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> IN Praise of Play s y M acwilliam K e ll Philosophy is a serious business — Alumni from diverse professions repeatedly seemingly abstruse and humorless. Yet tell me that, above all, the liberal arts chal- much philosophical thinking has been lenged them to think. Critical thinking can be The born of humor and the creative power of acquired, of course, without the study of the play. Democritus, arguably the first liberal arts, but it’s the questions that the lib- philosopher of science, was known for his eral arts ask, rather than the thinking itself, propensity for laughter, and his serious that have special significance. Only in the lib- Democritus sense of play resulted in some remarkable eral arts are questions raised about the mean- James A. Parente, Jr. INCredible Dean, College of Liberal Arts discoveries. ing of life, the nature of social, political, and economic order, and the variety of the human power of Liberal arts In that vein we introduce this summer’s Reach with a jocular experience and our beliefs. cover as an entrée into the creativity of our faculty, students, and alumni. It is by virtue of their diversity that the liberal arts can provide a context for discerning connections between seemingly distinct Current public discussion about higher education has lost spheres of knowledge. The liberal arts have thrived for centu- Thinkers sight of the “serious play” of discovery and innovation tradi- ries because of their capacity to entertain fundamental questions tionally stimulated by universities. In the course of this year’s that elude definitive response, to force connections between Did you know they fuel discovery intense presidential campaign, higher education itself has disparate fields, and to train generations of students to use both become, not only a topic, but also a target for divisive debate. and innovation between disparate reason and imagination to create with confidence and verve. Most Americans agree about the demonstrated economic In this issue of Reach you will read about exciting connec- benefits of a college degree, but concerns about cost and tions that faculty and students in our college are drawing fields — including science and restricted job opportunities are causing students and their between science and the humanities. You will see how in families to question the value of the experience. technology? Stories CLA we not only do science, we interrogate the scientific Such skepticism is understandable. The cost of an undergrad- method and its assumptions; and you’ll see how we are deci- begin on page 6. uate education continues to rise, especially at public institu- phering and reconstructing ancient papyri, restoring the liv- tions whose states have disinvested in this public good. ing language of the Ojibwe people, and exploring the Students and their families rightly ask for data about job dynamics of molecular structures through dance — all this placement for graduates across several fields before choosing using the latest scientific techniques. a course of study. These questions are not new. The link Summer is the season for reflecting and preparing for the between an academic program and a career has always been busy fall ahead. It is also the season of play. I encourage you to implicit in higher education. Medieval universities were animate your summer with “serious play”— the imaginative founded to train lawyers, physicians, and theologians, and exploration of the self and the world for which the liberal arts Renaissance universities construed training in the liberal arts, have prepared you. the studium humanitatis, to be in the service of the state. The psychologist Erik H. Erikson wrote, “The playing adult The link between career and the liberal arts can be less obvious << On the Cover steps sideward into another reality.” In preparing to meet than the link between career and the study of, say, business or The liberal arts and science both our private challenges, and — in this election year — those engineering. Yet we know that the liberal arts can and do lead get bright ideas together. of our global society, the power to envision and create new Illustration by Jonathan Twingley their students to many different paths — ranging from business, realities is certainly one to exercise and cherish. law, and the health sciences to journalism and the fine arts.

6 10 13 16 2 Field of Inquiry 22 We Thank our donors 29 For the Love of Learning News and research from CLA Mary Hicks writes about The World of Phi-Sci Serving up good Can you Say “internet” You, too, can translate 23 ON A PERSONAL NOTE Bound to Please Our alums — one won internships. So an evolutionary biologist, a news about food in Ojibwe? ancient documents! 19 Spotlight on a book about an Oscar! Back COver philosopher and a yeast cell walked The psychology of getting kids to Technology to preserve Citizen-scientists around the feeding the world. On the uses of failure into a bar – true story. Mostly. eat their veggies, and astronauts a language world are decoding Greco- 27 The Lives They Led In memory By Randall Fillmore to eat enough By Greg Breining Egyptian fragments. By Greg Breining By kirsten Weir Read Reach online: z.umn.edu/reach of inquiry > news and research from cla

Apps for Aid 40 Years Old and Getting Better

Thanks to five undergraduate students, humani- program from the Ultralingua has led me to job interviews and job Emerging 40 years ago during the Civil with courses on education policy and tarian aid workers around the world will be able ground up — from offers. This experience as a whole is where I see Rights Movement, the Department of practices, community filmmaking, health, to communicate with disaster victims in their strategies and tactics my education and career come together. CLA Chicano Studies was a manifestation of business, and media. own languages. to the webpage. understands the importance of doing more than the nation’s 20th-century struggle to end Department chair Louis Mendoza says the learning by sitting in a classroom. I did a real racism, sexism, homophobia, and other In a class on strategic commu- A year later, Apps for department’s future will be shaped by two goals. project and made a real difference.” inequalities. Today it continues to ground nication campaigns taught by Aid has been used by “First, we’ll continue to play a critical role in its work in social justice, and incorporates instructor Bruce Moorhouse, the the Red Cross and by International Medical This tiny company, literally down the street educating everyone on the important contribu- community outreach and service-learning five decided to take on a group Relief (IMR), an organization that sends short- from Folwell Hall — CLA’s center of language tions Latinos and Latinas make to the social, as key distinctions. project for Ultralingua, a Dinky- term medical missions to help in disasters around and cultural study — abounds with CLA folks. cultural, intellectual, political, and economic town startup that makes language the world — recently in China, Indonesia, Chile, Alum Chris Ernt, B.A. ’04, cinema and media In celebrating its anniversary, the well-being of this country,” he says. “Second, translation software for business, and the Philippines. culture, is a designer; adjunct linguistics instruc- department is looking forward more we’ll continue to partner with the local Latino travel, and education. Sarah tor Blake Howald is in R&D; German-language than backward. A name change, to community to increase educational access, and Apps include general translation and medical Theisen, ’12; Jaclyn Lien, ’12; and marketing student Christopher Kuehl, and “Department of Chicano-Latino Studies,” through our service-learning opportunities work dictionaries, verb conjugators, apps for grammar Michelia Pham, ’11; and Patrick Ashleigh Lincoln, B.A. ’09, and Kelsey Lund, ’12, will signal its intent to address the to improve their overall quality of life.” and numbers, and flashcards. Users don’t need to Puckett, ’12 (College of Design), both in strategic communications, all work in changing face of Minnesota’s and the connect to the Internet to use the services. – Kelly O’Brien joined Christopher Lucia, ’11, marketing; Jeremy Bergerson, M.A. ’04, German, United States’ fastest-growing ethnic a M ill er

L i s who was already on board as Meanwhile, Theisen has been hired as an intern and Herman Koutouan, M.A. ’11, French, are group. And it will add an intern. to expand the program. She says: “When I walked language specialists. to an already inter- Chicano-Latino Studies: addressing the into Bruce’s class the first day, I had no idea that it disciplinary curriculum Left to right: Ashleigh They were responding to Ultralingua’s desire to – Mary Pattock changing face of Minnesota’s fastest- would change my life. I am so glad I was a part of Lincoln, Chris Kuehl, Chris formalize a program that would make the Ernt, Blake Howald and the Apps for Aid group because it led me to an growing ethnic group translation software available to response and Sarah Theisen internship at Ultralingua. What I have done at relief agencies. The challenge was to build the

Dance as test-tube? Voters Who Come in from the Web

U professors Carl Flink and David Odde have There are limits. Dancers can’t simulate every o n Did you realize that younger adults are only half as likely to vote as people Until now, that is. Lewis and his former colleagues at The University discovered that skilled dancers can test a scientist’s conceivable 3D movement. But there are plusses, over 30? It’s true: Election Day turnout averages about 69 percent for older of Texas at Austin have produced a study suggesting that because young model of a cell’s inner life more quickly than a too. Dancers can talk about their experience am er adults, and 39 percent for younger Americans. In fact, youth is a better people “live” online, where there are plenty of opportunities to encounter computer can. “inside” the cell.

predictor of nonvoting than any other factor, including gender, political information, they are more likely to see it. W illiam C In minutes, biomedical engineering professor “A great advantage of using dancers is that we geography, race, and socio-economic status. And they are more likely to respond to the infor- Odde can sketch a model’s rules and dance engage each other, whereas the computer remains The 2008 presidential election mobilized unpre- mation because it comes to them via a medium professor Flink’s dancers can play those rules out. silent after the simulation,” Odde says. “The cedented numbers of young people. But even they like to use. Online political messages offer To test the same model by programming a ensuing discussions help us ‘deconstruct’ models.” then, 51 percent of the 30-and-younger crowd them the chance to engage immediately with computer would take hours or even weeks. “The researcher can actually discuss what the voted, compared to 67 percent of older citizens, the topic. They can comment online, engage in For example, a big question in drug research movers inside the experiment experienced and according to The Center for Information & discussions, forward information to friends, or concerns the difference between what happens observed,” says Flink. “They can also offer Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. post on Facebook or Twitter. in a test tube and what happens in a living cell. observations on their own that the researcher Is it that young people resist voting for some reason? Seth Lewis says these more subtle methods of engagement can There’s more “stuff” in a living cell than in a test may have never thought of.” Lewis, professor of new media journalism, says no; it’s more a case of how eventually “translate to greater activity — in the voting booth, where it tube. Does that extra stuff reduce the space and – Bill Magdalene hard it is to reach young people with political messages. Political messages ultimately matters.” somehow speed up the processes in the cell? Dancers test biomedical engineering rules. Or does it slow things down because it prevents and youth lifestyles don’t seem to intersect much. To see an excerpt from the dance, “Hit,” go to – Mary Pattock molecules from moving in straight lines? Dancers z.umn.edu/hit. can play out models for both hypotheses.

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Employees: healthier out of the “cage”? Moving Stories Accolades The reasons immigrants come to the United States today are as diverse as Animals in cages aren’t happy; Prof. Matt McGue received the Behavior Genetic ever: to flee tyranny, to seek economic opportunity, for love — you name it. should people be any different? Association’s highest research honor. Tim Kehoe and Ernesto Zedillo at HHEI’s globalization forum And so it was for the 75 new Americans who took their citizenship oaths in Yet conventional employment Ellen Berscheid, professor emerita, received the Willey Hall this past March. practices, say sociologists Phyllis William James Award for lifetime achievement from The naturalization ceremony, sponsored by CLA’s Immigration History Moen and Erin Kelly, can put the Association for Psychological Science (APS). What Got Lost Research Center (IHRC) and the American Immigration Lawyers Associa- people in “time cages,” institu- Prof. James Dillon is one of the world’s top 10 tion (AILA), welcomed people from Denmark and Croatia, Ethiopia and tionalized rhythms that override living contemporary classical music composers, Along the Way Somalia, Tibet, Colombia, and Canada — in all, people from 25 nations, individual and family needs, take according to the Londonist. each with a unique story about a toll on employee health, and Economics — it’s more than elegant mathematical coming to the United States. eventually affect the employer’s These and more at: z.umn.edu/accolades models, says Ernesto Zedillo, the former president of bottom line. Mexico who now directs the Yale Center for the Study The IHRC is in the business of a M ill er

