Earlham was one of the first colleges in the country to initiate student and faculty led wilderness programs, back in 1970. These programs were designed for incoming first-year and transfer students who received credit for them. The program is divided into the Water August Wilderness and the Mountain August Wilderness and lasts for approximately three weeks; the former canoes in Wabakimi Provincial park in Ontario and the latter hikes in the Uinta Mountains in Utah. Students in the past have taken ice climbing, white water kayaking, rock climbing and canoeing for credit. The program leads backpacking and canoeing trips to places like Big Bend National Park and runs a May Term (a condensed three week term after the spring semester) course which trains students to lead its August Wilderness program. Some of these students go on to lead wilderness courses for Outward Bound and similar organizations after graduation.
Non Consensus Issues
A great deal of effort is made at Earlham to stress its emphasis upon reaching consensus on any issue of importance. For example, student organizations are strongly encouraged not to operate according to majority vote or steering committee but instead to adopt Quaker-based consensus governance. This principle supposedly guides the institution as a whole [1].
Therefore, when matters exist for which consensus is not reached among all members of the Earlham community, the lack of consensus, in and of itself, can become an issue. Thus, these matters are known as "non consensus issues."
Student Life Issues
Earlham's "dry campus" policy is controversial among members of the student body and some faculty members. Drinking is fairly commonplace; some students refer to the campus as "pleasantly moist." In August 2007, as part of New Student Orientation for the incoming class of 2011, the Earlham faculty revealed their new approach to dealing with alchohol issues. Although the official alcohol policy remains the same, the primary focus is now on education and personal responsibility, as opposed to enforcement.
Tension sometimes arises between students and the Quaker Indiana and Western Yearly Meetings over issues of sexuality. Western and, to an even greater degree, Indiana Yearly Meeting tend to be more conservative on issues such as condom distribution, pregnancy, and homosexuality. This tension has been a recurrent feature of Earlham life for decades.
Earlham College only recently developed a progressive pregnancy policy, despite its progressive reputation. Before this there were few explicit guidelines in the event that a student became pregnant. The new policy states that pregnant women may reside in on-campus housing, but are also offered a housing exemption if they so desire.
There is no Greek system on campus- the closest thing might be theme halls and houses. Themes include Japan House, French House, German House, Spanish House, Environmental House, Quaker House, Interfaith House, the Cunningham Cultural Center (African/African-American House), Creative Writing House, International House, Middle Eastern House, the Jewish Cultural Center, Peace House, Miller Farm, etc. Theme halls include single gender halls (known as the Nunnery and Monastery), a co-op hall, Polyglot Hall (for language-lovers), and a Chef's Hall.
Most students stay on-campus during the weekends. This is partly because most students come from outside Indiana. Also, the Student Activities Board, Earlham Film Series, student bands, theater productions, etc. offer a variety of activities on the weekends.
Visiting Speakers
Other points of contention were political, mostly involving the invitation of conservative speakers to campus. While some students are hostile to these speakers because of their political views, other students enjoy the chance to hear speakers with divergent points of view.
In late of March, 2005, William Kristol, editor of ''The Weekly Standard'', was hit in the face with an ice cream pie by a student during a lecture he gave on campus
[2]. This event made national and international news and was carried by many leading news outlets.
Many students and faculty at the lecture showed strong disapproval of the act, and applauded when Kristol resumed his talk.
Other conservative (and libertarian) speakers who have been invited to Earlham in the past such as Richard Nixon (a lifelong Quaker; he was a freshman Representative at the time of his Earlham appearance), Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar, Christina Hoff Sommers, Michelle Easton, Alan Dowtey, Kay Hiemenowitz, Ward Connerly, Andrew Sullivan and Stanley Kurtz received warm receptions, despite their difference in opinion with many students and faculty. Famed columnist and right-wing political pundit Ann Coulter's visit to Earlham in November, 2001 was much more provocative, however.
