The Myth of Martyrdom Good For Business Indie Innovator Challenging the conventional thinking Educating the next generation Putting the independence back about suicide bombers of executives and entrepreneurs into independent film

The Magazine of Haverford WINTER 2013

It began in 1897 as a simple system for holding exams without proctors. Since then, the cherished HONOR CODE has become the purest expression of the College’s values and an intrinsic part of a Haverford education. 9 20

Editor Contributing Writers DEPARTMENTS Eils Lotozo Charles Curtis ’04 Prarthana Jayaram ’10 Associate Editor Lini S. Kadaba 2 View from Founders Rebecca Raber Michelle Martinez 4 Letters to the Editor Graphic Design Alison Rooney Tracey Diehl, Louisa Shepard 6 Main Lines Justin Warner ’93 Eye D Communications 15 Faculty Profile Assistant Vice President for Contributing Photographers College Communications Thom Carroll 20 Mixed Media Chris Mills ’82 Dan Z. Johnson Brad Larrison 25 Ford Games Vice President for Josh Morgan 48 Roads Taken and Not Taken Institutional Advancement Michael Paras Michael Kiefer Josh Rasmussen 49 Giving Back/Notes From Zachary Riggins the Alumni Association 54 Class News 65 Then and Now On the cover: Photo by Thom Carroll Back cover photo: Courtesy of Archives The Best of Both Worlds! Haverford magazine is now available in a digital edition. It preserves the look and page-flipping readability of the print edition while letting you search names and keywords, share pages of the magazine via email or social networks, as well as print to your personal computer. CHECK IT OUT AT haverford.edu/news/magazine.php Haverford magazine is printed on recycled paper that contains 30% post-consumer waste fiber. winter 2013

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28 Fictional Fords 36 COVER STORY: Honor Meet a few famed alums who exist only in movies, The College’s cherished Honor Code started out in 1897 as television and books. a simple system for holding exams without proctors. Since By Rebecca Raber then, it has become the purest expression of the College’s values and an intrinsic part of a Haverford education. 30 Good for Business By Rebecca Raber As dean of the of Missouri’s Trulaske College of Business, Joan T.A. Gabel ’88 nurtures the next 41 Indie Innovator generation of executives and entrepreneurs. Emily Best ’02 created the new digital distribution and By Michelle Martinez crowdfunding platform Seed&Spark to help independent filmmakers find funding and connect with audiences. 32 Dismantling the Myth of Martyrdom By Justin Warner ’93 A new book by Adam Lankford ’02 challenges the Revisiting the Intersection conventional wisdom about terrorists who carry out 44 suicide bombings. of Arts and Academics The Mellon Tri-College Creative Residencies Program, By Louisa Shepard administered by Haverford’s John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, helps make new connections among disciplines—and campuses. By Eils Lotozo 47 A Half-Century of Haverford’s Magazine By Eils Lotozo

Haverford magazine is published three times a year by College Communications, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA 19041, 610-896-1333, [email protected] ©2013 Haverford College view from founders

ur cover story about the Honor Code comes in the final semester of my term as interim president and after I’ve had the benefit of working and living with a Code that is perhaps the most dis- tinguishing quality of Haverford’s identity. It has Ocertainly made a powerful impression on me. I do not remember an honor code being part of my own under- graduate education at the University of , or at the large where I began my professorial career, although there were, of course, the usual admonitions against plagiarism. The emphasis was primarily on academic goals. Values were seldom discussed. I first became aware of Haverford College and its distinctive Honor Code from conversations with Bill Chace ’61. He and I worked together as president and at in the early 1990s. He was so admiring of Haverford and sought to emulate at Wesleyan its strong sense of a values-enriched edu- cation. As a “little university,” however, Wesleyan was somewhat resistant to thinking of itself as a small college community and was fiercely committed to university values, the most central being individual freedom, open inquiry and critical thinking— essential elements, to be sure, of liberal arts education. Nonetheless, I was taken by Bill’s presumption that education at a could be construed differently from that at a university, that it provided the opportunity to hone the ethical, as well as the intellectual, sensibilities of young people and to prepare them for a life of service to the community and the larger world. It was at Mount Holyoke that I encountered a much fuller embrace of community values and higher purpose undergirded by an honor code. Students pledged themselves to the code during first-year orientation: “I will honor myself, my fellow students, and by acting responsibly, honestly, and respectfully in both my words and deeds.” Students enter Haverford Coupled with the code, a historic sense of mission—about “fostering the alliance of liberal arts education with purposeful “capable of doing” and emerge engagement in the world” and preparing students to become change agents in the world—drew the community together in “able to do;” the Honor Code guides common cause. Yet even 14 years’ experience at this impressive, mission- that metamorphosis as it fosters driven college did not prepare me for the centrality of the Honor Code at Haverford and the degree to which a sense of ethical dis- the will and commitment crimination and purposefulness informs life and work at the College, where it is no less than a way of being. Like all institutions to do well, and good.

2 HaverfordMagazine with an honor code, this approach to life begins with (and relies Haverford in particular, concentrate and intensify a unique and on) values that we embrace as individuals—honesty and integrity powerful approach, and do so at a difference-making point in a chief among them. But at Haverford, where governance structures young person’s life. Students enter Haverford “capable of doing” give students an instrumental role in managing the community, and emerge “able to do;” the Code guides that metamorphosis the Code becomes a sort of polestar by which this fleet of indi- as it fosters the will and commitment to do well, and good. viduals learns to navigate as a collective. The standards of the I’d never heard of Isaac Sharpless until I moved into my office Code are called upon as a universal language that helps make in the summer of 2011. President of Haverford for a staggering complex—and, for most students, new—issues and challenges 29 years (from 1887 to 1916), he is perhaps best remembered comprehensible and manageable. By speaking the language of by Fords for remarks made at his first commencement. An excerpt the Code, first as individuals and then as shapers of community, from that speech, beautifully rendered in pen and ink, is framed students learn to build bridges across difference. They discover on my wall, so it’s fair to say that Isaac Sharpless spoke to me that those with whom they may disagree—but with whom they from the moment I got here. His are timeless words of welcome must work and live—can become partners. It takes faith in a to a world like no other, words that have inspired Fords to remain system of shared values; it takes “trust, concern and respect” (as true to the ideals embodied in the Code and, in upholding it, to students remind me). Practically speaking, the Code arises in better serve their communities: conversations about topics as diverse as plagiarism, community standards for communication, and the difference-making potential I suggest that you preach truth and do righteousness as you of replacing paper-towel dispensers in dorm bathrooms with have been taught, whereinsoever that teaching may commend hooks for washcloths. As I say, a way of being. itself to your consciences and your judgments. For your con- Our alumni often tell me that this depth and range of influence sciences and your judgments we have not sought to bind; and has prepared them for a life of purpose by teaching them to be see you to it that no other institution, no political party, no mindful of what it means to exist as part of a whole, as an owner social circle, no religious organization, no pet ambitions put of both opportunities and challenges that involve ourselves and such chains on you as would tempt you to sacrifice one iota others. Fords are successful thanks to the rigor of our academic of the moral freedom of your consciences or the intellectual program and the critical freedom of your judgments. thinking that it demands; Fords become leaders Isaac Sharpless speaks for me. when these skills are guided with a sense of With all best wishes, moral purpose and com- munity responsibility. Which is why I’m supremely confident in Haverford’s future. I can- not imagine a more effec- tive way to educate and Joanne V. Creighton prepare young adults. Interim President Certainly there are other worthy paths, and each leads to benefits for those who take such routes. But small liberal arts Isaac Sharpless in general, and

WINTER 2013 3 letters to the editor

CALL IT HOME As a freshman I was assigned to [Merion Bondy copied classmate Chuck Durante Congratulations to Haverford on the Hall] third floor with a roommate and ’73, a longtime Haverford volunteer, on new dormitories and to you on the inter- three windows so high from the floor that his letter to the editor. Here is Durante’s esting Fall issue. May I add to the inven- I could not look out without standing on response: tory of housing you listed? a chair or my roommate’s bed. (And an We have been sorely in need of new In the fall of 1942, I was assigned to awful bathroom!) living space ever since expansion reached Merion Hall, at the edge of the campus Well, that’s all ancient history. I’m so full flower 35 years ago. If new buildings closest to the railroad station. In the fall glad that the new dorms do not resemble are to be built, they should meet current of 1943, I shared briefly with friends in in any way what I experienced. I look for- specifications and should be built to last the penthouse in Merion. Returning ward to visiting personally these two new beyond the 21st century. I am not trou- from the Army in the fall of 1946, I lived dorms; they look from your photos just bled by [the use of] high-quality building in the un-pictured additions to Lloyd great! I hope the current residents appre- materials. Hall, where three of us squeezed into ciate them and care for them with love. Bear in mind that the funds for these two-person suites. My final year was —Mark C. Lissfelt ’54 two dormitories were privately raised. spent in Spanish House, sharing a dif- Your and my contributions did not pay ferent two-room suite with Spanish stu- I scanned Haverford magazine and was for them. On the other hand, Gerry dent Robert Parke Jr. ’50, my future struck by the opulence of the new dorms. Anderson and a dozen other classmates brother-in-law. I wonder how many hundreds of thou- are passing the hat this winter for the Remembering Rufus Jones, who sands of dollars, or even millions of Class of 1973 Scholarship, which is a spoke often in required Quaker meetings dollars, were spent on slate and teak part of Haverford’s commitment to pro- while twiddling his thumbs; William rather than on education. I know young viding need-blind admission to all stu- Wistar Comfort, who as a retired profes- people who cannot afford an education. dents, regardless of their resources. In an sor taught a course on Quakerism; and Haverford’s focus on providing top-notch era when some of our erstwhile peer insti- Professor Lunt, who made English his- digs for its elite clients makes me feel a bit tutions are retreating from that commit- tory important, makes the 1966 dorm ill. You keep asking us for money, and then ment, Haverford is doubling down on it. names very relevant. you spend it in ways that I find hard to jus- —Charles S. Sangree ’46 tify. And you seem proud of it. Do you DORM OLYMPICS (graduated 1948) need a reality check? —Jon Bondy ’73 A number of readers, responding to our “Then and Now” photo of the 1994 Dorm Olympics, wrote in to identify some of the faces in the crowd and tell us who won.

I really enjoyed seeing the “Then and Now” photos on the back page of the lat- est Haverford magazine. As one of the HCA captains in 1994 (along with co- captain Anne Santoro ’97), it brought back some great memories of being a Customs person that year. To answer some of your questions: 1. HCA won, of course. 2. The guy in the foreground with the bandana and striped shirt is Jon Hinze ’97 (a Customs person). Following a 1903 renovation, these buildings at 8-10 Railroad Avenue (seen here in the 1970s) became Merion Hall, a student dormitory. After a 1955 renovation, the buildings 3. The woman in the foreground with were turned into faculty housing. the white hat is Amanda [Rieder] ’97

4 HaverfordMagazine REMEMBERING Haverford School courts Tuesday and G. DIEHL MATEER ’50 Thursday mornings. Diehl coached us that I read with sadness [about] the passing of first year and would not accept any fee. He Diehl Mateer in the alumni obituaries would instruct us at practices and support- Team HCA in the 1994 Dorm Olympics. and wished to add a few personal reflec- ed us in the matches we arranged with tions. No doubt there have been many fine local prep schools. What a privilege it was (also a Customs person). athletes to have graduated from Haverford to be on the court with this legend! Diehl 4. The guy in the back with the sun- College, but I am not sure how many have was in his mid-50s at the time and could glasses and jester hat is Eric Tars ’98. been world-class. Diehl Mateer was world- still hit the ball beautifully. I can still vividly —Asim Rehman ’97 class. In addition to win- remember what it felt like ning the U.S. Intercolle- to be on the court with him: While other memories from Dorm giate Squash Champi- He could take any shot I hit Olympics have faded, if I’m sure of any- onships, as you reported, and return it effortlessly. thing, it’s that 1) my water balloon hit Diehl was three times I also vividly remember its target, and 2) that contributed to the national squash champion how generous Diehl was overall HCA crushing of the competi- and twice U.S. Open with his time and how gra- tion. In the words of our perennial chant, squash champion. In the cious was his manner. In “Gummere, Gummere, Gummere, YOU finals of the U.S. Open retrospect, I can only imag- SUCK!” (Somehow, HCA didn’t have as in 1959, Diehl defeated ine how our level of squash much animosity toward Barclay, or just Hashim Khan, who was appeared to a national not as catchy an insulting chant.) one of the greatest squash champion, but Diehl was —Eric Tars ’98 players of all time. Squash champion G. Diehl nothing but encouraging Mateer ’50 (right) appear- [Tars’ daughter Mona Escobar Tars also When Diehl won the ed on the cover of Sports and positive. I had a won- turned up in the fall issue, in a baby photo U.S. Intercollegiate Squash Illustrated in 1958. derful time with the Squash in Class News.] Championships in the late Club at Haverford, and the 1940s, Haverford had no squash team, nor opportunity to interact with Diehl figured That was my Customs team, and I can did it have one 30 years later, when I attend- prominently in this experience. As often somewhat help to identify the tall fellow ed the College. Haverford did not have happens, after graduation I lost touch with dead-center in the photograph, carrying squash courts at the time, but a few of my Diehl. And, unfortunately, while I was old our HCA placard. His name was Rob, and classmates and I were interested in playing enough in College to realize how fortunate he was one of my apartment-mates in HCA squash. We wanted to start a squash club, we were to have Diehl be a part of our 34; he was from , was quite tal- and the Haverford School allowed us to lives, I was not mature enough to properly ented with computers, enjoyed the use its squash courts each weekday morn- express my gratitude. Better late than never. bands Hüsker Dü and Sugar, and was ing. So, we had courts at our disposal, and —Martin Lipman ’81 asked to raise our standard there for a very desire, but no one to instruct us in the sub- obvious reason. I can remember all of those tleties and nuances of the game. One of WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! details but not his last name, unfortunately, my classmates, a senior, had a brilliant idea. Let us know what you think about the as he left Haverford for elsewhere within He said there was a world-famous squash magazine and its contents. Send us an a few years. I am the considerably shorter player who graduated from Haverford and email at [email protected]. guy wearing the ball cap directly under lived in the area. I felt that given our relative Or write to us: the “A.” And I must say that while my positions in the game of squash (Diehl Haverford magazine initial reaction to being labeled “Then” being world-class, us being beginners), it College Communications was incredulous displeasure, I don’t sup- would be inappropriate to impose upon Haverford College pose that one can argue with a photograph. him. Well, my classmate had already asked 370 Lancaster Ave. Boy, do I look young there! Diehl to help our fledgling squash club, Haverford, PA 19041 —R. Brigham (Brig) Lampert ’98 and [he] said he would come by the

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Colleen Farrell ’08 was one of four female soldiers to file suit, along with the ACLU, against the Defense Department over the ban on women in combat.

On the Legal Front Lines for Female Troops

hen news broke in ern Afghanistan in 2010, was moved to have to reschedule major operations to November that four join the suit by the experiences she had accommodate this, she says, but those female soldiers, along as a Marine first in a war zone. trips back to the base put her Marines in Wwith the American Civil Stationed in volatile Helmand Province, unnecessary danger, as the convoy had Liberties Union, had filed suit against she went on daily patrols and worked to travel though dangerous areas where the Defense Department over its restric- with the Marine Corps’ newly created insurgents had mined roads. tions on women in combat, it was a female engagement teams in their efforts “Because there are no women in the historic moment. Even more historic to connect with Afghan women. (See the infantry, ad hoc teams like the female was what followed in January: The winter 2011 issue of Haverford.) engagement team were created to oper- announcement that Defense Secretary “During my deployment, I faced a lot ate with combat units. My teams Leon Panetta was lifting the ban on of discrimination and unnecessary road- patrolled every day with the infantry women serving in combat—a decision blocks that prevented my team’s mis- units, lived in the same outposts as the that will allow women to officially move sion from being accomplished,” says infantry units and fought in combat with into frontline positions. Farrell. To comply with the Defense the infantry units. However, after return- Colleen Farrell ’08, one of the four Department’s Combat Exclusion Policy ing back home, they did not receive soldiers who filed the suit, is at the for women, Farrell’s entire team had to the same recognition for their combat center of the story. return to the main base every 45 days. experience.”

Farrell, who was deployed to south- Not only did battalion commanders Yet the decision to join the lawsuit MARGOT PHOTO/BEN AP PHOTO:

6 HaverfordMagazine was a difficult one for Farrell, a Quaker Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry ’69 whose Meeting in her native Mullica gave up his syndicated column for The Hill, N.J., supported her decision to join Herald in 2005, after 22 years, but he’s hardly been the armed forces. “I knew my command taking it easy. In the last decade, he’s published a and fellow Marines would not approve trio of comic novels and nine books for young of the manner in which I was speaking adults, including five (with Ridley Pearson) in the out against the policy,” she says. Starcatcher series (the basis for the hit Broadway “However, knowing that this was the play and the Starcatcher). Barry’s latest work, right thing to do for the future of female a novel called Insane City, was released in January. His first solo work of fiction in a decade, the black service members made it a lot easier.” comedy is set in Miami and tells the story of the ill- Farrell left active service just after the fated destination wedding of slacker Seth and high- lawsuit was announced and is now a strung bridezilla Tina. “A year spent writing a novel captain in the Marine Corps Reserve. is way, way harder than a year writing columns,” “I think if I had remained in the military, Barry told The Inquirer on the eve I would have faced several career risks,” of Insane City’s release. “You can’t get by just telling says Farrell, who lives in Cambridge, jokes. You have to make characters and have them Mass., and works for fellow Ford do something. And that, I gotta tell ya, is a pain.” Ted Rybeck ’85 in the social media services industry. “I know many honor- able women who declined to be in this lawsuit because of the potential ON CAMPUS consequences.” Farrell says she was surprised and The Students’ Council Speakers Committee thrilled when she heard the secretary of brought author and activist Gloria Steinem to Haverford in November to give a talk defense’s announcement about lifting the titled “The Progression of Feminism: Where Combat Exclusion Policy. “It was com- are we going?” Steinem, a pioneering leader pletely unexpected and something I of the women’s movement, discussed social thought would take years, maybe and economic issues facing women, and decades, to accomplish,” she says. “I am offered an idea for economic growth. “Equal pay for comparable work for women would cautiously optimistic, however, because be the greatest economic stimulus this there are still ways in which those who country could ever have,” she said. oppose us can prevent women from join- ing the infantry ranks.” For now, the lawsuit has been sus- pended as the plaintiffs—and the nation—wait to see the plans for imple- mentation that military leaders must present to the secretary of defense in May. —Eils Lotozo

STUDENTS IN THE MIDST OF LATE-NIGHT STUDY SESSIONS no longer need to leave Magill Library to find a hit of FYI caffeine. A new self-service coffee bar, dubbed The Daily Grind, has been installed in the Basement Lounge and offers coffee, tea and hot chocolate for 50 cents.

WINTER 2013 7 Ira deA. Reid House Rededicated

averford celebrated the rededication of the Ira deA. Reid House with a reception and panel discussion dur- Hing February’s Volunteer Leadership Weekend. According to Theresa Tensuan, associate dean and director of Multicultural Affairs, the past year has been an important one for Reid House, also known as the Black Cultural Center. Last spring, discussions about a proposed change in use for the space evoked vehement student opinion that it should remain a res- idence and cultural center. During the summer, the building underwent renovations to make it handicap accessible, and was explicitly designated a community space for meetings and events. “I see this year as a kind of reanimation of the Reid House,” Tensuan said, “and I have to credit this year’s residents for bringing the house through this transition.” Black Students League Co-Heads Sarah Puryear ’15 and Dawit The rededication event began with a welcome from Black Habtemariam ’15 speak at the Reid House rededication Students League Co-Heads Dawit Habtemariam ’15 and Sarah ceremony. Puryear ’15, who discussed some of the activities taking place in the house, originally dedicated 20 years ago, and spoke ’86, a sociology professor, the panel includ- about the building’s namesake, a sociologist who was the ed Tiffany Johnston ’09, Iain Haley Pollock ’00 and Jim Pabarue College’s first black tenured professor. ’72, who spoke about arriving at Haverford in 1968 and join- Another speaker at the reception, Garry Jenkins ’92, a mem- ing a class that was the first in the College’s history to have a ber of the Board of Managers, noted that Haverford taught him sizable number of African Americans. And panelist Nicole the value of diversity and that diversity starts with leadership. Myers Turner ’97 recalled her own freshman year. “I came in “When I think about higher education, it’s ultimately about thinking the institution had everything figured out. I realized leadership,” he said. “We want people who will go out and you have to bring your critiques and challenges to the insti- change the world, and Haverford prepares you to do that.” tution,” she said. “It’s not your burden as a person of color, Later, an Alumni of Color panel brought together four Fords but your gift to the institution as a person of color.” from different decades. Moderated by Sarah Willie-LeBreton —Prarthana Jayaram ’10

De-stress. With dogs!

It was all smiling faces (and furiously wagging tails) in Ryan Gym the two groups joined together to bring a contingent of adorable on December 20 for Dog Day, an event sponsored by the Pre-Vet pooches from Main Line Animal Rescue to campus to help Society and HaverMinds, a new club at the College devoted to exam-frazzled students de-stress. Ryan was packed as Fords promoting awareness of mental health issues. With the idea that frolicked with six dogs of different shapes and sizes, from a pit there is nothing like a few sloppy puppy kisses to ease tension, bull-terrier mix to a bulldog with a charming underbite.

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Bi-Co microfinance students on a field visit to Hossaindi Village in Bangladesh.