of Globalization. keeping those stories. For more L i s To see if employees enjoy better than 90 years it has advocated for health when they have more The early economists, he said at a recent CLA event, the importance of listening to what flexibility and control over their understood that their discipline was “about understand- immigrants themselves say about work schedules, Moen and her colleagues studied the experience of Best ing human problems and providing ideas to address their experiences. In fact, as one of Buy Co., Inc, a Fortune 500 corporation headquartered in the Minneapolis those problems…. This is something that was lost along “A good strike for peace” the first institutions established to suburb of Richfield, as it rolled out its Results Only Work Environment the way. Economics as a technical discipline sometimes preserve the personal histories of (ROWE) program. When is music education more than music education? forgets to introduce into their models the political immigrants, the IHRC is today dimension.” When it infuses the worldview of young people with profound insights. North America’s preeminent center Turning workplace tradition on its head, Becoming U.S. citizens ROWE evaluates performance exclusively on Zedillo was speaking at the Heller-Hurwicz Economics for the study of migration. Research Shows That’s what happened when 29 School of Music students joined measurable results. Employees have the Institute’s recent forum on globalization, exchanging German colleagues to perform Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem here AILA used the occasion to make its annual Immigrant of Distinction when Employees freedom to routinely change when and where ideas with Timothy Kehoe, CLA’s own Distinguished and in Germany. It was an experience music professor Phillip Zawisza Awards. One went to Olga Zoltai, who, as a child, fled her native Hungary they do their work based on their own needs McKnight University Professor of economics and have the freedom called “a good strike for peace.” and the invading Nazis by donkey cart. She and her husband, the late and job responsibilities — without having to adviser to The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. U of M geology professor Tibor Zoltai, eventually settled in Minnesota, to change when seek permission from their managers. Kei-Mu Yi, director of research at the Minneapolis Fed, It was very moving to perform Britten’s War Requiem with a generation where she spent decades helping other refugees settle into life in the Twin who survived the war we fought against them. … This collaboration meant moderated the event. and where they Over the six months of the study, researchers Cities. The other award went to Victor Contreras, a native of Mexico so much to everyone who was involved and was evident by the tears in our found that employees got almost an hour’s The program underscored Zedillo’s point, touching who cofounded Centro Campesino, a nonprofit fighting for migrant do their work, eyes at the end of the performances. I feel lucky to have participated in this more sleep a night, exercised more, had more on the role of economics in a wide variety of human workers’ rights. project and am thankful that it is now possible to have peace with this they see a host energy, and less stress. When they were sick, contexts, from global politics to Mexican history, from amazing culture. Every year, IHRC scholars record the oral histories of the AILA they were more likely to go to the doctor and the environment to organized crime. Kehoe focused on of benefits. So do awardees — opening windows onto the journeys of many people and less likely to show up at work where they could – Brianna Farah, master’s student in voice how nations have rebounded from recessions past and entire communities, inviting us to consider the dreams they bring to their employers. infect others. More importantly, they had less present, and Zedillo, in Yi’s words, on “the broad sweep Students faced standing their new lives in our midst. of all the important issues involving globalization in the work-related conflict with their families. ovations at sold-out perfor- past 300 years.” – Kelly O’Brien Healthier and happier employees benefit the company, as well. Turnover mances on the Twin Cities for all types of employees dropped 45 percent, and Best Buy is anticipating campus; in Detmold, Germany; The discussion prompted one audience member to lower health care costs and greater productivity as the program continues. and in the Quad Cities. comment on the importance of the social sciences and the need “to teach young people how to manage the Other members of the research team were Quinlei Huang, at the time a – Mary Pattock forces that we have unleashed… [and] that humanity has sociology undergraduate, and Eric Tranby, an assistant professor of Follow the journey on to be able to manage the globalization it has launched.” Correction sociology at the University of Delaware. The study, published in the the students’ blog: Journal of Health and Social Behavior, received funds from the National “Globalization: The Promise & The Challenge” An item in this section in the Fall 2011 issue misstated the rank of CLA’s z.umn.edu/brittenblog Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on attracted more than 400 people. It was the largest event Economics Department among U.S. Nobel Prize-winning public research Aging, the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research, and the yet for HHEI, now only a year old. universities. It ranks fifth, not second. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. Students posed before the Hochschule für Musik – Tessa Eagan – Mary Pattock Detmold. Their transportation costs were funded largely by donors. Watch the event and see a slide show at z.umn.edu/hheiglobal.

4 reach Summer 2012 SUmmer 2012 reach 5 th a n Twi gl ey y J o n a t io n b a Where Phi Met Sci (in the room next door) By Randolph Fillmore str I llu When young naturalist Charles Darwin peered with wonder at a coral reef, he saw what appeared to be a living, unified submarine city of sea life. A single, throbbing organism. But he knew it was So an evolutionary biologist, a philosopher, really a teeming collection of individuals. and a yeast cell walked into a bar. “Where are the individuals?” he asked. experiment aimed at investigating how—many, You think I’m making this up, don’t you? The question was as philosophical as it was many millions of years ago—single-celled life Actually, the only made-up part is the bar. scientific. became multicellular, individual organisms. The biologist and the philosopher really Almost 175 years later, another young scientist, “High school students could do this experi- did get together — in truth, there were inspired by a lecture sponsored by CLA’s Minne- ment,” says Travisano. “It could have been done several of them — but it was in a lecture hall, sota Center for the Philosophy of Science, slid a 100 years ago!” not a bar, and yeast cells really did perform picture of clumped, snowflake-shaped yeast cells Despite the fact that it was probably one of some fascinating gyrations for them — under the office door of a colleague. He had the simplest biological experiments in history, it in a laboratory. So fascinating, and so captioned it: “Which of these is the individual?” might turn out to be one of the most important. significant, was the performance that It was Darwin’s question. “Their experiment was as philosophically it made headlines in newspapers and important as it was biologically important,” said scientific journals around the world. Waters. “It raised new questions about how we (See for yourself online — we’ll tell As the center’s director, Ken Waters knows that should conceive of organisms and offered a new you how later.) the link between science and philosophy is nearly approach for answering them.” This issue of Reach is about what as old as human thought itself. can happen when we use both liberal He also knows that in the history of human Where the thinking is BIG arts and scientific thinking to look at thought, specialization has led to a divergence of Why mix scientific and liberal arts thinking? the world. Like when flint hits steel, philosophy and science into academic apples and “To be able to ask the big questions,” answers sparks fly. We get new insights. oranges. His mission since taking the reins of the evolutionary and plant population biologist Solutions. Breakthroughs! center in 1996 has been to connect philosophical Ruth Shaw, a frequent participant in the Biology and scientific inquiry at the University of Interest Group, or BIG, one of the discussion – Mary Pattock, Editor Minnesota. groups that meets under the center’s interdisci- Central to that mission has been facilitating plinary umbrella. “Answering big questions can discussion groups in which philosophers discuss lead to path-breaking science. What Mike and science with scientists, and scientists discuss Will did was to take a different perspective on philosophy with philosophers. biological life, do an experiment, and learn from They address topics like the influence of it. We often have to do something simple to learn biology on political ideology, the explanatory something important.” power of genomics, the concept of a living fossil, “It’s all about the questions,” says historian of and the evolution of culture. biology Mark Borrello, another BIG participant. They meet weekly, routinely, passionately — “When we come to BIG, this kind of interaction and the results are combustible. and collaboration is what the academy is truly Take the case of that young scientist with the about — for me it spills over into my teaching. “snowflake” images, William Ratcliff, a postdoc I can ‘walk’ this kind of thinking into the class- research fellow in the Department of Ecology, room and give students a perspective that they Evolution and Behavior, in the College of would not have otherwise received.” Alisha Fujita, Biological Sciences. Inspired at the center by a an undergraduate premed student and BIG lecture on evolution and biological cooperation participant, agrees. “I think all students could and conflict, he and his mentor, evolutionary benefit from this type of critical analysis, which biologist Michael Travisano, carried out an is often overlooked in undergraduate education.”

6 reach Summer 2012 Summer 2012 reach 7 In discussions with a M ill er Breaking into Thought philosophers at the division of labor. Single cells could congregate philosophy was interested in everything. The area L i s and work together to create a multicellular, of philosophical thought called ‘natural philoso- Science advances by way of approximations, errors and center, biologists start self-directing organism. phy’ was spun off into sciences. Physics was first, biases—not despite them. This is one of William Wimsatt’s “A philosophy lecture, given by a theoretical then biology, more recently psychology. The iconoclastic opinions. to think in new ways — evolutionary biologist, had helped the researchers sciences largely focused on issues that could be Wimsatt is a philosopher of biology, a scholar of global recognize the incredible significance of a line of addressed by scientific methods and left closely prominence. He holds CLA’s Winton Chair Visiting Professor- and get to the most experimentation they had contemplated, but not related questions behind. Philosophers have ship, which encourages research and creative work that yet pursued,” says Waters. “Likewise, scientists continued to pursue many of these questions — challenge established patterns of thought; he is also a important questions. often help us focus on important conceptual but without the advantage of appreciating how member of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. issues that arise out of the science rather than on they arise in ongoing scientific inquiry. What His long-time academic home is the University of Chicago. questions that are not actually that significant.” we’re doing at the Minnesota center is reconnect- The name Wimsatt is synonymous with Travisano says that discussions between philosophers and For him, the unanswered questions surround- ing the questions.” the philosophy for limited beings, a biologists at BIG not only allow him to find out what philoso- ing evolution of multicellularity raised by Ratcliff Alan Love, a philosopher of science and center school of thought that addresses the phers think about his work, but also challenge him to consider and Travisano are BIG questions, both philosoph- member, agrees. “The experiment Mike and Will eh oubzad phenomenon of error-prone human questions and possible answers different from those he has ically and biologically. did after gaining a different perspective on their beings trying to understand a messy — considered in the past. Sitting in his office, Waters points to the hall- idea is an example of what happens when

verett Ay in fact, infinitely complex — world. way. “That’s exactly the kind of question that scientific and philosophical thinking meet,” he

E “Identifying interesting and novel questions is a critical part of comes up in the room next door.” He’s talking says. “This was a case of productive collaboration The title of his most recent book research,” he says. “I keep coming back to BIG because here are a about the small, unimposing conference room accomplishing something none of us can on our William Wimsatt provides a clue to a fundamentally bunch of people thinking about issues similar to mine, but thinking practical approach — Re-Engineering about them in ways that are greatly different from how a biologist next to his office where philosophers and scientists own. It takes interdisciplinary thinking. Mike and Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to might think. It’s all about asking questions and finding the meet weekly to discuss, agree, disagree, postulate, Will had an idea, but for them the idea did not Reality (Harvard, 2007). In it he maintains that thinkers must questions that will get us to the most important questions.” interpret, laugh, complain, fret, hypothesize, mature until philosophers picked it up and root their work in real-world experience, so their theories will theorize, drink coffee, and stumble onto big ideas. changed the frame.” What they did apply not only in principle, but also in practice. Love is now writing a paper with Travisano What Travisano and Ratcliff, and coauthors Borrello and evolu- The BIG deal Evolutionary biologist Mike Travisano (left) and on what kind of knowledge the experiment philosopher Ken Waters. Since his arrival at CLA in 2010, he’s taught graduate and tionary biologist Ford Denison wanted to do was find out how, For Waters, discussions at the Minnesota Center undergraduate courses and seminars on the philosophy of involves. The way the yeast model was used in hundreds of millions of years ago, single cells first evolved into for Philosophy of Science demonstrate how Normal cells are genetically programmed to self-destruct science, and has led discussions of the Biology Interest Group the experiment illustrates the value of being able multicellular organisms — the first step in the process that examining multifaceted issues from multiple when they become senescent, unnecessary, or unhealthy; (BIG), a project of the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy to physically manipulate a scientific model. this is called apoptosis. In the landmark Travisano Lab eventually produced plants and animals. They decided to do an perspectives can advance scientific investigations of Science. Working in isolation from scientific practice, evolutionary experiment, dead yeast cells (the red and of nature on the one hand, and philosophical green ones above) were observed to cut other cells off experiment using ordinary yeast, which, as any bread-baker knows, philosophers have tended to focus only on Next fall he will collaborate with faculty in the College of investigations of the nature and meaning of from the “mother” organisms, producing new individuals. reproduces very quickly and thus can offer a view of evolution over questions of how models represent — in the same Science and Engineering on a seminar on cultural and many generations. scientific knowledge on the other. For him, it’s the way words represent ideas, or metaphors Watch a video of the process technical evolution, in which he plans to integrate concepts They created a survival-of-the-fittest environment for the yeast that successful wedding of the liberal arts and from evolutionary developmental biology with those of represent a dynamic. Physical manipulation at z.umn.edu/yeast, or by cells to grow in, allowing only the strongest to reproduce. After science that helps put the world of thought back can tease out more robust, and perhaps more downloading a code reader cultural evolution. together after centuries of science and humanities about 50 generations the cells started to form clusters. reliable, information. like Qrafter and scanning often following their own separate paths. “I have been proud to be associated with the Minnesota It was a start. But clusters are not organisms — they don’t “The center reminds me that it’s good to be this QR code. Center for the Philosophy of Science over the last several After all, examining the world solely through respond to the environment in order to protect themselves. engaged with biologists,” says Love. “People Read the report at years,” he says. “MCPS continues to reflect its illustrious the lens of science doesn’t make any more sense So the experiment continued, and after 350 more generations trained in diverse areas need to cross-pollinate; z.umn.edu/multicell origin as the first center for philosophy and science in the than examining it exclusively through a lens of — Eureka! this generates insights that would not otherwise U.S. and I have found it particularly valuable to participate in philosophy, or poetry, or law, or any other single The cells began to act like organisms, responding to the be possible.” BIG, where we discuss and debate aspects of philosophy and discipline. The world, he and many other center environment in purposeful, self-serving ways. Specifically, clusters In other words, it’s good for the scientist to visit biology. MCPS resonates with my orientation in the philosophy members believe, must be understood from were dividing into branches, which reproduced, not randomly, but the philosopher who “lives” in the room next door. of science.” multiple perspectives. only when they were sufficiently mature. Even more striking, the And good for the philosopher to repay the visit. “The University of Minnesota is leading the Watch Wimsatt interview at z.umn.edu/wimsatt. branches were being individuated as a result of weaker cells dying, way in bringing together philosophers and Randolph Fillmore, a member of the National Association of cutting off the connection to the “mother” clusters. Not only was Science Writers, is a freelance writer based in Florida who this a reproductive strategy, it also demonstrated an organized scientists,” Waters maintains. “In times past, specializes in university-based science communication.

