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40 GLIMPSES Mathematics historian Judith Victor Grabiner, SB’60, teaches math to the MARAPR 2014 liberal arts masses. By Derek Tsang, ’15 VOLUME 106, NUMBER 4 42 SCRAP METTLE Entrepreneurs meeting the demand for raw materials, not environmental virtue, drives the expansion of the recycling industry. By Adam Minter, AB’93 Plus: “Trash Talker.” By Jason Kelly

50 EPIC CROSSING John Snyder, AB’56, traversed Ethiopia seeking inspiration for a screenplay. Instead he captured a landscape about to disappear. By Laura Demanski, AM’94

Departments 3 EDITOR’S NOTES In any language: The sounds of March. By Laura Demanski, AM’94

4 LETTERS Readers react to the previous issue’s cover image (with a bullseye), raise matters of race and scholarly evidence, pine for Milton Friedman’s inﬂuence in response to the ﬁnancial crisis, rev their critical engines over advertising, and more.

11 ON THE AGENDA

SEPTOCT 2011, VOLUME 104, NUMBER 1 Humanities dean Martha Roth and social sciences dean Mario Luis Small discuss the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, “a laboratory for humanists.”

13 UCHICAGO JOURNAL Envisioning China has operatic range; a model says industry changes are a plus; a stats guy makes the best bets; Leon Kass, U-High’54, SB’58, MD’62, and Amy Kass, AB’62, develop an online curriculum; ofﬁce hours for art interpretation; the link between disrupted sleep and cancer growth; a physicist keeps the science honest on a hit TV show; and how law school helped poet Natalie Shapero, JD’11, turn her verse loose.

26 C VITAE After more than three decades at Britannica, editor in chief Dale Hoiberg, AM’74, PhD’93, has encyclopedic knowledge of an evolving industry.

In Michael LaBarbera’s 57 PEER REVIEW lab, jellyfish, cu lefish, Leslie Maitland, AB’71, recalls her role breaking the story of the real Abscam, crabs, clams, sea urchins, which inspired the “terrifically amusing satire” American Hustle, and Nissa and octopuses are only a Rhee, AB’06, surveys the legacy of war with American veterans returning to few of the creatures you Vietnam. Plus: Alumni News, Deaths, and Classifieds. might encounter. See “A Life Aquatic,” page 28. 88 LITE OF THE MIND Illustration by Jen Lobo. #uchicagoselfie: Face time at the Magazine’s Instagram account.

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50 EPIC CROSSING John Snyder, AB’56, traversed Ethiopia seeking inspiration for a screenplay. Instead he captured a landscape about to disappear. By Laura Demanski, AM’94

Departments 3 EDITOR’S NOTES In any language: The sounds of March. By Laura Demanski, AM’94

11 ON THE AGENDA

SEPTOCT 2011, VOLUME 104, NUMBER 1 Humanities dean Martha Roth and social sciences dean Mario Luis Small discuss the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, “a laboratory for humanists.”

26 C VITAE After more than three decades at Britannica, editor in chief Dale Hoiberg, AM’74, PhD’93, has encyclopedic knowledge of an evolving industry.

IFC_Kiawah-ad.indd 1 2/27/14 9:19 AM web_2014_mar-apr.indd 1 3/7/14 9:50 AM UCH_Contents_Mar Apr_v2.indd 1 2/28/14 3:39 PM 140311_Kiawah_Chicago.indd 1 1/24/14 8:47 AM In a photo on display in a current EDITORˆS NOTES Crerar Library exhibit about his career, zoology professor Charles O. Whitman tends to the pigeons whose development, heredity, and behavior he studied for decades, keeping the birds in cotes near his South Woodlawn Volume 106, Number 4, Mar–Apr 2014 Avenue home. The exhibit is open through March 21, but an online executive editor Mary Ruth Yoe In any language version will remain available at editor Laura Demanski, AM’94 BY LAURA DEMANSK I, AM’94 associate editors Lydialyle Gibson, lib.uchicago.edu/e/webexhibits Jason Kelly /charleswhitman. art director Guido Mendez “And the riverbank talks of the waters of March, alumni news editor Katherine It’s the promise of life, it’s the joy in your heart.” Muhlenkamp senior copy editor Rhonda L. Smith student intern Derek Tsang, ’15 student assistant Adrianna Szenthe ore than any other song about it should have both spring graphic designer Nicole Jo Melton lite of the mind & interactive pairing of months and fall versions. Originally written in content editor Joy Olivia Miller in the Magazine’s Portuguese, “Waters of March” pays web developer Chris Wilczak production cycle, tribute to the rainy season in Brazil by university of chicago photographic archive, apf1-08737, special collections research center, university of chicago library chicago of university center, research collections special apf1-08737, archive, photographic chicago of university contributing editors John Easton, March–April con- cataloging a long eclectic list of things, AM’77; Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93; Brooke E. O’Neill, AM’04; Amy Braverman tains a turn, and the manmade and natural, concrete and Puma; Elizabeth Station possibility of ex- abstract: a shard of glass, the knot in staff bios mag.uchicago.edu/masthead tremes. March, the the wood, a drop dripping, a beautiful month of lions and horizon. This time of year, maybe we Editorial O ce The University of Chicago Magazine, 5235 South Harper Court, Suite lambs, itself a fickle notice more things, or maybe they’re 500, Chicago, IL 60615. telephone changeling; April, made newly visible by cleansing rains. 773.702.2163; fax 773.702.8836; the month (we hope) of sweet show- The song pays homage to the richness e-mail [email protected]. ers heralding, if not bringing, spring of both the natural world and our sen- The Magazine is sent to all University of M Chicago alumni. The University of Chicago blooms. As a March baby, I’ve always sual experience. Alumni Association has its offices at had a soft spot for this most mercurial In the southern hemisphere, of 5555 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, time of the year, and an extra measure course, March and its rains come at IL 60637. telephone 773.702.2150; fax 773.702.2166. address changes of patience with it. The day I was born, the outset of fall and bring also a hint 800.955.0065 or [email protected]. the vernal equinox arrived as the sea- of winter. Despite the song’s poppy, web mag.uchicago.edu son’s biggest snowstorm closed in. airy, syncopated tune, it’s hard not to What will this March bring? A few notice how Jobim’s Portuguese lyrics The University of Chicago Magazine (ISSN-0041-9508) is published bimonthly things we can count on: basketball, never stray too far from sharp things (Sept–Oct, Nov–Dec, Jan–Feb, Mar–Apr, Irish pride, paczki for us Polish Ameri- and other forms of danger, and keep May–June, and July–Aug) by the University cans. Also, the last couple of weeks of coming back to endings: the end of the of Chicago in cooperation with the Alumni winter quarter, exams, spring break, road, of the slope, of the struggle, of Association, 5555 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. Published continuously and, at the very tail end, a fresh, clean the trail. A “small bird in the hand” since 1907. Periodicals postage paid at page: the first day of spring quarter on leads straight into “a slingshot stone,” Chicago and additional mailing offices. the last day of the month. “In like a lion, “a bird in the sky” into “a bird on the postmaster Send address changes to The University of Chicago Magazine, Alumni out like a lamb” maps neatly onto the ground.” The world is renewed, but Records, 5235 South Harper Court, Suite academic calendar. The stress won’t that doesn’t mean it’s forever. 500, Chicago, IL 60615. kick in again until at least April 1, right? That March isn’t springtime where In the opening lines of The Can- Jobim lived is a point that was lost on © 2014 University of Chicago. terbury Tales, Chaucer mentions the me for many years of adoring “Waters drought of March in passing, less of March.” I came to it through its Eng- concerned with it than with the more lish version, which Jobim wrote later reliably springlike April that redeems to fit the North American seasons—a it. But as far as I’m concerned, March version distinct from the literal trans- Ivy League Magazine Network www.ivymags.com is the only month that comes with a lation of the Portuguese. In that ver- director, advertising sales and ready-made soundtrack, one that turns sion, “closing the summer” becomes marketing Ross Garnick Chaucer’s description on its head: “the promise of spring,” and the rain [email protected] the most wonderful of all bossa nova is easily taken for a thaw, even more 212.724.0906 songs, Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Águas so with the music’s drip-drop rhythm. de Março” or “Waters of March.” Whichever language it’s sung in, the March is a chameleon, so it’s fitting song will always, to me, ooze spring. If that perhaps the best-known popular you haven’t heard it, now is the time. ◆

