Vol. 41, No. 1, Arches Autumn 2013

University of Puget Sound Sound Ideas Arches University Publications Fall 2013 Vol. 41, No. 1, Arches Autumn 2013 University of Puget Sound Follow this and additional works at: https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/arches Recommended Citation University of Puget Sound, "Vol. 41, No. 1, Arches Autumn 2013" (2013). Arches. 22. https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/arches/22 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at Sound Ideas. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arches by an authorized administrator of Sound Ideas. For more information, please contact [email protected]. : THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND PEOPLE AND IDEAS FOR AUTUMN 2013 We drop by a few alumm-owned eat-and-drinkeries PLUS Have gavel, will travel: Washington's Supreme Court, now and in 1888 m NOW THAT'S WHAT WE CALL A RECEPTION LINE Hi It ■ ' , ; AUGUST 23: From this angle it looks like a really long, boring bunch of people standing in line, waiting. OK, and, yes, ■. i.U' ese folks actually are waiting for something, but not for tickets to a surprise Rolling Stones performance at the field i: • - . Jj]ouse.These are faculty, staff, alumni, and student leaders lining each side of Commencement Walk to cheer and high- ■« ve and applaud the Class of 2017 and their parents as they exit Convocation ceremonies in Baker Stadium. Call it a ! thing we like about this photo is it shows in pretty spectacular fashion the I wef the last cojjple of.years of the south end of campus.That wide brick building is Commencement Hall, tj m hH TURN,TURN,TURN photojournal SEPTEMBER 11: Meet the mega multitasking Martine Kivatinetz '16, whom we found walking acrossTodd Field, reading Existentialism: Basic Writings and spinning a Hula-Hoop at the same time. m r;fe 'worn ’ V. ' • SI / w . > v:-\-v-'V ■ w-1 v\v i ' ' V^»** BSKpiSS ®feii ufetitiikff*:-- r-.i amm■I- J mgs #:#lsiefis' WELL, WE WOULDN'T EXACTLY CALL IT A BUMPER STICKER SEPTEMBER 18: School spirit, proclaimed literally. Observed on 13th Street near the Live Green House. Urgent Its not a word you want to use too fre An insistent desire. It invokes a heightened live in a time of radical change and uncer quently. That would drain it of its power to awareness, a focus on the most important tainty—technological disruption, political command attention. Like crying wolf. Every things, a commitment to a particular direc instability, economic turmoil, terror. And thing can’t be urgent, or nothing will. So use tion, an effort with a clear purpose: Keep such crazy weather, man. Dire predictions it sparingly. When the wolf is at the door, you the wolf at bay. Desperation, on the other and threatening conditions cast shadows want everyone to attend to the matter. It’s hand, produces a good deal of flailing about just about everywhere. It’s true in education: f urgent—save rhe sheep. in all directions; befiiddlement about know The sands are shifting dramatically as costs And yet, we do want to live our lives ing exactly what to do; a waste of time and rise like an irresistible tide. MOOCs (mas consistently with a sense of urgency, right? energy; confusion. Wolves’ delight. Sheep sive open online courses) are in the land, and Which is definitely not the same as a sense of will be lost. virtual delivery systems threaten the integrity desperation. In fact, in many ways the two I think about this a lot—not the wolf so of our very bricks and mortar. The wolves are opposites. “Urgent” has an urge inside it. much, but living with a sense of urgency. We are howling. Then again, when so many ! 4 arches autumn 2013 arches Vol. 40, No. 4 Autumn 2013 Chuck Luce, Editor CathyTollefson '83, P'17, Associate Editor, Classmates things that were long considered constants it is a finish line or a business goal, I focus on Julie Reynolds, Designer are in flux, the conditions for bold leadership what is in front of me and surround myself Ross Mulhausen, Photographer, unless emerge, too, especially if you are in a place with a strong team that shares the same credited otherwise that has always had innovation in its DNA. mind-set.” Pedal to the metal. Focus on the Ian Fox '14, Intern And a sense of urgency. goal. Commit to winning. Play with a sense I was reminded of all this at the Logger of urgency, like the coach said. Alumni Council Executive Committee David Watson ‘92. President; Leslie Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony. “Why do you think your parents sent you Skinner Brown '92, Vice President; Amy We honored an impressive crowd of Logger here?” That was the question Pulitzer Prize Ma Winterowd '99, Secretary; Allison student athletes—an ace pitcher who was winning novelist and MacArthur Genius McCurdy Kalalau ‘03, M.AX04; Ken McGill '61, Immediate Past President; Deb drafted in the first round by the Bigs and Award-winner Junot Diaz asked our students Bachman Crawford '80. Sunshine Morrison went on to throw in the majors for Montreal; when he was giving a reading and lecture on '94; James Oppenheimer '14, Student a four-time All-American national cross coun campus to start the new year. “Get a job,” Alumni Association President; Mark Penaroza '02; David Poston '85, Andrea Tull try champion who ran like the wind; a three one voice echoed from the audience. “Get an '02; Steve White '68; Ed Wilder '86 time national backstroke champ (and a poet!); education,” another chimed. Lots of buzzing an All-American catcher and all-time home out there. “Get good grades.” Diaz closed his Contacting arches Circulation run record-holder in softball (her entire start eyes and shook his head. “No,” he said, with To change the address to which your ing lineup showed up in support and crowned each reply. “No, that’s not it.” These were copy of arches is mailed or to remove her with as many Hawaiian leis); and an important things, he conceded, but they were your name from the mailing list for the print edition of arches, please call Cathy All-American woman soccer player who led not the answer: “The real reason you are in Tollefson at 253-879-2762, or write the Loggers to our first of 12 Northwest Con college, the purpose your parents had in mind [email protected] ference championships and our first NCAA when you came here, was that college would Editorial Offices play-off berth in 2000—she helped found the transform you, that you would undergo an Voice: 253-879-2762; Fax: 253-879-3149; Email: [email protected]; dynasty. Quite a lineup. (More on page 11.) experience that would fundamentally change Post: Arches, Office of Communications. It was Laura, the soccer player, who got you.” Then he added with a sense of urgency, University of Puget Sound. 1500 N. Warner me thinking. What she learned from soccer, “If the person who walks down the aisle and St.. Tacoma WA 98416-1041. she said, among other things that served her collects a diploma after four years at Puget arches unbound well in life after college, was a word of wis Sound is not a different person from the one pugetsound.edu/arches dom from Coach Randy Hanson. In his quiet who came to campus as a freshman, if you arches (USPS 003-932) is published way, when the team lacked intensity and was have not been transformed by this place, you quarterly by the University of Puget Sound. just going through the motions, he urged did not succeed here.” Office of Communications. 1500 N. 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There isn’t time for that. Story, art. and photographic submissions newspaper about another Logger, Jesse Proud- We have work to do. Every noise in the night are welcome; however, the editors recom man ’07, who is now CEO and founder is not a wolf. But there are wolves out there. mend a written query. of Blue Box, a cloud-hosting provider and We have to keep a sharp eye on the forest, ©2013 University of Puget Sound. All among America’s fastest-growing companies. stay awake, get out in front, prepare, inno rights reserved. No portion of this publica Named one of Puget Sound Business Journals vate, learn new things. And we must focus on tion may be reproduced without written permission. The opinions expressed in “40 Under 40” for his entrepreneurial success, the job of transforming lives.

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