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Until a recent uplifting and much ballyhooed experiment, Traci Mann had spent years studying what might be termed the frailty of human nature. “I say I study self-control,” says the associate professor of psychology. » Perhaps, more accurately, loss of control. » Mann’s research had demonstrated time and again that people confronting a temptation would fail. Usually she studied dieters trying to stick to a diet. They would lose weight, only to gain it all back, and more. Environmental cues would cause them to eat when they tried not to. Restricting calories caused chronic psychological stress and cortisol production—two factors known to cause weight gain. » “I’m on the record telling people they shouldn’t diet, that it doesn’t work, and if you try to diet you’re sort of setting yourself up to fail,” she says. » In fact, her entire outlook on controlling food intake got quite pessimistic. “After studying this for 10 years, I saw that nearly everything we’ve learned is just another piece of bad news for dieters,”

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vegetables. They pasted photos of vegetables in because they don’t eat enough. That’s not a the lunch tray compartments, hoping to suggest problem for a couple of weeks, or even a month at to kids that their friends might put vegetables in the International Space Station. “But if you’re those compartments and that they should, too. going to Mars, and you’re going to be gone for It worked. On the day the photographic three years, that is a big deal,” says Mann. “Our lunch trays showed up at a Richfield, Minnesota, group is trying to come up with little strategies to elementary school, the number of kids taking get them to eat more.” a living language green beans more than doubled, from six percent They aren’t looking at the quality of the food. on a normal day to more than 14 percent. And the “Believe me, people are working on that one.” number taking carrots tripled, from 12 percent to Instead, they are looking at other issues. First, Can You Say “Internet” in Ojibwe? By Greg Breining For NASA, psychologist Traci Mann thinks about more than 36 percent. astronauts might be sick of eating the same old, what you’ll eat “if you’re going to Mars.” That’s still far short of all the kids who should same old. And second, they’re too stressed to have Find the multimedia First, draw a mental image of a dictionary. Next, delete the line drawings inside. In fact, delete be eating vegetables. But it happened without much of an appetite. Ojibwe People’s Dictionary the pages and the cover, too. Give what is left magical powers to talk and conjure up thousands says Mann. Even her family was getting tired of nagging. “Kids don’t want to do what they’re told “They’re so busy up there,” says Mann, who of images and insights into a disappearing culture. it. “My mom kept saying, are you ever going to to do,” says Mann. “They just want to do what recently attended a NASA conference. “There’s at z.umn.edu/ojibwe. learn any good news? they think their friends are doing. I think those so much to do. And their time is very regimented. You can also use your You now have a pretty good understanding paragraphs. It has more words than any previous “It was becoming increasingly clear there was pictures gave them the impression that this is One approach we’re taking is whether by giving smartphone to scan the of the new online Ojibwe People’s Dictionary, a Ojibwe dictionary, and includes a section explain- never going to be any good news.” what other kids do. Kids must be putting their them more control over their eating, their food QR codes that accompany technological, “digital humanities” marvel created ing how this complex and exotic language is But now, Mann has found something to cheer carrots in that carrot section. And if that’s what preparation, and what they eat we’re seeing if that by the Department of American Indian Studies put together. the images throughout about when it comes to eating and human they’re doing, I’m going to do it.” would reduce their stress and increase their enjoy- and the Minnesota Historical Society. It will help preserve the language, and also behavior. Best of all, the incentive cost hardly anything. ment of food.” the story. The endeavor is important for its practical use; help people learn Ojibwe and better understand In a much publicized study, Mann and four “If we can get kids to eat more vegetables without Mann and colleagues are doing the “ground” it also sets a world standard for how indigenous Ojibwe culture, says Brenda Child, associate University of Minnesota colleagues have found a lecturing them about the importance of vegeta- study this year. They will induce stress in languages will be preserved in the future. professor of American studies and project sly way to get kids to eat more vegetables. And that bles, by just giving them the impression that this volunteers working in simulated space conditions This innovative dictionary links to photos and manager for the dictionary. work has led to another study of overcoming picky is what kids do? Perfect.” and try to ascertain if allowing them to choose videos of Ojibwe culture, plus up to 60,000 audio “We’re kind of comparing it to what people eating — how to get astronauts to eat more while After that experience, Mann and some of her and prepare their own meals alleviates stress and clips — from entry words to spoken sentences and say about worrying about plant species, animal they’re in space. Both studies are examples of the collaborators decided “on a whim” to pursue a improves appetites. species, biodiversity. People believe that linguistic sort of scientific research being done in CLA. project with NASA to work with another group of If the work shows promise, the next phase will diversity is very important in world knowledge

First the school lunch news. reluctant eaters — in this case, astronauts. “How be conducted on astronauts in the space station. a r i es systems because with the loss of languages, so After learning that shoppers who took grocery do you not apply to NASA?” Mann asks. “That’s “We really want these to work!” says Mann. goes knowledge…. [It] is a way to bring the a L ib r carts with a section marked “produce” did indeed so cool.” Indeed, the possibility of moving their food t o language back in conversation. We’re not buy more produce, the researchers decided to try The problem: astronauts lose weight, not experiments to space has excited more than just interested in the language going away.” a similar trick to get schoolchildren to take more because of weightlessness, apparently, but simply the researchers. “My sons now approve of me,” Ojibwe is one of the most widely spoken Mann says. “It was touch and go when I studied Native American languages. About 200,000 dieting. But now that astronauts are involved, people identify as Ojibwe in Quebec, Ontario, What if we can get kids to eat more everything’s changed.” Manitoba, and Saskatchewan in Canada, and She’s kidding, of course. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North “Actually, they always really enjoyed coming Dakota in the United States. vegetables without lecturing them to my lab because my lab is full of yummy food. Un i vers ty of M nnes u rtesy o CO My sons — they think science equals milkshakes. t about the importance of vegetables, Which I love. That’s what they should think.” Ph o by just giving them the impression Greg Breining has written for publications including The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Star Tribune, manoominikewin Minnesota Monthly, and is the author of several books on that this is what kids do? Perfect. nature and travel.

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t the communities here in Minnesota.” gikinoo’amaadii-zhooshkozidebagizowin. How the o But there’s a challenge beyond recording “That’s right, 14 syllables!” he says. Literally, it Ojibwe language

M i nnes current and historic usages, and that is figuring means “school slide feet dance,” to distinguish out how to talk about modern-world phenomena. from the stomping style of traditional dance. accommodates For example, how would one say, “on the Inter- Not the usual take on school dances! net” in Ojibwe? Another is waasamoo-asabing. Waasamo usually modern-world Answering questions like that allows us to means things that are gas- or electric-powered. understand how Ojibwe might accommodate Asab is a net. Waasamoo-asabing means “on phenomena allows new things and concepts if the language is to live. the Internet.” In the process it opens a space in our English- “Call me biased or ethnocentric, but the us to see the world bashkweginoon word-filled brains to see the world through language itself is so wonderfully and beautifully very different eyes. complex,” Sullivan says. “Promoting Ojibwe is through very And this is where the work of Michael Sullivan fun and makes people’s heads spin. Even younger comes in. He’s a graduate student in linguistics speakers are getting in on the fun.” different eyes. But fewer and fewer are native speakers, and Child, for example, grew up listening to her and one of the community language curators In fact, Child says, dictionary researchers are the language is in danger of dying. Those tens of mother, aunts, uncles, and grandmother speaking working on the Ojibwe People’s Dictionary. seeking foundation grants to begin work on a

y W ill ette thousands of speakers in the United States and the language. But “all of us, the generation that “There are some great words we happen to children’s dictionary that can be used in K-12 ad Canada who live in the modern world want to came after — our first language has been English,”

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The project began with a conversation Child tribal language until they came to the University “The beauty of language is creativity.” So far, the reaction of Ojibwe communities, Br had with colleagues at the Minnesota Historical of Minnesota.” especially among community elders, has Society and Professor of American Indian Studies Even in the early version of the dictionary now been enthusiastic. John Nichols, author of the widely used A Concise online (see z.umn.edu/ojibwe), you can look up a “If you look at the university and the historical Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe. The time was ripe word in Ojibwe or English and link to an audio society, there is a history of feeling like our for this kind of major collaboration, they realized, clip to hear the word spoken. In many cases, community interests have often been ignored,” because Minnesota’s new Legacy Amendment pro- different speakers from different communities ety Soci o r ical says Child. “And if you look at a project like vides resources for cultural projects. pronounce the word — differently. “The great this — wow, the University of Minnesota is doing a Hi st

Project manager Brenda Child: “We are bringing “By the next summer we had funding and thing about the dictionary is that you can hear t o something really good — something useful, together more than just a dictionary.” began working on this extraordinary dictionary,” several dialects,” says Child. something timely, something important for Project head John Nichols: “The whole crux of the says Child. “With the legacy funds we were able One featured Ontario M i nnes Ojibwe community life here in Minnesota and project is listening to voices. They give it life.” to dig right in.” elder is still living the beyond the borders of the state.” So far the dictionary researchers have incor- outdoor life of crafts, porated the 7,000 entries of Nichols’ printed including trapping. Her dictionary. And they have used artifacts in the contributions are particu- collection of the Historical Society to illustrate larly valuable because she dictionary entries and extend the description of uses the vernacular of the words into Ojibwe culture. traditional lifestyle, a But here’s the most critical task: interviewing vocabulary gradually passing and collecting audio clips from fluent Ojibwe from everyday use. Says speakers to capture vocabulary and grammar Child, “There are certain of a language in danger of vanishing as native older things about the way speakers pass on. she speaks the language because of her maintenance anishinaabe-ziinzibaakwad

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Technology plus a ca st of thousands Fragments range from textbook-quality treatises penned Ph o open windows onto Ancient Greece * by professional scribes to nearly illegible cursive — replete with misspellings — scrawled by students writing home from school. “Handwriting is notoriously difficult,” says Fortson. Two thousand years ago (give or take a few), a Indeed, identifying those shapes can be tricky — and human resident of Oxyrhynchus tossed a piece of papyrus eyes still do a better job of it than computers. onto the town’s trash heap. There it lay, parched by As many as 70 to 100 volunteers may work on a single the Egyptian climate, preserved for posterity. fragment. But that is just the first step in the translation Now, University of Minnesota researchers are employing process. Behind the scenes, Fortson and Anne-Francoise technology and the discerning eyes of tens of thousands of Lamblin from the U of M’s Minnesota Supercomputing volunteers around the world to decipher texts salvaged from * Ancient Documents Institute are developing software to analyze the volunteers’ that ancient trash pile. findings and create a master transcription based on the most The modern chapter of this exceedingly long story common responses from each volunteer transcriber. began in 1896 when British archaeologists discovered and writings by some of the ancient world’s greatest artists, “We’re basically asking volunteers to speed up the They hope to refine the software so it can “learn” and the Oxyrhynchus rubbish mounds. The find was at first scholars, and religious writers. And of how modern-day CLA transcription process,” says Marco Perale, a CLA papyrolo- adapt — for example, recognize the most reliable volunteers unimpressive — then dazzling. It included some of the scholars are part of this historic exploration. gist (papyrus expert) and postdoctoral researcher. and give greater weight to their transcriptions. Eventually, software might even learn enough about the rules of the texts earliest copies of the New Testament, fragments of the A staggering task Citizen scientists to fill in gaps with the most likely missing letters. Gospel of Thomas and other noncanonical Christian and After a fair bit of digging it became apparent that the very Ancient Lives grew out of Galaxy Zoo, a project launched in Early tests indicate that the volunteer transcribers are doing Jewish theological writings, poems of Pindar and fragments richness of the find presented a major problem. The frag- 2007 to recruit amateur science enthusiasts to help identify an impressive job, producing transcriptions that agree with from Sappho, parts of lost plays of Sophocles, the oldest ments number around a half million; many are faded and galaxies from images posted on the website. Nita Krevans, Classics scholar experts’ about 80 percent of the time. Fortson expects to nudge (top), and Lucy Fortson, diagrams of Euclid’s Elements, a life of Euripides … as well torn, the antique ink abraded. In more than a century since Lucy Fortson, associate professor of physics and astronomy that number closer to 90 percent as the software is tweaked. astrophysicist as private letters, business contracts, tax documents, census they were discovered, only about one percent have been in the College of Science and Engineering, was involved with returns, even grocery receipts for dates and olives. transcribed and published. While modern scholars are that project from its early days. “Galaxy Zoo was such a huge “It’s every kind of writing you can imagine,” says Nita certainly able to read the Greek texts, even sifting through success that we realized there were many other opportunities Krevans, a professor in the CLA’s Department of Classical the mounds is a challenge of staggering proportion. to use the same process with other fields,” she says. and Near-Eastern Studies. “And it’s material we don’t have But a new project, Ancient Lives, is speeding up that That realization grew into Zooniverse, a Web portal that Volunteers, many who don’t even for most other locations from this period.” glacial pace. It’s an international, interdisciplinary collabora- invites citizen scientists to contribute to a whole range of The documents may be mostly small fragments, but they tion involving the Egypt Exploration Society, which owns endeavors. For example, Zooniverse volunteers scour images read Ancient Greek, pore over the are keys to vast untapped knowledge about Egyptian life the Oxyrhynchus papyri collection; Oxford University, which of the skies for distant planets, model climate change using from the third century BCE to the eighth CE. Most were stores it; and two U of M colleges — CLA via the Department historic ship logs, and translate the songs of whales. online papyrus images, matching penned during the first and second centuries CE; they were of Classical and Near-Eastern Studies, and the College of Ancient Lives joined Zooniverse last summer. Volunteers — written primarily in Ancient Greek, Egypt’s official language Science and Engineering, which are developing technology there are already 120,000 of them, says Krevans — pore over individual letters to the provided after Alexander’s conquest in 332 BCE. to help translate it. the online papyrus images, matching individual letters to the So this is a story of how a city dump turned out to be On the Ancient Lives website you can find images of provided set of Ancient Greek characters. “The large majority set of Ancient Greek characters. an unequalled archive of ancient life and times. Of how it hundreds of thousands of the fragments, and an invitation to are amateurs,” she says. “Many don’t even read Greek. It’s a yielded comprehensive records of a large and prosperous city transcribe them by matching handwritten letters to the Greek pattern-matching exercise — you just match the shapes.” that today lies buried under the modern town of el-Bahnasa, characters that appear in a key at the bottom of the screen.