Microfinance Students Travel to Bangladesh

ometimes, to really learn before,” says Mudd, who helped Back on campus, the trip’s influence something you have to go to launch Haverford’s Microfinance and is still being felt. Mudd is infusing his the source. Want to learn Impact Investing Initiative (Mi3) in fall microfinance classes with observations SFrench? Go to . 2011. “And it is well understood that from his travels. Students in the Fascinated by ancient ruins? Go to microfinance institutions have to Microfinance Consulting Club are Greece. And if microfinance is your adjust their practices to the context in looking to focus on Bangladesh in their area of interest, Bangladesh is where which they are operating. So it was ongoing mapping project. And one you need to go. Many consider the also important to see how they work in student, Melissa Forrow ’13, used the South Asian country the birthplace of a very specific environment.” trip to gather research for her econom- the growing field, which aims to lift Through a partnership with ics senior thesis, on how microfinance individuals out of poverty through Alliance Forum Foundation, and with loans affect women’s empowerment microloans and other financial servic- funding help from Haverford’s Center and levels of domestic violence. es. Nobel Peace Prize winner for Peace and Global Citizenship and “I [wanted] to finish writing my Muhammad Yunus formed his , Mudd was able to thesis in the spring feeling like I had Grameen in Bangladesh in 1983, take nine Bi-Co students to Dhaka and taken advantage of all of the resources and two of the other innovators in the Bogra over winter break. The group available to me and incorporated both field, BRAC and ASA, are also head- kept a busy schedule over its 10-day personal and academic experiences to quartered there. So when Visiting trip, visiting eight non-governmental create an authentic and informative Assistant Professor of Economics organizations and microfinance institu- work,” says Forrow. “It would be arro- Shannon Mudd was looking for a place tions (MFIs) for lectures, and going to gant to claim real knowledge of the to take his microfinance students for six sites to meet clients and observe social effects of microfinance in some field experience, Bangladesh was the effects of the organizations’ work. Bangladesh without ever interacting a natural destination. The students heard from representa- with a loan officer, loan recipient or “I was keen to take students to a tives of groups like the Association of other microfinance worker in the place that would likely expose them Medical Doctors of Asia, a nonprofit country. The study tour was an incred- both to a very different culture and to a that promotes the health of the poor, as ible opportunity to do that.”

BANGLADESH PHOTO: AKIKO YONEYAMA AKIKO PHOTO: BANGLADESH level of poverty they had not seen well as those from more typical MFIs. —Rebecca Raber

WINTER 2013 9 Noelia Hobeika ’13, a student worker in the Gallery, listens to student-created audio descriptions of the exhibition What Can a Body Do? on one of the iPod nanos available to visitors.

Making Art Accessible

utting together any major art several exhibition-related events and presence. Haverford’s Web Communi- exhibition is a big undertaking. talks, and making the show catalog cations Designer Sebastianna Skalisky Beyond determining just the available in a braille version and as an and Senior Web Communications Pright selection of work, gallery audio CD with recordings of the full text Developer David Moore strategized with spaces must be reconfigured, lighting as well as supplemental material. the organizers to design a website that must be carefully adjusted, appropriate In an ambitious project carried out could accommodate visitors who are labels and signage must be devised—all by 11 Haverford students who worked color blind, have low vision or contrast of it focused on finding ways to best on the exhibition and in the gallery, issues. They also included an audio-only showcase the art and help gallery visi- descriptions of the work were recorded interface for people who use voice-over tors connect with it. For the Cantor and placed on the exhibition website technology on their computers Fitzgerald Gallery exhibition What Can and on iPods nanos (which feature new “Typically it is large museums and a Body Do?, which featured nine artists software that increases their accessibili- galleries that provide significant whose work reframes disability, the task ty) available at the Cantor Fitzgerald access features for people with disabili-

was even more complex. Gallery front desk. Those recordings ties,” says Visiting Assistant Professor COLLEGE MAWR BRYN FOR FARMAN : KIT In the words of curator Amanda offered multiple perspectives and of Writing Kristin Lindgren. “The Cachia, the work in the show, which ran included the voices of the artists them- Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery staff, the October 26 through December 16, con- selves as well as descriptions recorded Hurford Center for the Arts and fronted “dominant cultural perceptions by the students. Humanities and the web designers of scale, deafness, blindness, mobility, Michael Rushmore ’14, co-manager in College Communications broke visible and invisible bodily differences.” of the Gallery staff with Aubree Penney new ground on what’s possible for Given those themes, the challenge for ’13, handled the recording and editing of small galleries.” the organizers of What Can a Body Do? the sound files. “We recorded people in Lindgren, who co-organized in/visi- was accessibility: How to take an art a few rooms around campus using a ble, a 2011 symposium on disability and exhibition—typically a visual event microphone from the Instructional the arts with Assistant Professor of experienced by walking through a Technology Center and Audacity, a sim- English Debora Sherman, reports that space—and make it something that peo- ple sound recording program,” he says. What Can a Body Do? curator Amanda ple of differing abilities could experience “All of the text was written by the Cachia spoke about the exhibition’s in a variety of ways. students participating in the project,” audio description project in a talk she To do that, the exhibitions team says Penney, who coordinated the plan- gave at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. employed a number of strategies, ning and writing. “It was a pretty incred- “Haverford is way ahead of the curve in including hanging the art at a height ible collaborative effort.” terms of creating multiple modes of comfortable for visitors in wheelchairs, Also completely rethought for What access to a small gallery exhibition,”

bringing in sign language interpreters for Can a Body Do? was the exhibition’s web says Lindgren. —E. L. NINA LARRISON; BRAD SULLIVAN: CARROLL; THOM PHOTO: GALLERY

10 HaverfordMagazine WHRC Returns lines hose left wondering about the current state of WHRC after reading our Haverford magazine history of the

Tstation “Haverford on the Radio” (spring/summer main 2012) will be pleased to know that it has been revived. General Managers Karl Moll ’14 and Fairleigh Barnes ’13 (pictured right at a live broadcast from the Sunken Lounge in the Dining Center) have reconceived WHRC as an online-only station that features more than 40 shows—including one that spot- lights music influenced by the Berlin club scene and another that offers folk music and political talk—hosted by members of the Bi-Co community. These shows are currently available only via live-streaming, meaning that listeners must tune in at the appointed hour, between 4 p.m. and , to hear a given program. Check radioFords.com for a full schedule.

Journalist and author Andrew SOUND BITE A Modern Take on Sullivan (the creator of and central voice behind the influential politi- Chekhov’s The Seagull cal and social commentary blog The Dish) gave a talk at Haverford in February that offered his trench- The Bryn Mawr and Haverford Theater Program presented The ant perspective on the world as a Nina Variations by Steven Dietz in November. Set in a lake house in the off season, Dietz’s play focuses on The Seagull’s gay man, a conservative and a final, tragic scene between Nina, an actress spurned by her Catholic. lover, and Treplev, a young writer whose love Nina had rejected years earlier. With a cast of 16 playing a series of Ninas and Treplevs, the play offers 43 variations on their fateful encounter “Even I, as someone who has cam- to explore what might have happened if the conversation had paigned for marriage equality for gay gone differently. The production, directed by Theater Program Instructor Catharine Slusar, ran for six performances in the people, don’t want the Supreme Hepburn Teaching Theater in Bryn Mawr’s Goodhart Hall. Court to decide for this society what marriage must legally be. I want the change to come from below. I want it to come from the changes in people’s hearts and consciences and minds. I want change, if change is necessary, not to disrupt the society that we have more than necessary, because, as a conservative, I like what I have.” —Andrew Sullivan Among the 16 student actors featured in The Nina Variations were (from left) Cory Downing ’14, John Dominguez ’15, Ryan Rebel ’14 and Joseph Vito Ramirez ’13.

WINTER 2013 11 IN THE COLLECTION

Spotlighting the rare and marvelous holdings of Quaker & Special Collections

Artist and illustrator Maxfield Parrish, Class of 1892, already showed great promise while a student here, as evidenced by his fabulously illustrated chemistry notebook, which describes 33 experiments and fea- tures drawings of elves operating Bunsen burners and doing other lab tasks. The chemistry notebook is part of the Maxfield Parrish Collection, which includes letters, manuscripts, original sketches and drawings, and other items. Last year, the College acquired 18 photographs taken by Parrish, who used photos as an aid to developing his distinctive style.

A FAB Loveshack

icing and more candy than anyone knows what to do with. Prizes are awarded, but winning isn’t the point. A number of this year’s Loveshack creations were Haverford- centric, such as miniature models of the Duck Pond (left) and the Haverford College Apartments (below), as well as numerous replicas of squirrels. Others went with the Valentine’s Day theme and created hearts and heart-shaped buildings. (The crowning achievement in this category was undoubtedly the “Prison of Love,” which featured towers and even a drawbridge.) Still other Loveshack teams, going for the truly offbeat, created gra- very February Fords Against Boredom, a student group ham cracker and candy models that organizes fun, alcohol-free activities on and off of farm scenes, the Super Bowl, campus, takes the crafty, homespun idea of making a Noah’s Ark and a sarcopha- gingerbread house and turns it into a distinctive gus—complete with a napkin- E wrapped mummy inside. Havertivity with Loveshack. This year, 150 students braved ice and snow to attend the pre-Valentines Day event in Ryan Gym. —Jack Hasler ’15 Loveshack’s ground rules are simple: Organize into teams of To see a photo gallery of more Loveshack creations, visit the any size and make whatever you want out of graham crackers, Haverblog: hav.to/haverblog.

FYI THREE NEW GROUP STUDY ROOMS have opened on the fourth tier of Magill Library. The three new spaces—named Cervantes, Faulkner and Woolf—are equipped with monitors and white board tables.

12 HaverfordMagazine Who Killed Sarah Stout?

here’s been a great rounding it. Every search in were her contemporaries.” lines mystery afoot on the collections uncovered You can make your own campus this winter, new bits of evidence. The decision about the mystery Tand the Haverford form of the exhibit really by visiting the exhibit and main community is being called speaks to that experience.” following the hashtag upon to help solve it. Sarah Visitors to the exhibit can #WhoKilledSStout on Stout, a wealthy British explore several locations in Twitter. March 18 will be Quaker woman, has been Stout’s 17th-century village, Judgment Day, when the visi- found dead, presumably including a coffeehouse, a tors’ verdicts will be tallied strangled. But the investiga- tavern and the Quaker and announced and we’ll tion of her alleged murderer, Meetinghouse, to gather find out who, in fact, did kill Spencer Cowper, and his clues by overhearing the Sarah Stout (at least in the accomplices has been fraught defendants on the night of Vanessa Hernandez ’14 minds of the Haverford com- with scandal—rumored the murder or witnessing the created this drawing for the munity). For more informa- iPad murder mystery game adultery, forged love letters, autopsy. They can read pri- that is part of an interactive tion or to play the online game: suicide accusations and polit- mary source material such as Magill Library exhibit. hav.to/sarahstout. —R. R. ical backstabbing—and they pamphlets of post-trial com- have been acquitted at trial. mentary, study a book of Did we mention that this 18th-century anatomical murder actually took place in drawings, and view artifacts, 1699 and was never solved? all from the period. Jen Rajchel BMC ’11, There is also a digital Daniel Dae Kim ’90 Brings who serves a dual appoint- component of the game that Linsanity to Sundance ment as assistant director summons a character from of the Tri-Co Digital the trial (such as Cowper Humanities and Digital himself or Sarah Stout’s When a 6-foot-3-inch Scholarship Curator at mother) on a mobile device Taiwanese-American point Haverford,, is reopening the to give players further clues. guard from Harvard Univer- case in the court of public This component, which sity who had already been opinion with Who Killed allows the historical charac- dropped by two NBA teams Sarah Stout? This interactive ters to be in dialogue with became the Knicks’ “most exhibit in Magill Library is the archives and the game popular player in a decade” based on the holdings of participants, was designed by (according to The Haverford’s Special Rose Abernathy ’13 and illus- Times) by scoring a record- Collections relating to trated by Vanessa Hernandez setting 136 points in his first Cowper’s 1699 trial, which ’13. (Rajchel was also aided five games with the New was one of the first to use an by Mary Clare O’Donnell ’14, York team, it seemed like the autopsy as evidence. the assistant curator for the sort of underdog success story of a Hollywood film. But long “Researching in the exhibit.) before Jeremy Lin became a star, his life was already a archives can be a bit like a “The goal of the game movie; a filmmaker had been following him with a camera, detective adventure,” says is to let the visitors enter catching every step of his seemingly meteoric rise. And the Rajchel, who conceived of Sarah Stout’s world,” says resulting documentary, Linsanity, which premiered at the this participatory murder- Abernathy, a computer sci- Sundance Film Festival in January to a standing ovation, mystery game/exhibit as a ence major who aims to be a features a Ford behind the scenes. The film is narrated by way to promote use of game developer and relished Daniel Dae Kim ’90, star of Lost and Five-O, Special Collections by stu- the experience of designing and Kim was on hand in to introduce the film to dents and faculty. “This is for a mobile app. “Jen want- audiences and help celebrate its success. The rights to especially true of the material ed visitors to explore the Linsanity have been sold, though a release date has yet to relating to this trial, because evidence and make their be announced, so keep an eye out for this feel-good story of the conflicting public own decision about who told by a familiar voice. —R. R.

COLLECTION PHOTO: DAN Z. JOHNSON; KIM PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES ENTERTAINMENT/ ROBIN MARCHAN ROBIN ENTERTAINMENT/ IMAGES GETTY PHOTO: KIM Z. JOHNSON; DAN PHOTO: COLLECTION opinion and accounts sur- killed Sarah Stout as if they

WINTER 2013 13 Stephen Emerson ’74 Awarded

lines France’s Legion of Honor

ormer Haverford College main President Stephen Emerson ’74 was named a chevalier (or Fknight) of the National Order of the Legion of Honor by French Ambassador François Delattre at a Jan. 18 ceremony in New York. The Légion d’honneur, as it is called in French, is bestowed in recognition of “outstanding achievement in the mili- tary as well as in the public and private sectors.” Emerson was honored for his role in returning to the Institut de France a stolen letter penned by René Descartes that was rediscovered in Haverford’s Special Collections. A scholar from Utrecht University Former Haverford President Stephen G. Emerson ’74 (right) with French Ambassador to found the four-page letter, which was the U.S. François Delattre. written in 1641, while doing research on Descartes in 2010. In it, the philoso- Haverford magazine, spring 2010.) Haverford and thrilled to have been pher explains to his publisher that he “Cher Professeur, as soon as you able to elevate Haverford in the eyes has decided to change the content of his were informed of the letter’s existence, of the Academy and the world, both seminal Méditations métaphysiques. The you declared there was only one in offering to return the letter, and in letter is one of thousands that were responsible course of action: to return sharing with the French the history stolen from the Institut de France in the it to France,” said Delattre in his and values of the College,” said mid-19th century by Count Guglielmo speech at the reception. The ambassa- Emerson, a hematologist and oncolo- Libri, then-secretary of the committee dor also paid tribute to the College, gist who is now the director of the for the general catalog of manuscripts in calling it “the ideal model of an Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer French public libraries, and its repatria- American liberal arts college, a model Center at New York Presbyterian tion garnered much interest from the that France deeply admires.” Hospital and Columbia University national and international press. (See “I felt honored, very proud of Medical Center. —R.R.

IN THE GALLERY

OPP: Other People’s Property (Jan. 25 – March 8) offers a broad survey of the work of photo conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas. Curated by Kalia Brooks, the solo show features pieces from several of Thomas’ series, including B®anded, which explores advertising language and logos; Unbranded, which presents images from ads created for black audiences; and Strange Fruit, which entwines the visual signifiers of lynching and professional sports. In all of his works, Thomas uses provocation and sly humor to help viewers understand their place in the consumer culture and the ways advertising affects how we see ourselves and others. Following Other People’s Property, Thomas serves as curator, with Natasha Logan, of White Boys, a group show whose artists use photography, video, painting, printmaking and sculpture to variously imagine white male identity within a broader network of racial and sexual tropes and identities. White Boys is on view in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery from March 22 through May 3.

Hank Willis Thomas, ”Branded Head,” 2003, LightJet Print, 20 x 30 inches THOMAS PHOTO: COURTESY THE ARTIST AND JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK GALLERY, SHAINMAN JACK AND ARTIST THE COURTESY PHOTO: THOMAS

14 HaverfordMagazine faculty profile

All Roads Lead to Rome Assistant Professor of Classics Robert Germany makes the past come to life as a way to understand the present. By Rebecca Raber

t’s not easy to elicit genuine laughter ancient literature that the class is trans- not-for-credit Greek reading group. from a room full of exhausted lating, and offers to meet any students Germany, she says, has a knack for relat- students at 9 a.m. on the last day of who need tutoring at the nearby IHOP ing the classical to the modern in order classes, but somehow Assistant at 1:30 in the morning, as long they buy to help his students comprehend, for Professor of Classics Robert Ger- him some pancakes. example, the humor of a certain scene Imany manages. In this “Elementary But when a student struggles to find by Roman playwright Plautus, or the Greek” class, the end-of-semester crunch the right English words for his Greek shock value of a detail revealed by ancient is evident in the look of the 12 students, translation, Germany is patient. He talks Greek orator Lysias. who are bundled up against the the whole class through each word, gen- Germany is a natural teacher, though December chill and sniffle and blow their tly prods the student to come to his own he never expected to end up in academia. noses while Germany quizzes them on correct conclusions, and then energeti- He hated school and never even intended their homework—translations. But their cally celebrates the eventual much- to go to college. After high school, he professor’s relaxed, jovial way has set improved translation. spent two years traveling and reading everyone at ease. Germany goads the “Professor Germany genuinely loves widely in such areas as English literature, students to “practice with anyone, even teaching introductory courses,” says theology, theater, art and philosophy. But a goldfish,” cracks jokes about getting Aubree Penney ’13, who has taken four he found in his independent studies that,

PHOTO: THOM CARROLL THOM PHOTO: tattoos of the different quotes from classes with him and is part of his weekly in fact, all roads do lead to Rome (or

WINTER 2013 15 Athens) and that, without the required sured. For him, every moment is an “It was great,” he says of the experi- classical language skills, he had run up opportunity not only to teach us the clas- ence. “Every day opened with a pig sac- against the wall of what he could study sics, but to teach us that learning can and rifice. Then they would discuss various on his own. does happen anywhere and everywhere.” pressing political issues of 403 B.C. and So Germany returned to the class- Germany teaches Latin and Greek argue out solutions, or fail to do so. What room, first at the University of at language classes, as well as courses on made the experience so pedagogically Austin and then at the University of topics like the ancient novel, Latin liter- rewarding was the way in which they Chicago, where he honed his knowledge ature and ancient comedy—the subject were constantly confronted with the ali- of ancient Greek and Latin. But he wasn’t of much of his own recent research. In enness of the Athenian world, constantly interested in using those skills to get lost addition to making dead languages come invited to step into that world, [and] con- in the past. “I really want to understand alive in the classroom for his students, stantly able to see how abiding those the world that’s around me—I want to he also makes the ancient plays he ancient concerns are for how democracy understand my own culture,” he says. teaches literally come alive when his works and fails to work today.” “And I figured out when I was a kid that “Latin Literature: Comedy” class mounts It “was one of my most remarkable if I wanted to understand our generation, an end-of-semester English-language educational experiences,” says Florencia I had to understand my parents’ gener- production for the campus. (This year’s Foxley ’13, who credits Germany with ation and my grandparents’ generation. play will be Plautus’ Miles Gloriosus.) her decision to major in classics. “It … And if what you care about is under- Germany has offered other theatrical required us to think about our readings standing Europe or the West or whatever ways of understanding the ancient world. and lectures in a new way. … Having you want to call it, you’ve got to start In fall 2009, he co-taught “Culture and your professors stand in front of your with Homer and build forward.” Crisis in the Golden Age of Athens” with class and say, ‘The Spartans just left, your Along the way, he fell in love with Assistant Professor of Classics Bret city is destroyed, you have almost no teaching. Inspired by his professors who Mulligan.In that class they played a game money and you need to fix it—go,’ con- brought Roman social, legal and art his- for which students created their own veyed the urgency that the Athenians tory into Latin language classes, he found Athenian identities, wrote essays from the faced in 403 B.C. way more vividly than the environment of classics classrooms perspective of those different characters any text could. We literally had only our- “romantic” and “moving.” And as a teach- and, for the last third of the semester, selves to blame if the greatest democracy ing assistant abroad in Athens for a quar- embodied the Athenian Assembly in class. and empire disappeared.” ter, he lived, traveled and ate alongside his students, glimpsing a new, more immersive way through which one could learn—a way that has served him well at an intimate liberal arts college like Haverford. “I saw a glimmer of something where education wasn’t hermetically sealed in classrooms and was a full body sport, and I loved it,” he says of his time in Athens. “I had no desire to separate myself from my students, and so, for me, the opportunity to live on campus at Haverford and have students over to my house a couple nights a week—I really thrive on that.” “His teaching extends far beyond the bounds of the classroom,” says Penney. John Farnum Professor of Astronomy Stephen Boughn (right) talks with “He and his family regularly invite stu- Peter Ferguson ’13 near the 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Ari- dents into their home near the Duck zona during a field trip to the facility. Boughn and Assistant Professor of Astron- Pond for study sessions for his courses, omy Beth Willman took seven students from their observational astronomy class to the facility over fall break. This is the fourth time the astronomers have traveled to Kitt and they host a weekly Greek reading Peak with students, who get the chance to learn how to control the telescope and make group. … He has met with me several observations. The trip was funded through the Louis Green Fund, the Koshland Integrated times as I struggled to determine my Natural Sciences Center and the National Science Foundation, and the students reported plans for graduate school and the future, on their experience with posts and photos in the Astronoblog (hav.to/astro).