While there have been some notable exceptions, the majority of speakers invited to Earlham reflect left-leaning viewpoints. A short list of left-leaning visiting campus in recent years include Cornel West, bell Hooks, Rashid Khalidi, Frances Moore Lappé, Gerry Adams, Hanan Ashrawi, Ralph Nader, Jackson Katz, Angela Davis, Anthony Romero, Leslie Feinberg, Adam Shapiro, Dianne Nash, George Lakoff, Victoria Jackson Gray Adams, Michael Shellenberger, Howard Zinn, Nikki Giovanni, Ali Abunimah, Malik Shabazz, Helena Cobban and Margaret Cho.
In addition, Earlham has hosted a wide variety of well-known (and less well-known) entertainers, often with a politicized theme. Recent entertainers have included Aretha Franklin, Bill Cosby, Sinbad, The Indigo Girls, David Sedaris, Blues Traveler, Talib Kweli, Aesop Rock, The Chicago Kings, Bitch and Animal, Jessica Delfino, Melissa Ferrick, Alix Olson, Wesley Willis, The Second City, The San Francisco Mime Troupe, Matisyahu,The Dekel Boro Jazz Trio, former student David Rovics, and many others.
Notable Earlhamites
Notable Alumni
★ W.C Alee-Dean in the colleges, University of Chicago, Chairman of the zoology department, University of Florida, elected to the National Academy of Sciences
★ Carl W. Ackerman-- former head of Columbia University Journalism School.
★ John S. Allen-- the founding president of the University of South Florida.
★ C. Ernest Beane - General Counsel for MWABank. Also on its board of directors.
★ R.T Bonnin- Granddaughter of Sitting Bull, former president of National Council of Indian Americans.
★ Howard Boyer - Former editor at Harvard University Press who published the work of prominent scientists like Stephen Jay Gould, Edward O. Wilson and Ernst Mayr.
★ Richard Butler- Former executive director of Church World Service.
★ Justin Cannon - Founder of a website for Gay Christian Singles.
★ Shelby M. Chodos -Managing Director of Commonwealth Capital Partners, Inc., a private investment firm in New England.
★ Al Cobine - Big band leader and tenor saxophonist. Worked closely with Henry Mancini and often associated with the Pink Panther theme song.
★ Joseph John Copeland - former president of City College of New York
★ Tony DeBlase - Designer of the Leather Pride flag.
★ Joseph M. Dixon, Former Governor of Montana.
★ Liza Donnelly, Cartoonist for the New Yorker
★ John Porter East- former U.S. Senator for North Carolina.
★ Jim Fowler, star of Wild Kingdom.
★ Tim Grimm - Actor in various theater and cinema productions, co-star of Harrison Ford vehicle Clear and Present Danger.
★ Michael C. Hall - Actor on HBO's Six Feet Under and current star of Showtime's Dexter.
★ Margaret Hamilton - headed the team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo Program
★ Robert M. Hirsch, Chief Hydrologist and head of water science for the United States Geological Survey.
★ Thomas J. Hochstettler - President, Lewis & Clark College.
★ Deborah Hull - Former CEO of MedCases, Inc. and Ovid Technologies.
★ Anne Hunter - Children's book author and illustrator. Titles include ''Possum's Harvest Moon''.
★ Mary I. Hussey- Semitic text authority. First women to teach at American Society for Oriental Research in Jerusalem.
★ C. Francis Jenkins- inventor, showed movies in 1892.
★ Walter Jessup - Former head of the Carnegie Corporation
★ Mat Johnson - Novelist. Professor at The University of Houston Creative Writing Program
★ O.O Kuhn-Radio figure. Started career at Richmond Palladium-Item
★ Frances Moore Lappé - activist and author of three-million-copy bestseller: ''Diet For a Small Planet."
★ John Loose - Corning, CEO [3].
★ James S. Malek - Provost, Ithaca College.
★ Howard Marmon- Former president of American Society of Automotive Engineers.
★ Jana Matthews - Boulder Quantum Ventures, CEO [4].
★ Steve Miller - Former Associated Press bureau chief in Germany.
★ Richard K. Nakamura - Deputy Director, National Institute of Mental Health.
★ Larry Overman - Organic Chemist. Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
★ Polly Penhale - U.S. Environmental Officer for Antarctica, U.S. National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs.