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Students are part of the team. Front, left to right: Ryan Seaberg and Rachael Cullick, Ph.D. BOUND TO PLEASE candidates in Classics, are research assistants through the Minnesota Futures grant. Theresa Chresand (right), a sophomore honors student majoring in Greek Alan Bjerga ’98, author of Endless Appetites, that? Markets have a great power that command- and Latin, did a directed study and-control decisions, top-down decisions from on the project and is working on covers agricultural policy for Bloomberg governments do not. This is about producers the project this summer through News. He was interviewed by Giovanna the Undergraduate Research and consumers coming together and meeting the Opportunities Program. All three Dell’Orto, assistant professor in the School needs of one another. I’m not trying to argue for are supervised by Marco Perale of Journalism and Mass Communication. an unfettered, unregulated free-for-all market (not pictured). Behind them: where there’s no social conscience and no desire to Lucy Fortson and Nita Krevans. reach any sort of a goal. I think we’re looking for a GD: Tell us about your book, your career, and market in which the infrastructure is built properly Alan Bjerga your Minnesota upbringing. and the societal goals are clear so the marketplace has an idea of what we are trying to achieve. Smart as the software may be, Get in on the fun — go to transcriptions and working on the Ancient AB: I grew up on a farm just south of Motley. Getting to governments, it’s a matter of looking at We had 80 acres of sheep, some clover and alfalfa, the agenda and taking a look at the consequences however, it by no means replaces the Ancient Lives website: Lives website, answering users’ questions GD: Another issue is the environment. Classics scholars, so CLA’s Perale and and writing a blog that involves active and I was from the start a pretty sorry excuse for a of actions. We had this big wave of financial farm kid. I got my master’s in mass communica- AB: When you look at agriculture from a pure deregulation and now you’re seeing the conse- his counter-parts in Oxford take over z.umn.edu/translate. volunteers in the conversation. tion from the University of Minnesota. I was the production standpoint — do we have the tech- quences of that. You also have a huge tendency, where the software leaves off. They Perale arrived at CLA in September, managing editor of the Minnesota Daily, and say nology, land, and ability to feed seven billion from governments and institutions like the World review the consensus transcriptions, translate the text, courtesy of a two-year Minnesota Futures Research Grant proudly that we added good coverage of extension people? — the answer is yes. It’s a distribution Bank and the IMF, to cut back on their investment interpret it, and determine which scraps are worthy of of which Fortson is the principal investigator. (Minnesota and agricultural services. It wasn’t until I got to failure, a market failure. The question is, what in world agriculture. I believe about a quarter of publication. “We want to get information on the 99 percent Futures is a U of M program that provides opportunities for Washington that I realized a rural Minnesota are you doing to this planet to keep it sustainably the World Bank’s portfolio 30 years ago was for of the collection that has not been published so far,” he says. researchers to cross disciplinary and professional boundaries.) background is not typical in the Washington growing food to feed these people? That leads to agriculture. By the mid-2000s it was about four The project is fast gaining fans. When Theresa Chresand, Perale’s office in Nicholson Hall is still mostly unadorned, press. An education at a place like the U, which some very difficult questions about the role of percent. Now that’s starting to rebound. has an urban campus and yet an agricultural technology, how to integrate different farming a sophomore Greek major, learned about it, she immediately save for a bookshelf lined with the 76 volumes of The I think there is a lot of promise when you see mission, is not a common experience. practices, what consumer habits and nutrition got hooked, now spends a lot of her free time on Ancient Oxyrhynchus Papyri published to date. The first one was patterns should and shouldn’t be encouraged, in consumers paying a lot more attention to where Lives, and has even recruited friends to join her. “Just being published in 1898, the most recent just last year. Soon, he GD: In your vast travels, what experiences have terms of what will most effectively feed people in a and how their food is grown. But I would urge able to interact with the fragments has been really interesting hopes, new volumes will be released, filled with translations really stayed with you? sustainable manner. There is capacity. The people not to be rigid. There are times when and has helped my Greek,” Chresand says. “I had no idea of lost comedies from ancient playwrights and personal question becomes one of will. imported products sent from developing countries AB: what papyrology was until I got involved in the project.” letters from people whose names we’ll never know. The genesis for [the book] went back to that have a comparative advantage agriculturally 2008 in Ethiopia, when I was tracking a U.S. GD: You say the problem is solvable if every- can be helpful in domestic markets, in places like Now she’s considering it as a career option. “Here we have 500,000 documents that are waiting to be food aid shipment actually including foods grown one pulls their own weight — government, the United States. There should be that sort of Meanwhile, as the Minnesota computer science team transcribed and analyzed, and they hold a very big potential,” on a farm in North Dakota and some food from farmers, market, and consumers. global awareness, of making sure that farmers continues to refine the software, collaborators at Oxford Perale says. With help from around the world, he’s making Minnesota as well. They ended up taking six around the world have the market and the price continue to upload new images. And Perale is reviewing progress — letter by letter, word by word. “A word,” Perale months to get to this village. And seeing just the AB: Let’s start with the markets — commodities to stimulate the production and infrastructure says, “tells a lot.” logistical difficulty of getting nutrition that people traders and such. You see traders very concerned development that’s needed to create that robust need to live when they are suffering was a really Kirsten Weir is a science writer and editor based in Minneapolis. She about volatility. It’s not very comfortable to see food system worldwide. has written for Discover, Salon, Psychology Today, and the American striking experience that was the original idea for corn prices go up or down $2 a bushel in a month. Psychological Association. what became this book. These things reverberate, But you might be surprised at the openness there GD: What has kept you so upbeat? and not just in communities, but around the can be to doing some things differently as AB: I don’t see why one wouldn’t want to be world. You get a sense of the connections that [everyone] looks at the social consequences of positive or optimistic. You certainly can’t go people at different levels of the food chain have, their own actions. through life underestimating the problems of the and the collective responsibility they all have in world, but there has been progress on this planet. terms of feeding the world. Farmers are afraid of growing for a surplus and then [because of events elsewhere in the world] And optimism and positivity is a choice, and we GD: [Regarding] world hunger, you place quite having no market. But with more market have so many days on this planet, why not make them count? a lot of faith in the market. information, better data, better infrastructure, you have examples like the Nicaraguan farmer AB: I would argue that not being able to feed who was growing potatoes but now he’s growing See the full interview at z.umn.edu/bjerga. everyone on Earth is a market failure. Clearly, organic cabbage because he sees potential in that. everyone on Earth demands food, yet not every- That’s the marketplace at work. one is receiving food. So how does one deal with