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web_2014_mar-apr.indd 2 3/7/14 9:50 AM UCH_Wallpaper_v1.indd 2 2/28/14 10:07 AM Ed Notes_MarApril_ed_v1.indd 3 2/27/14 6:57 PM In a photo on display in a current EDITORˆS NOTES Crerar Library exhibit about his career, zoology professor Charles O. Whitman tends to the pigeons whose development, heredity, and behavior he studied for decades, keeping the birds in cotes near his South Woodlawn Volume 106, Number 4, Mar–Apr 2014 Avenue home. The exhibit is open through March 21, but an online executive editor Mary Ruth Yoe In any language version will remain available at editor Laura Demanski, AM’94 BY LAURA DEMANSK I, AM’94 associate editors Lydialyle Gibson, lib.uchicago.edu/e/webexhibits Jason Kelly /charleswhitman. art director Guido Mendez “And the riverbank talks of the waters of March, alumni news editor Katherine It’s the promise of life, it’s the joy in your heart.” Muhlenkamp senior copy editor Rhonda L. Smith student intern Derek Tsang, ’15 student assistant Adrianna Szenthe ore than any other song about it should have both spring graphic designer Nicole Jo Melton lite of the mind & interactive pairing of months and fall versions. Originally written in content editor Joy Olivia Miller in the Magazine’s Portuguese, “Waters of March” pays web developer Chris Wilczak production cycle, tribute to the rainy season in Brazil by university of chicago photographic archive, apf1-08737, special collections research center, university of chicago library chicago of university center, research collections special apf1-08737, archive, photographic chicago of university contributing editors John Easton, March–April con- cataloging a long eclectic list of things, AM’77; Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93; Brooke E. O’Neill, AM’04; Amy Braverman tains a turn, and the manmade and natural, concrete and Puma; Elizabeth Station possibility of ex- abstract: a shard of glass, the knot in staff bios mag.uchicago.edu/masthead tremes. March, the the wood, a drop dripping, a beautiful month of lions and horizon. This time of year, maybe we Editorial O ce The University of Chicago Magazine, 5235 South Harper Court, Suite lambs, itself a fickle notice more things, or maybe they’re 500, Chicago, IL 60615. telephone changeling; April, made newly visible by cleansing rains. 773.702.2163; fax 773.702.8836; the month (we hope) of sweet show- The song pays homage to the richness e-mail [email protected]. ers heralding, if not bringing, spring of both the natural world and our sen- The Magazine is sent to all University of M Chicago alumni. The University of Chicago blooms. As a March baby, I’ve always sual experience. Alumni Association has its offices at had a soft spot for this most mercurial In the southern hemisphere, of 5555 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, time of the year, and an extra measure course, March and its rains come at IL 60637. telephone 773.702.2150; fax 773.702.2166. address changes of patience with it. The day I was born, the outset of fall and bring also a hint 800.955.0065 or [email protected]. the vernal equinox arrived as the sea- of winter. Despite the song’s poppy, web mag.uchicago.edu son’s biggest snowstorm closed in. airy, syncopated tune, it’s hard not to What will this March bring? A few notice how Jobim’s Portuguese lyrics The University of Chicago Magazine (ISSN-0041-9508) is published bimonthly things we can count on: basketball, never stray too far from sharp things (Sept–Oct, Nov–Dec, Jan–Feb, Mar–Apr, Irish pride, paczki for us Polish Ameri- and other forms of danger, and keep May–June, and July–Aug) by the University cans. Also, the last couple of weeks of coming back to endings: the end of the of Chicago in cooperation with the Alumni winter quarter, exams, spring break, road, of the slope, of the struggle, of Association, 5555 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. Published continuously and, at the very tail end, a fresh, clean the trail. A “small bird in the hand” since 1907. Periodicals postage paid at page: the first day of spring quarter on leads straight into “a slingshot stone,” Chicago and additional mailing offices. the last day of the month. “In like a lion, “a bird in the sky” into “a bird on the postmaster Send address changes to The University of Chicago Magazine, Alumni out like a lamb” maps neatly onto the ground.” The world is renewed, but Records, 5235 South Harper Court, Suite academic calendar. The stress won’t that doesn’t mean it’s forever. 500, Chicago, IL 60615. kick in again until at least April 1, right? That March isn’t springtime where In the opening lines of The Can- Jobim lived is a point that was lost on © 2014 University of Chicago. terbury Tales, Chaucer mentions the me for many years of adoring “Waters drought of March in passing, less of March.” I came to it through its Eng- concerned with it than with the more lish version, which Jobim wrote later reliably springlike April that redeems to fit the North American seasons—a it. But as far as I’m concerned, March version distinct from the literal trans- Ivy League Magazine Network www.ivymags.com is the only month that comes with a lation of the Portuguese. In that ver- director, advertising sales and ready-made soundtrack, one that turns sion, “closing the summer” becomes marketing Ross Garnick Chaucer’s description on its head: “the promise of spring,” and the rain [email protected] the most wonderful of all bossa nova is easily taken for a thaw, even more 212.724.0906 songs, Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Águas so with the music’s drip-drop rhythm. de Março” or “Waters of March.” Whichever language it’s sung in, the March is a chameleon, so it’s fitting song will always, to me, ooze spring. If that perhaps the best-known popular you haven’t heard it, now is the time. ◆

