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Subject: Mary Platt

  • Chapman settles suit with ACLU, Jewish Fraternity

    The ACLU Orange County Chapter plans to announce that it settled a case it brought against Chapman University regarding the school's censoring of an unrecognized chapter of the Jewish fraternity Sigma Alpha Mu, ACLU spokeswoman Celeste Durant says. Chapman senior Pascal DeMaria and more than a dozen other students attempted to found the Chapman fraternity unsuccessfully in 2006 [see "Scarlet Letters" May 10]. After Chapman refused to recognize them, the group began calling themselves Sigma Alp

    December 13, 2007
  • Scarlet Letters

    Chapman U. dean under scrutiny for scolding outcast fraternity

    May 10, 2007
  • Even Chapman U Feeling the Publishing Blues?

    I have no love lost for Chapman University, the private school from which I graduated in 2001 but for which I have no respect since President Jim Doti doesn't give a shit about letting a free press do its job. But their head PR person, Mary Platt, is a nice woman (unlike their previous PR lady, Ruth Wardwell), and so it was with sadness that I received the latest issue of the alumni magazine. It comes out every quarter, and is usually fat with alumni updates, short features about Chapman teacher

    February 6, 2009
  • OC's Famous Desegregation Case Finally Gets Its Historical Due, But One Family Feels Left Out

    November 5, 2009
  • How Chapman University's Logo Got a Cameo in "The Fourth Kind"

    ​After generating about $15.5 million at the box office in its opening weekend, The Fourth Kind starring Milla Jovovich only took in a disappointing $4.6 million in its second, this past weekend. Adding insult to insult, Universal has been stung with criticism for fabricating news articles to bolster the alien abduction movie's "based on a true story" claim.Even if you've joined the millions and millions avoiding this steaming pile of celluloid, chances are you've see

    November 17, 2009