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If you like to read and explore what’s new in books, you may already Arrested Development: Michael Simon: Evolution Poetry A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Protest, Susan Stokes Roberts, Editor be on Goodreads.com, the social networking site about books. Reach Racism, Corruption and the Seven Necessary Steps Whorled NORTHERN CLAY CENTER, 2011 / Michael Simon is one of the major is on Goodreads, and we’d love to have you join us. Find our Reach to Improve Our Nation’s Police Ed Bok Lee ceramic artists who emerged from the U of M art department under the David Couper Magazine group to check out the latest books by CLA authors. tutelage of Warren MacKenzie in the early 1970s. This thoughtfully COFFEE HOUSE PRESS, 2011 / It’s the voice of a wanderer, hyper-aware CREATESPACE, 2012 / Retired Madison, Wisc., Police Chief David edited retrospective provides a rich and intimate entry into his creative of his own complicated embodiment, that inhabits Ed Bok Lee’s second z.umn.edu/goodreads Couper guides us through his career as a progressive law enforcement life. Opening with an essay by MacKenzie, it focuses on a beautifully book of poetry. “Maybe everyone’s veins are embued,” he writes, “with a leader during years of American social upheaval. This was also a time of photographed portfolio of Simon’s work, and includes Simon’s commen- certain historical color of light.” In this case, one wonders that the poet’s breakthroughs, as social scientists brought academic rigor to the seminal tary about individual pieces, which provides insights into the evolution of veins have not been so permeated, so saturated, with pain that he has lost Nonfiction studies of policing. Couper, always the innovator, tested those new the work.Those familiar with our Mingei-sota (Japanese-influenced) his capacity to speak. But no, where we think the voice must black out from trauma is where these poems gain their ethical drive. The pain —inherited Endless Appetites: How the Commodities Casino paradigms in the crucible of the American street and campus. These were artists may recognize familial relationships: a strong and sensitive commit- from Lee’s Korean War-immigrant parents and witnessed on the streets of Creates Hunger and Unrest also years of advancement in technology and management theory, but ment to clay itself, to the eloquence of shape and to essential connections South Minneapolis — is needed to reorganize the political body. The Alan Bjerga Couper continually comes back to the most important asset of any police between form and function. I was particularly interested in his distinctive agency — its men and women. He reminds us that the effective executive approach to combining form and surface decoration. “The painting must poems document and bear witness — not out of want, as Lee writes in BLOOMBERG PRESS, 2011 / First, the good news: the world need not go will first be a “servant leader,” concerned with the selection, empower- carry the expression implied in the shape,” he writes. For those pieces he “Poetry is a Sickness,” but through “what flaws flower from rust.” hungry. According to Alan Bjerga, former Minnesota farm boy–turned– ment, recognition, and continuous development of those people in direct thinks may grow stronger with surface embellishment, he chooses from Ed Bok Lee, B.A. ’94, English, is a writer, teacher, and performer. Reviewer agricultural journalist for Bloomberg News, there is plenty of corn, rice, service to the community. Couper writes from his current calling as an his lexicon of animal and plants, seeming to stretch the images over the Christine Friedlander is an M.F.A. candidate in poetry and a graduate instructor bananas, and tomatoes to feed us all at decent prices. Plus, increasingly Episcopal priest, a calling that may share many of the same challenges and outer surface or inscribing them within an inner curve. What emerges is a of English. better-educated farmers will grow bigger yields in the future. rewards as policing. Recommended for anyone interested in leadership or remarkable marriage of two kinds of form, each made more emphatic by The problem, Bjerga says, is that the system that provides us food — a in urban social problems. the other. It is wonderful to be allowed so deep an entrance into the Invisible Strings creative process as we are with this book. Jim Moore basic human necessity — has been uprooted by an artificial whirlwind of Couper, B.A. ’68, Russian, and M.A. ’70, sociology, is an Episcopal priest and crop markets dominated by speculators. retired police chief. Reviewer Gregory S. Hestness, B.A. ’85, sociology, is assistant Michael Simon, B.F.A. ’70, lives in Athens, Ga. Reviewer Joyce Lyon is a CLA GRAYWOLF PRESS, 2011 / Jim Moore has keen eyes to draw the span vice president and chief of police at the University of Minnesota. associate professor of drawing and painting. of the world into himself and construct such dazzling moments as appear Based on extensive data-mining and interviews with players tiny and in this collection. These fragmented poems, with their precise images, huge — from the United Nations to a coffee-farm cooperative in Ethiopia, Memory of Trees: continue the tradition of Sappho, Basho, William Carlos Williams, and Bjerga unearths evidence that is both reassuring and provocative. With Fiction A Daughter’s Story of a Family Farm H.D. Each a breath. A packet of Polaroids. A slip of humor. As in the vivid images, he makes this massively researched account a page-turner. Gayla Marty In Caddis Wood opening poem, “Love in the Ruins,” with its ephemeral glimpses — Mary François Rockcastle His conclusion is both grounded and ambitious: fairer, global markets can UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, 2010 / In the century between of a now-departed mother, an exchange of knowing silence, a warrior’s be to everyone’s advantage, he believes, if we start “connecting the farmers 1880 and 1980, American rural areas dramatically bled populations until GRAYWOLF PRESS, 2011 / Hallie is married to Carl; they have two gratitude, an observation on writing, spring. One can imagine the poet’s in places most harmed by hunger to the markets that can end it. Growing those who lived on farms represented less than three percent. What has talented adult daughters, a home in the culture-rich Twin Cities, and a twinkling smile punctuating the quintet, and that is how to read this food more efficiently in more places creates more sources of food to been lost in this transformation is keenly observed in Rush City native beloved summer house in Wisconsin that tethers them all to nature — delicate and clever collection: with a wry grin and the sort of kindness that replace lost production elsewhere. Growing it sustainably conserves scarce Gayla Marty’s debut memoir, which details a childhood of hard work and Caddis Wood. She has her poetry — and a past love. He has a celebrated comes from old friends. The only disappointment is that the reading is water and land. Growing it profitably ends poverty. Growing it for sacrifice — but also of daily interaction with animals, weather, plants, and career as an architect — and a degenerative disease. In this novel, which over too soon. everyone ends unrest.” The challenge to feed our endless appetites is, ancestral stories. In the ’50s, two sisters married two farmer brothers, who shuttles between perspectives and between past and present, Rockcastle Moore, B.A. ’67, English, author of six previous collections of poetry, teaches at indeed, everyone’s. lived in two farmhouses next to a barn. Marty’s narrative of the growing traces the long arc of a marriage: refulgent birth and devotion, hurt, Hamline University, Saint Paul, and The Colorado College, Colorado Springs. families and farm carries almost King Lear weight — although here no confusion and jealousy, the plodding times, submission and acceptance, Bjerga, M.A. ’98, mass communication, covers food and agriculture for Bloom- Reviewer Molly Sutton Kiefer is an M.F.A. candidate. child wants to or can afford to inherit. In the ’80s farm crisis, her uncle’s and finally the radical embrace that defines profound married love. berg News. An award-winning journalist, in 2010 Bjerga was president of the joy is sapped; what saves him, and Marty, is the word, divine and otherwise. National Press Club and the North American Agricultural Journalists. Reviewer Rockcastle, MFA ’80, English, heads Graduate & Interdisciplinary Programs at Get 20% off “Bound to Please” books at Coffman Bookstore, and 10% off Giovanna Dell’Orto, Ph.D. ’04, mass communication, a former reporter, is an Marty, M.F.A. ’97, works in communications at the University of Minnesota. Hamline University, and directs its creative writing program. Reviewer Mary other books (except textbooks). You can also buy online: z.umn.edu/btp; assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Reviewer Terri Sutton is staff for the English department. Pattock is the editor of Reach. click on “Books” and then on “Bound to Please.”

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Lifetime gifts or pledges James I. Brown* Star Tribune & Dona M. & Thomas P.* Hiltunen Starkey Laboratories & with George Clooney! Advance science by way of neurobiology and forensic pathology. Landmark Case of Race, Censorship, and the First $10,000,000+ Sidney L.* & Betty L.* Brown Star Tribune Foundation Jean McGough Holten Starkey Hearing Foundation Amendment, on R.A.V. v. St. Paul, the case he Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. & John R. & Dr. Susan L.* Camp Mr. & Mrs.* Raymond J. Tarleton John S. Holten* Theofanis G. & Freda Stavrou Advise the European Union on defense. Advise folks on their investments. Build houses. The Hubbard Broadcasting China Times Cultural Foundation Ted & Roberta Mann Foundation & Norma L. Hovden Esta Eiger Stecher brought to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1992. Foundation Patrick Corrigan Blythe Brenden James A. Johnson & Sheldon S. Sturgis Become university presidents. Write books for children, books about werewolves. » Charles E.* & Myrtle L.* Stroud Aina Swan Cutler* Ted Mann Foundation Maxine Isaacs Sun Microsystems, Inc. Janis C. Amatuzio, B.S. ’73, chemistry, B.A., Dr. Richard* & Freda M.* Jordan Ronnaug Dahl* Time Warner Lowell T.* & Marjorie E.* Swenson What do you do? Let us know at [email protected]. Lifetime gifts or pledges Carol E.* & Charles M. Denny, Jr. Asher Waldfogel & Helyn MacLean Kaemmer Fund of the Frank & Carol Trestman Italian, M.D. ’77, recently retired as county $1,000,000+ Dietrich W. Botstiber Foundation Warwick Foundation HRK Foundation Emily Anne Tuttle coroner and forensic pathologist for Anoka Hannah Kellogg Dowell* William D. Wells Michael H. & Julie A. Kaplan Ukrainian National Association Austrian Government County, Minnesota. The author of Forever Ours: Nathan* & Theresa Berman Everett A.* & Ruth Dickson* Drake Virginia J. Wimmer* Samuel & Sylvia Kaplan Rudolph J. Vecoli* Harvey V. Berneking* Ruth Easton* Kurt Winkelmann & Janine Gleason James M.* & Audrey H. Kinney Gerald Vizenor & Laura Hall Real Stories of Immortality and Living from a Freedom Forum David Michael* & Korn/Ferry International Waldfogel Family Foundation Elizabeth B.* & John* Cowles, Sr. Forensic Pathologist, she is an advocate for the Sage & John* Cowles, Jr. Frenzel Foundation Penny Rand Winton Dr. Ida F. Kramer* Elma F. Walter* Curtis L. Carlson Mrs. C. J. (Gwenith F.) Gislason* Robert O. Young, Jr.* Joel R. & Laurie M. Kramer Walter Stremel Trust compassionate practice of forensic medicine. Family Foundation Harrison G. & Kathryn W. Gough Carol E. Ladwig* Elizabeth A. Warburton* president of the University Lifetime gifts or pledges 1950s – 60s Ruth & Bruce Dayton Government of Finland Bruce A. Larson Jean Worrall Ward of Oregon. He had been the Stephen Paulus, B.A. ’71, M.A. ’76, Ph.D. ’78, Deluxe Corporation Foundation Ellen Dayton Grace $100,000 - $249,999 Mary Frances Lehnerts* WCCO AM/TV-WLTE FM Sandra McLeod Humphrey, B.A. ’58, Bert M. Gross & Susan Hill Gross Myron R. Allen* Stephen E. & Sheila R. Lieberman Dr. Edward W. Weidner* president of the Association music, premiered The Shoemaker, a new church Edelstein Family Foundation psychology, M.A. ’63, counseling psychology, N. Marbury Efimenco* N. Bud* & Beverly N. Grossman American Latvian Association Benjamin Y. H. & Helen C. Liu Mark & Muriel Wexler of American Universities, opera based on a Tolstoy story, which he com- Beverly Wexler Fink & Mrs. Chester E. Groth* in the U.S. Merle W. Loppnow* Tod & Linda White has retired from clinical psychology to write Herman F. Haeberle* American-Israeli Cooperative Donald J. & Diana Lucker and was previously presi- posed and for which English Professor Emeritus Richard M. Fink books about personal values for middle-grade Esther F. Freier* Fleurette Halpern* Enterprise Natalie C. Lund* Lifetime gifts or pledges dent of the University of Michael Dennis Browne wrote the libretto. Philip R. James Gesell Charlotte H. & Gordon H. Hansen* Frances Coakley Ames* Sidney Lyons* $25,000 - $99,999 children and young adults. She has received the Lowell & Cay Shea Hellervik Warren & Nancy MacKenzie Texas at Austin, and Brunelle conducted, and Gary Gisselman directed Rene Ziegler Gesell The Honorable Elmer L.* & A. G. Leventis Foundation National Character Education Center’s Award Donald V. Hawkins* Herbert Berridge Elliston Fund Eleanor J.* Andersen Carol K. March Adath Jeshurun Congregation chancellor of the University both the Plymouth Congregational Church and Erwin A. & Miriam J. Kelen Vivian H. Hewer* Andreas Foundation Mark & Muriel Wexler Foundation Shaykh Kamal Adham* for Exemplary Leadership in Ethics Education St. Olaf College performances. Terence E. Kilburn Harold L.* & James Ford Bell* & the Bell Family Tom* & Martha* Martin Advanced Bionics of California at Berkeley. Marvin & Betty Borman and the 2005 Helen Keating Ott Award for Myron & Anita Kunin Harriet Thwing* Holden Theodore E. & Marion R. Blong* Joan Aldous Amy Sabrina Myers, B.F.A., ’79, studio art, David M. & Janis Larson Leaetta M. Hough & Lee A. Borah, Jr., Ph.D. Foundation Allianz Life Insurance Company Outstanding Contribution to Children’s 1970s Benjamin Evans Lippincott* & Marvin D. Dunnette* Frederick G. Bordwell* Medtronic & Medtronic Foundation of North America Literature. Her latest book is They Stood Alone!: created a tribute to the late Minnesota Governor Gertrude Lawton Lippincott* Jay & Rose Phillips Marvin & Betty Borman Mertz Gilmore Foundation American Council of Learned Rodney A. Erickson, B.A. Elmer L. Anderson: a series of painted and glazed Ted Mann* Family Foundation Paul Brainerd Miller Khoshkish Foundation Societies 25 Men and Women who Made a Difference. Don A.* & Edith I. Martindale Cecill C. & Judge Earl R.* Larson Caroline Brede* Marjorie E. Mortenson* American Psychological ’68, M.A. ’70, Ph.D. ’73 earthenware medallions displayed at the Princ- R. F. “Pinky” McNamara* Ronald L. & Judith A. Libertus Cafesjian Family Foundation James W. Nelson Association Don Brown, B.A. ’58, speech/communica- (University of Washington), eton, Minn., public library. The Hella L. Mears & Drs. Robert B. & Mary A. Litterman Joan Calof* Marion E. Newman* Americana Arts Foundation tions, retired from National City Bank in 1996, Dr. William F. Hueg, Jr. Phyllis B. MacBrair* Dr. Jean E. Cameron & Otto Bremer Foundation Harold C. Anderson, M.D.* geography, is the new project was supported by Charles M. Nolte* Max Kade Foundation Robert O. Linde Robert & Joan* Owens Kari & Brian E.* Anderson but recently returned to managing investment president of The Pennsyl- Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Arsham H. Ohanessian* William W. & Nadine M. McGuire David P. Campbell, Ph.D. Patrick & Aimee Butler Katherine B. Andersen* portfolios as a solo practitioner. He previously Helen F. & Otto A.* Silha The McKnight Foundation Cargill & Cargill Foundation Family Foundation Keith H.* & Martha S. Anderson vania State University. He Heritage Fund. Myers’ work is Starke & Virginia Hathaway Trust Thomas B.* & Elizabeth K.* Merner John S. & Margaret Chipman Lawrence Perlman & Neil P. Anderson served as president of C. H. Brown Company, previously served as Penn represented in collections of Doris B.* & Raymond O.* Mithun Dr. Margaret I. Conway* Linda Peterson Perlman Ronald E. Anderson Leland “Lee” & Louise Sundet a Minneapolis-based investment advisory firm. the Minneapolis Institute of Marvin & Elayne Wolfenson Bruce D.* & Mildred D.* Mudgett Randy & Carol Cote Daniel E. Peterson* Dwayne O. Andreas State’s executive vice president and provost. Eula* & Gil* Northfield David C. & Vicki B. Cox Dr. Gloria J. Randahl* Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation If his name sounds familiar, it may be from his Arts, Minnesota Historical Lifetime gifts or pledges Jevne H.* & George T.* Pennock Mathias Dahl* Gerald & Henrietta Rauenhorst Association of American 30 years’ announcing for the Gopher Track Edward Cleary, B.A. ’74, political science, Pew Charitable Trusts Dale Schatzlein & Reader’s Digest Foundation Universities Society, Los Angeles County $250,000 - $999,999 Program; he’d been the captain of the U’s track/ J.D. ’77, was appointed to the Minnesota Court 3M Company & 3M Foundation Public Interest Projects, Inc. Emily Maltz Fund Regis Foundation Austrian Federal Ministry Museum of Art, Ceridian Corporation and Harold E.* & Louise A.* Renquist Armand A.* & of Appeals. Since 2002 he has been assistant Dr. Dominick J. Argento & Joyce Ekman Davis* & of Science & Research cross-country team, and a three-time letter US Bank, among others. Carolyn Bailey-Argento* Katherine Roth in memoriam & John G. Davis* Madeleine S. Renaud* Carol A. Balthazor chief judge for the Second Judicial District; for W. Gardner Roth* Dayton Hudson Corporation & Harold E.* & Louise A.* Renquist Jacob J. & Marjorie L. Barnett winner. He was recently elected to the St. Louis The Legacy of Elmer L. Andersen Fern L. & Bernard* Badzin the previous 20 he’d practiced law concentrating See all the medallions: Alex Batinich Ruth Easton Fund of the Dayton Hudson Foundation Richard F. McNamara Family Carol* & George* Barquist Park High School Athletic Hall of Fame. Lyle A. Berman Edelstein Family Foundation Cy & Paula DeCosse Foundation Phyllis E. Bartlett* on civil and criminal defense litigation, and was z.umn.edu/medallions Richard L. & Ellen R. Sandor Dicomed Jane & Bernard H.* Ridder, Jr. Bilinski Educational Foundation Belford Foundation Richard Buys, B.A. ’62, an assistant public defender for Ramsey County. Showboat Fund Dr. A. Richard Diebold, Jr. Robert H. McClellan Trust Bemis Company Foundation A visual tribute by Amy Sabrina Selmer Birkelo* for the Princeton Area Library 1980s geography, M.S. ’78 branch of east central regional library Dr. Werner Simon* Doran Companies Warren W. Roberts Dr. Robert & Margaret Berdahl (Troy He’s the author of Beyond the Burning Cross: A Dr. Robert & Mary Eichinger A. L. Rubinger Robert D. & Pearl Lam Bergad State University), is a senior E.J. (Jane) Westlake, B.A. Embassy of Cyprus Robert P. Sands & Michael & Carol* Berman Equity Services of Saint Paul, Inc. Sally Glassberg Sands Eileen Bigelow* advisory officer to the Euro- Estonian Archives in the U.S. Drs. David B. Sanford & Dr. Norman & Clara Bjornnes pean Center for Defense, Frank D. Hirschbach* William E. Faragher Dr. Carl E. Blair Security and Environment. Judy Farmer Judith McCartin Scheide & Dr. Frederick J. Bollum Donors bring the Ted Farmer William Scheide Kenneth G. Bomberg* In May, in Budapest, he liberal arts to life — David R.* & Elizabeth P. Fesler Robert Schlafle* Sally Bordwell* delivered the keynote address Linda Wilbrecht, B.A. ’95, cultural studies and comparative David D. Floren Dr. Thomas D. Schoonover & Ebba Robert L. Borg* in the lives of students. The Ford Foundation Wesener Schoonover Margaret E. Borgman* at the European Defense Agency-sponsored literature, Ph.D (The Rockefeller University), received a presidential Dr. John E. Free* Elaine Dahlgren Schuessler* & Sharon L. Borine conference, “Sustainable Energy for European Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). An assistant Jeanne K. Freeman* Roy A. Schuessler* Boss Foundation Helen Waters Gates* Dr. R. Smith Schuneman & Thomas J. & Pauline M. Bouchard Union Emergency Management,” on “Energy professor of neurobiology, she runs her own lab at the Gallo Center at Gerald Rauenhorst Family Patricia Ward Schuneman Henry L. Brooks* in the Context of the Environment, Past and the University of California, San Francisco, where her group studies the I hope you are glad I have been chosen to accept Foundation Kathryn M. Sederberg* Joseph Brown & Mary Easter Vincent Bancroft Shea* Present.” Earlier this year he moderated a panel effects of drug use on the development of neural circuits. She recently your scholarship and that you realize how much a Margaret E. Gilbertson* Drs. Robert H. Bruininks & Mary & Steven Goldstein Hide Shohara* Susan A. Hagstrum discussion on eco-defense at the European wrote us crediting Dr. Harvey Sarles, her cultural studies adviser, “[for Mrs. Chester E. Groth* Morton & Artice Silverman gift like yours can inspire a student. – CLA Student John C. Bryant* & Guy Grove Family Foundation Dr. Steven J. Snyder & Marilyn Tickle Bryant Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. A former helping] me develop an interest in how experience impacts how we Dr. Jo-Ida C. Hansen Sherry L. Stern Donald G. Burch* U.S. Air Force pilot, he served NATO for behave and who we become. Twenty years later, I am still investigating Evelyn J. Hanson* Sons of Italy Foundation Dr. Russell W. Burris Mark & Jacqueline Hegman Nancy & David J.* Speer Judy R. Burton* 10 years in roles related to aviation. He lives that same issue, just now at a cellular and synaptic level. He helped me in Erie, Pennsylania. identify the question I wanted to answer and the tools to go out and Robert Berdahl, Ph.D. ’65, history, is interim obtain the technical skills to answer my question.”