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web_2014_mar-apr.indd 3 3/7/14 9:50 AM UCH_Wallpaper_v1.indd 2 2/28/14 10:07 AM Ed Notes_MarApril_ed_v1.indd 3 2/27/14 6:57 PM tury later, and me, Keith Roberts John- pressures, should not have developed nitive capacity to recognize the effects I, and I think many other economists son, AB’58, a half century later, there significant differences through the proof their actions on others. This implies who received their economic training LETTERS on campus for my graduation. cesses of natural and sexual selection. that he believes apes and other animals at Chicago, thoroughly disagree with The attached photo of the couple in- Those who, in the cause of a mis- do not have prescribed limits on their the views of the event’s speakers on cludes Natalie’s husband, Leslie Emil guided genetic egalitarianism, dismiss behavior or the ability to understand the both sides. We think longingly of Johnson, X’33, who worked in the phys- the idea of race as a biological reality effects of their actions on others. Again, what Milton Friedman, AM’33, would True GRITS ics department and went on to become would do well to consider the argu- no evidence is presented in the article have said to this panel: He would have I find the Letters section the best part of your magazine, and I always read it first. an Argonne Lab Pioneer during WW II. ments of New York Times science writ- supporting this conclusion, or Tuttle’s condemned the accelerated spending In your Jan–Feb/14 issue, page 8, reader Kelly Kleiman, AB’75, JD’79, complains Keith Johnson, AB’58, AM’64 er Nicholas Wade, either in Before the statement that only humans are capable policy objectively, scientifically, and that students from rural areas and inner cities cannot compete with those from the evanston, illinois Dawn (Penguin, 2006) or in A Trouble- of “thinking, knowing, perceiving, or very positively. He would have ar- rich suburbs for admission to the top some Inheritance (Penguin), forthcom- feeling what others are thinking, know- gued that the problem was not spend- A top 2 percent IQ is schools. A possible remedy may be the In the game ing this May. ing, perceiving, or feeling.” ing deficiencies in the private sector to the same whether the University’s 1960s Grass Roots Illinois I enjoyed “Game Changers” (Jan– Jonathan Ekman, AM’81 Tuttle also says in the article that be countered by government spending Talent Search program, described in Feb/14). As a graduate of the Divin- long beach, california only humans have kinship and long- that had no constitutional authority kid is from Winnetka or Muriel Beadle’s These Ruins Are Inhab- ity School and as the chief executive lasting love relationships. Again, no nor economic evidence to support it. Washington, Illinois. ited (Robert Hale Ltd., 1963). In this officer of the South African Football Evidence, please evidence is presented to support this Rather he would have argued, as I do program, recruiters went to the rural Association, I would have loved to con- I just finished reading the article about conclusion. here, that the government should have areas and inner cities to talk with the students, the promising ones were encouraged tribute to the conversation. anthropology professor Russell Tuttle, I have to agree with professor Tut- backed off, spent less, reduced taxes on the to apply, and their applications were tagged to receive special consideration like We are presently undertaking the and I confess to being confused. The ar- tle’s statement in his book that “Ques- private sector, and abolished incentive-kill- alumni children. These GRITS kids did just as well as those from the rich suburbs largest youth development through ticle asserts that, as the editor in chief tions of human evolution and our place ing regulations on private enterprise. He by their junior and senior years, after an initial period of catching up during their football program in our history, with of the International Journal of Primatol- among the organisms are excellent might also have argued that all the gov- freshman and sophomore years. After all, a top 2 percent IQ is the same whether the goal of creating sustainable winning ogy from 1988 to 2010, Tuttle “stood at challenges to one’s ability to think ernment spending programs, including the kid is from Winnetka or Washington, Illinois (flattened by a recent tornado). national teams. the barricades, trying to prevent mis- critically.” I hope, for the sake of sci- the Federal Reserve’s tsunami of bank As an aside, it is interesting to note that UChicago recruited George Beadle from Robin Petersen, PhD’95 used language and exaggerated inter- ence and the professor’s students, that credit creation, constituted a negative Caltech in 1960 to be its new president, and now Caltech has recruited Thomas johannesburg, south africa pretations from inflating facts.” The the evidence underlying Tuttle’s con- multiplier effect on the private sector. He Rosenbaum from Chicago to be its new president. article quotes the professor in several clusions are elucidated and substanti- would have deplored further policies in Gerald Fong, SM’61 In defense of race ways encouraging his students and oth- ated more in the book than they are in that direction and argued for govern- el monte, california Despite abundant evidence to the con- ers to strive for critical thinking and the the Magazine article. ment policies that would encourage trary, Russell Tuttle (“Only Human,” scientific underpinning of ideas. How- Jeff Bloom, AM’86 private incentives in the real sector of Jan–Feb/14) asserts that “race does not ever, the article also contains several alexandria, virginia the economy. exist.” Nevertheless, among the true quotes from Tuttle indicating that he What we are witnessing now is the The big reveal her photo, it would be the second time believers in the dogma that race is a so- has reached strong conclusions regard- Miltonic wisdom proof of that spending pudding: a weak I was struck by the resemblance of your she appeared in a University publica- cial construct or a fiction, there has nev- ing the differences between humans As an economist, I would like to draw and unpromising “recovery” that re- undated photo of an unnamed U of C tion. In 1958 a three-generation Chi- er been an adequate explanation why and other animals, without also provid- attention to “After the Disaster” flects a stagnant economy, and one that student (Jan–Feb/14). I believe the cago family appeared, my grandmother human population groups (or races, ing evidence to substantiate his conclu- (UChicago Journal, Jan–Feb/14), has little promise of any real growth in photo is of my mother, Natalie Mer- (Harriet Estabrook Merriam, PhB’08), which are, in the words of the late Vin- sions. This apparent contradiction, at which discusses the financial crisis of the future. Mr. Paulson began the pro- riam Johnson, PhB’33. I am including my mother, graduating a quarter cen- cent Sarich, “fuzzy sets”), separated least as presented in the article, leaves 2008 and its duration. It features the gram with the remark, “None of us ever photos of her at a some- for tens of thousands of years without me wondering if the book provides the opinions of Henry Paulson; David want[s] to have our nation go through what older age to show interbreeding and subjected to widely evidence in support of Tuttle’s bold Axelrod, AB’76; Austen Goolsbee; another crisis like the 2008 crisis.” the resemblance. If this is varying environmental conditions and conclusions that was not provided in and other participants who purportedly Of course we don’t. But as Friedman the article. represent the Democratic and Republi- might have stated the case, the “cure” For example, the Magazine article can programs prominent during the past of government spending since 2008 has SEPTOCT 2011, VOLUME 104, NUMBER 1 summarizes one of the major conclu- five years. Paulson now chairs the Paul- been worse than the disease of earlier sions of Tuttle’s new book, Apes and son Institute, “an independent think government spending and has featured Human Evolution (Harvard University tank housed at the University.” In 2007 the wrong analytic approach to the Press, 2014), that symbolic language he was appointed by George W. Bush problems of the time. So what are our THE KEY TO AN unique to the human species allows us to be Treasury secretary. He remarked chances of avoiding repetition of such EXTRAORDINARY am’64 am’64 ab’58, ab’58, johnson, johnson, keith keith courtesy courtesy photos photos to share ideas and beliefs as the basis at the conference that “one of the things an event when both political views of LIFE IS QUITE LOLITA … SHORRIS EARL … ADES TR ANCIENT … SPORTS OF BUSINESS … APE AND MAN of our culture. Tuttle contrasts human I’m most grateful for is that Republi- the issue are so clearly wrong? abilities with apes when he states, “No cans and Democrats came together to Where are you, Milton, when we LITERALLY | MASERATIGHIBLI.US A KEY. THE ABSOLUTE OPPOSITE OF ORDINARY one has shown that chimpanzees in na- avert disaster.” Goolsbee, who chaired need you most? ture have pervasive shared symbolical- the Council of Economic Advisers un- Richard Timberlake, PhD’59 ly mediated ideas, beliefs, and values.” der President Obama, thought the stim- bogart, georgia Unfortunately, the Magazine article ulus spending program, including the fails to provide any evidence indicating TARP spending and quantitative eas- Paradise stalled