and each time, I have found myself reas- CARROLL THOM OPPOSITE: MORGAN; JOSH PHOTO: PAGE THIS

16 HaverfordMagazine Winterreise and Beyond SYLLABUS

hen the College’s Performing Humanities (HCAH), he engaged Law and profile Artists Series hosted a Novem- Associate Professor of Fine Arts Wber performance of Franz Markus Baenziger and his sculpture Economics Schubert’s song cycle Winterreiseby Ruth class, Associate Professor of Fine Arts Marshall Magill Professor of Music Hee Sook Kim and her silk-screening Instructor: Vladimir Kontorovich faculty Curt Cacioppoand Montreal-based bari- students, Assistant Professor of Course description: What is the tone Alexander Dobson, the event German Imke Brust and her “Elemen- function of legal rules in the economy? involved much more than just the beau- tary German” students, and Associate Can there be order without law? Should tiful music presented on stage. The per- Professor of German Ulrich Schönherr the government compensate people formance marked the culmination of and his “Intermedial Transformations” when regulations reduce the value of months of collaboration between the two class in more than three months of their property? What about the woman artists, some 60 students and five pro- interdisciplinary collaboration related who got burned by hot coffee at fessors in different disciplines. to Winterreise. McDonald’s and won a couple of million The fine arts students used the piece dollars in compensation? These and as inspiration for their own prints and other questions are addressed as we sculptures, and the German students cre- look at property law, contracts and torts. ated film documentaries and used the Textbook: Law and Economics, songs’ lyrics as a source for grammar and Cooter, Robert D. and Ulen, Thomas. vocabulary study. All the students were linked via a Sample readings: “Toward a Theory Moodle chat room and visited one anoth- of Property Rights,” Harold Demsetz; “The Lessons of the Lighthouse: er’s classes to synthesize what they were ‘Government’ or ‘Private’ Provision of learning. Goods,” David E. van Zandt; “Privatizing In the days before the Nov. 30 concert, the Commons: An Improvement?” Terry the student compositions were reviewed L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill; Economic by Dobson and Cacioppo and an exhi- Forces at Work, Armen Alchian; The Student artworks inspired by Winterreise bition of the related student artworks, were exhibited in Founders Common Economic Institutions of Capitalism, Room before a performance of the titled “Winterreise and Beyond,” accom- Oliver Williamson; “The Nature and Schubert song cycle. panied by a showing of the film shorts, Function of the Patent System,” Edmund was held in Founders Common Room. W. Kitch; How the West Grew Rich, Schubert’s famous 24-song cycle is A reception, replete with Viennese pas- Nathan Rosenberg and L. E. Birdzell, Jr.; about the titular “winter journey” of a tries, followed the performance, which The Liability Maze, Peter W. Huber and spurned lover who wanders into the was the first chance to hear the College’s Robert E. Litan, editors. snow and moves from feelings of rejection Bösendorfer Imperial concert grand piano Sample assignments: Two papers and betrayal to longing for death. Written since its return to campus after more than based on published research that at the end of the composer’s life, as he a year of restoration by the Cunningham exhibit use of the analytic tools of succumbed to terminal illness, it has been Piano Company of Philadelphia. economics learned in class to deal with performed and recorded by many cele- “I’m truly delighted at how readily real-life property-rights, contract or brated artists. the students and fellow faculty members torts issues. Possible topics include: To connect the Winterreiseevent to the took to the idea of this integrative learning the historical development of property classroom, Cacioppo—who regularly theme, and how much imagination was rights in grazing land or petroleum; works to integrate his syllabi with brought to it,” says Cacioppo. “We appre- governing common property; American on-campus performances—taught the ciate also the enthusiasm and support of Indian property rights; patents and composition in his “Advanced Tonal the HCAH. I had earned a course release economic progress; takings; Harmony” class. His students did an for this semester, and consequently had slavery/serfdom; alternatives to con- in-depth analysis of Schubert’s entire work the to pursue this. It reminds me tract law (informal norms, ethnic ties; and composed response pieces to the cycle. why, early on, I wanted to teach at a liberal criminality); liability issues, such as But Cacioppo took that integration arts college rather than a conservatory, medical malpractice, worker compen- further. With support from the John B. in an environment where we are all ‘read- sation, environmental liability. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and ing together.’ ” —Rebecca Raber

WINTER 2013 17 3 Questions

Musicologist Richard Freedman takes a broad control their texts in multiple copies and view of early music in his new book Music in the to distribute their music far and wide. Renaissance. Part of W.W. Norton’s Western Music in And with this came a change in literacy. Context series, the book explores the role of music in More and more people learned to read Renaissance courts and churches, its shifting social music, and more amateurs learned to purposes and aesthetic ideals, and examines how new play. Having these abilities became one ideas and inventions (particularly printing) changed the of the marks of civility, and, increasingly, way music was transmitted and appreciated. Freed- musical competence became a badge of man, the John C. Whitehead Professor of Humanities prestige worn by Renaissance men, and at Haverford, is a noted innovator in the use of digital women, too. technology in the study early music, so the book offers an added dimension of instruction through a website The Renaissance was an age of that provides links to recordings of Renaissance music exploration and colonial expansion. via iTunes, Amazon and the Naxos Music Library. Did music factor into those encoun- ters with other cultures? Can you tell us a little bit about how the biggest, most lavish musical house- RF: One of the more surprising things music in the Renaissance was con- holds. Some (through their diplomatic was the extent to which European musi- nected to status and display? contacts and connections with the cal instruments were tools of diplomacy. Richard Freedman: What you have to church) engaged in all kinds of “corpo- When Europeans went abroad, to the remember is that most of the places we rate” raiding of musicians, like they do Ottoman Empire or the , part of think of as [European] countries now with professional sports teams now. the kit bag was technology: clocks, me- were, in the 15th and 16th centuries, chanical devices and musical instru- more of a collection of independent How did the invention of movable ments. Europeans saw these objects as principalities joined by dynastic alliances type change things for music and signs of their own accomplishments. In and common cultural interests. Ruling musicians? many respects, their encounters with princes were keen to have themselves RF: Before print, manuscripts would be other cultures were self-centered and seen as important persons, above all copied in the place where the com- self-aggrandizing. They were convinced through the demonstrations of what Aris- posers were active, and would contain that any non-European civilization they totle and his commentators called “mag- just enough information for the singer to found was inferior. Both Catholics and nificence,” which required spending decode the piece. Lots of decisions Protestants used music to teach Christi- appropriate to one’s rank. Music was an (about how to ornament the piece or anity as a part of their project of religious ideal medium for this display, precisely how to align words with the notes of the conversion. It was an agent of accultura- because it was expensive. You needed melody) were left to the discretion of the tion. When the Spanish came to the the best singers, and needed to equip performer. One manuscript copy of a Aztec world, for example, they took the them with good music copied onto lav- given piece would, in fact, be quite dif- children of the nobility who had been ish parchment choirbooks. Princes com- ferent from another in lots of important killed and taught them to sing sacred peted with one another to have the best, ways. Printing gave composers a way to music and to compose.

Psychology Benjamin Le its 2012 Media news+notes Prize at the Society’s January conference in New Orleans. Le and his collaborators Gary Lewandowski () Associate Professor in Fine Arts Markus by Marcel Duchamp, Harold Edgerton, and Timothy Loving (University of Texas Baenzigershowed his work at the Edward Piero Fornasetti, Philip Guston, Eadweard at Austin) were recognized for their web- Thorp Gallery in as part Muybridge, Man Ray, Paul Strand and site, ScienceofRelationships.com, which of the group exhibition Borrowed Time, Ed Ruscha. provides an alternative to self-help books which looked at how time is used as form,  and advice columns by offering cover- content and medium within various artistic The Society for Personality and Social Psy- age—geared to the general public—of pursuits. The exhibit also included works chology awarded Associate Professor of important research on relationships.

18 HaverfordMagazine Analyzing the News from Mali Associate Professor of Political Science Susanna D. Wing, who wrote a book about Mali, has become a sought-after media source on the crisis in that African country. By Lini S. Kadaba +notes

usanna D. Wing has weathered a She spent more than a decade swirling storm of media requests researching and writing her 260-page news Sin recent months. book, including living in Mali for a year In one January day alone, the associate plus several summers. “I think it’s essen- professor of political science spoke with tial that people get the story right,” she the Toronto Star, conducted a live interview says. “Sometimes, I read something and with France 24 TV and took to the air- I just cringe. Reporters are interviewing waves with NPR’s Worldview, even as she people who do not have deep knowledge fielded an inquiry from PBS. Almost daily, of the country.” she has considered queries from such news Then, on January 11 of this year, the Her own interview experiences have outlets as The New York Times, Al Jazeera, French military intervened at the request not always gone perfectly. A USA Today the Los Angeles Times, and the BBC, as of the Malian government. Suddenly, Wing story paraphrased her (incorrectly) as sup- well as from publications in , Iraq seemed to be on speed-dial for outlets both porting U.S. logistical support for troops and Brazil. big and small. “I’m trying to convey in intervening in Mali. “It made me sound What’s the big story? Wing has gar- snippets of information what’s going on,” like a hawk—and I teach at a Quaker col- nered international attention as one of the says Wing, who also is coordinator of lege,” she says. foremost authorities in the West on Mali, Haverford’s African and Africana Studies. But her three 15-minute interviews— an hour-glass-shaped country in West “I’m learning how to try and place things an eternity in on-air journalism—with Africa that has devolved into crisis. in context very quickly.” Jerome McDonnell of NPR have been Mali, a former French colony, was Journalists often “start flat footed,” says her favorites, and her analysis for other thrown into conflict when a rebellion in Al Tompkins, a senior faculty member at outlets has reached listeners in Europe the north escalated in the spring of 2012 the Poynter Institute, a non-profit jour- and across Africa. sparking a military coup d’état in the nalism training organization in St. “In the short term, it might appear a South. Islamist groups with ties to Al- Petersburg, Fla., and they seek out experts distraction,” says Wing of the demands Qaeda soon usurped the rebels. Wing, with certain qualities. “Are they press of being an expert source for the media who wrote the 2008, award-winning book friendly? Are they photogenic? Do they on Mali. “But in my mind, it’s an essential Constructing Democracy in Africa: Mali in speak in sound bites?” role I should be playing, given the oppor- Transition, got a flurry of media calls at Wing acknowledges the challenge of tunity to educate on this crisis. Every day the time. making points succinctly while preserv- I gain insights that are crucial for my own “Mali was a model for African democ- ing nuances. “This is a different way of research and teaching.” racy,” she says, and journalists wanted doing my work,” she says. “I’m used to Lini S. Kadaba is a freelance journalist to understand “How could it fold so doing research, which operates at a dif- based in Newtown Square, Pa., and former quickly?” ferent pace.” staff writer at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Professor Emeritus of Astronomy Associate Professor of hiplife music, culture and fashion in rela- R. Bruce Partridge gave a presen- Anthropology Jesse tion to broader cultural and political shifts tation about the results from the Weaver Shipley pub- in Ghana. Planck Mission for a symposium at lished his book, Living  the annual meeting of the American the Hiplife: Celebrity Assistant Professor of Chemistry Helen Association for the Advancement of and Entrepreneurship in K. White took four students, Elizabeth Science in February in . He Ghanaian Popular Music Willis ’13, Sarah Harrison ’13, Katie also did a television interview for ( Press). Sheline ’13 and Patrick Williams ’14, to the Euro-news show Space about The book details the New Orleans for the Gulf of Mexico Oil his presentation. production, consump- Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference  tion and circulation of in January.

WINTER 2013 19 mixed media BOOKS Q&A: Andy Greenberg ’04 The Noir Forties: WikiLeaks first caused a sensation in 2010 when, with partners in the news The American People from media, it began releasing secret documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. More recently the organization founded by former computer Victory to Cold War hacker (and current international fugitive) Julian Assange has been leaking emails from Syrian political figures, disclosing Department of Defense policies RICHARD LINGEMAN ’53 on detainees in military custody and publishing documents captured from intelligence contractors doing surveillance around the world. But the story n his provocative history of how high-tech “hacktivists” are liberating institutional secrets is bigger The Noir Forties, Richard than WikiLeaks. Andy Greenberg, a Forbes staff writer, tells that riveting tale Lingeman ’53 contemplates in This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileaks, Cypherpunks, and the period 1945-1950. In Hacktivists Aim to Free the World’s Information. Reviewers have called I those transitional five years the book a “must-read” and have praised Greenberg’s exhaustive research, bracketed by the end of World which included spending time in Bulgaria with the organizers behind War II and the beginning of the BalkanLeaks (one of more than 50 WikiLeaks copycats) and tracking down Korean conflict, the Soviet some of the pioneers of the movement, which dates back to the 1980s. Union, America’s wartime ally, Greenberg interviewed several of the so-called cypherpunks (creators of became its enemy and New early encryption tools), including Tim May, the former Intel engineer and Deal liberalism was a casualty author of A Crypto Anarchist Manifesto; and John Young, founder of of the Cold War. “Many felt Cryptome, a WikiLeaks precursor. This Machine Kills Secrets also includes suspended between two the world’s only interview with the mysterious former WikiLeaks engineer worlds,” he writes, “[that of] known only as the Architect, who Greenberg encountered at a hackers gath- the blessedly receding war and ering on an airfield outside Berlin. the nebulous future.” The following interview, con- Jed Lipinski: WikiLeaks claimed Lingeman was a teenager in ducted by Jed Lipinski, was that all information should be Crawfordsville, Ind., for most excerpted from a longer con- free. Is that the same thing as of that time, arriving at versation originally published saying there should be no Haverford in 1949. It was by the online news magazine secrets? decades later, he says in a Capital. Andy Greenberg: Well, I phone interview from his absolutely believe things need home on Manhattan’s Upper to be kept secret. And I think West Side, that he experienced with the movies of the era. He even Assange understood that how pungently film noirs, didn’t notice it in the 1940s, some things need to be kept those fraught cinematic noc- but as he rewatched films secret. Even when he was pub- turnes such as Night and the about remorse-filled men won- lishing thousands and thousands City and Out of the Past, dis- dering if and when their pasts of Iraq and Afghan war docu- tilled the anxieties and pes- would come back to bite them, ments, he redacted parts of simism of that era. it struck Lingeman that they them. In the later leaks—the “Those films seemed to cap- represented the traumatized Syria leaks, for example—he was ture the paranoia, the decep- and guilt-ridden GIs returning very careful to publish only a few tion, the mendacity of the Cold home from World War II. of them at a time. War—that ‘long twilight strug- “Consider D.O.A.,” he writes Obviously certain things need gle,’ ” he writes in his book, of the film in which hero to be kept secret: sources and which correlates social and Edmond O’Brien discovers he’s

continued on page 24 political events in America been slipped a lethal dose of a LINGEMAN ANTHEA PHOTO:

20 HaverfordMagazine slow-acting poison. “On its Lingeman admits that among inspired by Professor Ira Reid, surface it’s a murder film with a his peers at high school and whose political activities result- gimmicky plot twist.” Symbol- college there was a glamoriza- ed in the State Department ically, though, Lingeman tion of war. “I don’t think I was seizing his passport for a year. writes, “It represents the nature very well informed,” he says. “Haverford stood behind him,” of death in war.” Even in the Quaker environ- Lingeman says. This was not It also struck him that the ment of Haverford, “there was the case of the Hollywood stu- heyday of film noirs coincided little precedent for resistance.” dios that purged those accused with the fall of the liberal left As he remembers it, “the of “harboring subversive ten- during the postwar period. So talk at Haverford when I got dencies,” many of them poets many of the movies “were con- there and as I got closer to of noir. ceived and made by the writers graduation was, ‘Don’t wait to The Noir Forties argues that who would be interrogated by get drafted, volunteer.’” Shortly the “panic-driven political the House Un-American after he received his degree, he cleansing of films after the Activities Committee (HUAC), enlisted. Two weeks later, the HUAC hearings” struck a which descended on Holly- truce was signed, ending the blow to artistic experimenta- wood like a storm cloud in Korean War without a peace. “[Noir] films seemed tion and freedom, principles 1946 and left behind in 1950 Lingeman went on to serve in for which many GIs had the wreckage of careers and as an agent in the Army to capture the para- fought during World War II. artistic freedom. …” Counter Intelligence Corps, an —Carrie Rickey noia, the deception, A senior editor at The experience he writes about in Carrie Rickey is the longtime Nation and the author of defin- the book. the mendacity of movie critic for The Philadelphia itive biographies of Theodore At Haverford, Lingeman Inquirer. Read more of her film Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis, majored in sociology and was the Cold War.” commentary at carrierickey.com.

More Alumni Titles

RON CHRISTIE ’91: JOHN PITTS CORRY ’53: series of fictional saints, their human Blackwards: How Black Openings, Leadings foibles and efforts at transcendence. Leadership Is Returning and Dreams: Listening to America to the Days of the Inner Voices of Love EMMA EISENBERG ’09: Separate but Equal (AAD Distributing) Purple Heart Highway (St. Martin’s Press) Corry’s theological (Finishing Line Press) Despite hopes that memoir recounts his faith In her first chapbook of Barack Obama’s historic experiences. poems, Eisenberg writes election would usher in a “post-racial of pleading lovers, unrav- America,” Christie, a political consultant TERENCE CULLETON ’78: eling couples, young men and former special assistant to President A Communion of Saints: courting disaster, and George W. Bush, argues that divisive lead- Poems (Anaphora young women in a bar waiting for some- ers and race-based policies—in education, Literary Press) one to ask them to dance. Eisenberg’s lan- employment and elsewhere—are deepen- In this collection, Culleton guage, said reviewer Iain Haley Pollock ing social divisions rather than transcend- evokes with humor and ’00, “strikes a tender balance between the ing them. compassion the lives of a plainspoken and the sumptuous.”

WINTER 2013 21 More Alumni Titles continued from page 21

JENNIE PALCHES GRANT the College of William and Mary, uses standing of pressing environmental prob- ’87: City Goats: The Goat Ralegh’s massive History, a bestseller of its lems and improve our responses to them. Justice League’s Guide to era written while the author was impris- Also by Schlottmann (with Lori Gruen and Backyard Goat Keeping oned in the Tower of London, as a touch- Dale Jamieson): Readings in Environmental (Skipstone Books) stone in this exploration of historical think- Ethics and Philosophy, Second Edition Grant, a pioneer of urban ing and scholarship in the late Renaissance. (Oxford University Press). goat-raising in Seattle, reveals all there is to know about feeding, HUNTER R. RAWLINGS III H. YUAN TIEN ’53: You milking, and keeping goats (and your ’66, editor with Jeffrey Just Never Know: Tales neighbors) happy in the city and suburbs. Rusten: The Mind of From Contemporary Thucydides, by Jacqueline China (Publish America) MATT HEDSTROM ’92: de Romilly, translated by After being away from The Rise of Liberal Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings China for 26 years, the Religion: Book Culture ( Press) author returned to his and American Spirituality This is the first English birthplace in 1973, just as in the Twentieth Century translation of the book, a groundbreaking the country was opening to the world fol- (Oxford University Press) study when it was first published in French lowing years of revolutionary upheaval. Hedstrom, a professor at in 1956, which examines the ancient Greek Tien’s look at contemporary China mixes the University of , historian Thucydides and his famous work stories of his travels there over the last four examines how religious liberalism—first The Peloponnesian War. decades with accounts of the lives of embraced by a spiritual vanguard in the late friends and family who lived through 19th century—grew to become common- ANDY LEE ROTH ’90 and difficult times. place among the American middle class by Mickey Huff: Censored the mid-20th century. Among the significant 2013: Dispatches From JAMES M. WALLACE ’53: figures that feature in his account is promi- the Media Revolution Twins in a Two-Room nent Quaker and Haverford professor (Seven Stories Press) Schoolhouse Rufus Jones. The latest in the annual (Netarts Books) series issued by the media In an unusually detailed ERIKA PIOLA ’93, editor: watchdog group Project addition to the history of Philadelphia on Stone: Censored, where Roth is education, Wallace uses Commercial Lithography associate director, offers media analysis and a personal diaries, letters, in Philadelphia, 1828- roundup of the top 25 underreported news photographs and oral histories to chronicle 1878 (The stories of the year, including secret bank the lives of his mother and her twin sister, State University Press) bailouts, forced labor in U.S. prisons, the pri- who attended college during World War l This heavily illustrated vatization of education, sexual violence and went on to become teachers in a rural volume, a project of The Library Company against women soldiers, and the untold story school in in the 1920s. of Philadelphia, where Piola is a curator, behind the Fukushima nuclear disaster. looks at the social, economic and techno- ROBERT BLAKE logical changes that affected the lithographic CHRISTOPHER WHITEHILL ’85: Deadrise: trade and documents 19th-century SCHLOTTMANN ’02: A Ben Blackshaw Novel Philadelphia history through the diverse Conceptual Challenges for (Telemachus Press) images produced by the city’s many Environmental Education Whitehill’s first novel, set lithographers. (Peter Lang Publishing) on ’s Eastern In what one reviewer Shore, is an espionage NICHOLAS POPPER ’99: called “an important con- thriller whose hero, Ben Walter Ralegh’s History tribution to the literature Blackshaw, is a Navy SEAL turned oyster of the World and the of environmental education,” Schlottmann, fisherman. When Blackshaw finds a sunken Historical Culture of a professor at New York University, looks to speedboat filled with cases of gold bullion, a the Late Renaissance the integrative strengths of liberal education bomb and a corpse, he ends up pitted (University of Chicago Press) in an effort to broaden environmental edu- against a corrupt NSA operative and a band Popper, who teaches at cation in ways that could advance under- of mercenaries.