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The Bush Foundation Eugene U. & Mary F. Frey Susanne Lilly & Judy I. Lund Nicholas J. Puzak ’85, theater arts and business, received Peter M. & Sandra K. Butler Friends of the IHRC Zenas W. Hutcheson III Stephanie K. & Virginia G. Puzak Gerard L. Cafesjian Carol M. & Marion B. Hutchinson* Warren L. Lundsgaard Ralph R. Kriesel Foundation tenure at the University of Michigan in the Carmen & Jim Campbell Dr. Benjamin F.* Fuller, Jr. ITT Consumer Financial Terry E. Shima & Margaret A. Lutz Dr. Phillip J. Ranheim* Department of Theatre and Drama. This winter Jim Burke, B.A. ’82, speech communication — as far as we John P. Campbell Burt & Nan Galaway Corporation Joseph D. Lykken Harvey B. Ratner* know, he’s CLA’s first Academy Award-winner. The Descendants, Christopher G. Cardozo Jacqui & George* Gardner Professor & Mrs. Warren E. Ibele Matthew A. & Suzanne L. Lykken Douglas B. Reeves she will teach American drama at the University Carl & Eloise Pohlad GECO & GE Fund Institute for Aegean Prehistory Dorothy B. Magnus* George & Frances C.* Reid of Bucharest, Romania, as a Fulbright grantee. which he produced, won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay, Phyllis Maizlish Family Foundation General Mills & Irvin B. Maizlish Trust Republic of Latvia and was nominated in four other categories—best picture, actor, Karl F. Carlson General Mills Foundation Jane Burkleo Fund of the Maizlish Family Foundation R. C. Lilly Foundation Marie Zhuikov, B.A. ’86, journalism, M.A. Stan W. Carlson* George T. Pennock Minneapolis Foundation Lester A. Malkerson* Professor Marcel & Sheila Richter director, and editing. The film also won the Golden Globe’s Best Janice Gardner Foundation Mardag Foundation ’05, health journalism, has published Eye of the Dr. Joanne C. Carlson Charitable Lead Trust Norman F. Rickeman Drama award; in accepting, Burke called George Clooney “our Lynn & Steve Carnes German-American Heritage Drs. James J. Jenkins & Marion B. Hutchinson Trust Donald John Roberts Wolf, which she describes as “not your average Drs. Edward J. & Arlene E. Carney Foundation, Inc. Winifred Strange Drs. Erwin & Doris G. Marquit Michelle E. Roberts quarterback” (see z.umn.edu/burkegolden). In 2011 Burke Meg & Wayne Gisslen Anne & Eric Jensen Marquit-Grieser Fund Robert G. Robinson, Ph.D.* werewolf story.” The novel is set on Isle Royale Dr. Sol & Mitzi Center returned to campus to talk with students about his CLA The Century Council, Inc. GKL Management Consulting LLP John S. & James L. Knight Jacqueline G. McCauley Calvin J. Roetzel in 1984, where the wolves are in danger of dying Mythili V. & Varadarajan V. Chari Glen & Harold Bend Foundation of Foundation Dr. Virginia G. McDavid Elisabeth & Andreas Rosenberg experience and making movies. See z.umn.edu/jimburke. David S. & Margot H. Chatterton the St. Paul Foundation Ardes Johnson James “Red”* & Rosenthal Collins Group LLC out; the main character is a U of M student. Leeann Chin* Lloyd F. Gonyea in memoriam Paul E. Joncas* Edythe V.* McLeod Elizabeth E. Roth Thomas Choi Professor David F. & Jacqueline Nolte Jones* Steven Chew, Ph.D. ’86, psychology, was Chris Cardozo Fund of Headwaters Rosemary Good Chester R. Jones* named 2011 U.S. Professor of the Year for Foundation for Justice Dr. Robert L. & Professor Wendell J. & Charles H. Christensen Katherine D. Goodale Elizabeth Josal Your generosity has inspired me to help others and Master’s Universities and Colleges by the Christian Services, Inc. Doug & Jane Gorence Judson & Barbara Bemis Trust Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Professor Donald W. & give back to the community. I hope one day I will be George Eaton, M.A. ’90, history, has retired Ado About Nothing at the Shakespeare Theatre City of St. Paul Government of Cyprus Teaching, in the only national program to Clarence L. Torp Revocable Trust Persis R. Gow Phyllis L. Kahn able to help students achieve their goals just as you from active duty in the U.S. Army and is now an Company in Washington, D.C., and are featured Professor Shirley M. Clark William F.* & Patricia M.* Greer Honorable Max M. & recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching Army historian. He lives in Davenport, Iowa, and in several of its upcoming productions. Burt & Rusty Cohen Greystone Foundation Marjorie* Kampelman have helped me. – CLA Student and mentoring. He is the chair of the psychol- Mary Sue Comfort Sharon C. Grimes Clayton Kaufman recently wrote us about his role in the School of Allison & Dan Connally Dr. Shane T. & Suzanne R. Grivna Wilbur C.* & Kathryn E. Keefer ogy department at Stamford College, Toni (Antonia) Damico, B.A. ’11, speech Music’s Britten Peace Project there (see story on Harold & Phyllis* Conrad Dalos W. Grobe Garrison E. Keillor Birmingham, Alabama. communication, who now lives in Ellen R. Costello* Jonathan R. Gross David A. Kelm Gene R. Medinnus Bruce P. Rubinger page 4). He filled in for conductor William Grossman William H. & Madoline D.* Kelty Professor Ellen Messer-Davidow Denver, is the new face of Angela C. Mayeron Cowles & C. F. Cowles Ronald K. & Carol B. Rydell Judy Chartrand, M.A. ’86, Ph.D. ’89, Mark Russell Smith at the pre-recital Cowles Media Company Dr. Catherine B. Guisan Dorothy L. Kincaid* Dr. Janice A. Meyer Robert W. & Janet F. Sabes King Designs’ Go Wild! Wear, a Ella P.* & Thomas M.* Crosby, Sr. Helene Guisan Ruth Kincaid* Midwest Communications, Inc. Salus Mundi Foundation psychology, is a co-author of Now You’re talk with his own talk on World War costume supplier for professional Dr. Christine M. Cumming Cleyonne Gustafson* Joseph* & Jacqueline* Midwest Federal Savings & Loan Parker D. & Isabella Sanders Thinking. A book about critical I, trench warfare, and the impact of Mary C. Cunningham H R K Trust Kinderwater Minnesota State Council on Santa Fe Institute sports cheerleaders. DAAD - German Academic Bette Hammel Suzanne & Kip Knelman Economic Education Dr. Rusdu & Nurdan Saracoglu thinking for good decision-making, the trench experience on Wilfred Exchange Service Ronald N. & Carol A. Handberg Jim & Pam Knowles Minneapolis Jewish Federation Donald C.* & Mary J.* Savelkoul it is a slender volume that carries Owen and his poetry. He subse- of A K D rtesy cou Nicole (Fletcher) Meyer, B.A. ’06, Michael & Nancy Dardis Hanovers Manufacturers Trust Nicholas & Anastasia Kolas Community Foundation Joseph H. Tashjian & Bruce K. Nelson & Dr. Lars P. Hansen & Samuel S. Kortum Thomas R. Nides & Sandra Kay Savik heavyweight endorsements from quently received an inquiry about strategic communication and art, Sandra J. Davies-Nelson Grace R. Tsiang Peter J. & Linda R. Kreisman Virginia C. Moseley Richard L. & Maryan S. Schall people like Daniel Pink, Stephen giving the same talk when the Portland Sym- has launched a project she’s calculated will take Ken Davis in memoriam Patricia* & Einar* Hardin Mark R. Kriss Arthur H. “Red”* & Jean Schlemmer Marjorie J. & Harlan Boss Foundation Dorothy T. Kuether Helene B.* Motley The Nick Schoen Family Covey, Ken Blanchard phony performs the work. 27 years to complete: design a logo for each of Wendell J. DeBoer, Ph.D. for the Arts Myron & Anita Kunin Rolf & Ingrid Muehlenhaus The Schubert Club and Arne Carlson — all part of Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes. Check out her website Mike Decker & Elizabeth T.* & Sharon K. Thompson Kuusisto Paul B. Mulhollem & Dr. Hertha J. Schulze Patrick Mendis, Ph.D. ’90, geography and a campaign to give books to children to see if there’s one yet for your favorite pond: Julie Ferguson Decker John L.* Harnsberger Frauncee L. Ladd Valerie K. Cravens John T. Scott* applied economics, has published his sixth Shirley I. Decker Harold L. Korda Foundation Lam Research Foundation Mulhollem Cravens Foundation William F.* & Zoe W. Sealy from military families (12,000 branding10000lakes.com. Nicole’s day job is as a The DeCosse Foundation Sigmund M.* & Joye G.* Harris John & Nancy Lambros Marilyn J. & Malcolm H.* Myers Securian Foundation book, Commercial Providence: The Secret Destiny provided last year). Read more at: z. graphic designer at Periscope, in Minneapolis. Stefania B.* & Carl H.* Denbow Elizabeth S. Harris & Trudy E. Lapic Nancy & Warren MacKenzie Dr. Miriam Segall of the American Empire. An affiliate professor Mary L. Devlin Family of Dale B. Harris Rosalind L. Laskin Foundation Michael R. Sieben umn.edu/marines. Michael A. Donner* Nils & Patricia* Hasselmo Billie C. Lawton The National Italian American Gerald M. & Eileen Siegel of public and international affairs at George Mary J. Dovolis* Helen B. Hauser The Leadership & Learning Foundation, Inc. Kathryn A. Sikkink Jeff Danberry, B.E.S. ’86, was persuaded by Mason University and a senior fellow of the Gerald S. & Judy C. Duffy Leopold A. Hauser III Foundation, Inc. Jack & Cathy* Nelson John A. Simler Florence G. Dworsky* The Hawley Family Foundation DJ Leary & Linda L. Wilson Agnes T. Nelson* Drs. Carol M. & John M. Simpson his daughter to retire from retirement and join Osgood Center for International Studies, Zola C. Dworsky* Drs. Laurie Schultz Hayes & Dave & Julie Lee Richard F. Noland* Debra A. Sit & Peter H. Berge her in forming Danberry Building Corp., an his many previous roles range from U.S. State Eastern Enterprises James Todd Hayes Kaarle H. Lehtinen* Mary Ann & Louis P.* Novak Richard H. & Mary Jo Skaggs Karla Beveridge Eastling Patricia J. Heikenen* Mildred B. Leighton* Dr. Keith & Nancy Nuechterlein Jonathan E. Smaby architectural, design-and-build firm in Tonka Department diplomat to NATO military Jeff H. Eckland Samuel D. Heins Leonard Street & Deinard, PA & Michael O’Rourke Maureen C. Smith Bay, Minnesota. professor, to consulting economist at the Helen & Daniel Lindsay Leonard Street & Deinard Odessa Katsila Todd W. Eckland Soka University of America U.S. Department of Labor, to U of M professor. Elizabeth D. Edmonds* Family Fund Foundation Orange County Community Carolyn J. Sorensen Michael Nordskog, B.A. ’88, geography, April H. Egan & Kevin J. Lawless Helen Harrington Charitable Trust Leonard H. & W. Joyce Levitan Foundation Southways Foundation Elmer L. & Eleanor J. Hazel H.* & John* Helgeson Rondi C. Erickson & Professor Roger* & Charles E. Speaks & Family won a Minnesota Book Award, a Midwest Book 2000s Andersen Foundation William Henderson Guilford S. Lewis Mary Anne Page Janet D. Spector* Award, and the David Stanley Gebhard Award Dr. Fred & Patricia L. Erisman The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Drew & Marilyn Lewis Pearson Clinical St. Paul Pioneer Press Tyrel Nelson, B.A. ’03, journalism and Esther B. Donovan Trust Allan A. Hietala Liberace Foundation for Assessment Division Star Tribune & Star Tribune from the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Tell us how you are F. R. Bigelow Foundation A. William Hoglund* Performing & Creative Arts Personnel Decisions Foundation Architectural Historians with The Opposite of Spanish studies, has published his third animating the liberal arts: Farfellow Foundation Dr. Jonathan C. & Lilliput Foundation Research Institute Dr. Matthew & Terri Stark book, Those Darn Stripes, a collection of stories Dr. Donald Ferguson* Kathleen J. Hoistad David M. & Perrin B. Lilly Pfizer Pharma GmbH Jane A. Starr Cold: The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition. Merrill J. & Shauna Ferguson John L. Holland* Dr. Lynn Y. S. Lin Phyllis & Irvin Maizlish Foundation Lucille* & Del Stelling An attorney, writer, and editor, he lives in about his relationship with his father. He lives [email protected] Gertrude Finch* The Holland Foundation Leonard E. Lindquist* Wilma G.* & Wayne R.* Pierce Mary K. & Gary H. Stern Viroqua, Wisconsin. in Minneapolis. Norma C. & John R. Finnegan, Sr. Grace E. Holloway* Daniel T. & Helen E. Lindsay Nina & Phil Pillsbury Dr. Eldon L.* & Helen H.* Stevens Joan C. Forester* Deborah L. Hopp Lominger Limited, Inc. Laura D. Platt Gretchen Stieler* Jacob Perkins and Aayush Chandan, both Francis Maria Foundation Wendy Horn Longview Foundation Mr.* & Mrs.* Harold J. Pond Hannah C. Stocker* 1990s for Justice & Peace The Horst M. Rechelbacher Maureen Lowe & Carl McGary Charles K. Porter Winnifred Fabel Stockman* B.F.A. ’11, acting, had roles in last winter’s Much Douglas A. & Foundation Richard Luis & Porter Creative Services, Inc. Strother Communications Group Emma Carter* Freeman Leonid Hurwicz* & Juanita Bolland Luis Edward C. & Jan Prescott Svenska Institutet John D. & Berna Jo French Evelyn Jensen Hurwicz Fred* & Barbara* Lukermann Ken* & Pat Puffer Craig & Janet Swan