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web_2014_mar-apr.indd 4 3/7/14 9:50 AM Letters_layout_04.indd 4 2/28/14 10:56 AM Letters_layout_04.indd 5 2/28/14 10:56 AM tury later, and me, Keith Roberts John- pressures, should not have developed nitive capacity to recognize the effects I, and I think many other economists son, AB’58, a half century later, there significant differences through the proof their actions on others. This implies who received their economic training LETTERS on campus for my graduation. cesses of natural and sexual selection. that he believes apes and other animals at Chicago, thoroughly disagree with The attached photo of the couple in- Those who, in the cause of a mis- do not have prescribed limits on their the views of the event’s speakers on cludes Natalie’s husband, Leslie Emil guided genetic egalitarianism, dismiss behavior or the ability to understand the both sides. We think longingly of Johnson, X’33, who worked in the phys- the idea of race as a biological reality effects of their actions on others. Again, what Milton Friedman, AM’33, would True GRITS ics department and went on to become would do well to consider the argu- no evidence is presented in the article have said to this panel: He would have I find the Letters section the best part of your magazine, and I always read it first. an Argonne Lab Pioneer during WW II. ments of New York Times science writ- supporting this conclusion, or Tuttle’s condemned the accelerated spending In your Jan–Feb/14 issue, page 8, reader Kelly Kleiman, AB’75, JD’79, complains Keith Johnson, AB’58, AM’64 er Nicholas Wade, either in Before the statement that only humans are capable policy objectively, scientifically, and that students from rural areas and inner cities cannot compete with those from the evanston, illinois Dawn (Penguin, 2006) or in A Trouble- of “thinking, knowing, perceiving, or very positively. He would have ar- rich suburbs for admission to the top some Inheritance (Penguin), forthcom- feeling what others are thinking, know- gued that the problem was not spend- A top 2 percent IQ is schools. A possible remedy may be the In the game ing this May. ing, perceiving, or feeling.” ing deficiencies in the private sector to the same whether the University’s 1960s Grass Roots Illinois I enjoyed “Game Changers” (Jan– Jonathan Ekman, AM’81 Tuttle also says in the article that be countered by government spending Talent Search program, described in Feb/14). As a graduate of the Divin- long beach, california only humans have kinship and long- that had no constitutional authority kid is from Winnetka or Muriel Beadle’s These Ruins Are Inhab- ity School and as the chief executive lasting love relationships. Again, no nor economic evidence to support it. Washington, Illinois. ited (Robert Hale Ltd., 1963). In this officer of the South African Football Evidence, please evidence is presented to support this Rather he would have argued, as I do program, recruiters went to the rural Association, I would have loved to con- I just finished reading the article about conclusion. here, that the government should have areas and inner cities to talk with the students, the promising ones were encouraged tribute to the conversation. anthropology professor Russell Tuttle, I have to agree with professor Tut- backed off, spent less, reduced taxes on the to apply, and their applications were tagged to receive special consideration like We are presently undertaking the and I confess to being confused. The ar- tle’s statement in his book that “Ques- private sector, and abolished incentive-kill- alumni children. These GRITS kids did just as well as those from the rich suburbs largest youth development through ticle asserts that, as the editor in chief tions of human evolution and our place ing regulations on private enterprise. He by their junior and senior years, after an initial period of catching up during their football program in our history, with of the International Journal of Primatol- among the organisms are excellent might also have argued that all the gov- freshman and sophomore years. After all, a top 2 percent IQ is the same whether the goal of creating sustainable winning ogy from 1988 to 2010, Tuttle “stood at challenges to one’s ability to think ernment spending programs, including the kid is from Winnetka or Washington, Illinois (flattened by a recent tornado). national teams. the barricades, trying to prevent mis- critically.” I hope, for the sake of sci- the Federal Reserve’s tsunami of bank As an aside, it is interesting to note that UChicago recruited George Beadle from Robin Petersen, PhD’95 used language and exaggerated inter- ence and the professor’s students, that credit creation, constituted a negative Caltech in 1960 to be its new president, and now Caltech has recruited Thomas johannesburg, south africa pretations from inflating facts.” The the evidence underlying Tuttle’s con- multiplier effect on the private sector. He Rosenbaum from Chicago to be its new president. article quotes the professor in several clusions are elucidated and substanti- would have deplored further policies in Gerald Fong, SM’61 In defense of race ways encouraging his students and oth- ated more in the book than they are in that direction and argued for govern- el monte, california Despite abundant evidence to the con- ers to strive for critical thinking and the the Magazine article. ment policies that would encourage trary, Russell Tuttle (“Only Human,” scientific underpinning of ideas. How- Jeff Bloom, AM’86 private incentives in the real sector of Jan–Feb/14) asserts that “race does not ever, the article also contains several alexandria, virginia the economy. exist.” Nevertheless, among the true quotes from Tuttle indicating that he What we are witnessing now is the The big reveal her photo, it would be the second time believers in the dogma that race is a so- has reached strong conclusions regard- Miltonic wisdom proof of that spending pudding: a weak I was struck by the resemblance of your she appeared in a University publica- cial construct or a fiction, there has nev- ing the differences between humans As an economist, I would like to draw and unpromising “recovery” that re- undated photo of an unnamed U of C tion. In 1958 a three-generation Chi- er been an adequate explanation why and other animals, without also provid- attention to “After the Disaster” flects a stagnant economy, and one that student (Jan–Feb/14). I believe the cago family appeared, my grandmother human population groups (or races, ing evidence to substantiate his conclu- (UChicago Journal, Jan–Feb/14), has little promise of any real growth in photo is of my mother, Natalie Mer- (Harriet Estabrook Merriam, PhB’08), which are, in the words of the late Vin- sions. This apparent contradiction, at which discusses the financial crisis of the future. Mr. Paulson began the pro- riam Johnson, PhB’33. I am including my mother, graduating a quarter cen- cent Sarich, “fuzzy sets”), separated least as presented in the article, leaves 2008 and its duration. It features the gram with the remark, “None of us ever photos of her at a some- for tens of thousands of years without me wondering if the book provides the opinions of Henry Paulson; David want[s] to have our nation go through what older age to show interbreeding and subjected to widely evidence in support of Tuttle’s bold Axelrod, AB’76; Austen Goolsbee; another crisis like the 2008 crisis.” the resemblance. If this is varying environmental conditions and conclusions that was not provided in and other participants who purportedly Of course we don’t. But as Friedman the article. represent the Democratic and Republi- might have stated the case, the “cure” For example, the Magazine article can programs prominent during the past of government spending since 2008 has SEPTOCT 2011, VOLUME 104, NUMBER 1 summarizes one of the major conclu- five years. Paulson now chairs the Paul- been worse than the disease of earlier sions of Tuttle’s new book, Apes and son Institute, “an independent think government spending and has featured Human Evolution (Harvard University tank housed at the University.” In 2007 the wrong analytic approach to the Press, 2014), that symbolic language he was appointed by George W. Bush problems of the time. So what are our THE KEY TO AN unique to the human species allows us to be Treasury secretary. He remarked chances of avoiding repetition of such EXTRAORDINARY am’64 am’64 ab’58, ab’58, johnson, johnson, keith keith courtesy courtesy photos photos to share ideas and beliefs as the basis at the conference that “one of the things an event when both political views of LIFE IS QUITE LOLITA … SHORRIS EARL … ADES TR ANCIENT … SPORTS OF BUSINESS … APE AND MAN of our culture. Tuttle contrasts human I’m most grateful for is that Republi- the issue are so clearly wrong? abilities with apes when he states, “No cans and Democrats came together to Where are you, Milton, when we LITERALLY | MASERATIGHIBLI.US A KEY. THE ABSOLUTE OPPOSITE OF ORDINARY one has shown that chimpanzees in na- avert disaster.” Goolsbee, who chaired need you most? ture have pervasive shared symbolical- the Council of Economic Advisers un- Richard Timberlake, PhD’59 ly mediated ideas, beliefs, and values.” der President Obama, thought the stim- bogart, georgia Unfortunately, the Magazine article ulus spending program, including the fails to provide any evidence indicating TARP spending and quantitative eas- Paradise stalled

