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What Matters to Me and Why
Sponsored by the Office of Religious & Spiritual Life and the Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics.
From the website:
“What Matters to Me and Why” is a monthly talk and discussion series featuring USC faculty and
administrators. The series encourages reflection about values, beliefs, and motivation in the lives of
those who help shape our university. Presenters are encouraged to talk about choices made, difficulties
encountered, and commitments solidified.
WMMW also represents a creative solution to an important and often unrecognized problem in the
university setting: the separation of intellectual life from personal and spiritual issue. For some time,
students have been asking for more informal contact with faculty. They have expressed their desire to
encounter faculty and administrators as rounded human beings, professional models, and mentors. The
people who shape USC, who teach students the ways of their particular disciplines, and who help them
develop marketable skills also have a great deal to pass on in terms of worldly wisdom, moral guidance,
and sources of spiritual strength.
At each WMMW session, the featured guest spends about twenty minutes addressing the topic “What
Matters to Me and Why,” and then the floor is opened to informal dialogue for the remainder of the
hour. Just as there is no one way to address the topic, so there will be no one direction in which
dialogue will proceed. The WMMW program maintains an arena in which people can talk about
important, personally charged questions in an open, mutually respectful way.
The program was originated by the Dean of Religious Life Susan Laemmle in 1999 (or so), and I began
recording the talks on audiocassette tape in 2002.
When Varun Soni succeeded Rabbi Laemmle in 2007, I continued to produce audio recordings until
2009, when Dean Soni began to have students do video recordings. I have ripped the recordings from
DVDs and then downloaded the videos from YouTube.
The program has been on hiatus over the pandemic year.
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