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Charles B. Sweningsen Lily T. Brovald Emma B. Howe Claire K. Hekman Aileen* & George McClintock Armand Renaud, Alice Grant, Swahili instructor, died December Margaret J.* & Kenneth R. Talle Marjorie A. Bryden* Memorial Foundation Dr.* & Mrs.* Walter W. Heller Dr. Sheila J. McNally Ming Li Tchou Dr. Sheila A. Burke Richard Engebretson Henphil Pillsbury Founder Mary Myers McVay professor emeritus 3 in Minneapolis, at 88. A teacher of creative Mildred C. Templin* Dr. Jon H. & Roxanne D. Butler Patricia Hill Engel Foundation Christopher M. Meadows & of French, died writing and English literature at Howard C. Charles Jackson Foundation Emogene Becker Evans Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Barbara Reid Luther P. & Lou R. Towner courtesy minneapolis insitute of arts Travelers Companies & Dr. Diane Camp & Paul Leutgeb Professor Sara M. Evans Heritage Foundation of First James H. Michael February 16, at his University, Washington, D.C., from 1952 to Travelers Foundation Karlyn Kohrs Campbell Fast Horse, Inc. Security Federal Savings Bank George & Carolyn Milkovich home in Minne- 1962, she encouraged Claude Brown, author Walter R. McCarthy & Campbell Mithun David L. & Shirley M. Ferguson Vivian H. Hewer* Dr. Richard E. Miller Jerome Liebling, founder of CLA’s Clara M. Ueland Andrew M. & Miriam A. Canepa David L. & Susan K. Ferguson Mary Kay Hicks Ministry of Culture of the apolis. He was 93. of Manchild in the Promised Land, and officed film and photography program, died July 27, Unico Foundation, Inc. Carl A. Weyerhaeuser 1966 Trust John K.* & Elsie Lampert* Fesler Mark F. Hiemenz & Hellenic Republic Renaud earned his with Toni Morrison. Morrison named the title Union Pacific Foundation Howard C. Carlson, Ph.D. Kevin W. Finn & Michele E. Fraser Charles C. Rounds Minnesota Historical Society character of her book, , for Grant — “Alice” in Northampton, Massachusetts, at 87. Unisys Corporation Virginia D. & Robert W. Carlson, Jr. Finnish American Social Club Wallace G. & Deborah B. Hilke Shirley P. Moore Ph.D. at Yale, Sula Donald & Janet Voight Georgia L. Carmean* of Greater Worcester Honeywell & Honeywell Morrey Salkin Foundation joined the CLA sounded backward. Grant, Morrison, and their His pioneering photographs of urban life, WM Foundation Lynn Casey & Mike Thornton Community Foundation Foundation Marion S.* & Robert D. Moulton* faculty in 1957, colleague Lettie Austin co-authored the first ESL politicians, and ordinary people are in the David & Mary Ann Wark Lawrence Cattron* Robert C. Flink Michael & Judy Hopp Mary N. Mullaney* Joyce L. & Daniel F. Wascoe, Jr. Harlan Cavert Florence Kanee Fund Graham B. Hovey* David E. & Judy L. Myers and was named chair of the Department of textbook. Grant was a member of the first cohort collections of, among others, the Museum Irving & Marjorie Weiser Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Florida International University John R. & Judith J. Howe Joseph J. & Priscilla J. Nauer Romance Languages in 1963. There he added of Peace Corps instructors, and when she went of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Patrick J. Whitcomb & Allison H. Christensen* & Foundation, Inc. Cyndy J. Hubbard NCS Pearson, Inc. Patty A. Napier Raymond L. Page* Robert E. & Dorothy Flynn International MultiFoods Nederlandse Taalunie a Portuguese major and expanded the Italian to Lincoln University, Oxford, Pennsylvania, to Modern Art, and the Minneapolis Delvina E. Wiik Dimitris Christodoulou Professor Edward & Janet Foster Charitable Foundation Thomas F. Nelson & program, introduced courses on Existentialism, teach English and creative writing, she directed Institute of Arts. Motivated by Lloyd A. Wilford* Hsiao-Lei Chu & Nan-Kuang Chen Clarence G. Frame* Barbara D. Jackson Susan Richard Nelson William O. Lund Trust Claire K. Hekman Trust Abraham Franck Jacqueline Nolte Jones William C. Nelson* the Theatre of the Absurd, Francophone its center for African refugees and mentored the lack of emphasis on photog- William Randolph Hearst Heather M. & Matthew J. Clark Frank & Toby Berman Foundation New Pioneers African writers, and deconstructionism. For future leaders of several African countries. She raphy in academe, he came to Foundation Classical Association of the Family Foundation Charlotte W. Januschka Alice Park Newman Drs. Carolyn L. Williams & Middle West & South Bonita & William Frels Irene K. K. & J. Vernon Jensen Charles N. Newstrom decades he and his wife Madeleine, who taught came to the U in 1969 to teach Swahili and help CLA in 1949 to establish its first James N. Butcher COMPAS Thomas L. Friedman Jerome Foundation Nicholas P. Strenglis Family Trust French at Northrop Collegiate School (which establish a teacher-training program, and later film and photography program. Dr.* & Mrs.* O. Meredith Wilson Frances Comstock* Henry E. Fuldner Jerome Joss Trust Katherine & Stuart Nielsen Dr. Donald L. Winkelmann Conference on Jewish Material Dr. Dee Gaeddert Dorsey & Jacqueline Jodl & Earl & Judy* Nolting later merged with Blake), were influential in the moved to Jacksonville, Fla., where she taught at In 1969 he moved to Hampshire Elsie P. Worch* Claims Against Germany, Inc. James E. Dorsey James Viceconte Professor Steven Ruggles & Twin Cities French community. They also had a Florida State College, learned Haitian Creole College, Amherst, did the same Dr. Mark K. Ferguson & Parker M. Congdon* Andrew L. Galaway John & Mary R. Markle Foundation Dr. Lisa Norling Phyllis M. Young Conway Charitable Dr. Aina Galejs John Wiley & Sons Marianne Muellerleile strong commitment to the university. Armand and did relief work in Haiti. She returned to thing there, and exercised Ryan W. & Susan C. Young Lead Annuity Trust Francis C. Gamelin Earl L. & Beverly R. Johnson Northwest Airlines established a memorial to Madeleine after she Minnesota when she retired in 1990. profound influence on a generation of film- y Enza Zeller* Gus* & Shirley* Cooper Professor Norman* & Louise K. Jung* Monica B. Novak died; it now bears the names of both of them: Crown Equipment Corporation Edith* Garmezy KARE 11 Linda Odegard Marilyn Chelstrom, B.A. ’50, political makers, including Ken Burns. He produced Lifetime gifts or pledges Claudia Drake Curtis George & Lillith Burner KTCA/KTCI – Public TV Susanne M. Olin the Madeleine and Armand Renaud Fellowship. $10,000 - $24,999 Czechoslovak Society of Arts & Foundation Peter R. Kann Josep C. Oliu science, died January 26. She worked for 16 award-winning documentaries with his CLA 3 H Industries Sciences, Inc. George W. Patton & Mary Paul & Sarah Karon Rhoda C. & Gregory L. Olsen Contributions may be made to the memorial at years for the Taft Institute for Government, an colleague, Allen Downs, and wrote six books, Gertrude* & Sophus M. Dahl* Burnham Patton Foundation Sam H. Kaufman* Craig N. & Elizabeth A. Ordal Aaron Copland Fund For Music, Inc. z.umn.edu/clagiving. among them The Minnesota Photographs Ronald F. Abler Lenore B. Danielson Professor Diane Katsiaficas & Thomas A. Keller III Pacific & World Travel, Inc. organization founded to expand and improve Harold R. Adams Julia W. & Kenneth* Dayton Norman Gilbertson Eva C. Keuls Coleen Pantalone political participation in the United States, and 1949-1969, The Face of Minneapolis, and John S. Adams Dayton Hudson Corporation & Helen J. & William R. Gladwin Margaret A. Keyes Grace C. & Charles A.* Parsons, Sr. Janet Spector, associate The People, Yes, co-authored with Burns. Professor Russell B. Adams Dayton Hudson Foundation David L. & Marie K. Goblirsch Kidder Peabody Foundation* Sonia E. & Richard L. Patten was its executive president from 1978 to 1988. Ddb Needham Worldwide, Inc. Harvey & Gail Dryer Goldberg Judith M. Kirby professor of gender studies Oscar C.* & Mary R. Adamson* Marcia Motley Patterson A tribute to her leadership of a Taft Institute Read his New York Times obituary: Kenneth J. & Janet E. Albrecht Knox Foundation June D.* & Theodore C.* Paulson and American archaeology, program to improve teacher education in the li e bli n g famil rtesy , cou James R. & Elaine W. Allen Mr.* & Mrs. Victor H. Kramer Personnel Decisions International died of breast cancer Sep- z.umn.edu/lieblingnyt. American Broadcasting Co., Inc. After I complete my graduate degree I hope to begin James N. Krebs Mr.* & Mrs. Erland Persson government and politics was entered into the Mary A. Andres Elizabeth G. Kruger* Penelope & Robert R. Peters tember 13 at her home in a career with the U.S. Department of State where Congressional Record. She was the author of See a gallery of Liebling’s Carolyn F. & Daniel J. Ansel KSTP AM/FM & TV Pharmaceutical Research & Albuquerque, New Mexico. Stephen D. Ansolabehere I can represent the United States and use my Janice M. & Dr. Joseph J.* Kwiat Manufacturers of America A Tribute to Outstanding Minnesota Women, photos at the Minneapolis Professors Lydia Artymiw & Dorothy E. Lamberton Mr. & Mrs. Morton B. Phillips She was 66. Her 1993 ug y D o n Gets and Political Parties, Two-Party Government Institute of Arts: David Grayson Steven J. Lambros Photo Marketing Association o b