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It too has year- would hardly put a dent in the depriva- to play in the basement of Alpha Delta long southern exposure to the sun with tions of poverty, as you know. Phi back in the early ’80s. They actual- protective topography to the north I have taught philosophy at York ly had quite a cult following, probably that keeps out cold winter winds. As College, CUNY, since 1969. Although because they were unyielding in their expected, we visited the room where tuition ceased to be free not long after dedication to never rehearse (at least Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin held I began, it is pretty inexpensive com- that was the legend—I’m sure Camp- their conference in February 1945. All pared to private institutions, such as the bell could verify). I wonder if the Mac- the furniture from that time was still University of Chicago, which can take Arthur folks knew about that? in the meeting room. But we also saw credit for providing inexpensive higher David Kiefer, AB’85 some things in Yalta that were news ed to the not so rich by having educated norcross, georgia to us. Churches were undergoing ma- me and many others who went on to jor fi xing up and redecorating, needed teach at CUNY and elsewhere. Going up? Seeking 31 great leaders... after 78 years of neglect since the Bol- Howard Ruttenberg, AB’60, PhD’73 I have just finished reading, with great shevik Revolution of 1917. They were new york city pleasure, the letters, articles, notes, et becoming beautiful buildings again. al., in the Jan–Feb/14 issue. In “The In- Also, like Sochi, Yalta had numerous A closer look formed Life,” Edward Tenner, AM’67, sanitoriums for different trade unions When an image is worth more than PhD’72, quotes Edwin Diamond’s para- motivated to tackle big challenges facing and political groups. However, many words, please make the image large phrase of Tom Lehrer’s “Wernher von of these had an interesting feature. enough to see. For the note on Chris- Braun.” I did not hear Mr. Lehrer myself, communities around the world Namely, it appeared they were intend- topher Dingwall’s (AM’06) research but my mother did, and—whenever she ing to expand and had built reinforced on racial imagery (“Slow Dance,” Jan– could make an occasion to do so—would concrete skeletons for these improve- Feb/14) I had to take out a magnifying chant: “Just so it goes up, who cares with a successful track record of 20-25 years ments. By the time of our visit, those glass to see “stark racist caricatures” where it comes down? That’s not my additions were just sitting there, unfi n- on the fi rst sheet music cover for “The depahtment, says Vernher von Braun.” of accomplishments in their primary career ished, standing out like a sore thumb. Darktown Strutters’ Ball.” I hope read- The rather plodding printed variant We assumed that these additions were ers will be encouraged to do the same. conveys Mr. Lehrer’s sense, but I feel halted due to the collapse of the Soviet With the magnifying glass in hand I did that Mama’s version must be nearer his recognizing the value of engaging with Harvard Union in 1991. I suspect their decline not fi nd the second cover “neutral.” Its original rhythm and insouciance. may have started like the decline of dancers are not caricatures, but except Julia White Rogers, AM’47 to prepare for their next phase of life’s work those in Sochi as described in the sto- for their light grey skin they also do not reston, virginia ry. A couple of days later, we visited seem to be different from whites at all. Varna, Bulgaria. Some unfi nished of- On offer in the pair of 1917 images: rac- It is indeed nearer. In a video available on fi ce buildings there were being worked ist stereotypes on the one hand, or the YouTube’s Tom Lehrer Wisdom Chan- on. I am sure they are long fi nished by rigid codes of assimilation. nel, Lehrer sings, “Once the rockets are up, now. David Curley, AB’68, AM’73, PhD’80 who cares where they come down?” —Ed. James A. Lessly, PhB’50 bellingham, washington o’fallon, missouri Brush with fame The Advanced Leadership Initiative is a year of education, reflection, We appreciate the suggestion and en- I attended the University from 1967 to and student mentoring led by a unique collaboration of award-winning Educational value courage readers to view the images 1974, receiving an AM and PhD in his- Harvard faculty from across professional schools. The program is dedicated When I started at UChicago in 1956, larger online at magazine.uchicago.edu tory in 1969 and 1973 (“A Little Bite of the tuition was $690 for the year. My /slowdance.—Ed. the Fame Machine,” the Core, Winter to educating and deploying a new force of experienced, innovative leaders 2014). I was waiting outside medieval who want to address challenging global and national problems. history professor Karl Morrison’s

BLAST FROM THE PAST carroll carroll allen by allen by illustration illustration Inquire now for 2015. offi ce on the third fl oor of the Social Wow, one of the more interesting reads. I’m ordering Science Research Building when Saul copies of Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin (“Fish Out of Water,” Bellow (X’39) walked into his office Visit the website to be inspired by the possibilities: Jan–Feb/08) to send to my internist, my gastroenterologist, next to Morrison’s. He glanced at me advancedleadership.harvard.edu my orthopedic surgeon, my neurologist, my dermatologist, but initially said nothing. A few sec- or email the fellowship director: [email protected] and my psychiatrist—all of whom I am sure will reply onds later he opened his door and asked by telling me to go soak in a sea of salt water. if I was waiting for him. I said no, and —Ron Tarrson, MBA’72, Mar–Apr/08 he said “Good” and shut his door again. After fi nishing my dissertation I was A new TV series based on Shubin’s book airs this spring on PBS.—Ed. invited to lunch at the faculty club by

