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Lawrence University promotes equal opportu ni ty for all. lc1ll 2 oo 1 rcJ 1. 8 2 \ o. 1 h'p 1f111 P\ 11 7 Digging Bjorklunden When is a field trip more than a field trip? 11 Acting locally, acting responsibly Lawrence students strive to raise environmental awareness 14 There and back again: experiences of note When teachers travel, students benefit 19 String theory: general relativity meets quantum mechanics The laws of the big vs. the laws of the small By Brian Greene 22 Under attack: December 7, 1941 By Joan Stidman Nist, '47 14 24 Stories from Saarbrucken Bidisciplinary teaching with an emphasis on the disciplinary part By Katie Moore, '00 26 First day of the rest of their lives Commencement 2001 29 Finding new things in old places R eunion Weekend 2001 34 The magnificent six Athletic Hall of Fame selects its Class of 2001 38 The will to win, the will to excel Knocked down, he got back up again, and again, 29 and again 1 )t I) 1 {1/l llf, 2 Correspondence 3 Inside Lawrence 34 Sports 41 Alumni Today 56 Lawrence Yesterday ( )n the t11' Anthony Hoch, assistant professor of geology, Wesley Miksa, '02 (center), and Sean Lauterbach, '02, are among the growing numbers of Lawrence faculty members and students discovering the value of Bjorklunden as a site for field research. See "Digging Bjorklunden," page 7. Photo by Jeff Davis. Correspotzdence The Bjorklunden experience abstract mile-.roncs of the I Sl60s that 196Us. I'll stand by my ongmal l commend to the alumni the we might (or might not- who no\\ conclusion. Much as it grieve.., me to Bjorklunden t:1cility and the Summer can be sure?) he.1r more about in the say so, there's more Mick Jagger than Seminar program. For those who future: the I Y65 Immigration Act, Glenn Miller in us today. have not vi,ited Bjdrklunden, it is a \\'hich ~tarted thl..' revivifying intlux of uniqul..' and bl..'aunful adjunct to non-European people that continues A life remembered Lawrence. If you are interested in today; the seeds of the Third Great M y wife, Asa, and I just came home reliving the Lawrence experience, this Awakening. key figurl' Billy Graham, fi·om a vacation in L3riwwy and N or­ oflcr~ a way to do so in a pastoral who continues to have rather more mandy. While wandeting through the se tting and without the hubbub of a folJowcrs than Dr. Timothy Leary; thousands of crosses at the America n Reunion Weekend. l thoroughly the sp.1ce program, which overawed cemetery in Normandy, looking at enjoyed IllY time there studying "The the world with America's drive the names and age~ and thinking of all Civil War: What Might Have Been" and skills. the lives and c;.Icriticco;, Asa suddenly offered by Professor Jerald Podair. Professor Podair concluded that called me over to a particular scone: The only dowmtde was that the .. [n]o dec.1de in the 20th century will ''Look. a woman. And she died outcome \\as unchanged. be as analyzed ... a~ the I <.J60s," but I'll two and a half month'l after the war! Tc>m Sd111h:, '60, put my money on the 1940<>. when After the death and dying should be If 'inchesrer, I 'ir,_~inia the English--;peaking world defeated over .... fascism and came head-to-head with We stood there talking for a good Non-abstract milestones its variant, communism. The cultural while: What \\'<IS the story of her Profe~sor Jerry Podair's essay, ··The history of those contests 1s still being young life? She must haw been a 1960s are ... history" (Summer 2001) worked through in every country in nurse or a doctor, maybe she was summari7ed eight elements of cultural the world. injured in the war and died later of change that set in during that decade. jtwn·s Cvmeli11s, '81 her wounds. maybe driving some­ His analysis is excellent, but it was Urbana, f((j no is where and the vehicle struck a mine, made from a window r<Hher high maybe in an airplane crash. We above the square in which the great Prt!fessor Pvdair rcpli£'s: Mr. Cornelius left saying that, like all thl· other m;Dority of Americans lived at that raises some interesting points, and, thousands buried there, we would time. "Questioning of au thority" and indeed, ~ome that arc relevant to any never know who they were or what "anti-material ism" and "personal period in the American past. I am happened. authenticity" may have been the quest always struck, whatl·ver decade I Yesterday I fetched the mail that of some well-born and well-educated study, by the l.uge number of individ­ had been held while we were away. people - and even then, as has often uals \\ ho appear to be bystanders co Leafing through the summer issue of been said, thme 1960s did not really the processes of historical transfomla­ Lnwrencc Today, I saw the article "A h.1ppen until the I IJ70s- but most tion. But revolutlOll'i, whether of the life cut short, a life remembered," and Americans dtd not, nor do the} now. political, o;ocial. or cultural variety. are it struck me: J know that n.une! And go w collegl·. ofi:cn initiated by relatively small the date 191R- J 945. Buried 111 France. We hear a good deal about these groups, members of what \Ve call I asked Asa. "Doe~ the name abstractions, .md rardy as succinctly "elites." Their power <.krivcs not Elizabeth Richardson a ring a bell?'' dl·scribed .1s by Professor Podair, but l from number~. but from access to "Yes, the woman in the American fear we do so because so many people knowledge, influence, and the cemetery." who lived the (latter) I Sl6th that way media. What I wrote in my essay " Look here: this is a picture and became te.H:hers, reporters, or social about Student\ for a Democratic story about the ·woman whose grave workers. What about people who Society - "it is much more important we stood in front of last week delivered ga~oline, nursed, or took to be articulate than to be numerous" wondering." We were dumbstruck. your order? A manufitcturingjob, for - applies, f think, tO lll OSt historical We just stood there with goosetlesh those with or without a high-school change. It is nor t~1ir, of coursl', since on our arms. " It's her! It has to be!" diploma, was still the goal of tens of the voice of <I stet·lworker should Someone once told me that people millions of people before rhe oil/ count as much as that of a I f "asltiu.~/o/1 are only de::1d if no one remembers inflation crises after 1974. Post columnist. But even in a democ­ them. Well, we will never forget Bertrand Russell said, around racy, to paraphrase George Orwell, Elizabeth R .ichardson IM-D '40], World War I, that for his time history some are more equal than others. As even if we did not know her.