22 HaverfordMagazine MUSIC

If you’ve bought an album of contemporary clas- and three children in Westchester County, N.Y.,

sical music recently, there’s a good chance is a (non-professional) musician. In her mid- media Jeanne (Braun) Velonis ’94 worked on it. 20s, she taught herself the accordion, and after The recording engineer works for three-time being invited by a member of the Kronos Quar- Grammy Award-winning Classical Producer of tet to play in an ensemble performance of In C the Year Judith Sherman. “We usually have at least 25 projects under way at by Terry Riley at Carnegie Hall in 2009, she began to take lessons. any given time,” says Velonis, who takes on independent producing projects A music major who had a campus job recording departmental concerts, mixed in addition to her already busy schedule. Velonis took nearly every class the music department offered, even learning Velonis estimates that, so far, she has worked on more than 250 albums, a few recording techniques outside the classroom from her instructors. including favorites like the Kronos Quartet and Wu Man’s recording of Terry “Haverford prepared me for my career in ways I could not possibly have rec- Riley’s The Cusp of Magic, Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, and John ognized at the time,” says Velonis, who recently found her diploma wedged Adams’ Son of Chamber Symphony / String Quartet. One recent project, between some Beethoven piano sonatas at home. “There are specific pieces eighth blackbird’s Meanwhile, won two Grammys at this February’s cere- that I studied while at Haverford that I have ended up recording. ... More im- mony. “I have gotten to know some very fantastic music very intimately portantly, I was exposed to music of many styles, eras and cultures in class, through my work,” she says. “It’s fabulous getting to know music from the in- in departmentally sponsored concerts, in guest lectures and, very importantly, side out in this way.” in the Music Library, where I spent many hours at listening stations with In addition to her production work, Velonis, who lives with her husband scores and headphones and LPs and CDs.” —Rebecca Raber

THEATER

n his new musicalThe Passion of Ed Wood, about the 1950s schlock our society views creative work is we put a lot of stock in motivation director whose notoriously bad films have become cult favorites, and in what we call talent. Talent and motivation are important for Justin Warner ’93 conjures Orson Welles as the narrator of success, but they’re just starting points toward a long slog of developing Wood’s strange saga and Bela Lugosi as a voice from beyond craft and skill.”—Eils Lotozo I  the grave. The show, which had its public debut in January in a staged reading Glamorous stage costumes have little in common with hospital scrubs, produced by Musical Mondays Theater Lab in New York, “is framed yet Tania Mucci ’04 is comfortable in both. Though she spends the as a hallucination that Ed has as he’s dying,” says Warner. “It’s him majority of her time working as a physician in the department of trying to direct a movie about his life narrated by Orson Welles—his allergy/immunology at Long Island’s Winthrop University Hospital, idol who he desperately wanted to emulate. But as Orson is reading Mucci also just made her stage debut in February, in Frederick Stroppel’s Ed’s awful script, he starts to rebel and take over. ” one-act The Family Crypt at Long Island’s Bare Bones Theater. Warner wrote the book and lyrics for the show, collaborating with Mucci was active in theater in high school, but at Haverford she composer Rob Kendt. The two met in the legendary BMI musical focused on her role as starting soccer forward, a sport she pursued until theater writing workshop, a competitive, totally free program (known last year when she tore her ACL for the second time. That’s when she as the Harvard of show tunes) that has birthed a string of hit shows hung up her cleats and decided to take some acting lessons. After per- that includes A Chorus Line, Little Shop of Horrors and Avenue Q. A forming in two showcases and auditioning for only one other role, playwright who has had his work produced around the country, Warner Mucci won the part of the lone still-living was a musical theater novice when he entered the workshop. He’s now woman in Stroppel’s play, receiving its moved on to the program’s invitation-only advanced class for composers world premiere. The other characters in and lyricists with shows in development. His first musical, The Masked the black comedy? A group of dead relatives Zinfandel, has also had several readings and workshops and he’s got a meeting at their clan’s cemetery vault. third show, about Alexander Graham Bell, in the works. Mucci has worked as an on-camera What attracted Warner to Ed Wood was his peculiarly American medical commentator on Fox and ABC story. A transvestite who acted in a carnival freak show as a young man, news, so she was used to addressing audi- Wood moved to Hollywood and reinvented himself as writer and ences. And she says that theater and med- director, producing a string of clumsy, low-budget films that included icine aren’t as different as they seem. Tania Mucci ’04 Plan 9 From Outer Space, Bride of the Monster and Glen or Glenda. “I think of each patient interaction as “What was compelling about him was his optimism,” says Warner, a different performance condition,” she says. “Each patient hears who lives in Queens with his wife, Courtney Birch, and their two chil- their physician in a different way, and you need to be able to utilize dren. “The show we wrote questions that classic American pep talk your medical repertoire to convey things in a way they can understand. you hear all the time: You can do anything you want if you set your It’s essentially a blend of improvisation and taking the words of the

MUCCI PHOTO: MIKE MCKENNA IMAGES MCKENNA MIKE PHOTO: MUCCI mind to it. But what if you set your mind to it and you stink? The way page and giving them new life each and every time.” —R. R.

WINTER 2013 23 mixed media 24 take a side? criminal organization. Do you called both a political and a money to WikiLeaks, has been nies that refused to transfer websites of credit card compa- Scientology and crashing the for protesting against er movement that made news JL: AG: shouldn’t? kept a secret and what line between what should be JL: secrecy. and you destroy institutional privacy and the whistleblower, al secrets. You protect personal anonymously publish institution- WikiLeaks is that people can tradiction. The whole idea of identified, say—would be a con- Bradley Manning should be there should be no secrets—that the identity of his sources. To say weapon was that he protected be no secrets. Assange’s secret all would be to say there should sources, too. The silliest thing of trate that he tried to protect Assange’s actions seem to illus- stories to the contrary, though I know there’ve been who could come to harm. And the names of innocent people continued from page 20 Q&A: make those kinds of decisions. opportunity, or the guts, to think few people have had the absolutely made mistakes. But I that line himself. And he enough to think he could draw because he was arrogant He was able to do what he did the beginning, he had no fear. with Assange is that, at least in leaking movement. The thing hardest question in the whole Openleaks, told me that’s the who left WikiLeaks to create AG: Ha Anonymous, the global hack- So where do you draw the Daniel Domscheit-Berg, I think they’re very political. verfor Andy Greenberg ’04 dM a gaz ine activity. that was absolutely black hat enrichment facility, for example, hacked into Iran’s nuclear puter worm called Stuxnet and When the NSA created a com- tims. That’s the distinction. intend on informing their vic- stuff, steal things, and don’t hackers hack secrets, break into holes in their networks. Black hat it, helping clients find and patch lab and then show how they did hat hackers hack things in the ers and black hat hackers. White draw is between white hat hack- hackers. The distinction I would ior of people I’d call criminal credit card fraud, or the behav- Their modus operandi is not of its protestors get arrested. Street is criminal because a lot like saying that Occupy Wall To call Anonymous criminal is protect my sources. Maybe I should take a hint and ident, it ought to make you think:the Espionage Act than any pres- prosecuted more leakers under When you see that Obama has cryptographically protected. to use them, too, to render them should teach their sources how to use privacy tools. And they that journalists should know how the lessons of Wikileaks, I think,encryption is software. … One of book, I wound up using a lot of for certain characters in the when interviewing people. And used the anonymity software Tor identities. But in the past, I’ve digital tools to conceal their I wasn’t concerned about using characters in the book in person, AG: the story? it when interviewing subjects in of the book. Did you use a lot of anonymity software is a big part JL: The evolution of digital Since I met most of the secrets—that’d be horrendous, and getting access to all my or god forbid hacking my email one hacking my Twitter account, me to be nervous about some- war and risk their lives. So for there are people who go out to to assume that risk. I mean, hackers. You have to be willing “table stakes” of writing about wrote in focused journalist Quinn Norton about this stuff. As the hacker- hacked prevent me from writing But I can’t let the fear of being bit snarky, and then I’m worried. criminal, and perhaps I’m even a one who has done something times when I write about some- fair shake in the story. There are and I feel like I give everybody a AG: you present them in the book? they don't agree with the way like your reporting style, or if try to hack you if they didn't were you worried they might JL: release. during its Cablegate WikiLeaks’ website one of two that ran under his arm was Sweden. The server center in Stockholm, underground data in 2011 in an Andy Greenberg In writing about hackers, I write about this every day, Wired , those are the my life. but I’m not exactly risking Read it at capitalnewyork.com. GabrielJ. ’99 Boylan Capital (whose culture editor, for online news publication Jed Lipinski is a writer at large of researching and reporting JL: this story? AG: had in my life. was some of the most fun I've tiny 1950’s propeller plane. It We flew into the camp on this ers in an airfield outside Berlin. international gathering of hack- Communications Camp, an something called Chaos in Iceland. And I went to is also a member of parliament spokesperson for WikiLeaks who Jó volcanic ash with Birgitta cool. I also drove into a cloud of ter in Sweden. That was pretty inside an underground data cen- server that had Cablegate on it nsdóttir, the activist and What were the coolest parts I did get to hold the actual , is a Ford). ford games

the Texas Stars of the American Hockey League, the minor league affiliate of the NHL’s Dallas Stars. The road to the Stars wound through a number of other places—many of them in upstate New York—before reaching Cedar Park, Texas. It wasn’t an easy journey, and it couldn’t have taken place without Newkirk’s inge- nuity, perseverance and luck. After graduating from Haverford with a degree in astronomy, he landed a broad- casting internship with the Berkshire Black Bears, an independent team in Pittsfield, Mass., where the first of a few twists of fate helped him move up the ladder immediately. On his second day with the Black Bears, the general manager informed him that the team’s regular broadcaster had suddenly left for another job. Newkirk was asked to take over right away. “It was the most fun I’ve had in any job I’ve been in,” he says. “We played Wiffle ball in the concourse at [Pittsfield’s] Wahconah Park and football under the lights one night. We cleaned up garbage, pulled out the tarp when it rained. It was The Day-to-Day a great first learning experience.” Newkirk, who grew up in Blue Hill, of Play-by-Play Maine, spent his childhood listening to hockey broadcasters like Mike Emrick Owen Newkirk ’02 has found thrills, challenges and a and Gary Thorne, as well as Joe Carr, who livelihood in sports broadcasting. By Charles Curtis ’04 was a play-by-play man for the University of Maine. At Haverford, Newkirk played on the College’s hockey club team, so uring his senior year, Owen WHRC,” he says, “and I thought, ‘There when baseball season ended in Pittsfield, Newkirk ’02 found both might be something to this.’ I do remem- he decided to focus on getting a job in his literal and his metaphor- ber that moment, the epiphany I had. I hockey for the winter. He applied for a Dical calling at a Haverford made the connection—if I’m having this post in New York with the Elmira Jackals, women’s game. The team was much fun, even though it isn’t that com- then a team in the United Hockey League, facing a 25-point deficit in what would petitive, I might be interested doing it but lacked broadcasting experience in the eventually be a home court blowout, but professionally.” sport. The Jackals liked his demo tape Newkirk, who was behind the micro- That kicked off what would eventually from the time he spent with the Black phone for the campus radio station, become a successful career in broadcast- Bears, but wondered if he had any hockey recalls a feeling of exhilaration. “I was ing. Newkirk is currently the play-by-play samples. So he fired up his PlayStation 2,

PHOTOS: JOSH RASMUSSEN JOSH PHOTOS: having a blast calling the game for voice and director of media relations for stuck in an NHL video game, cranked up

WINTER 2013 25 the volume on his television and record- meet. But he knew he needed to stay Newkirk was rewarded for the gratis ed himself calling a simulated contest active in the profession, so he volunteered work he did and landed the job with the between the Boston Bruins and the New to broadcast with the Binghamton Texas Stars. Required to uproot his family Jersey Devils. He got the job, thanks to Senators, working along-side the team’s from Elmira, he gives ample credit to his another instance in which fortune inter- announcer, Grady Whittenburg, and wife, a stay-at-home mother at the vened: “I later found out they [had] hired adjusting to the role of color analyst moment. “Nicole has been unbelievably somebody else, but the guy didn’t show instead of doing play-by-play. supportive,” he says. “Without her help, up, didn’t call and they didn’t know where I wouldn’t be able to do this job and have he was,” Newkirk says. “That’s two jobs a family. It did take some convincing, in a row in which I caught a break.” because we were really spoiled being After four years in Elmira, Newkirk close to [Nicole’s] family.” moved on to the Albany River Rats and Newkirk’s career is a combination of then to a team called the Adirondack passions. At heart, he explains, he’s an Phantoms in Glens Falls, N.Y. But he entertainer and performer with a “colossal” moved back to Elmira with his wife, interest in the world of sports as an athlete Nicole, and their son Leyton, who is now and fan. Though hockey isn’t the only 3 years old (their second son, Dexter, sport he loves, its “speed of play and energy turned one in February) after finding level” make it a great game for him to nar- out he wouldn’t be hired back in 2010. Newkirk is the voice of the Texas Stars rate. But even if he works his way up to “Finding that out was devastating, not of the American Hockey League. broadcasting in the NHL, Newkirk has only because we loved everything about his eyes set on another goal: a job as a being in Glens Falls, but particularly “It’s a hard thing to … step back from sportscaster on a broader national stage, because it was so late in the off-season,” being the play-by-play guy—[who is] calling multiple sports like Al Michaels, Newkirk says. It was September, and he probably talking 60 to 70 percent of the who has been the voice for Super Bowls, had no chance of finding another hockey broadcast—and let someone else take World Series and—perhaps most famous- broadcasting job. “For the first time since the lead,” says Whittenburg. “And then ly—the “Miracle on Ice” Olympic hockey I started working in broadcasting, I had being able to interject succinctly, but have game between the U.S. and Soviet Union no idea what I was going to do,” he says. salient points.” in 1980. That dream, says Newkirk, To support his family, Newkirk worked Newkirk rose to the challenge. “He “comes back to the liberal arts education in construction for two months and later made my job even easier,” Whittenburg of a place like Haverford, where you get got a job at a car dealership to make ends says. a chance to dabble in everything.”

athletics news

Five Haverford alums were named to the champions. Sheely was a two-time all- kicked off a string of 19 consecutive Middle Atlantic Conference All-Century American and three-time MAC champi- league titles by Haverford teams. CROSS COUNTRY team. The all-century on and represented the  teams, broken into eras, honored Tamara at the 1979 World Cross Country In January, the SOFTBALL team hosted Lave ’90 and Jennifer Maranzano ’94 Championship in Limerick, Ireland. a successful instructional clinic for girls, on the 1912-1992 women’s team; and McElligott, the 1990 MAC champion ages 7 to 12. Members of the Haverford Mike Sheely ’83, Seamus McElligott and NCAA individual title winner, was team and coaching staff instructed 35 ’91 and Matt Leighninger ’92 on the a three-time Division III All-American participants on the fundamentals of the 1975-1992 men’s team. and went on to represent the U.S. at game during the inaugural event, held Lave and Maranzano (who was a 2008 the World Cross Country Champion- at Alumni Field House. The clinic, part inductee into Haverford’s Thomas Glasser ships of 1996 in Cape Town, South Africa. of the softball team’s community service ’82 Hall of Achievement) were both two- Leighninger wore the 1989 individual project for the 2013 season, raised $975 time All-Americans in cross country and MAC crown and was on the first three for the American Cancer Society’s two-time MAC individual cross country conference championship teams that StrikeOut Cancer initiative to support

26 HaverfordMagazine those living with cancer and their families. The Fords will also host a StrikeOut Cancer doubleheader to heighten aware- ness in the spring. news  The National Association of Division III Athletic Administrators (NADIIIAA) recognized Haverford College as one of the winners of this year’s community service awards at the annual NCAA athletics Convention in Grapevine, Texas, on Jan. Wendy Smith 16. Athletics Director Chris Tyson ’13 has led the men’s SQUASH team in wins the past two seasons and is in ’87 accepted the trophy as well as a position to repeat that honor for a third year. Tyson and the Fords captured the College $1,000 check for the general scholarship Squash Association (CSA) 2012 Serues Cup last winter and have risen within the CSA fund at Haverford College. The award rankings to No. 28 in the current season. Editor’s note: For an account of the squash celebrates the difference student-athletes program’s origins as a club team in the late 1970s, see Letters to the Editor, p. 5. can make on their campuses and in their local communities particularly teams (1976, 1977) into the NCAA Centre, N.Y., had registered 531 rebounds through community service projects. Division-III tournament. by early February, with two games remain-  ing in the season. Cohen is among the Haverford BASKETBALL saw a trio of leaders within the Centennial Conference noteworthy achievements within the in rebounding. 2012–2013 season. In the womens’ pro- Men’s basketball also saw Cam Baker gram, Dominique Meeks ’13 (left) and ’13 move up to sixth place on the pro- Nina Voith ’14 became the fourth and fifth gram’s all-time scoring list, with 1,374 players, respectively, to crack the 1,000- points. Baker, from Columbus, , had point plateau. At press time, Meeks, a scored his 1,000th career point in the Richmond, Va., native, had pushed her previous season’s finale at Swarthmore career total to 1,115 points; and Voith, a College. Philadelphian, had achieved 1,000 points. Keep up with your favorite Haverford They trail only Katie Crowley ’06 who team at haverfordathletics.com. set the program record with 1,291 career For more about alumni athletic Haverford’s honor was earned through points. On the men’s team, Brett Cohen events and game schedules click on the WOMEN’S BASKETBALL team’s ’14 (below), who hails from Rockville the site’s “alumni” tab. work on the annual Hoops from the Heart Martin Luther King basketball clinics.  The MEN’S SOCCER program celebrat- ed its 2012 championship season at the annual team banquet in January. Head coach Shane Rineer’s squad defeated Swarthmore College to capture the Fords’ first Centennial Conference championship in November—the pro- gram’s first conference title since 1988. The team also went on to play in the NCAA Division III tournament, which was the first time the Fords have advanced to nationals since 1980, when Stanley “Skip” Jarocki ’69 coached soccer at Haverford. A highlight of the team banquet was the keynote speech given by former head coach David M. Felsen ’66, who pushed two of his

WINTER 2013 27 Fictional FORDS BY REBECCA RABER

Astrid Farnsworth (Jasika Nicole) was a computer hacking, code-breaking F.B.I. agent and Haverford grad on the recently ended show .

HAVERFORD’S HISTORY is filled with celebrated alums. Eminent scientists, journalists, activists, authors, entrepreneurs, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners have all passed through our halls. But there are a few famed Fords who never actually set foot on campus.They weren’t in your Customs Group, and you won’t meet them during any Alumni Weekend.These are the alums who exist only in works of fiction. When the Fox TV show Fringe ended its Another of television’s accomplished crime run in January, it closed the book on one such fighters who supposedly honed his intellect here fake Ford: Astrid Farnsworth (played by Jasika on campus is FBI agent Dale Cooper, the central Nicole). During the course of the sci-fi show’s character in David Lynch’s seminal ABC series five seasons, viewers learned that the junior FBI Twin Peaks. According to an accompanying agent and lab assistant to brilliant but disturbed compendium to the 1990-91 series, The Auto- Walter Bishop was a Haverford graduate who biography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale majored in music and linguistics and minored Cooper—which can, to this day, still be found Dale Cooper in computer science, which explains all the in Magill Library—the character that Kyle (Kyle MacLachlan), seen on the Latin translations, computer hacking and code MacLachlan famously portrayed grew up in show Twin Peaks, was another breaking she was always called upon to do. Philadelphia, attended Germantown Friends brainy Ford F.B.I. agent.

28 HaverfordMagazine School, earned an 800 on both Callahan, a newly moneyed entrepreneur who hires Denise his math and verbal SATs, and Lambert as a chef in his hip, new Philadelphia restaurant then enrolled in Haverford. venture and then becomes part of a love triangle with her and Members of the Class of ’77 his wife. “He looked like what he was,” writes Franzen, a might enjoy knowing that 1981 graduate of Swarthmore, “a former Haverford lacrosse Cooper would have been a player and basically decent man to whom nothing bad member of their cohort, had ever happened and whom you therefore didn’t want though he apparently took to disappoint.” pains to graduate a year early. Franzen’s fellow Swattie In the 2009 film State of James Michener invented a Play, journalist Cal McAffrey Haverford-like college for (Russell Crowe) investigates the protagonist of his 1949 the murder of the mistress of bildungsroman, The Fires of his old college friend, Penn- Spring, to attend. Dedham, sylvania Sen. Stephen Collins the school that David Harper A former Haverford (Ben Affleck). The pair’s alma enters in the fall of 1925, is lacrosse player is a central mater is never expressly men- character in The Corrections. a Quaker college with a fierce tioned, and Greg Kannerstein Swarthmore football rivalry, ’63 wrote in a Haverblog post a school “some 15 miles west at the time, “Unless we missed it, there was nothing in the of Philadelphia” that, writes film… that would convey the screenwriter’s notion that Russell Michener, “was the only Crowe and Ben Affleck met at Haverford, as we’d been told American college where the by the production designer when they were shooting.” But student body could get as careful viewers will note a plaque with the College’s logo in excited about distinguished the background of one scene, so we say they still count. scholarship as it did about Several literary characters have also earned their degrees by football.” We may no longer the Duck Pond. Jonathan Franzen’s National Book Award-win- have a football team, but that James Michener ning novel The Corrections, which centers on the Midwest- still sounds like Haverford set his 1949 novel, The Fires of ern Lambert family and its ailing patriarch, features Ford Brian to us. Spring, at a Haverford-like college.

