Barbara Pierce Bush Discusses Global Health and NGO’s

April 9, 2015 Joelle Leib

Elizabeth Hubert Malott series speaker Barbara Pierce Bush highlighted the success of her international organization Global Health Corps (GHC), which champions global health equity, and encouraged Scripps students and the greater Claremont community to pursue a career in social justice.

Barbara Bush to be the New Speaker for Malott Public Affairs Program

February 7, 2015 Joelle Leib

On March 24, Barbara Pierce Bush will give a lecture entitled “Confronting Today’s Global Health Challenges” at Garrison Theater as part of the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Public Affairs Program, which seeks to bring speakers to campus who offer opinions not commonly found at Scripps. Barbara Bush, daughter of the 43rd President, George W. Bush, co-founded and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of the Global Health Corps.

Editorial: In response to George Will/Scripps Conflict

October 23, 2014 Scripps Voice

In early October, The Claremont Independent publicized the fact that conservative journalist and speaker George Will was uninvited to speak at the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Public Affairs Program event at Scripps College after his offensive and harmful comments about the issue of sexual assault on college campuses in his June 6 column titled “Colleges Become the Victims of Progressivism.” The Scripps Voice condemns Will’s column and fully supports the Scripps administration’s decision to not finalize the plans that would have brought Will to speak on campus.

Scripps terminates plans to bring George Will to campus

October 23, 2014 Lucy Altman-Newell

Nationally-syndicated- conservative journalist George Will was slated to speak this year, but Scripps made the decision to not go through with the invitation after he wrote a column for Washington Post about sexual assault on college campuses which claimed that “when [colleges and universities] make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate.”