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140110_AdvancedLeadership_Chicago.indd 1 11/21/13 10:36 AM father, a high school teacher, was not And the beat goes on LETTERS sure he could afford it. But then I re- It certainly brought back memories see- ceived a half-tuition scholarship. Great ing Campbell McGrath, AB’84, in the universities are more expensive now Q&A at the back of the Winter 2014 is- than they were then, but it is not tu- sue of the Core. I remember Campbell old Island Princess in October 1995. Lo- ition that pays for them. The Univer- as the lead singer and drummer (one cated on the Crimean Peninsula about sity could pay for all its undergraduates snare drum, one drumstick) of the 300 miles west of Sochi, Yalta also who maintain good standing. But that Men from the Manly Planet, who used enjoys a mild climate. It too has year- would hardly put a dent in the depriva- to play in the basement of Alpha Delta long southern exposure to the sun with tions of poverty, as you know. Phi back in the early ’80s. They actual- protective topography to the north I have taught philosophy at York ly had quite a cult following, probably that keeps out cold winter winds. As College, CUNY, since 1969. Although because they were unyielding in their expected, we visited the room where tuition ceased to be free not long after dedication to never rehearse (at least Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin held I began, it is pretty inexpensive com- that was the legend—I’m sure Camp- their conference in February 1945. All pared to private institutions, such as the bell could verify). I wonder if the Mac- the furniture from that time was still University of Chicago, which can take Arthur folks knew about that? in the meeting room. But we also saw credit for providing inexpensive higher David Kiefer, AB’85 some things in Yalta that were news ed to the not so rich by having educated norcross, georgia to us. Churches were undergoing ma- me and many others who went on to jor fi xing up and redecorating, needed teach at CUNY and elsewhere. Going up? Seeking 31 great leaders... after 78 years of neglect since the Bol- Howard Ruttenberg, AB’60, PhD’73 I have just finished reading, with great shevik Revolution of 1917. They were new york city pleasure, the letters, articles, notes, et becoming beautiful buildings again. al., in the Jan–Feb/14 issue. In “The In- Also, like Sochi, Yalta had numerous A closer look formed Life,” Edward Tenner, AM’67, sanitoriums for different trade unions When an image is worth more than PhD’72, quotes Edwin Diamond’s para- motivated to tackle big challenges facing and political groups. However, many words, please make the image large phrase of Tom Lehrer’s “Wernher von of these had an interesting feature. enough to see. For the note on Chris- Braun.” I did not hear Mr. Lehrer myself, communities around the world Namely, it appeared they were intend- topher Dingwall’s (AM’06) research but my mother did, and—whenever she ing to expand and had built reinforced on racial imagery (“Slow Dance,” Jan– could make an occasion to do so—would concrete skeletons for these improve- Feb/14) I had to take out a magnifying chant: “Just so it goes up, who cares with a successful track record of 20-25 years ments. By the time of our visit, those glass to see “stark racist caricatures” where it comes down? That’s not my additions were just sitting there, unfi n- on the fi rst sheet music cover for “The depahtment, says Vernher von Braun.” of accomplishments in their primary career ished, standing out like a sore thumb. Darktown Strutters’ Ball.” I hope read- The rather plodding printed variant We assumed that these additions were ers will be encouraged to do the same. conveys Mr. Lehrer’s sense, but I feel halted due to the collapse of the Soviet With the magnifying glass in hand I did that Mama’s version must be nearer his recognizing the value of engaging with Harvard Union in 1991. I suspect their decline not fi nd the second cover “neutral.” Its original rhythm and insouciance. may have started like the decline of dancers are not caricatures, but except Julia White Rogers, AM’47 to prepare for their next phase of life’s work those in Sochi as described in the sto- for their light grey skin they also do not reston, virginia ry. A couple of days later, we visited seem to be different from whites at all. Varna, Bulgaria. Some unfi nished of- On offer in the pair of 1917 images: rac- It is indeed nearer. In a video available on fi ce buildings there were being worked ist stereotypes on the one hand, or the YouTube’s Tom Lehrer Wisdom Chan- on. I am sure they are long fi nished by rigid codes of assimilation. nel, Lehrer sings, “Once the rockets are up, now. David Curley, AB’68, AM’73, PhD’80 who cares where they come down?” —Ed. James A. Lessly, PhB’50 bellingham, washington o’fallon, missouri Brush with fame The Advanced Leadership Initiative is a year of education, reflection, We appreciate the suggestion and en- I attended the University from 1967 to and student mentoring led by a unique collaboration of award-winning Educational value courage readers to view the images 1974, receiving an AM and PhD in his- Harvard faculty from across professional schools. The program is dedicated When I started at UChicago in 1956, larger online at magazine.uchicago.edu tory in 1969 and 1973 (“A Little Bite of the tuition was $690 for the year. My /slowdance.—Ed. the Fame Machine,” the Core, Winter to educating and deploying a new force of experienced, innovative leaders 2014). I was waiting outside medieval who want to address challenging global and national problems. history professor Karl Morrison’s

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140110_AdvancedLeadership_Chicago.indd 1 11/21/13 10:36 AM roommates, a husband, two babies, and Next my mind went to whimsy as Jan–Feb/14). It’s a lovely place to be in LETTERS two dogs into her life. Her grandmother I wondered if the editorial board had the summer. was a veterinarian, and we talked often standards for accepting advertise- To the University of Chicago Maga- about how she was the luckiest cat in ments. Isn’t it more than a bit pre- zine, not so much. While, as you report, Chicago. I am so moved and happy that posterous for an ad to state that an this may be a reestablishment of historic 73RD ANNUAL Wiseman’s organization is giving oth- automobile was the key to an extraor- ties to the MBL, they don’t “date to the er cats a life as good as Chloe’s turned dinary life? Is this offering really “truth Woods Hole, Massachusetts, founding professor Arnaldo Momigliano. Join- out. Thank you. in advertising”? Hmmmm. in 1888.” As you should know, the Uni- ALUMNI AWARDS ing us were visiting professor Franco Carrie Essex, AB’94 Next my mind turned serious, which versity wasn’t around in 1888. A CELEBRATION OF ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT Venturi and a UChicago scholar of norfolk, massachusetts is its most natural mode. Keys to an ex- The MBL’s first scientific director Welsh, whose four-letter last name traordinary life: greater intelligence; was Charles O. Whitman, then direc- escapes me. When the professor of Not ready for prime time a very good education; a strongly felt tor of the Allis Lake Laboratory in Welsh found I was of Welsh descent, The fl yer reproduced in the Jan–Feb/14 purpose for creativity; loving and Milwaukee. Whitman had been the he became excited and asked if I could Letters section reminded me of another sensitively compassionate family and first American to do research at An- speak Welsh. I said no, and he was event on the day of the football protest. friends; born into a good place, at a ton Dohrn’s Stazione Zoologica at quite disappointed. The University administration staged good time in history; healthy and en- Naples (still in existence) and had re- Robert Edbrooke, AM’69, PhD’73 a tug-of-war across Botany Pond to ergetic genes; and ... Well, it seems cently (1887) founded the Journal of cambridge, massachusetts convince the media that UChicago that it is a U of C trait to not be able to Morphology. students were normal. To add insult stop thinking. As this whimsy ends let In 1889 Whitman was appointed Funny page to injury, around the same time, a folk me sincerely thank you for a most pro- professor of animal morphology and I clipped every single Grant Snider music concert was being taped on cam- vocative and stimulating advertisement. head of the biology department at the cartoon that appeared in the Kansas pus. Students were removed from the Only in the U of C Mag! newly opened all-graduate Clark Uni- City Star when he was here studying front rows of the audience and replaced Robert W. Jais, DB’65 versity. During his three years there, dentistry. Thanks for adding him to the with extras because the telecasters de- oakbrook terrace, illinois biology faculty and students migrated Core. I always thought his humor was cided that the U of C students were to the MBL each summer. Only with very U of C. way too scruffy. At 75, my wife still Correcting the record Whitman’s appointment as head of the Vern Barnet, X’70 considers me scruffy! There is a factual error in “Student Aid” department of zoology at Chicago in kansas city, missouri John Agria, PhD’66 in the Core (Winter 2014): The Univer- 1892 would the University’s connec- tempe, arizona sity of Chicago First Responder Corps tion with MBL begin—in the summer Friend of a feline was founded in 2007 to respond to of 1893, five years after the date of your I just read the article about Rachel Wise- Continental bias medical emergencies within the UCPD claim. President Harper also recruited man, AB’12, and her organization in the In re “Administrivia” (the Core, Winter patrol area, not to provide first aid at 14 Clark faculty members, including A. Core (“Non-crazy Cat Lady,” Winter 2014): The Class of 2017 has not a single campus events or train students in fi rst A. Michelson, to staff his newer uni- 2014). I graduated from UChicago in student from either Alaska or Hawaii? aid, as the article erroneously states. versity’s scientific departments. In the 1994, and in 1992 I was presented with Even if that’s true, it doesn’t justify The impetus was the shooting death of lore of American higher education, this SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 a little kitten that the local eight-year- dropping two states from the map of graduate student Amadou Cisse, SM’02, has been mythologized as the “Harper old boy I babysat for found in a Hyde the USA. (Just ask our POTUS, the PhD’07, in 2007. The plan initially was Raid.” Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Park alley. She was tiny, hungry, and ex-UChicago faculty member and Ken- to operate as a student-run ambulance William A. Koelsch, PhD’66 5850 South Woodlawn Avenue scraggly, but I took her in. I named her wood homeowner.) Hawaii has been service, but this idea was replaced with san diego Chicago, Illinois Chloe, and she lived with me for 19 and the 50th state for over 50 years, Alaska the idea of responding on bicycles to Hosted by the Alumni Board of Governors a half years through six states, nine the 49th for longer than that. Aloha! garner more support from the adminis- We regret the errors. For more about apartments, and one house, welcoming John Sevick tration. The bicycle proposal was then Whitman, see the University of Chi- kailua-kona, hawaii replaced with a campus event stand-by cago Library’s web exhibition Charles Join with your peers to honor the achievements and model, which ultimately failed, initially, Otis Whitman: His Science, His celebrate the legacy of distinguished members of the We apologize for the omission. The Class for the reasons cited in the article. Special Birds, and the Marine Bio- University of Chicago community. The Alumni Awards of 2017 includes one student from Alaska There were several alumni involved logical Laboratory at lib.uchicago.edu/e ceremony during Alumni Weekend remains a time-honored and one student from Hawaii.—Ed. in the initial start-up in 2007 who would /webexhibits/charleswhitman.—Ed. tradition, recognizing alumni who have left marks on both recognize this as a signifi cant error that academia and the world at large and students who have Truth in advertising? downplays the significance of their shown promise to do the same. As I sat with my morning coffee my endeavor at the time. Otherwise, this The University of Chicago Magazine eyes went to the University of Chicago was an excellent article that explained welcomes letters about its contents or about