education to make a positive impact worldwide. book, What This Awl Means: t Catherine B. & Frederick M. Asher Thomas & Anne LaMotte International and Democracy in the United States. A long-time z.umn.edu/lieblingmia. Lawrence A. & Mary J. Laukka Feminist Archaeology at a Asian American Journalists – CLA STudent Jorg & Angela Pierach University of Minnesota volunteer, she served Ph o Association of Minnesota Fred & Catherine Lauritsen Henry A. Pillsbury Wahpeton Dakota Village, Beverly M. & Stephen B. Atkinson Helga Leitner & Eric S. Sheppard Mr. & Mrs. John S. Pillsbury III on the board of the Alumni Association’s New emerged from her frustration Dr. Achilles C. Avraamides Beatrice Lofgren De Lue* Gayatri & Zakkula Govindarajulu* Adam M. Lerner & Mary Ann Fest Philip W. Pillsbury, Jr. York Area Chapter, and as the Northeast USA Jenny Victoria Baker* Dr. Amos & Sandra S. Deinard Kenneth L. Graham* Lerner Foundation Pillsbury Company & Pillsbury with traditional archaeological methods, and Lois E. DeWitt Greater Worcester Community Diane M. & David M. Lilly Company Foundation representative to the UMAA National Board of Moya A. & Alan Ball represented both a new feminist scholarship Dr. Cristina G. Banks Professor Hazel F. Dicken-Garcia Foundation Lincoln Park Zoological Society Polish American Congress Directors. She was a member of the U’s The Barbro Osher Andrew Dickinson* Greek Ministry of Culture Russell C. Lindgren, M.D.* & Polish National Alliance and sensitivity to Native American culture. Helen Rice, B.A. ’45, sociology The late Douglas A. Dolliff Lawrence & Ronya Greenberg Anne Winslow Lindgren, Ph.D.* President’s Club of donors, and a recipient of , died April 2, Pro Suecia Foundation Wayne E. & Virginia L. Potratz Spector earned her Ph.D. at the University of Robert L. & Linda M. Barrows Evelyn A. Donaldson Willard A. Greenleaf Mr. & Mrs. John Lindstrom Pragmatic C. Software Corp. the University of Minnesta Alumni Service in Minneapolis, from complications from surgery. Douglas Allchin Jean M. & Edward M. Griffin Howard & Roberta Liszt Prairie Island Indian Community Wisconsin-Madison, worked in the feminist Dr. Northrup & Myrtle M. Beach Award and CLA’s Alumni of Notable Achieve- She was 89. As a new CLA grad she headed to Paulina Beato Charitable Gift Account Gustavus Adolphus College Serge E. Logan Psi Chi and antiwar movements in the 1970s, and in Charles H. Bell* Douglas Reeves Fund Guthrie Theater John Y. & Marjorie C. Loper Sylvia A. Quast ment Award. Broadway to make it as a singer — Inga Steele Benson in memoriam & Joe Dowling & Siobhan Cleary Dr. Helen M. Hacker Carla Lukermann Qwest & Qwest Foundation 1973 came to CLA, where she helped found and and succeeded. She sang in Wonderful Town John W. Benson Anna L. Downs & Paul Cohen James J. Hahn Mary A Lundeberg Gary B. & Susan H. Rappaport later chaired what became the Department of Joseph Plumbo, B.A. ’57, history and Linda Keillor Berg & David A. Berg George Duncan & Sheryl Kelsey Milton D. Hakel MacKenzie Studios Gwendoline L. Reid, Ph.D.* starring Rosalind Russell, and was in the chorus Nicholas E. Berkholtz Sheryl J. Dunnette Patrice A. & Gerald P. Halbach David J. Madson Howard S. Reinmuth Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, and was political science, died January 28 in St. Paul, and an understudy in Kiss Me Kate. Returning to Frank & Toby Berman The Dunnette Group LTD Lili Hall Scarpa & Andrea Scarpa Marguerite G. & Chester R. Jones Republic of Cyprus a founder of the Center for Advanced Feminist at 81. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, went on to Don & Carol Birkeland E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Professor Kathleen A. Hansen Education & Charitable Trust M. & J. Rice Minnesota, she tutored voice students, and sang Caroline A. Blanshard* Company Richard A. & Linda S. Hanson Marvin & Mildred Gustavson Right Management Consultants Studies. In 1992 she was named assistant serve in the Naval Reserves, and worked at in operas and operettas and as a soloist with the The John & Jane Borchert Family E.K. Strong Memorial Foundation Harcourt Brace & Company Family Fund Mr.* & Mrs.* Charles Ritz provost; in that role she chaired the U’s Unisys. He was a lifelong member of the Michael A. & Sally Bosanko Drs. Brian E. Engdahl & Harold E. Hardy* Dr. Andreu Mas-Colell Riverview International Group, Inc. Minnesota Orchestra, St. Paul Civic Orchestra Blythe A. Brenden Raina E. Eberly Alfred & Ingrid Lenz Harrison Lawrence J. & Andrea K. McGough Arthur L. & Jeannie Rivkin Commission on Women. She retired in 1998. Italian-American Marconi Club. He was a and other organizations. She was the chief soloist Lucille Noah Brouillette Heidi Gesell George Hatzisavvas McVay Foundation Roberts Charitable Fund supporter of CLA; according to his wife, in memoriam Elsie L. Fesler Trust Kathleen F. Heenan Robert & Wanda McCaa Wyndham Robertson Contributions to her memorial fund can at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church. Embassy of Italy Casper H. & Mary Hegdal Mildred McClellan be made at z.umn.edu/clagiving. Shirley, “he sure loved that school.”

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Professor Joseph E. Schwartzberg Unitron U S James D. Catalano Dennis R. Johnson & Ruth M. Quast* Greg Breining $1,200 to $1,500 for a semester. eh oubzad Jeff & Mary Scott University of Minnesota Band Harlan Cavert Mary K. Katynski-Johnson Karl & Carol Raitz Giovanna Dell ’Orto One of my favorite rites of spring is the unceasing Drs. William W. & Mary A. Seeger Alumni Society Dr. William J. M. Claggett Clayton Kaufman Marjorie A. Ransom Randolph Fillmore But the rewards of internships don’t stop with the stu- Edward G. Clark, Jr.* Kathryn E. Keefer Harvey D. Rappaport Christine Friedlander procession of students being recognized for their Faye Riva Cohen Joyce M. & C. Christopher Kelly dents. Talk to community hosts and partners, and Ruth Willard Redhead Greg Hestness verett Ay David A. Kelm accomplishments. These accomplishments grow out E Striving for a higher education is my only escape Harold & Phyllis* Conrad Dr. Lynn L. Remly Molly Sutton Kiefer you’ll see what I mean. “It gives us hope for a better Roy D. Conradi William H. & Madoline D.* Kelty Armand A.* & Joyce Lyon of talent, promise, and determination nurtured by world,” said one. Said another, “They brought their from poverty. I plan on working hard so that I can Patrick Corrigan Beverly J. Kespohl Madeleine S. Renaud* Bill Magdalene opportunities. In CLA, those opportunities are all Carolynne Darling in memory Terence E. Kilburn Robert P. Sands & Kelly O’Brien own skills and abilities and found a place to share of Jean B. Darling Charles M. Nolte* Sally Glassberg Sands Mary Pattock about connection. They include programs that pair accomplish my goal of graduating from the them. They help me think outside the box.” Joyce Ekman Davis* & Donna C. Kline Drs. David B. Sanford & Terri Sutton students with faculty for research and mentoring, with University of Minnesota. – CLA Student John G. Davis* Stephanie L. Krusemark Frank D. 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reach 131 Johnston Hall 101 Pleasant Street S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455 a M ill er L i s On the uses of failure “If you pursue only those goals you know you’re really, really likely to achieve, you live like an iceberg with the vast major- ity of yourself undiscovered and unknowable, even to yourself. Failure is the tool that we use to demarcate the edges of our abilities. Go and find out empirically what you can and what you can’t do. Don’t leave the marking of those borders to speculation — to yours, or your friends’, or your parents’. Go find out … . It’s all electives now, homey.”

Dessa — rapper, artist, essayist, singer signed to Doomtree Records — delivered the 2012 Watch at: z.umn.edu/dessa CLA commencement address. She’s a 2003 CLA graduate in philosophy.