Though never made explicit, the State of Play backstory, we’ve been told, is that the characters played by Russell Crowe (left) and Ben Affleck met at Haverford. A plaque with the College logo can be glimpsed in one scene. Good for BUSINESS As dean of the University of Missouri’s Trulaske College of Business, Joan T. A. Gabel ’88 nurtures the next generation of executives and entrepreneurs. BY MICHELLE MARTINEZ

oan T. (Alexander) Gabel ’88 admits she gets a certain beginnings as a 16-year-old philosophy major at Haverford, pleasure out of solving tough problems. That may be why, and even a departure from her career as a junior litigator after when she was appointed dean of the Trulaske College of receiving a law degree from the University of . The Business at the University of Missouri in the wake of the thread that ties it all together, she says, is her love of unraveling Great Recession, she immediately dug in, spearheading a seemingly intractable problems. Gabel previously served as collection of initiatives to prepare graduates for Business DeSantis Professor and chair of the Department of Risk Manage- 2.0. Since her 2010 appointment, the college has introduced ment/Insurance, Real Estate and Legal Studies at the Florida a new executive M.B.A. program, designed for working pro- State University College of Business and director of international Jfessionals; created an Entrepreneurship Alliance, which provides relations there. She served on the faculty of the Robinson College vital insights and resources to students seeking to develop new of Business at Georgia State University for 11 years, where she businesses; and developed strategies to take the business school was also interim director of the Institute of International into the digital world without compromising the University of Business and faculty director of the Atlanta Compliance and Missouri’s strong belief in real-world participation. Ethics Roundtable. Gabel and her husband, Gary, an elementary Gabel’s role as dean is a world away from her academic school principal, have three children.

30 HaverfordMagazine MICHELLE MARTINEZ: How did your philosophy degree together more than we required. The full program takes 21 from Haverford help guide you into the business world? months, and they work hard for it. JOAN T.A. GABEL: I originally thought I would go to medical MM: You’re leveraging technology for the new executive school. I changed my mind in the first moment of a class with M.B.A. program, but is it changing the academic model on a philosophy professor, Kathleen Wright. I remember the a broader basis? feeling that it evoked. I had never had to dig this deep. I liked JG: It changes our entire educational model and the entire the way it pushed me. I felt improved by it. … That’s my way that students expect to learn. This is rocking higher edu- happy place, to be in a new place and exploring it. If it’s hard, cation. The main disruption we’re focusing on is the advent it’s fun. I think more in terms of the idea of not just learning of massive open online classes. Stanford offers classes in art a technical skill, but in the context of learning—how to think intelligence. You don’t have to be a Stanford student. You just and problem solve and learn new skills. That’s been the need an Internet connection. A hundred and fifty thousand province of liberal arts, but in the applied areas, we’re getting students completed that class, and it doesn’t provide a degree. our arms around that now. It’s free, and it’s not fly-by-night. So many top-tier schools are MM: Business ethics have re-emerged as an area of global using this technology, it’s becoming a question of whether concern, particularly in finance. How has the torrent of you are better off getting skills with 150,000 of your closest recent scandals influenced the way that you educate friends, or whether you’re better off getting [a degree]. business students? MM: How are you responding to the challenge? JG: I would disagree that there is a disproportionate concen- JG: We pay attention, but we also have a tremendous discussion tration of unethical behavior in high finance. The behavior about the return on investment of education. You do more as relates more to incentives (pay, bonus, market share, etc.) and a university student than learn skills in a classroom. What hap- how those incentives, regardless of industry sector, affect the pens in university life is you go through a high phase of personal integrity of decision-making. I also have reservations about growth. [There are] the relationships that you develop, the whether unethical behavior is increasing, or whether we mentoring opportunities that you have, the opportunities to simply have the means to discover it more readily. In either fail and recover, the chance to try things and realize that they’re situation, what it’s done from an educational point of view is not for you. Part of who we are is to provide a very special to make the case why ethical or good behavior makes good feeling when you are here. What we’re trying to do is what I bottom-line business sense. think private industry does in the face of rapid competition: A lot of the war stories we were telling [from the junk understand who you are, your strengths, and move forward. bond era of the 1980s] were old, involving people students MM: One of your initiatives was to spur entrepreneurship hadn’t heard of. It sounded like an abstraction. Post Enron, among students from many different backgrounds. Why is and now again with mortgage financing scandals—the students this an important endeavor for today’s economy? understand that they don’t want to be in a $1,000 suit in hand- JG: Entrepreneurship does have the potential to solve a lot cuffs on the front page of . They also of our problems. There’s data behind it—job growth will come realize that the people involved don’t have horns growing from small business. from their head, but are people who lost their way for a variety But there’s this assumption that to be a successful entre- of reasons. They understand that, in the same way that they preneur you have to leave school, live in your grandma’s need to understand a financial statement, they need to find garage and invent the next iPad—that you have to reject the a way to manage through incentives. traditional constraints of school to flex your creative gene. MM: You spearheaded the creation of a new executive But bread-and-butter growth isn’t always about huge disrup- M.B.A. program designed for working professionals. How tions, it’s about problem solving. Students are starting to see does it differ from a more traditional M.B.A. program? that, and demanding that they learn what they need. JG: We entered a saturated market, but we did so with a new We have a campuswide undergraduate minor in entrepre- product that leverages the best of new technology and active neurship. And at the graduate level, we have master’s and engagement between the faculty member and student. We doctoral students doing major research. So students in the do about 80 percent through distance learning, but every class business school do a lot of the due diligence, or science students has some intensive on-campus piece. We decided that our will pitch in and they’ll help develop the idea into a business type of business education mandates personal touch as part plan. We have channels that are available and know how to of the learning model. take advantage of what our students know how to do. That’s We introduced it this year, on our first cohort of 19 people. the luxury of a comprehensive campus. We wanted to keep the on-campus piece very limited, with Michelle Martinez has reported on international business issues eight required visits in two years. We thought it would feel and trends for more than 16 years, traveling everywhere from a forced, because they’re not together enough in the real world. Mexican goat farm to an aluminum mill in Siberia to get the

PHOTO: L.G. PATTERSON L.G. PHOTO: But we found that they latched on to each other and worked story. She lives in Detroit with her husband and son.

WINTER 2013 31 A new book by Adam Lankford ’02 challenges the conventional wisdom about terrorists who carry out suicide bombings. BY LOUISA SHEPARD DISMANTLING THE MYTHOF MARTYRDOM

32 HaverfordMagazine riving from Tuscaloosa, are remarkably similar to aberrant mass persuaded to sacrifice themselves for the Ala., to Baltimore for the holidays, Adam killers—including suicide terrorists — cause. But where was the evidence for DLankford ’02 was anxiously listening to in other countries.” this view? the radio, catching news of a school Soon after the op-ed piece was pub- Looking for clues, Lankford read the shooting in as the signal lished, Lankford’s email inbox started diary pages, love letters and suicide notes faded in and out in rural areas. With the filling up with messages from reporters of dozens of terrorists. He watched their help of texts from friends, the University and editors from across the country and martyrdom videos and listened to their of criminal justice professor beyond, asking for comment. He was recordings. He analyzed interviews with started to piece together details of the interviewed on radio programs on sta- their families, friends and witnesses. mass murder in Newtown. It quickly tions in London, New York, San Fran- Going into the project, he fully expect- became clear to the terrorism expert that cisco and Philadelphia, and on television ed the experts and their conventional those early reports were speculative and for CNN and MSNBC. He wrote a piece wisdom to be correct. But as he was con- largely inaccurate. for Wired and was quoted in various ducting his research, Lankford, who had “It was a frustrating feeling,” says newspaper stories. The New Yorker in- examined violence and terrorism in his Lankford, who analyzed 179 mass shoot- cluded The Myth of Martyrdom in its first book, Human Killing Machines: ers in the United States as part of his “Books to Watch Out For: January” list, Systematic Indoctrination in Iran, Nazi research for his new book, The Myth of and Foreign Policy ranked the book sev- Germany, Al Qaeda, and Abu Ghraib, Martyrdom: What Really Drives Suicide enth on its “What to Read in 2013” list. began to formulate a different viewpoint. Bombers, Rampage Shooters, That coverage gave The So logical, it seems, was his conclu- and Other Self-Destructive CHANGING Myth of Martyrdom a much sion: Suicide bombers are suicidal. Killers. His wish: “If only we PERCEPTIONS broader audience, weeks be- Terrorists who kill others and themselves could share some of this about suicide fore it became available for share characteristics of typical suicidal research, maybe we could terrorism can sale on Jan. 22, and the atten- people, choosing to die to escape unbear- make significant progress in save lives, says tion has brought Lankford able pain, depression, anxiety, crisis and this area.” Lankford (left). some measure of satisfaction failure in their lives. Arriving in his hometown that people are listening to Recalls Lankford: “The evidence was of Baltimore, Lankford was what he has discovered. “It’s jumping out at me and, to my shock, asked by The New York Times to write been great to be able to share ideas with when I looked for what researchers have a piece for the Opinion section. His people who are smart and interested and, said to explain these kinds of things, there approach? To write what he knew based frankly, open-minded to having their was almost a total vacuum. In fact, among on his research. “What Drives Suicidal opinions changed, because they don’t the experts, that idea that they could be Mass Killers” was published in the have any stake in it except understand- suicidal had been completely rejected.” newspaper on Dec. 18, four days after ing,” he says. In his book, Lankford names those Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 children experts, details their assertions and then and six adults at Sandy Hook Elemen- The idea for The Myth of refutes their conclusions, describing the tary School. Martyrdomgrew out of research Lankford personal stories of several suicide terror- “For years, the conventional wisdom began four years ago, when he was plan- ists and providing his own statistical has been that suicide terrorists are rational ning a new class. He was trying to answer analysis. He worked on the book for three political actors, while suicidal rampage a question about suicide terrorists: Are years, analyzing 130 terrorists that had shooters are mentally disturbed loners,” they more like typical suicidal people, or classic risk factors for suicide. He also Lankford wrote in The Times. “But the are they psychologically normal but will- completed the study of 179 mass shooters two groups have far more in common ing to commit the self-sacrifice in the United States over a 50-year period, than has been recognized.” for their beliefs? a study he is now working to publish. Lankford listed similarities among the For more than a decade, experts and An entire chapter of The Myth of types of shooters, and then wrote: “under- academics have said that terrorists are Martyrdom is devoted to Mohamed Atta, neath the pain, the rage and the desire relatively normal psychologically but the ringleader of the 19 hijackers who

PHOTO: ZACHARY RIGGINS ZACHARY PHOTO: to die, rampage shooters like Mr. Lanza have been indoctrinated by groups and attacked the United States on Sept. 11,

WINTER 2013 33 Dismantling the Myth of Martyrdom

2001. According to Lankford, the analysts Scott Atran, a Presidential Scholar at the recruiters of suicide bombers have and scholars who declared that Atta was the John Jay College of Criminal Justice often “deliberately targeted unstable indi- “not readily characterized as depressed” in New York, and an adviser on terrorism viduals because they are consistently eas- were wrong. His own research shows that to various arms of the federal government, ier to exploit” and that terrorist leaders Atta’s struggles with social isolation, contested Lankford’s op-ed piece in a letter will use “any asset that can potentially depression, guilt, shame and hopelessness to The New York Timesin December. “We help their cause.” were very similar to the struggles of those must make every effort to understand Labeling suicide bombers “normal,” who commit conventional suicide and what motivates mass murder in order to “stable,” “sacrificial” or “martyrs” is not murder-suicide. stop it,” he wrote, “but simple and super- only wrong, it is dangerous, Lankford Lankford was a Haverford senior ficial comparisons will not assist.” writes. “It plays directly into the hands when Atta piloted the first of two planes of terrorist leaders, increasing the power to crash into New York’s World Trade of their propaganda.” Center towers. An English major, Lank- Terrorist leaders, Lankford says, do ford became interested in criminal psy- not kill themselves, because they recog- chology after reading Truman Capote’s nize they are worth much more if they In Cold Blood and Dostoyevsky’s Crime continue with their cause. “I asked myself: and Punishment. After graduation, he Would I carry out a suicide attack? The went on to earn his master’s degree and answer I came to very clearly was no, doctorate in justice, law and society at because of self-worth,” Lankford says. American University. “If the mission was my most important “I think it was just that 9/11 was so priority, I wouldn’t assume that I could unexpected and provoked so many ques- accomplish more in a day than I could tions that our need to understand terrorist in 30 years. attackers more accurately became instantly “What was exciting was that I started obvious,” he says, explaining why he ded- seeing regular terrorists saying the same icated his career to studying terrorism. thing. Most terrorists would say: I am too important. My life is too valuable to Lankford is an academic, blow myself up tomorrow,” he continues. but with The Myth of Martyrdomhe chose “The fact that a healthy amount of self- to write for a general audience. The lan- worth prohibits people from carrying out guage is plain, conversational, sometimes suicide attacks is something I was seeing even amusing. He likes analogies, and Previously, Atran had written else- again and again.” he uses several, including one that where that “no instances of religious or Lankford has reached out to several involves a unicorn and another that political suicide terrorism stem from lone academics in his field, suggesting that involves a Snickers candy bar. “Any time actions of cowering or unstable bombers.” they work together to better understand you can draw comparisons to things that In response, Lankford wrote in his book: suicidal terrorists and prevent future people are already comfortable with, and “This rigidity works in our favor, because attacks. preserve the seriousness of the ideas, I when you’re searching for something And amid the “heat,” his work is find- think that is a win,” he says. “My per- assumed to be nonexistent, even a few ing supporters. spective is: Good writing makes sophis- solid cases will do. Ride just one unicorn “I think Adam’s book is excellent,” ticated ideas easily comprehensible. Far around your neighborhood and watch says David Lester, a psychology professor too often we have the opposite from aca- what happens. People will start to ques- at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey demics, which is relatively comprehen- tion their assumptions.” and former president of the International sible ideas made incredibly hard to under- Another assumption Lankford ques- Association for Suicide Prevention. Years stand. I want to be able to communicate tions has to do with the methods used ago, Lester posed the question whether with as many people as possible. That is by terrorist organizers to recruit potential suicide terrorists could be suicidal, but a major priority for me.” suicide bombers. The conventional wis- he didn’t have the hard data to back it up. Although other scholars in the field dom, according to one expert Lankford “Now we have Adam’s book,” he says. have been professional in their disagree- quotes, is this: “terrorists do not want Jessica Stern, an author and former ment, Lankford says the book and its emotionally unstable individuals in their member of the National Security Council, assertions have already brought him “a groups—they would be a security risk, agrees with Lankford’s conclusion that lot of heat, especially from people who and attempt to screen them out.” suicide-murderers who call themselves consider themselves terrorist experts.” In the book, Lankford counters that martyrs are actually suicidal, motivated

34 HaverfordMagazine by their emotions. “Like many important publishing, and maybe even working on save lives,” he says. “It’s pretty clear, based ideas, this one seems utterly obvious once national policy. And while he says he on my research, that if we change how someone presents the overwhelming evi- hopes the book sells well, he is more suicide terrorism is viewed, that would dence and makes the compelling argu- interested in advancing knowledge that act as a deterrent for people considering ment,” she writes. can help prevent future attacks. carrying out suicide attacks.” Lankford plans to continue his work “Changing perceptions about suicide Louisa Shepard is a freelance writer based on suicidal terrorists while teaching and terrorism can directly, in my opinion, in Wayne, Pa.

The Suicidal Terrorist: Wafa al-Biss

n the videotaped interview, the young Palestinian woman seems so certain of herself and her convictions as she explains why she wants to kill as many Israelis as possible. The Israelis “have killed many Palestinian children,” she declares to the camera. IWafa al-Biss did not succeed in her 2004 suicide bombing attempt, because the detonator malfunctioned and the bomb strapped to her slender body did not explode. Her mother, her father and the two terrorists who organized her attack all declared in video interviews that al-Biss was attempting to sacrifice her life for political and religious reasons. Not true, says Adam Lankford ’02 in his new book, The Myth of Martyrdom. Suicide bombers are suicidal, he says, and Wafa al-Biss is the perfect example. “She was so strident and so convincing when interviewed. She sounded like any other indoctrinated terrorist,” says Lankford. Failed suicide bomber Wafa al-Biss after her release from an “But all throughout, the video is laced with these underlying Israeli prison. factors which show that she was suicidal in the conventional sense. The case is a great little microcosm of how previous Her death, alone, would have accomplished nothing for the scholars have misinterpreted this kind of thing, despite the cause, another indication that her motives were not political or overwhelming evidence that is beneath the surface.” religious, Lankford says, but those of a mentally ill, abused girl Listen closely to the interviews, which Lankford uses in the who wanted a way out. “More than anything, she wanted to die.” classes he teaches at the University of Alabama, and his point After eight years in prison, al-Biss was released in a prisoner becomes clear. At age 18, al-Biss considered committing suicide exchange in October. Sounding as strident as she did nearly a by jumping out a window, but didn’t follow through. Two years decade ago, she told one news outlet she had no regrets. “As later, she attempted suicide by trying to blow up the kitchen long as there is going to be occupation over all of Palestine, stove—which she claimed was an “accident”—but instead ended martyrs will be there to resist and to fight, and I will be among up severely burning her upper body. She was rushed to an Israeli the first of the strugglers,” al-Biss says in the interview. “This is hospital, where doctors saved her. She didn’t want to go home, an honorable thing and I would be a suicide bomber three times and when she was released, the doctors strongly recommended over if I could.” she have psychological counseling. Her parents refused. Lankford is not surprised. “Yes, she is still making the same “She decided to become a suicide bomber, and then plotted claims and still sounds like a committed ideologue, at least in to blow up the very same hospital that had done her the public,” he observes. “In her culture and context, that’s the best disservice of keeping her alive,” Lankford writes in the book. way for her to fit in. She wants to appear heroic, triumphant, and In the failed suicide bombing, she was detained at an Israeli defiant to mask her pain—which is a common pattern we see with checkpoint and ultimately ended up in a security enclosure— many suicidal people.” alone. A security-camera tape shows her repeatedly reaching into Lankford recently examined another interview Wafa gave her pocket for the detonator, jerking the cord out and pounding before her release. In it, she confesses that in the past she wanted the button with her thumb. to end her life, but suggests she is now changed. “I want a future, “At that point, the enemy would not be harmed at all by her I want my life. … I have already asked for medicine for my mental attack,” Lankford says. “She tries to blow herself up, even though state. What I said on television was only because people were

PHOTO: AP PHOTO/TARA TODRAS-WHITEHILL PHOTO/TARA AP PHOTO: there is nobody around.” watching.” —L.S.

WINTER 2013 35 Students gathered in Ryan Gym in February for an open discussion of an Honor Council trial abstract given the pseudonym “Toy Story.” Council regularly sponsors such events.

HONORThough the College’s cherished Honor Code started its life in 1897 as a simple system for holding exams without proctors, it has become the purest expression of the College’s values and an intrinsic part of a Haverford education. BY REBECCA RABER

hen nearly half of the 279 students enrolled in a government class at were suspected of cheating on last May’s take-home final exam, it not only set off the largest cheating scandal ever at the country’s oldest university, but also raised pertinent questions about academic integrity and the state of higher education. The situation has sparked renewed interest in perhaps creating an honor Wcode at Harvard, which disclosed in February that some 70 students had been required to temporarily withdraw. Reverberations from the scandal can be felt well beyond Cambridge, Mass. Last month, for example, stu- dents at Columbia University proposed their own code, and a number of media outlets have used the breach at Harvard as a peg for larger discussions about academic integrity and the efficacy of honor codes.

36 HaverfordMagazine Here at Haverford, however, we know that they work. For the community, of interacting with other people. It’s an assump- 116 years the scholastic integrity of Haverford students has tion that people will be treating each other with respect, open- been guided by an academic honor code. And as it stands today, ness and honesty, and it’s an assumption that when things go that Code, which is written and governed solely by the students wrong they will be addressed as quickly and productively as themselves, covers more than just cheating or plagiarism, it is possible in the spirit of education, not punishment or retribution. a way of life on campus. Guided by the Code’s main principles It’s very pervasive, and that’s what distinguishes it from honor of “trust, concern and respect,” students leave backpacks unat- codes at other institutions.” tended in the Dining Center lobby and self-schedule their Though there is substantial introduction to the Code by unproctored exams. designated Honor Code Orienteers during Customs Week, a “The Code makes it possible for a climate of trust, concern student’s first interaction with its principles actually begins and respect to exist among us, a climate conducive to per- before he or she ever gets to campus. According to Dean of sonal and community growth,” reads section 3.03. “Growth Admission and Financial Aid Jess Lord, since at least the 1970s arises from honest exploration and analysis. Only by treat- Haverford has not asked for a deposit from students who accept an offer of admission to the College. Taking them at their word ing ourselves with dignity and self-respect can we expe- that early in their relationship with the school is a good intro- rience genuine honesty with ourselves and others.” duction to the culture of trust and independence they will find “[The Honor Code] was one of the main reasons that I once they get to campus. And, says Lord, “almost never” do applied to and attended Haverford,” says Kate Monahan ’14, those pre-freshman break that promise. a former representative to Honor Council, the student-run “People do, in fact, value their word over their money,” body that administers the Code. “It impacts my life at Haverford says Lord. BOUND every day. It changes the way that I interact with my suitemates, it affects my working relationships with professors, and it makes me think about my own academic and social respon- sibility to the community.” “[As a prospective student] I was skeptical,” says Tamar Hoffman ’15, current co-chair of Honor Council. “I thought it was great that an Honor Code was down on paper, I thought it was a good start. But I had no idea of the extent that students lived and breathed the Honor Code. It was a pleasant surprise.” As it stands today, the Honor Code is a “living document” of more than 2,400 words that is overseen by the 16-member Honor Council. It must be re-ratified each year at Spring Plenary by at least two-thirds of the student body. The Code requires respectful conduct, academic integrity and confrontation of those believed to be violating one of the community standards. “It is much more than what one typically thinks of as an honor code in an academic setting, which is usually a pledge that you won’t cheat,” says Dean of the College Martha Denney, Tamar Hoffman ’15, co-chair of Honor Council, who serves as an unofficial mentor to Honor Council. “The posts a sign reminding students about the Honor Code during exam week last semester.