Magazine on the coffee table. The back a highly technical student organization keay keay nathan nathan by by photography photography the life of the University. Letters for pub- WEBSIT E alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu/awards page advertisement boldly announced: rather well. lication must be signed and may be edited “The key to an extraordinary life is quite Jonathan Warczak, AB’12, AM’12 for space, clarity, and civility. To provide E-MAIL [email protected] literally a key” to an automobile. As schenectady, new york a range of views and voices, we encour- my mind tends to quibble, I had to image letter writers to limit themselves to mediately insert “automobile” in place Congratulations to President Zimmer 300 words or fewer. Write: Editor, The Rachel Wiseman, AB’12 of “life.” I somewhat wondered if any on his selection as president of the University of Chicago Magazine, 5235 Wiseman visits with foster cat CCK (short for Court Case Kitty) at Parker’s Pets on 55th Street. CCK was who read our magazine believe that an Board of Trustees of the Marine Bio- South Harper Court, Suite 500, Chicago, formerly held by the city as evidence in an animal cruelty case. Wiseman holds foster cat CCK automobile provides the key to an ex- logical Laboratory (MBL) in Woods IL 60615. Or e-mail: uchicago-magazine (Court Case Ki y). traordinary life. Hole, Massachusetts (For the Record, @uchicago.edu.

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OSC_0235_TheCore_Winter2013_Et Cetera_v3.0.indd 33 12/13/13 4:14 PM roommates, a husband, two babies, and Next my mind went to whimsy as Jan–Feb/14). It’s a lovely place to be in LETTERS two dogs into her life. Her grandmother I wondered if the editorial board had the summer. was a veterinarian, and we talked often standards for accepting advertise- To the University of Chicago Maga- about how she was the luckiest cat in ments. Isn’t it more than a bit pre- zine, not so much. While, as you report, Chicago. I am so moved and happy that posterous for an ad to state that an this may be a reestablishment of historic 73RD ANNUAL Wiseman’s organization is giving oth- automobile was the key to an extraor- ties to the MBL, they don’t “date to the er cats a life as good as Chloe’s turned dinary life? Is this offering really “truth Woods Hole, Massachusetts, founding professor Arnaldo Momigliano. Join- out. Thank you. in advertising”? Hmmmm. in 1888.” As you should know, the Uni- ALUMNI AWARDS ing us were visiting professor Franco Carrie Essex, AB’94 Next my mind turned serious, which versity wasn’t around in 1888. A CELEBRATION OF ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT Venturi and a UChicago scholar of norfolk, massachusetts is its most natural mode. Keys to an ex- The MBL’s first scientific director Welsh, whose four-letter last name traordinary life: greater intelligence; was Charles O. Whitman, then direc- escapes me. When the professor of Not ready for prime time a very good education; a strongly felt tor of the Allis Lake Laboratory in Welsh found I was of Welsh descent, The fl yer reproduced in the Jan–Feb/14 purpose for creativity; loving and Milwaukee. Whitman had been the he became excited and asked if I could Letters section reminded me of another sensitively compassionate family and first American to do research at An- speak Welsh. I said no, and he was event on the day of the football protest. friends; born into a good place, at a ton Dohrn’s Stazione Zoologica at quite disappointed. The University administration staged good time in history; healthy and en- Naples (still in existence) and had re- Robert Edbrooke, AM’69, PhD’73 a tug-of-war across Botany Pond to ergetic genes; and ... Well, it seems cently (1887) founded the Journal of cambridge, massachusetts convince the media that UChicago that it is a U of C trait to not be able to Morphology. students were normal. To add insult stop thinking. As this whimsy ends let In 1889 Whitman was appointed Funny page to injury, around the same time, a folk me sincerely thank you for a most pro- professor of animal morphology and I clipped every single Grant Snider music concert was being taped on cam- vocative and stimulating advertisement. head of the biology department at the cartoon that appeared in the Kansas pus. Students were removed from the Only in the U of C Mag! newly opened all-graduate Clark Uni- City Star when he was here studying front rows of the audience and replaced Robert W. Jais, DB’65 versity. During his three years there, dentistry. Thanks for adding him to the with extras because the telecasters de- oakbrook terrace, illinois biology faculty and students migrated Core. I always thought his humor was cided that the U of C students were to the MBL each summer. Only with very U of C. way too scruffy. At 75, my wife still Correcting the record Whitman’s appointment as head of the Vern Barnet, X’70 considers me scruffy! There is a factual error in “Student Aid” department of zoology at Chicago in kansas city, missouri John Agria, PhD’66 in the Core (Winter 2014): The Univer- 1892 would the University’s connec- tempe, arizona sity of Chicago First Responder Corps tion with MBL begin—in the summer Friend of a feline was founded in 2007 to respond to of 1893, five years after the date of your I just read the article about Rachel Wise- Continental bias medical emergencies within the UCPD claim. President Harper also recruited man, AB’12, and her organization in the In re “Administrivia” (the Core, Winter patrol area, not to provide first aid at 14 Clark faculty members, including A. Core (“Non-crazy Cat Lady,” Winter 2014): The Class of 2017 has not a single campus events or train students in fi rst A. Michelson, to staff his newer uni- 2014). I graduated from UChicago in student from either Alaska or Hawaii? aid, as the article erroneously states. versity’s scientific departments. In the 1994, and in 1992 I was presented with Even if that’s true, it doesn’t justify The impetus was the shooting death of lore of American higher education, this SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 a little kitten that the local eight-year- dropping two states from the map of graduate student Amadou Cisse, SM’02, has been mythologized as the “Harper old boy I babysat for found in a Hyde the USA. (Just ask our POTUS, the PhD’07, in 2007. The plan initially was Raid.” Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Park alley. She was tiny, hungry, and ex-UChicago faculty member and Ken- to operate as a student-run ambulance William A. Koelsch, PhD’66 5850 South Woodlawn Avenue scraggly, but I took her in. I named her wood homeowner.) Hawaii has been service, but this idea was replaced with san diego Chicago, Illinois Chloe, and she lived with me for 19 and the 50th state for over 50 years, Alaska the idea of responding on bicycles to Hosted by the Alumni Board of Governors a half years through six states, nine the 49th for longer than that. Aloha! garner more support from the adminis- We regret the errors. For more about apartments, and one house, welcoming John Sevick tration. The bicycle proposal was then Whitman, see the University of Chi- kailua-kona, hawaii replaced with a campus event stand-by cago Library’s web exhibition Charles Join with your peers to honor the achievements and model, which ultimately failed, initially, Otis Whitman: His Science, His celebrate the legacy of distinguished members of the We apologize for the omission. The Class for the reasons cited in the article. Special Birds, and the Marine Bio- University of Chicago community. The Alumni Awards of 2017 includes one student from Alaska There were several alumni involved logical Laboratory at lib.uchicago.edu/e ceremony during Alumni Weekend remains a time-honored and one student from Hawaii.—Ed. in the initial start-up in 2007 who would /webexhibits/charleswhitman.—Ed. tradition, recognizing alumni who have left marks on both recognize this as a signifi cant error that academia and the world at large and students who have Truth in advertising? downplays the significance of their shown promise to do the same. As I sat with my morning coffee my endeavor at the time. Otherwise, this The University of Chicago Magazine eyes went to the University of Chicago was an excellent article that explained welcomes letters about its contents or about

