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	Visitors of Note

Helping To Make CSU, Chico Better

MAYA ANGELOU, poet, historian, novelist, playwright, civil rights activist, producer, film director, and Pulitzer Prize winner, spoke to a packed Laxson Auditorium on February 8, 1999.

House of Sky author IVAN DOIG, a prolific novelist and National Book Award finalist in contemporary thought, came to CSU, Chico on February 10, 1999, to read from his works about his home on the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana and to discuss the art of writing.

Bird by Bird author ANNE LAMOTT came to campus on February 25, 1999, to present her humorous, honest discoveries about alcoholism, motherhood, death, and Jesus. She is a columnist and author of five novels and two best-selling nonfiction books on the process of writing.

As part of the Visiting Scholars program, HUNTINGTON F. WILLARD, chair of the Department of Genetics and director of the Center for Human Genetics at Case Western Reserve University, the Human Genome Project, and University Hospitals of Cleveland, visited CSU, Chico March 3-5, 1999. In 1997, Willard helped create the first human artificial chromosome, a major breakthrough in genetics.

Feminist performance artist from New York, LISA KRON, performed her new 2.5 Minute Ride in Laxson on March 4, 1999.

Former Israeli Prime Minister SHIMON PERES, a 1994 Nobel Peace Prize winner for his role in the Oslo Peace Accords, brought his message of hope and peace to CSU, Chico on March 18, 1999, as a Presidential Lecturer. "We have moved from a world of borders to a world of horizons," he said. "We have moved from an existence based on territory to a progress dependent on science and technology, from an economy of land to an economy of brains."

MARGE PIERCY, award-winning feminist author and lecturer, read from her works of poetry, essays, and fiction on April 12, 1999, in the Performing Arts Center.

Former East Timor representative to the United Nations JOSE RAMOS-HORTA, a 1996 Nobel Peace Prize winner for his sustained efforts in support of his country against the illegal invasion and annexation by Indonesia in 1975, came to CSU, Chico as a Presidential Lecturer on April 19, 1999, during Founders Week. He is a champion for human rights and self-determination.

The keynote speaker on April 20, 1999, for Earth Month at CSU, Chico was LOIS GIBBS, who won the 1990 Goldman Environmental Prize for her work on the Stop Dioxin Exposure Campaign. Gibbs is currently the head of the Center for Health, Environ-ment, and Justice, an organization dedicated to fighting environmental hazards, something Gibbs has known intimately since she discovered her child was attending an elementary school built on top of a 20,000-ton toxic chemical dump, the notorious Love Canal in upstate New York.