OPPOSITE PHOTO: BRAD LARRISON; THIS PAGE: PAGE: THIS LARRISON; BRAD PHOTO: OPPOSITE INQUIRER BRYANT/PHILADELPHIA MICHAEL Honor Code is a way of life. It’s a way of being a member of

WINTER 2013 37 Honor Bound

The simple existence of the Code doesn’t make it a cure- in question, meeting with a counselor assigned by Counseling all for problems at Haverford, however. There are infractions and Psychological Services, attending ongoing mediation, or each year, more often with regard to than even being separated from the College for a semester or more. the vaguer social portions of the Code. And there is some evi- Confidentiality is an intrinsic part of the Code, but pseu- dence to show that the numbers of infractions have grown in donymous trial abstracts are released online to the Haverford recent years, possibly in connection with technology and the community, using names from pop culture and history in place changing nature of research, collaboration and assignments of the real names of community members. Those abstracts are that it allows. A recent “State of the Ford” letter sent to students also reviewed publicly throughout the year so that the student in February by the Honor Council co-chairs reported approx- body can learn lessons from the outcomes and Honor Council imately 25 cases that have been brought to trial over the last can get feedback on its decisions. 12 months and mentioned that in the spring 2011 semester “The goals of every trial are education, accountability and 17 cases went to trial. restoration,” says Samara Flug ’15, former Honor Council co- But, according to the co-chairs, what this uptick in reported secretary and current co-head of the Honor Council Orienteers. Honor Code violations means is not obvious. “Part of abiding “So every decision and resolution should fulfill at least one, if by the Honor Code is addressing breaches of trust, which we not more, of those [ideals], because the resolutions are supposed do through confrontation and Honor Council involvement to help the student be an even better student and part of this where necessary,” they wrote in their “State of the community. Sometimes the student needs to learn Ford” email. “The rise in cases brought to Honor about all of the resources on campus to help manage “I CANNOT Council could, therefore, demonstrate that the academic stress. … Other times, the student is Honor Code is being taken more seriously. On imagine life at looking for a more reflective, long-term process to the other hand, we cannot ignore the evidence Haverford without think about how they can get the most out of being that adherence to the Honor Code has decreased.” at Haverford and working with an Honor Code.” However, the Code’s student governance and the Honor Code,” In a student body of approximately 1,200 people, annual re-examination process means that trends says Erin Heward even 25 infractions in a year reflects the success of in infractions can be addressed quickly from with- the Code, says Dean Denney. “Given the number in. For example, after the spring 2011 increase Thurston ’98. of individuals, the number of courses, the number in trial load, students and faculty formed the of assignments and the number of exams in any Committee for Plagiarism Education, which designed a new given semester, plus the number of people who live next to each Academic Integrity webinar that all first-years must now take. other without any residence hall monitors—given all that potential The hope is that, by addressing rules about citations, plagiarism for interactions that could lead to violations—I do think [infrac- and paraphrasing with new students, the expectations will be tions] are relatively rare.” clearer and the number of cases brought to Honor Council The research of those who study academic integrity bears will diminish. this out. Teddi Fishman, director of the Center for Academic “Many freshmen come from schools where citation wasn’t Integrity at Clemson University, says that while there are prob- emphasized, and some freshmen come from countries where ably hundreds of schools with some sort of honor code on plagiarism itself is looked at differently,” says Monahan. their books, relatively few have a code that is “part of the aca- “Reconciling everybody’s different viewpoints is a big task, demic culture”—and only at those schools does a code actually and I think that more formal education on the mechanics of deter cheating and other infractions. academic integrity is important.” “We have come around to the belief that what actually Cases, should they make it to trial, are then decided by makes the most difference isn’t so much the code itself, but juries made up of five students from Honor Council and five the conversations that surround it,” says Fishman. “The impor- other students selected at random. Hoffman estimates that tant thing is that considerations of integrity are actually woven cases take, at minimum, 10 hours in the jury room to decide. into the fabric of the culture. When students understand the “People who are on juries take it seriously,” says Hoffman. significance of integrity—to their own development, to the “I’ve had a number of seniors come up to me and ask why missions of the university and its reputation—that is when a they hadn’t been randomly selected yet, because they really positive difference can be seen.” wanted [jury duty] to be part of their Haverford experience.” These trials aren’t simply to mete out punishments. They are averford’s Honor Code wasn’t always about restoring the sanctity of the community, reaffirming its the wide-reaching, student-administered doc- values and helping students learn how to make better choices ument that it is today. In fact, it wasn’t always in the future. Prescribed resolutions, reached by consensus at a code. It began life as the “Honor System” trial, can be anything from offering an apology or writing a letter in 1897, with one very specific goal: to “have to the community to receiving a 0.0 grade on the paper or project Hexaminations held on an honor basis and to

38 HaverfordMagazine have entire control in managing any possible cases of cheating.” intrinsic part of the Honor Code: self-scheduled final exams. And even that modest proposal, submitted as a petition by the A varsity baseball and basketball player who was active in other Class of 1900 to then President Isaac Sharpless, wasn’t as extracurricular activities as well, Smith felt that exam time was popular as modern Fords might think. too pressured and always found himself scrambling to prepare. The establishment of an Honor System was first argued for To make matters worse, the Dean’s Office controlled the sched- in the fall of 1896 by Haverford’s debating society, and those uling of exams, which were held after the winter break, so not opposed to it won the debate. And once Sharpless granted the only could he end up with multiple tests on the same day, but request, the System still had detractors. At its genesis, it wasn’t he also spent his whole “vacation” studying. Smith wrote a a schoolwide code of conduct, but a classwide promise of aca- letter to the student newspaper and later formed a Students’ demic integrity. Each class created and agreed to its own System Council committee to explore the idea of self-scheduled exams. each year, and the Class of 1902, unwilling to pass a version The idea was adopted on a trial basis in the spring of his junior that obligated students to report a peer if he was found cheating, year. It became a permanent part of the system a year later. and unable to earn faculty support for a version without that “I’m pleased to hear that self-scheduled exams continue to clause, went through its four years at Haverford without an be important,” says Smith. “It’s evidence of the fact that the Honor System. The Class of 1902 was the last in the College’s students really feel an investment in it. And we spent a lot of history to take all its exams with proctors. time thinking about how to insure that investment.”

(from left) At Spring Plenary, in February, Ivan Sanchez ’15 was one of a number of students who argued against a proposed revision to the language of the Honor Code’s preamble; students on both sides of the argument at Plenary worked together to hash out a compromise; students ultimately voted to approve an amended version of the resolution.

In those early years, the Honor System applied strictly to In the turbulent late ’60s and early ’70s, as the College grew exams, which students of a given class year all took together. from 450 students to more than 1,000, the Honor System had Quizzes and make-up exams were administered to students to adapt to changing social attitudes, especially toward drugs of many different class years, and since the College had no and sex. In 1967, time limits for women in the dorms were cohesive, schoolwide Honor System, those types of tests could liberalized. In 1969, the students in plenary approved a state- not be given unproctored until 1925, when a System was ment on drugs. The 1971 Honor Code, which, according to created and managed for the entire campus. “Making the Best Possible Haverford Man,” the thesis of The next few decades gave rise to some striking changes Katherine Sedgwick ’99, may possibly be the first to use the in the System. In 1944 it was broadened to include all academics, word “code” instead of “system” (though alums from the late not just test-taking, thus making any and all kinds of plagiarism ’60s remember it in use during their time), included over 15 an offense. The first social aspects of the code were born in queries on drugs and other intoxicants, such as “Am I facilitating the postwar era. Standards of behavior regarding female visitors in any way an unwise choice by another student to use to the dorms and the use of liquor were among the first to be drugs?” And from 1970 to 1976 a section of the Code specifically proposed. A 1948 clause deemed that “any act of commission denounced heroin’s use or sale. or omission, which, if it became public, would damage the But while those specific additions to the Code—emblematic reputation of the student, the woman guest, or the College of their era—have long since been removed in favor of a more shall be deemed a violation of the Honor System.” general, open-ended social policy, many believe that it was the In 1961, moved by a fellow student’s exam-time suicide malleability and strength of the Code, and the fact that it was and burdened by his own workload, Kent Smith ’63 proposed reaffirmed annually, that helped Haverford through those

PHOTOS: BRAD LARRISON BRAD PHOTOS: something that every future Ford would come to see as an tempestuous years.

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“While I was at Haverford, women moved unpopularity of the confrontation policy, and into the dorms and became a much larger pres- Acting President Gerhard Spiegler had no choice ence on campus,” says Paul Haagen ’72, a for- but to suspend the Code. And just this spring, mer co-chair of Honor Council. “It was my the ratification didn’t earn enough votes to reach sense then, and since, that the Code made that a quorum; a Special Plenary is being called for change much more natural and organic than late March to discuss the Code and try to ratify it was at other schools going through the same it again. But what matters is student investment. transition. Haverford also weathered the Fords care so much about their Honor Code Vietnam protests better than most other schools. that many of them are currently busy proposing The Code definitely helped.” language changes in advance of the upcoming The administration of the Code has changed Special Plenary, striving to be better, not just for over the years, too. In the beginning, the faculty Haverford’s Honor themselves, but also for the strength of the cam- had to approve each year’s System, but the Code was originally pus community. administration of the System was left up to the called The Honor “I would say that the academic code is more students. The Class of 1905 proposed a “com- System. successful than the social code, given that the mittee of five,” who were charged with dealing with infractions, social code is more open to personal interpretation and deals and, in 1925, jurisdiction over the System was given to Students’ with murkier issues,” says Monahan. “There are many situations Council. It wasn’t until the early 1960s that Students’ Council where confrontation can be a lot more difficult than simply appointed an Honor System Committee to deal with violators; asking someone to turn their music down.” this would eventually separate from Students’ Council in 1968 “There are a lot of different ways to measure the success of and become the Honor Council we know today. Haverford’s Honor Code, and in my opinion it passes all the “I started the practice of posting short summaries of the [trial] tests,” says Flug. “Academically, I think the Honor Code creates decisions in hopes that we might create a body of precedents a noncompetitive environment of driven students motivated and shared understanding and expectations,” says Haagen, now by their own capabilities and ideas. Socially, the Honor Code a professor of law at Duke University. “The summaries omitted gives us a language and vocabulary for a common set of values names and gave only very limited factual detail.” that we all share and exhibit every day.” The Honor Code is still not perfect; it’s a work in progress. The Code guarantees that once students graduate from There have been crises of confidence in it and years when it Haverford they’ve learned more than just French or physics or didn’t pass on first attempt at plenary (either for procedural philosophy. They’ve learned responsibility and citizenship and reasons or for actual concerns with the Code). In 1973, for exam- how being a trustworthy, concerned and respectful community ple, students couldn’t reach a quorum, partly because of the member makes every community stronger. “I cannot imagine life at Haverford without the Honor Code,” says Erin Heward Thurston ’98. “Its tenets of trust, concern and respect go to the HONORABLE MENTIONS heart of how the academic and social community are organized and make The Center for Academic Integrity’s director, Teddi Fishman, estimates that there Haverford the wonderful, special place are hundreds of honor codes in American higher education. Schools from the all-male that it is. It affects everything! We left Hampden-Sydney College to the School of Law at the University of Texas at Austin to service our backpacks in the DC lobby. We academies like West Point have some sort of code in effect on their campuses. Haverford’s, decided when, and often where, we however, is remarkable for its age, its breadth and its student governance; few American took our exams. It was fine to drink institutions have codes that are older, guide social behaviors and are completely student run. or not to drink. And we all looked out The College of William and Mary, for example, has had an honor code since 1779, when for each other. We were a community, it was created at the urging of then Virginia Gov. Thomas Jefferson, but it only governs not just a student body.” academic matters. ’s student-run honor code, which only covers in-class examinations, dates back to 1893. has two codes, a social code and an AUTHOR’S NOTE: Much of the academic one, both overseen by its deans’ office. And religious institutions like Brigham Young historical information about the Honor Code comes from the 1982 report University have codes that focus on the social aspect of campus life, regulating behavior very Appendix II: An Historical Perspective specifically (such as prohibiting facial hair and coffee and commanding students to live “a chaste on the Honor Code; “Making the Best and virtuous life”). More similar to Haverford’s Honor Code are the codes at , Possible Haverford Man,” the thesis of which governs both social and academic affairs and where infractions are judged by a student Katherine Sedgwick ’99; and William honor council, and the , whose student-run Code of Honor, which dates Ambler’s Haverford Honor System: back to 1842, covers acts of lying, cheating or stealing. The First 35 Years (1897-1931).

40 HaverfordMagazine Emily Best ’02 in her Brooklyn home office.

Indie Innovator Emily Best ’02 created the new digital distribution and crowdfunding platform Seed&Spark to help independent filmmakers find funding and connect with audiences. By Justin Warner ’93

Sometimes great ideas are born of desperation. at the show’s close that they wanted to work together again. That’s how it was for Emily Best ’02, who got the idea for Among them was actress Caitlin FitzGerald, who had recently Seed&Spark, a new “crowdfunding” and digital distribution wrapped filming on indie director Ed Burns’ Newlyweds. Over platform for independent film, when a film she was working drinks one night, Best recalls, “Caitlin would convince us on nearly went south before shooting had even begun. all, thanks to Eddie’s stripped-down filmmaking style, that Best was making her first foray into producing with the ‘filmmaking is easy.’ ” independent film Like the Water, the story of a grieving young But two months before Like the Water was set to shoot— journalist returning to her hometown in Maine to give a eulogy during the fleeting Maine summer that was central to the for a dead friend. The project had come about after Best, an script—Best and her colleagues found they were facing a actress and singer, was cast in an off-Broadway production of $20,000 shortfall.

PHOTO: MICHAEL PARAS MICHAEL PHOTO: Hedda Gablerand met an intrepid group of women who decided They decided to try crowdfunding, a rapidly evolving trend

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in financing the arts (and other projects), tors Brunch” along with two other New strategic planning firm, Best Partners— in which fundraisers solicit small amounts York-based companies: Dogfish Acceler- for which she developed projects in of money from the general public instead ator, a start-up that provides seed funding, renewable energies, and of, or in addition to, larger sums from pro- mentorship, office space, training and emerging markets—and the downtown fessional investors and wealthy donors. other programs for independent film pro- theater scene, where she produced and Pioneering sites like Indiegogo and ducers, and Nice Dissolve, a postproduc- performed in projects like Hedda. Kickstarter were just getting started, and tion facility focused on making independ- Now, with Seed&Spark, Best, who worked from a model not unlike a PBS ent film production more affordable. As lives in Brooklyn with her partner and telethon, in which cash donations toward well as being a forum for new ideas, the his two daughters, has found a creative a stated goal are rewarded with a hierarchy Sundance event also heralded the launch way to combine her business experience of thank-you gifts. Best’s team decided to of #StayIndie (www.stayindiefilm.com), with her background in the arts. One of approach it from a different angle, and cre- an online community sponsored by the Seed&Spark’s innovations is its main fund- ated an online “wedding registry” for their three companies to promote best practices raising tool: the “Wish List.” It’s a complete, film, listing every item they needed—from in independent film production. illustrated budget for each film that audi- camera and car rentals to bug spray and With hundreds of millions of dollars ences can subsidize, on a line-item basis. lobsters—along with its cost and a pithy already pouring through other crowd- For example, for $15 you can enjoy the description of its purpose. “For ‘incentives,’ funding sites, Best believes that the viewing satisfaction of renting a Zoom H4N hand- we offered what we could afford: a thank- public has proved it’s ready and willing to held digital recorder for the documentary you in the credits,” says Best. “We sent this put more skin in the game. “I hope, hon- Trichster(about trichotillomania, a disorder list out to everyone we knew.” estly, that crowdfunding becomes one of of compulsive hair pulling and skin pick- Within 30 days, they had collected all the primary ways that independent films ing), rather than merely chipping in what the money they needed and more. get financed, because I think it means would amount to a tiny percentage of the Best took what she learned and you’re going to see a lot more films that film’s total budget. turned it into Seed&Spark. The plat- really matter to the communities they’re You can also volunteer to lend or form, which launched in December at being made for, as opposed to films that donate an item directly to a film—a good www.seedandspark.com, has already had are being made based on market research.” option for oddities that the right person dozens of independent films sign on, and just might have lying around. “In a way, has garnered coverage from Forbes and AFTER GRADUATING FROM HAVER- the more mysterious and seemingly arbi- PBS, and a mention on influential film ford with a degree in anthropology, Best trary, the better,” says director Daniel producer Ted Hope’s blog in his list of studied jazz singing in Barcelona, then Goldberg, who landed donations of oxy- “16 Really Good Things in the Indie Film switched to cooking after she injured gen masks, medical vials and the algal Biz in 2012.” her vocal cords. Following a move to dietary supplement Spirulina for his short Best sees Seed&Spark as part of a larg- , she found herself running “an comedy The Master Cleanse through er movement to put independence back enormous and unwieldy floating restau- Seed&Spark. “People don’t necessarily into independent filmmaking. At this rant.” After several years of that, she know how the props will be used,” he year’s Sundance Film Festival, in January, decided to join her father in New York, notes, “but I think we make a good case Best and her partners hosted an “Innova- where she shuttled between his corporate that they’re necessary to tell the story, and people want to be a part of that.”

BECAUSE MANY ITEMS ARE EITHER mysterious or technologically esoteric, descriptions written by the filmmakers carry a lot of weight. (Short and charming goes a long way: Trichster director Jillian Corsie captions her request for a “Redrock Handheld Rig Rental” with “Because a shaky camera = sick audience.”) “Part of what we wanted to do on Seed&Spark was to also help the audience members understand how much goes into making a film,” Best explains. “You make a list Joshua Tate, director of Love Land, a documentary about disability rights, transparent, and all of a sudden [the in a filmed pitch that helped get the movie “greenlighted” on Seed&Spark. audience realizes], ‘Whoa, that’s a lot of

42 HaverfordMagazine pany; the Seed&Spark leadership works solely for shares and pays the bills with other work (Best, for example, does a lot of voice-overs). The company’s officers hope to draw salaries after another round of general fund-raising. The modest fee structure and high remuneration rate for the artists speak to Seed&Spark’s central philosophy of “Fair Trade Filmmaking,” which is the depressingly radical idea that artists and their audiences should be the most A scene from Movement + Location, a film crowdfunded important and rewarded players in the through Seed&Spark that is now in production. movie industry. “Right now, filmmakers don’t get to sell their films to their audi- stuff they have to deal with.’ ” believe you can build the community to ence; they sell their films to a sales agent, As with other sites, donors also get make this project?” who sells it to a distributor, who gets it incentives like signed posters and high- Inaugural participant Bodine Boling to an exhibitor, and then the money gets definition downloads of the finished film. (director of a time-travel sci-fi thriller passed back up and there’s usually noth- But more importantly, says Best, they called Movement + Location), has been ing left for the filmmaker,” Best notes. become “followers” with access to exclu- delighted with the level of support: “This “In fact, there’s usually nothing left for sive content throughout the film’s devel- is not my first crowdfunding campaign, the film investor.” opment. Examples include behind-the- but it is the first time I’ve had this level By blurring the line between investor scenes video updates from the set, of attention and investment in my project and audience, Seed&Spark’s crowdfund- interviews with the creative team, pre- succeeding,” Boling says. “Any time I ing aims to give audiences a bigger stake views and original mini-films related to the larger movie. Users also earn “sparks” Best sees Seed&Spark as part of a larger movement to for donating, following, publicizing or streaming movies; the sparks, in turn, can be used to watch more movies or be put independence back into independent filmmaking. exchanged for merchandise. From the filmmaker’s side, the process is also simple and transparent. During a had a question or needed advice, Emily in a movie’s success. Community-sup- fundraising campaign, Seed&Spark holds made herself immediately available.” ported films, by their very nature, notes the funds in escrow until a film makes 80 After the movie is finished, filmmakers Best, build up defenses against the ever- percent of its budget, at which point it’s can upload it to the Seed&Spark site and circling vultures of bankruptcy and indif- “greenlighted” and the funds are released receive 80 percent of the streaming fees ference: “I could save up a whole bunch to the filmmakers. When a project doesn’t it collects. That’s very different from a of my own money and make a movie, meet that goal, the funders get their money conventional distribution deal, packed and that would be 100 percent my back. Otherwise, the creators can use the with middlemen who drain the creators’ own risk,” she says. “Or, I could enlist a cash as they see fit, including for items take to pennies on the dollar. Still, Best whole bunch of community members in not on the original budget, if changing says that building an audience through advance, who are taking on a little portion circumstances demand it. Seed&Spark could give a filmmaker more of the risk that it might not get made, Best and her four partners personally leverage in a studio deal: “If you walk that it might not be good, etc. But I’m approve all the film proposals for into a meeting with a sales agent or a dis- already diminishing the risk that no one Seed&Spark, but there are no formal tribution company with a following, that’s will see it. Not only that, I’m creating a restrictions on length, genre or subject a different kind of negotiation,” she notes. whole bunch of stakeholders in advance, matter, apart from a restriction on pornog- “What we really want for filmmakers is who are actually going to like it better raphy. Since the movies themselves don’t that they have the most choice.” just for having been involved.” exist yet, Best says preparation and pas- Along with 20 percent of the stream- Justin Warner ’93 (justinwarner.net) is a sion are what she looks for: “Essentially, ing fees, Seed&Spark collects a 5 percent New York-based playwright, lyricist (see can you convince me that this project commission on the money each film rais- p. 23), journalist and a frequent contributor needs to be made now, and that you es. Currently, any profits go into the com- to the magazine.