★ Leslie Talbot Pennington - served on the American Unitarian Association Board of Directors
★ Robert Quine - named by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
★ Marc Reisner - Author of the books "A Dangerous Place" and Cadillac Desert'' the latter of which was described in his New York Times obituary as "a seminal work about the environmental cost of Western water projects." -
★ Willard A. Roberts- Helped develop fluorescent and black light for GE.
★ David Rovics - Folksinger and songwriter, famous for his anarchic lyrics.
★ Olive Rush - Artist
★ Stephen Schutt - President, Lake Forest College.
★ William E. Simkin- helped prevent national strikes and resolved thousands of labor disputes as the Federal Government's chief labor mediator and as a leading private arbitrator.
★ Lisa Margaret Smith - United States magistrate judge for the Southern District of New York.
★ Wendell Meredith Stanley - American biochemist. He shared a 1946 Nobel Prize for discovering methods of producing pure enzymes and virus proteins.
★ Howard A. Stern - former radio personality, currently teaching Mathematics in the New York City school system.
★ David C. Stump, M.D. - Human Genome Sciences, Executive Vice President.
★ Edwin Way Teale - naturalist writer, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1966. Elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Staff Writer at Popular Science.
★ Frederick Van Nuys, U.S. Senator from Indiana 1932-1944.
★ Amy Walters - Producer, National Public Radio.
★ Zack Warren - Ran the Boston Marathon while juggling in 2 hours, fifty-eight minutes. [5].
★ Robert Wissler - biochemist, discovered the damaging effects of smoking and cholesterol on the vascular system.
★ Kenneth Wollack - President of the National Democratic Institute [6].
★ Donald N. Wood - Author of multiple books, including ''The Unraveling of the West: The Rise of Postmodernism and the Decline of Democracy''.
★ Stanley T. Wray- awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross of the Royal Air Force.
★ Harry N. Wright - former president of City College of New York.
Notable Faculty
★ Landrum Bolling - President of Earlham from 1958 to 1973, Current Director at Large of Mercy Corps. Back channel between Yasir Arafat and Jimmy Carter.
★ Wayne C. Booth - (former) Professor of English- Literary Critic; author of ''The Rhetoric of Fiction'' and ''The Company We Keep''.
★ John Elwood Bundy, impressionist painter.
★ Ferit Guven - Associate Professor of Philosophy. Author of ''Madness and Death in Philosophy''.
★ Del Harris, former Earlham basketball coach; current NBA coach.
★ John Hunt - (former) Professor of English, Faulkner Scholar.
★ Caroline Higgins - Professor Emerita of Peace and Global Studies and History, author of the book "Sweet Country", listed in by David Horowitz.
★ Jackson Holbrook Bailey - Asian studies educator.
★ John Iverson - Professor of Biology. Turtle Expert. [7].
★ Tom Kirk - Director of Earlham's Lilly Library, named Academic Librarian of the year in 2004
★ Paul Lacey- Professor Emeritus of English. Literary executor to the late poet Denise Levertov. Presiding Clerk of the American Friends Service Committee (since 2005).
★ Robert L. Kelley- Former president, made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government.
★ Dale Edwin Noyd — decorated fighter pilot and Air Force captain who became a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.
★ Howard Richards - Professor Emeritus and founder of Earlham's Peace and Global Studies program/department; author of several books pertaining to the Philosophy of peace and justice.
★ Peter Suber - Senior Research Professor of Philosophy, creator of the game Nomic, and a leader in the open access movement.
External links
★ Earlham College - official website
★ The Earlham Word - Student Newspaper
★ Earlham College - official athletics website
★ Earlham LiveJournal Community
★ Earlham Action Against Rape website
★ WECI 91.5 fm Richmond
★ Earlham Student Film Guild Website
★ Earlham College - campus map
★ USA Today article
★ Joseph Moore Musem
★ Ealrham College, Where the Nuts Control the Squirrels - Extra-official website
References
# America's Best Colleges 2006
# Earlham Facts > Fast Facts > Faculty > Full-time
# Earlham Facts > Fast Facts > Enrollment
# Earlham Style Guide > Sports Style
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