From Pepperdine, Claremont McKenna College & USC
With the winds gusting with almost Santa Ana velocities, maybe it's time to duck indoors and catch a busy, informative day of free, public talks and discussions:
- In Malibu at noon, a California Lutheran professor and Trojan Ph. D. will delve into the peculiar, low-calcium diet favored by Latinos and other issues that leave Latinas, in particular, at apparent high risk of osteoporosis. That's the brittle bone disease that afflicts as many as one in three Latinas older than 50 and helps explain why hip fractures in Latinos older than 50 have doubled in California in the last 25 years, says the prof, who is researching the issue in Ventura County. He's also investigating changes in bone and muscle among the elderly, in general, as well as bone differences by ethnicity.
Why do Latinas need to be aware of diet, brittle bone disease?
- In Claremont at 4:15 this afternoon, the chair of the religious studies department will explore what role faith and religion may have played in the 2008 presidential elections, and, in particular, the ascendance and victory of Barack Hussein Obama. How did a liberal Protestant with a Muslim heritage so sway Catholics, evangelicals, Jews, women and people of color to his cause and what does that triumph portend for future campaigns, especially the role of religions and the religious in them?
Exploring role of religion, religious in 2008 presidential campaign
- In Exposition Park at noon, a panel of experts and activists will dissect and discuss the burgeoning presence and importance of Asian immigrants in the Southland workforce, asking how this population fits into historic patterns, what special needs and challenges it might have, why it fails to attract the public and media attention paid, say, to its Latino counterpart, and, of course, whether it might be organized and how by ever-present and traditionally powerful Los Angeles labor unions.
What's ahead for growing number of Asian immigrants in LA workforce?
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