WINTER 2013 43 MATHEMATICIAN and choreographer Karl Schaffer led a “Math and Dance” workshop in September.

Revisiting the Intersectionof Arts and Academics

The Mellon Tri-College n a crisp late-November morning on the campus of Creative Residencies Bryn Mawr College, three “tour guides” wearing Program, administered by whimsical hats made from folded newspaper are lead- ing a troop of Bi-Co students and professors on an Haverford’s John B. Hurford unusual circuit of the grounds. First stop is the athletic ’60 Center for the Arts and field, where the group is invited to “plant” paper Humanities, helps make O flowers in the artificial turf. Next, it’s Schwartz Gym, where three students new connections among garbed as mountaineers do a comic simulation of a climbing expedition. disciplines—and campuses. Subsequent stops will include an “urban park” that has popped up in BY EILS LOTOZO the middle of a parking lot; an “oil spill” site, where four students wearing hardhats hand out oil-stained origami cranes; and a visit to a “lab” to take part in a taste test and poll comparing filtered, bottled and tap water.

44 HaverfordMagazine This was the “Art Attack,” a daylong Foundation that turned the College into Creative Residencies Program was ready event—framed as a guided tour—that a test lab for creative arts residencies that for an official launch in September. employed the mediums of performance connect directly with students, faculty Over the fall semester, the new program art and installation to explore environmen- scholarship and existing courses. That ini- helped shepherd five residencies that drew tal issues and consider topics such as con- tial funding helped Haverford faculty bring the participation of a dozen faculty mem- sumption, pollution, the idea of nature and to campus a diverse array of artists, includ- bers from seven departments on the three the use of natural resources. ing several renowned musicians and the- campuses and involved approximately 400 The performers, guides and tourists orists (Will Calhoun, DJ Spooky, Jaron students and community members. In were students enrolled in Haverford’s addition to Price, guests included sonic “Case Studies in Environmental Issues” artist Christine Sun Kim, British obituary course and Bryn Mawr’s “Introduction to “WE WANT TO writer Tim Bullamore, and choreographer Environmental Studies,” along with their ENCOURAGE NEW and mathematician Karl Schaffer, whose professors. Masterminding the “Art Attack” RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN “Math and Dance” workshop had partic- was historian Jenny Price, author of Flight FACULTY IN DIFFERENT ipants creating choreography based on Maps: Adventures With Nature in Modern geometric figures. Americaand a member of the Los Angeles AREAS,” SAYS TOM The aim of the Creative Residencies Urban Rangers art collective. And making BONNER, PROGRAM Program, says Program Coordinator Tom the whole thing possible was the Mellon COORDINATOR. Bonner, who is based at the HCAH, is to Tri-College Creative Residencies Program, make new connections, by engaging, say, which supported a four-day visit by Price fine arts students with political science stu- organized by Bryn Mawr’s Ellen Stroud, a Lanier) who looked at the intersection dents, or astronomy majors with sociology professor of urban and environmental his- of music and quantum mechanics; play- students. “And we want to encourage new tory whose environmental studies intro wright and poet Claudia Rankine, who relationships between faculty in different class was part of the “Art Attack.” delved into ideas about “location and areas,” says Bonner. “It’s all with the goal Overseen by Haverford’s John B. Hur- memoir” with history students; and of giving students the opportunity to look ford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities Björk-collaborators and electronic musi- at something they thought they knew from (HCAH), and funded by a generous grant cians Matmos, who did a workshop a different perspective.” from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, linked to the English Department. Key to the enterprise is the requirement the Mellon Tri-College Creative Residencies Eventually, the concept for the program that the residencies connect directly to the Program debuted in September after sev- expanded and evolved into a model that curriculum. “The program requires far eral years of intensive planning. The ini- would engage all of the Tri-Co. With the more than just having someone visit and tiative got its start at Haverford in 2007 hiring of a full-time program coordinator talk to a class or give a performance,” with a planning grant from the Mellon last summer, the Mellon Tri-College says Laura McGrane, Koshland Director

IN NOVEMBER, Bi-Co environmental studies students, working with resident artist Jenny Price, staged an “Art Attack” on Bryn Mawr’s campus.

PHOTOS: (OPPOSITE) ROY GROETHING; (THIS PAGE) BRAD LARRISON BRAD PAGE) (THIS GROETHING; ROY (OPPOSITE) PHOTOS: Framed as a guided tour, the daylong event used the mediums of performance and installation to explore environmental issues.

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DURING HER RESIDENCY at Haverford, sonic artist Christine Sun Kim gave a demonstration at the opening of the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery show, What Can a Body Do?.

of the HCAH and associate professor of idency with faculty from anthropology, English. “It requires a thoughtful curric- “THE PROGRAM political science and art history that will ular integration.” REQUIRES FAR MORE feature screenings of her work as well as And that demands a great deal of plan- THAN JUST HAVING class visits. In April, the Mellon Tri-Co will ning, McGrane says. “Faculty members SOMEONE VISIT AND welcome graphic novelist Jessica Abel often need to begin shaping courses around TALK TO A CLASS OR (Artbabe, La Perdida); and filmmaker and these visits well over a year before the artists GIVE A PERFORMANCE,” Sundance Film Festival curator Shari Frilot, arrive. But, since neither faculty nor the whose monthlong residency will include artists are necessarily used to this experi- SAYS LAURA MCGRANE, a partnership with the Schuylkill River mental setting, the details are sometimes HCAH DIRECTOR. “IT Center. At Swarthmore, the program will the most bedeviling: How should a sculptor REQUIRES A THOUGHT- support visits from numerous filmmakers talk to English or math majors who are FUL CURRICULAR to explore the issue of film and politics, new to the materials? And will she have INTEGRATION.” including Jon Cohen, screenwriter of the time to move between a Bryn Mawr and sci-fi thriller Minority Report. Haverford class?” “Artists are interdisciplinary in their This spring, Mellon Tri-Co program- and workshops with political science and own work, whether mixing video and text; ming will double, with nearly a dozen visits Arabic students. Following up on the suc- exploring scientific imaging or dissection; by artists, including photographer and cess of November’s “Art Attack,” Jenny visualizing data, surveillance, road signs, environmental activist J Henry Fair, known Price will return for a four-week residency or rocks,” says McGrane. “These makers for his “Industrial Scars” project; docu- to collaborate with students and faculty can teach us new ways of looking at our mentarian Louis Massiah, who will help from environmental studies, sociology and own disciplines and prompt students and students in Swarthmore’s French and film political science in the creation of a Tri- faculty to ask new questions and think studies programs develop their own films; College art event. more holistically about our own roles as and distinguished calligrapher Mohamed In March, the program will host doc- creators (amateur or otherwise), activists

Zakariya, who will do a series of lectures umentary filmmaker Judy Irving in a res- and experts.” ’13 HOBEIKA NOELIA PHOTO:

46 HaverfordMagazine A Half-Century of Haverford’s Magazine

hile searching through included a news item about a physics our archive of back issues professor creating, in the basement of W recently, it dawned on us Sharpless, a “pickle barrel” reactor filled that we had let a significant milestone with “$100,000 worth of government go unmarked: 50 years of publishing uranium,” and featured a transcript of the magazine of Haverford College. a symposium titled “The Intellectual: What was then called Haverford his privileges and responsibilities,” Horizons debuted in the summer of which was moderated by Sociology 1959. This 14-page communiqué was Department Chair Ira deA. Reid. the project of President Hugh Borton, Since that first issue appeared, who’d come to the College two years the magazine has undergone many earlier. In a column titled “The View changes, moving from black-and- From Roberts Hall,” Borton wrote in white to full color, growing to 64 that first issue: pages, and shifting from a quarterly “Soon after my arrival at Haverford, to three issues a year. Along the way, I noticed a need, which we are meeting our readers have seen a few name by the publication of HAVERFORD changes on the cover, from Haverford HORIZONS, for a sufficiently dignified Horizons to just Horizons and, with and authoritative organ, which a college the fall 1985 issue, simply Haverford. of this distinction deserves, by which The first issue of Haverford Horizons, this Our methods, too, have changed the college could keep its many friends magazine’s precursor, appeared in 1959. over those 50-plus years. We now adequately informed of its activities, employ the tools of journalism to paint its plans and its dreams.” a broad picture of campus life (both serious and silly) and And so that inaugural issue showcased the new Alumni Field sketch the frequently inspiring lives of our alumni. The aim, House with photos of six sports being played simultaneously though, has remained the same as when Borton first laid it (including baseball on an indoor dirt field), reported on the “fra- out: To tell the Haverford story in the best way we can, and ternity issue” and the decision to shut down two on-campus keep the College’s many friends up to date on what we’re doing “societies” with restricted membership, and covered some of the now and what we’re planning for the future. —Eils Lotozo, Editor events surrounding Haverford’s 125th-anniversary celebration— We’d love to get hear what you think about Haverford including the naming of the College’s first “lady” recipient of an magazine. Go online to hav.to/magsurvey to give us your honorary degree, author Elizabeth Gray Vining. The issue also feedback.

(From left) this 1966 issue adapted an on-campus talk by Richard Alpert (the future Ram Dass) about the use of LSD as a consciousness- raising tool; in 1974, Charles R. Lawrence, III was featured in a story on Ford lawyers; winter 1985 included a Computing Center report that disclosed the College’s decision to join a cutting edge “intercampus electronic mail network” called MAILNET; summer 1999 offered a history of the storied Haverford band Hiram.

WINTER 2013 47 Roads Taken and Not Taken

as its own weight and “live” loads such as wind, snow and people. Among my tasks, I needed to find an additional adviser (which I did in Swarthmore’s engineering department), learn several methodologies for analyzing structural engineering, find a software package that could perform the analysis and learn how to use it. Fortunately, in a move that surprised me, the physics department had no issue with paying for the software licenses I needed or giving me special privileges in the computer lab to use its newest, souped-up computer, which was a brand I had never heard of before: Dell. The program continually crashed on me. I had to use a plotter that moved a colored marker around a piece of paper when I wanted to convert my on-screen results to paper. To change colors, I had to pause the plotter and swap markers. Through my analysis, though, I was able to pinpoint the locations of high stress Ralph Shayne with wife Lara and son Ian (in a photo taken by Ian’s twin sister Paige) in within the cathedral’s walls and calcu - Amiens Cathedral, which was the subject of his senior thesis. late whether the limestone material could handle that load level. I discov - RALPH SHAYNE ’89 to build it because he wasn’t happy with ered isolated areas at important arch - his current church, he had wealth and ways that looked highly unstable Soon after it was built almost 800 years he wanted to impress. The high Gothic because of high tension. ago, the French cathedral of Notre Dame style featured vaulted ceilings that cre - My thesis project concluded with a d’Amiens became one of the world’s most ated the illusion of reaching up to the public presentation that attracted then- popular pilgrimage destinations. I had felt heavens, and the bishop ambitiously chair of the art department Charles my own draw there ever since I chose the commissioned his builders to attempt Stegeman. He loved high Gothic cathe - cathedral for my senior thesis, and had the highest ceiling in the land. Another drals and had recently toured the notable pledged to see it in person one day. cathedral in nearby Beauvais tried to French cathedrals—including Amiens. In It only took 24 years. reach higher, but collapsed. This left peo - a forum dominated by physics professors As a senior, thanks to Haverford’s ple at the time with the impression that, and majors, Stegeman’s perspective stood unparalleled academic freedom, I was at Amiens they had reached as close to out. He appreciated how the cathedral allowed to select any thesis topic I could God as He would allow. brought form and function under one think of, as long as I could convince my For my thesis, I had the advantage of roof, and he asked if I had considered adviser of its academic rigor and rele - looking at the cathedral with analytic tools whether “divine intervention” might help vance to my major—physics. I came up that didn’t exist at the time of its construc - explain why the roof had not collapsed. with the idea of analyzing Notre Dame tion. My idea was to look at a cross-section As a firsthand witness to the structure’s d’Amiens and how this magnificent of the church and see how it managed the magnificence, he reminded everyone at structure was designed to stay standing stresses and strains of “dead” loads such continued on page 56 for 800 years. The premise seemed like a perfect marriage of liberal arts disci - plines—mixing science, art and history. CARE TO SHARE YOUR STORY of roads taken (or not taken) Amiens is the tallest cathedral in since graduation? Drop us a line! [email protected] u France. The local bishop was motivated

48 Haverfor dMagaz ine giving back

Christopher Flores ’13 in class at the Bolshoi in Moscow.

Deborah Lafer Scher ’80 Helps Fords See the World After working abroad early in her career, Deborah Lafer Scher ’80 knew that she wanted to give Haverford students the opportunity to gain a wider view of the world. By Alison Rooney

or more than two decades, a stipend to assist the interns with travel as a result the quality of the applications Deborah Lafer Scher ’80 has and living expenses. is extremely high.” made possible a unique summer “The range of projects over the years In 2012, the internship went to Fscholarship opportunity for has shown a lot of creativity,” says Donna Christopher Flores ’13, who took the Haverford students—one that grew Mancini, dean of international academic opportunity to attend the Moscow State directly out of her passion for travel. programs, who administers the intern- Academy of Choreography (also known The success of the Deborah Lafer ship on campus. “There is a ‘discover as the Bolshoi Ballet Academy). For four Scher Internship Fund in International the world’ quality to the program,” which weeks, his instructors spoke to him Relations lies at the intersection of the has included trips to St. Petersburg to entirely in Russian and he maintained Haverford experience and the worldly photograph historic churches, intern- the grueling schedule of a professional perspective that comes from travel ships at the British Parliament, work with dancer. “When one begins to live a ‘sim- abroad. Open to any Haverford junior the Fulbright Commission in the U.K. ple’ life of breakfast, class, class, dinner, or sophomore interested in pursuing an and work with HIV/AIDS patients in class, supper, rest,” Flores says, “he finds academic, professional or service oppor- Africa. “The students see it as a highly that he begins to approach life with a

PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRISTOPHER FLORES ’13 FLORES CHRISTOPHER OF COURTESY PHOTO tunity internationally, the fund provides prestigious award,” Mancini adds, “and ballet attitude. In this way I became more

WINTER 2013 49 The idea was to expose students whose academic demands might not per- mit a semester or year abroad to a simi- larly enriching summer experience. “We don’t require a grand project, or even an academic one,” says Scher. “The only cri- terion is that the student take this expe- rience and more global perspective and bring it back to campus.” Flores still feels the profound effect of living in another culture. “While our [weekdays] consisted of ballet, our week- ends were dedicated to experiencing Deborah Lafer Scher ’80: Then (at Haverford) and now. Moscow. The city was beautiful, and I felt at home there, like I was part of the gentle, firm, elegant, polite, focused and cially for many years,” Scher says. After community,” he says. “Attending the respectful. … These characteristics are earning an M.B.A. from Columbia Bolshoi has become a defining moment tangibly evident in photographs on every University, she worked as a director of in my life.” Mancini emphasizes that this wall of the historic building where we planning and acquisitions for Dun & is exactly the spirit the internship is study. It is almost as if the ballet is Bradstreet. When she was assigned to intended to inspire—one she has been imposed upon the individual.” D&B’s international division, she trav- pleased to see the interns realize, summer Mancini’s relationship with Scher eled abroad for the first time—spending after summer. extends back to the late ’70s, when— barely out of college herself—the young dean was mentoring what she describes as a truly remarkable group of young “In some ways, this idea was the precursor to women. After a year at Tufts University, Scher became one of 18 women who the College’s highly successful Center for Peace transferred to Haverford in 1977—part of the College’s transition toward admit- and Global Citizenship, which is central to the ting women to the incoming freshman class starting in 1980. Scher says that, Haverford experience for so many students.” for her, it was love at first sight: “I felt that Haverford was one of the most spe- —Dean Donna Mancini cial places in the world.” “Deborah’s commitment has been constant ever since she first set foot on half her time working in cities through- When they return, interns write a campus,” Mancini says. Scher has served out Europe. short essay, which Scher is always delight- on the Alumni Association Executive “The experience gave me such an ed to read. Students also send her photos Committee, including as its president, exciting perspective,” Scher recalls. “It and mementos from abroad, which can and on the Board of Managers for 11 truly challenged everything I had come mean a Ziploc bag of fresh coffee from a years, playing an active role in campaigns to know about education, finance and recent trip to Central America showing and committees, and chairing the Board political systems. When I realized what up in her mailbox. Council for Women. Scher has led a suc- a gift this experience was, I knew that “In some ways, this idea was the pre- cessful career as a senior strategy and I wanted to support Haverford students cursor to the College’s highly successful operations executive, building several in gaining this wider view of the world.” Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, successful health care organizations. She was thrilled to learn that D&B which is central to the Haverford experi- Today she is chief operating officer of offered its employees a generous 4-to- ence for so many students,” says Mancini. Novel Ingredient Services, a New Jersey 1 matching gifts program that would “This internship honors at once Deborah’s company that imports and manufactures help her make an impact on the College passion for enrichment through global ingredients for health care supplements by establishing an endowed fund. Scher experience and her longstanding com- in the nutraceuticals field. and Mancini then began a series of con- mitment to Haverford. It has been an “When I graduated, I knew I intend- versations that would shape the intern- honor to work with her to broaden so ed to contribute to the College finan- ship, which was established in 1988. many lives of our students.”

50 HaverfordMagazine Upcoming Events

Discover the John B. Hurford ’60 Haverford College director of planning and collaboration back Center for the Arts and Humanities Lawyers Network in the Executive Office Staff from the Center will lead a con- Join alumni who work or have an inter- of Education; and Tina Schaper ’89, versation about innovative interdisci- est in the law for a networking reception. volunteer for Girls Scouts and plinary initiatives and Haverford’s role Philadelphia, Pa. – Thursday, April 11 Women’s Lunch Place. giving in the digital future of the liberal San Franciso, Calif. –Thursday,April 25 Boston, Mass. – Thursday, April 11 arts. This event will feature Laura Washington, D.C. – May (date TBD) McGrane, Koshland Director of the Volunteer With Sandtown HCAH and associate professor of Women in Nonprofit Leadership Habitat for Humanity English, and James Weissinger ’06, Panel discussion featuring Becca Baltimore, Md. – Saturday, May 4 HCAH associate director. Donham ’86, program officer at Event dates and details are subject to Chicago, Ill. – Thursday, April 11 MetroWest Community Health Care change. For the most current calendar, or Madison, Wis. – Friday, April 12 Foundation; Bridget Rodriguez ’91, to r.s.v.p., visit fords.haverford.edu.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2012-13

he Alumni Association Executive Committee (AAEC) acts service on the College’s Board of Managers and recognizing out- as the executive arm of the association, providing lead- standing achievement and volunteer contributions to Haverford ership and direction regarding alumni affairs. In its three through an alumni awards program. It also plays a key role in building meetings a year on campus, the AAEC addresses alumni and maintaining lifelong relationships between Haverford alumni and Tinterest in ongoing College affairs and discusses College policies the College, providing bridges across generations of Haverford grad- to provide an alumni perspective. uates, developing valued services for classmates and friends and The AAEC is responsible for proposing alumni nominees for providing a helping hand to current Haverford students.

President Diane Leigh Davison ’86 Jim Pabarue ’72 Polly Ross Ribatt ’90 Elliot K. Gordon ’78 Baltimore, MD Philadelphia, PA Chestnut Hill, MA Santa Monica, CA Regional Liaison (Baltimore) Multicultural Liaison Career Development Liaison [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Vice President Dan Fascione ’53 Billy Pekin ’93 Alex Robinson ’96 Spencer M. Ware ’01 Gladwyne, PA Chicago, IL New York, NY Hoboken, NJ Scarlet Sages Liaison Regional Liaison (Chicago) Awards Liaison [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Committee Members Loftin Flowers ’02 Kate Benanti ’98 New York, NY Theo Posselt ’94 Jennifer Perlberger Boston, MA Member at Large Berkeley, CA Robinson ’95 Regional Liaison (Boston) [email protected] Career Development Liaison Bala Cynwyd, PA [email protected] [email protected] Regional Liaison (Philadelphia) Philip Hawkins ’65 [email protected] Bennett Berson ’81 Philadelphia, PA Liz Poster ’08 Madison, WI Communications Liaison New York, NY Kurt Ryden ’88 Admission Liaison [email protected] Regional Liaison Larchmont, NY [email protected] (New York City) Member at Large Neil Kahrim ’04 [email protected] [email protected] Kurt Calia ’90 Bloomfield, NJ Woodside, CA Multicultural Liaison Kylie Reeves ’14 Heather Upton ’98 Regional Liaison () [email protected] Hillsborough, NC Los Angeles, CA [email protected] Paul Kandel ’83 Student Representative Regional Liaison (Los Angeles) Julie Min Chayet ’91 Scarsdale, NY [email protected] Dolores Reilly ’96 Weston, CT Annual Fund Chair Collingswood, NJ David Wertheimer ’77 Past President [email protected] [email protected] Career Development Liaison Seattle, WA Thalia Myrianthopoulos ’95 [email protected] Career Development Liaison Coburn-Flynn ’13 Chicago, IL [email protected] Los Gatos, CA Admission Liaison Student Representative [email protected]

WINTER 2013 51 MAY 31- JUNE 2, 2013 Alumni Weekend at a Glance

Many classes are holding exclusive gather- n “Star Party” in the Strawbridge n All-Alumni Buffet Luncheon ings, and various departments and offices Observatory With Professor Beth Noon–1:30 p.m. will be open throughout the weekend. Willman 9:30 p.m. Campus tours will be available as well. n Scarlet Sages Luncheon Noon– Saturday, June 1 1:30 p.m. n Yoga With Dana Miller ’86 Friday, May 31 n Jacob Jones Ice Cream Social n 8:30–9:30 a.m. Bi-Co All-Alumni Trip to the Barnes 1–2 p.m. Museum 1–4 p.m. n A Healthy Life: Tips for Runners of n All-Alumni Trip to the Barnes n ’63 Presents: Haverford Then and All Levels With Coach Tom Donnelly Now 2–3:30 p.m. 8:30–9:30 a.m. Museum 1 p.m.

n The Center for Peace and Global n A Talk and Discussion With Professor Sid Waldman: Citizenship Presents: A Continuing “God, Secular Humanism and Morality” 8:45–10:15 a.m. Education Experience on Social In my book America and the Limits of the Politics of Selfishness, I concluded that Change 3–5 p.m. what can be achieved in American politics depends on the morality and compassion Interested in joining the ranks of of the American people. That led me to ask if there’s a way to facilitate that morality alumni who are working for social and compassion. I have mainly looked to religion and philosophy in trying to answer change while holding down a full-time that question. My talk will include those subjects but will also focus job, cleaning the house and schlep- on secular humanists, including agnostics and atheists and those ping the kids? Join us for a hands-on who are not religious. My purpose in giving this talk and in the workshop on practical ways to apply discussion that follows is to stimulate thought and discussion and to Haverford’s Honor Code ideals in your encourage people to think about their own religious and community. Come prepared to share philosophical convictions—in particular, how they answer the your stories and learn from fellow question: Why are we here? Or, better yet, now that we are here, alumni, including Joe Prochaska ’82, what should we do? —Sid Waldman Bill Toole ’82, Jonathan Snipes ’82 and Parker Snowe ’79. n Community Achievement Celebration n ’68 Presents: The Benefits of Honoring Interim President Joanne V. Charitable Giving 3–4:15 p.m. Creighton 10:30 a.m.–noon n Dedication of Bust of Greg Board of Managers Co-Chair Howard Kannerstein ’63 4–5 p.m. Lutnick ’83 will lead us in a celebration of n Photography Exhibit and Reception, Interim President Joanne V. Creighton’s courtesy of the Fogel Photography leadership of the College over the past Fund 4:30–6 p.m. two years. AAEC President Elliot Gordon ’78 P’14 and other leadership volunteers n Class of ’88 25th Reunion will announce classes who have achieved President’s Reception 5–6 p.m. outstanding results in Class Gift fundrais- n Class of ’63 Reception and Dinner ing and participation efforts, and 6–10 p.m. congratulate the recipients of the 2013 n Class of ’68 Reception and Dinner Alumni Association Awards. 6–10 p.m. Gene Ludwig ’68: Kannerstein Award Bill Kelley ’63: Charles Perry Award for n All-Alumni Welcome Dinner for Sustained Service to the College Volunteer Service in Fund-Raising 6–8 p.m. Charles Vincent ’77: Haverford Award Michael Fogel ’58: William E. n Bi-College Shabbat Service and for Service to Humanity Sheppard Award for Volunteer Service Dinner 6–7:30 p.m. Gary Born ’78: Distinguished in Alumni Activities n Class of ’88 Dinner Following Achievement Award for Outstanding John Cook ’63 and Steve LaMotte President’s Reception Contributions in a Profession ’73: Archibald MacIntosh Award for n Dessert Under the Tent, Featuring Tim Ifill ’03 and Matt Joyce ’03: Volunteer Service in Admission Young Alumni Award for the George Urgo ’08 Blues Band Violet Brown: Friend of Haverford Accomplishments in Leadership 7–9 p.m. College Award Mitchell Cohn ’80: William Kaye n Step Sing, Bryn Mawr 9–10:30 p.m. Award for Volunteer Service in Career More information can be found at n After-Dinner Class Receptions Development fords.haverford.edu. and Parties

52 HaverfordMagazine n ’58 Presents: Liberal Arts Education n ’83 Presents: The Art of 1:30–3 p.m. Making Art 1:30–3 p.m. For demographic and economic rea- Live your artistic life sons, larger schools are increasingly vicariously during this engaging focused on the professional preparation session with Broadway of their students rather than communicat- producer Larry Kaye ’83, ing values. And the fastest growing seg- whose recent credits include ment of higher education is for-profit insti- Oleanna, How to Succeed in tutions. Where do liberal arts colleges, Business Without Really Trying, and Haverford specifically, fit into these and the Tony Award-winning trends? Featuring Kim Benston, provost, American Idiot; Henry Haverford College; David Ellis ’58, for- Richardson ’83, a master glass mer president of Lafayette College; and sculptor, 2012 Design Centers Zach First ’97, managing director of The of America Artist of the Year Drucker Institute. and one of only nine American sculptors in the first Miami Sculpture Biennial in 2010, whose larger-than-life works have been installed in public locations around the nation; and other alumni professionals in the arts. Henry Richardson ’83

n Class of ’68 – Past, Present and Future 2–3:30 p.m. n MegaMixer: All-Classes Dance Haverford College Provost Kim Benston n Class of ’08 Drinks and Outdoor 8:30 p.m.–midnight Games 2–4:30p.m. Featuring per- n Class of ’73 Class Meeting formances by The 1:30–4:00 p.m. n Class of ’03 Outdoor Gathering Shameless Eclectic 2:15–4:30 p.m. Duck, Dingo and Tammany. n Life After Haverford: Four Stories n HaverCamp Presents: The 15th from the Class of ’63 1:30–3 p.m. Annual Family Fun Fair 2:30–4 p.m. John Carroll, Pulitzer Prize winning Sunday, June 2 journalist, will lead a discussion with four n Class of ’88 Volleyball 3–4:30 p.m. n What Does Haverford During WWII of his classmates who represent a wide Tell Us About Wartime Service Today spectrum of vocations and experiences n Class of ’83 Havergames 7:30–10 a.m. and who will share how they view some 3–4:30 p.m. n All-Alumni Brunch 8 a.m.–1 p.m. of the major cultural, political and social n Lambda Symposium: Haverford Life n Class of ’63 Memorial Service themes and events of the last half-cen- Then & Now 3–4 p.m. 9–10:30 a.m. tury. Featuring: Corky Lipez, federal n appeals court judge; Bob Ruberg, pro- n Class of ’78 Memorial 4–5 p.m. Class of ’83 Memorial Service 9–10 a.m. fessor and interim vice dean, Ohio State University College of Medicine; Joe n Office of Multicultural Affairs Open n Jerry Shotzbarger ’78 Memorial Taylor, astrophysicist, Nobel Prize win- House 4–5 p.m. Tree Dedication 9:30–10:15 a.m. ner and former dean of faculty at n Class of ’53 Memorial Service n Yoga With Dana Miller ’86 Princeton University; and Tony Walton, 4:15–5 p.m. 10–11 a.m. vice chairman, , for Standard n Quaker Meeting for Worship Chartered Bank. n Wine and Cheese Reception with 10:30 a.m. Faculty Members 5–6:30 p.m. n Class of ’53 Plays Tennis 1:30–3 p.m. n Pick-Up Basketball 10:30 a.m. n Class Receptions and Dinners n Class of ’63 Brunch Noon n Class of ’78 Games and Tennis 6:30–9:30 p.m. 1:30–3 p.m. n Catholic Celebration of Mass n Classes of ’88 and ’93 Havergames n After-Dinner Class Events Noon–1 p.m. 1:30–4:30 p.m. n Class of ’98 Family Meet-Up/ Play Time 1:30–3 p.m. View the complete Alumni Weekend schedule at fords.haverford.edu n Walking Tour of Campus Featuring  or call 610-896-1004. Online registration begins April 1.

CELEBRATION AND BENSTON PHOTOS: PETER TOBIA; TOBIA; PETER PHOTOS: BENSTON AND CELEBRATION ’83 RICHARDSON HENRY OF COURTESY PHOTO: RICHARDSON Tritton and Kim Dorms 1:30–2:30 p.m.

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the presentation that the cathedral was more basics of cathedral design, only to learn that not disappoint and instead made it abundant- than the subject of an analysis, but also a nothing can amuse a 10-year-old boy more ly clear why for hundreds of years pilgrims physical expression of beauty and human than the words “flying buttress.”) As we rolled were attracted to the building’s boldness and achievement. He also verified that, during off the highway at Amiens, we were imme- reported mystical healing powers. For me, his tour of Amiens, he had noticed cracking diately greeted by the impressive site of the Amiens also stands as a reminder of how the in the archways that my analysis had iden- roof and steeple of the cathedral—rising high study of science can be enhanced through tified as unstable. above all other structures. Arriving at the site, the added perspective of the arts. Last , I finally took my family on I found the intricate artwork of the building’s Ralph Shayne lives in Chicago, where he still a whirlwind trip to Northern France, in part façade breathtaking, and I finally saw the plays (and now coaches) soccer and appreciates to complete the journey I’d started during my cracks at the interior arches that provided the beauty of a well-coined rap lyric. He received senior year at Haverford more than two both a validation of my analysis and a an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and decades earlier. (Preparing for the trip, I start- reminder of an element of human imperfec- currently operates a specialty finance company, ed teaching my 10-year-old twins about the tion in the design. Notre Dame d’Amiens did which he started in 2006.

56 HaverfordMagazine alumni obituaries

John M. Tinnon died Dec. 1, 2011. play tennis into his 80s at Merion Cricket including deputy assistant secretary for man- 39He was 94. Tinnon served in the Club. He is survived by his wife, Sylvia; sons agement and deputy director of the Bureau Navy in World War II and achieved the rank Robert, James Jr. and Richard; a daughter, for Political-Military Affairs. In his last diplo- of lieutenant JG. He enjoyed a successful Mary; 10 grandchildren and 10 great-grand- matic posting abroad, he was the deputy business career with Air Reduction children. chief of mission for the U.S. embassy in Company, Air Products and Chemicals, and Seoul, South , from 1976 through Fabricated Plastics, where he retired as presi- David J. Blackwell, Sr. died Sept. 26. 1979. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, dent in 1982. Tinnon was a member of the 49 Blackwell was selected by the Army Vivian; his sons, Michael and Ken; and three choir at First Congregational Church of at age 17 to enter the Army Special Training grandsons. Chappaqua, N.Y., where he loved singing “O Program, where he was among 120 young Holy Night” at Christmastime. An avid gar- men chosen for an intensive Japanese lan- James C. Boyd died Oct. 13. He dener, he was a member of the Chappaqua guage program at . He served 51served in the Navy from 1951 Garden Club and head of the grounds com- in the Army Counterintelligence Corps in through 1954 aboard the USS Silverstein and mittee at Meadow Ridge retirement commu- Japan during the occupation. After the war, was honorably discharged as a lieutenant JG. nity. He is survived by his wife of almost 70 he graduated from Haverford. He retired as Boyd graduated from Marquette School of years, Charline, two daughters and a grand- executive vice president of MassMutual Life Dentistry in 1961, and after a rotating intern- daughter. Insurance Company and moved to ship at the Zablocki V.A. Medical Center, he Woodstock, Vt., where he was on the board attended the Mayo Clinic from 1962 through B. Burns Brodhead died Nov. 18. of the Thompson Center for Seniors and 1964 as a fellow in oral and maxillofacial sur- 42 He was 91. After Haverford, Community. He is survived by his wife, Joan; gery. After a year of practice with two other Brodhead attended and two sons, D. Jefferson and Robert; and a dentists, he began a private practice in down- Union Seminary. A United Methodist pastor, granddaughter. town . He also practiced at he served Bensalem, Fritz Memorial, St. Columbia Hospital, where he headed the Matthew’s of and Lansdale Sperry “Skip” Lea died Dec. 6. He was 89. division of dentistry and oral surgery for United Methodist Churches. He also served While at Haverford, Lea won several poetry many years. He retired in 1998. He is sur- as district superintendent to the Anthracite prizes and composed music for modern vived by his son, his daughter and four District. Brodhead was well known as a dance recitals at Bryn Mawr College. He grandchildren. trumpeter, taught at and earned his master’s degree from the Fletcher Eastern Baptist Seminary, and, after his retire- School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts Drew Deacon died Nov. 23. He was 83. ment, was a volunteer missioner to the University and, in the early 1950s, was hired While attending Haverford, Deacon danced Bahamas for 10 years. He is survived by his under the Truman Doctrine and stationed in with Grace Kelly. He then worked as a fea- second wife, Ruth; his daughters, Lois and Athens, Greece, where he met his wife, who tures reporter in Woonsocket, R.I., and Janet; and four grandchildren. was working as a translator. They married in served in the Army Reserves, achieving the 1955 and settled in Washington, D.C. Lea rank of corporal. James Albert Schnaars died Sept. spent most of his career in Washington 45 26. He was 90. Schnaars served in working for the National Planning Robert Franke died Oct. 1. He the Army in Panama during World War II Association, where he conducted research on 52 was 82. After his Haverford gradua- before attending Haverford, and after his the economic relations between the U.S. and tion, Franke was drafted into the Army graduation he was recalled to duty during Canada and the U.S. and the United and completed his military service in the Korean War. He also did a tour of duty in Kingdom. After retiring, he devoted much of Heidelberg, Germany. He began his business Florida. He worked at Provident Mutual Life his time to philanthropic causes in the career selling life insurance, then earned his Insurance Company, from which he retired Washington area, particularly those involv- C.P.A. and worked briefly in accounting in the late 1980s. A lifelong tennis player, ing inner-city youth and the arts. He is sur- before returning to insurance as a broker, Schnaars competed in the New York State vived by his wife, Anna; daughter, Helena; concentrating on corporate insurance. Tennis Championships when he was 18 and son, R. Brooke ’82; and grandson. Franke retired from Alexander & Alexander later competed in the U.S. Open, the Pan (now Aon) in 1993 and set up his own American Championship, the Middle States Thomas Stern died Dec. 1. He was insurance consulting business, which he Clay Courts Tournament and numerous 5085. He served in the Army and did ran until recently. He is survived by his wife, other tournaments. In 1949, he was defeated graduate work at the Maxwell School of Joyce; daughter Elizabeth; son, Robert; and in round two of the U.S. National Indoor Syracuse University. After completing his five grandchildren. Championships by the tennis great Pancho education, Stern joined the Foreign Service. Gonzales, and in 1960 he was defeated at the Early in his career, he was stationed at the William Melcher died Nov. 28. He was 83. Pennsylvania Lawn Tennis Meet by Rod U.S. embassies in Rome and Bonn. He later Melcher earned an M.A. in secondary educa- Laver, the No. 1 ranked player in the world served in a number of senior posts with the tion and administration at the University of from 1964 to 1970. Schnaars continued to State Department in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and was employed by the

WINTER 2013 57 IN MEMORIAM

Florence “Floss” Genser Ronald F. Thiemann Florence R. Genser, who worked for the Ronald F. Thiemann died Nov. 29 after a struggle

obituaries Haverford Arboretum for 17 years and retired with pancreatic cancer. He was 66. A noted as its director in 1996, died Dec. 31. She was scholar, theologian, teacher and administrator, 88. Norm Ricker, retired vice president of facil- Thiemann was a member of the Haverford reli- ities, says, “Floss was the quintessential Main gion department from 1978 to 1986. He left the Line Lady. She was always elegant, poised, and College to become dean of Harvard Divinity truly dedicated to the environment, especially School, a position he held until 1998, after which alumni the flora on the Haverford campus. She initiat- he continued on as professor of religion and soci- ed the cataloging and labeling of the campus ety and as the Benjamin Bussey Professor of trees, which is continuing today. Floss studied Theology, Harvard’s oldest endowed chair in the- the original planting scheme of William ology. While at Haverford, he served as chair of Carvill and strove to emulate it throughout the the religion department, acting provost and act- campus. The present appearance of the cam- ing president of the College. In 1982 he was rec- pus is in no small measure a tribute to Floss’ ognized with the Christian and Mary Lindback Ronald F. Thiemann dedication and efforts.” Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching.

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Phelps School in Malvern, Pa., for 34 years as his wife of 56 years, Marilyn BMC ’53, three the history of New Jersey. He was elected a a chemistry teacher, head of the science children, six grandchildren, two step-grand- member of the American College of Trial department and dean of students. Melcher children and one step-great-grandchild. Lawyers and was an arbiter for the U.S. feder- also owned and operated WDLM al courts. Doherty was also chairman and Communications and Servicing for 14 years. David C. Wilson died Oct. 21. He was 82. president of the county American Red Cross, He was a member of the American Wilson made public appearances with a member of the board of Bridgeton Hospital, Chemistry Society, the National Science Buffalo Bob Smith as Clarabell the Clown in a trustee of Rowan University, a member of Teachers Association, and, as an amateur the New York area in the early 1950s. He the board of the Delaware River and Bay radio license holder, the K3BKG Amateur spent his career in the capital equipment Authority, president of the Cumberland Radio Club of West Chester, Pa. He was also industry and played an instrumental role in a County Bar Association, a member of the a Sunday school teacher, vestry member, lay number of local causes in Wheaton, Ill., Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey reader and acolyte trainer at Saint Francis-in including school-district consolidation and Judicial Conference, and president of the-Fields Episcopal Church, where he memorabilia contributions to the Red Plusvital Americas. He is survived by his belonged for 50 years. He is survived by his Grange Heritage Gallery. He is survived by three children, Deirdre, Adam and Megan. wife, Caroline; daughter, Elizabeth; and his wife of 58 years, Nancy; his children, granddaughter. Daniel, Laura, Thomas and Cynthia; and 10 Anthony J. Krol died Nov. 29. Krol grandchildren. 75 was a lawyer whose career spanned Robert W. Crichlow died Nov. 13. more than 30 years. He was most recently a 53 He was 80. Crichlow attended the Norman Matthews died May 9. He senior partner in the business department at University of Pennsylvania School of 54 was 78. Matthews graduated from White and Williams LLP in Philadelphia. Medicine and began a decades-long career as Harvard Medical School in 1958. He held a He is survived by his wife, Alice, and daugh- a general surgeon. He was an instructor and private practice and served as medical direc- ter, Rachel. then professor of surgery at Penn before join- tor for Planned Parenthood in Cincinnati. He ing the faculty of Dartmouth Medical School. is survived by his son, Samuel; daughter, Charles A. Vidair died Aug. 2. He He served as chair of the department of sur- Mary; stepdaughter, Caryn; stepsons, 76 was 58. Vidair studied molecular biol- gery at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Michael and Thomas; five grandchildren and ogy at the University of California, Berkeley, (later the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical eight step-grandchildren. and was a member of the research faculty at Center) from 1980 until his retirement in UC San Francisco’s department of radiation 1995. Crichlow helped establish an emer- William P. Doherty Jr. died Sept. 28. oncology from 1984 through 1996. He was gency helicopter transport system for the 57 He was 77. Doherty earned his law an American Board-certified toxicologist, and medical center, which led to its recognition degree at the University of Chicago School of from 1998 until his death he worked in the as a Level I trauma center. Male breast cancer Law, was admitted to the New Jersey bar in Office of Environmental Health Hazard was the focus of his research, and he helped 1962 and subsequently established his own Assessment at the California Environmental develop programs, funding and recruitment law practice. He was appointed by Gov. Protection Agency, where he made major for the section of vascular surgery and for Brendan Byrne to be prosecutor in 1973 and contributions to evaluating health standards. pediatric surgical services. He is survived by was one of the longest serving prosecutors in He is survived by his wife, Shirley. PHOTO: HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL DIVINITY HARVARD PHOTO:

58 HaverfordMagazine In 1965, students could get coffee and a bite and listen to musical performances in a café called The Crypt in the basement of Union. There was even some snazzy balcony level seating overlooking the action. Today, no trace of The Crypt is visible in Union. Instead, practice rooms have taken over the space.

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In February, the Baltimore band Chiffon played for students in the basement of Lunt, which is home to a student-run café and a performance space that hosts the Federation United Concert Series. Perhaps you recall a particularly memorable night of music in Lunt, in its precursor Jones Café, or in The Crypt during your time at Haverford? Drop us a line and tell us about it. PHOTOS: (THEN) THEODORE HETZEL; (NOW) BRAD LARRISON BRAD (NOW) HETZEL; THEODORE (THEN) PHOTOS: HAVERFORD COLLEGE NON-PROFIT ORG 370 Lancaster Avenue US POSTAGE Haverford, PA 19041 PAID BURLINGTON VT 05401 MOVING? PERMIT #286 Help us keep your magazine coming by emailing your new address to [email protected]. Or, fill in the address change form below and send it to us before you move. Address Service Requested

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