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And OF ASSYRIOLOGY, A ND MA RIO LUIS SMA LL, DEA N OF THE SOCIA L SCIENCES DIVISION A ND PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY a group of faculty from linguistics, hu- ਗ ਗ ਗ ਗ ਗ ਗ man development, and psychology are examining how physical actions, ges- tures, and sign language shape learning and creativity. In all, the Neubauer n 2012 the Divisions of Humani- Collegium sponsored 18 collaborative ties and Social Sciences estab- projects in its first operational year, lished the Neubauer Collegium each offering new directions for con- for Culture and Society, an in- tinued research. novative model for interdisci- The 2014–15 cohort of Neubauer ਗ ਗ ਗ ਗ ਗplinary research setting a new ਗ Collegium faculty research projects standard in the academy. Cer- will continue the success of our first tainly scholarship that extends year, exploring topics from migration past disciplinary boundaries is and material culture to humanism and not new to the University of Chi- the classics. Where else but in the col- cago: our institution is renowned laborative structure of the Neubauer Chicago’s Historic Hyde Park Building Ideas for its variety of research centers and Collegium can one find anthropolo- cross-disciplinary discussions among gists working together with scholars Susan O’Connor Davis An Architectural Guide to the I our faculty. But the Neubauer Collegi- from economics, law, and business on University of Chicago ਗ With a Foreword by John Vinciਗ ਗ ਗ umਗ does more than just add to the con- ਗ the problems of health insurance in Roth began teaching at the Universi- “Davis has created an extraordinary guide to a remarkable Jay Pridmore versation on campus. It reshapes how India? Where else could an interdis- we approach, encourage, and support ty in 1980; Small joined the UChicago ciplinary research team boldly aim place. Chicago’s Historic Hyde Park is a compelling visual With Photographs by Tom Rossiter interdisciplinary work, offering the faculty in 2006. to create a new Chicago school on the account that introduces the reader not only to a complex Building Ideas explores the stunning built environment that space, resources, and global institu- state, violence, and social control? local history, but also to one grounded firmly in the larger has supported more than a century of exceptional thinkers tional reach that can help faculty turn And how would scholars from medi- currents of both architectural change and urban develop- at the University of Chicago. is photographic guide traces their most ambitious ideas and aspira- intellectual and physical destination cine, classics, and comparative litera- ment.”—Dominic A. Pacyga, author of Chicago: A Biography the evolution of campus architecture from the university’s tions into sustained collaboration. We on campus. In October 2013 we were ture investigate issues of end-of-life Cloth $60.00 founding in 1890 to its plans for the twenty-first century. see the Neubauer Collegium as a labo- pleased to announce a major gift from care if not for the Neubauer Collegi- ਗ ਗ To ਗsee sample images, go to http://bit.ly/UCPHOTOS.ਗ ratoryਗ for the humanities and human- ਗEmmanuel Roman, MBA’87, to sup- um’s support? The 11 research projects Paper $25.00 istic social sciences—a gathering space port a named directorship for the col- funded for the coming year display an From Park Books where scholars from around the world legium. That same month, hundreds exceptionally curious faculty, and the Chicagoisms can join with UChicago faculty to learn of campus and community members topics they cover demonstrate the From Columbia College Chicago Press from one another and experiment col- packed Mandel Hall for a public lec- Neubauer Collegium’s flexibility to The City as Catalyst for Architectural laboratively with new methods and ture delivered by internationally re- accommodate scholars and methodol- Speculation Stray Light ideas to address complex questions be- nowned artist William Kentridge, ogies from disciplines across campus. Edited by Alexander Eisenschmidt David Hartt yond the scope of any discipline. marking the official launch of the Neu- There is no better home for the Neu- and Jonathan Mekinda Under the leadership of David Ni- bauer Collegium. bauer Collegium for Culture and So- When the Johnson Publishing Company, best known for renberg, the Deborah R. and Edgar The first cohort of faculty research ciety than the University of Chicago, ਗ More than simply an architecturalਗ biography of the city, Jet ਗand Ebony, moved into its iconic building ਗon Michigan D.ਗ Jannotta professor of medieval ਗprojects—the centerpiece of the col- and there is no university better suited Chicagoisms shows Chicago to have an important role as a Avenue, the structure symbolized a bold entry into both the history and social thought, the first legium’s work on campus—engages to accommodate the Neubauer Colle- catalyst for international development and pinpoints its Chicago skyline and the city’s cultural environment. David year of the collegium has been a re- widely with big questions and broad gium’s goals of experimentation on remarkable influence around the world. Hartt was given unprecedented access to the building, much of markable success. With the support topics. A group of classicists, archae- complex questions and interdisciplin- Cloth $39.00 which retains its ’70s design, from bright gold accents to vintage of a founding $26.5 million gift from ologists, and economists are using ary innovation. This campus-wide see-through furniture. His resulting photographs take viewers Joseph Neubauer, MBA’65, and comparative economics, from ancient venture pushes the limits of inquiry on a rich and revealing tour. Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer, and the societies to the present, to create new beyond disciplinary boundaries and Cloth $60.00 selection of 5701 South Woodlawn forms of analysis and debate. 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And OF ASSYRIOLOGY, A ND MA RIO LUIS SMA LL, DEA N OF THE SOCIA L SCIENCES DIVISION A ND PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY a group of faculty from linguistics, hu- ਗ ਗ ਗ ਗ ਗ ਗ man development, and psychology are examining how physical actions, ges- tures, and sign language shape learning and creativity. In all, the Neubauer n 2012 the Divisions of Humani- Collegium sponsored 18 collaborative ties and Social Sciences estab- projects in its first operational year, lished the Neubauer Collegium each offering new directions for con- for Culture and Society, an in- tinued research. novative model for interdisci- The 2014–15 cohort of Neubauer ਗ ਗ ਗ ਗ ਗplinary research setting a new ਗ Collegium faculty research projects standard in the academy. Cer- will continue the success of our first tainly scholarship that extends year, exploring topics from migration past disciplinary boundaries is and material culture to humanism and not new to the University of Chi- the classics. Where else but in the col- cago: our institution is renowned laborative structure of the Neubauer Chicago’s Historic Hyde Park Building Ideas for its variety of research centers and Collegium can one find anthropolo- cross-disciplinary discussions among gists working together with scholars Susan O’Connor Davis An Architectural Guide to the I our faculty. But the Neubauer Collegi- from economics, law, and business on University of Chicago ਗ With a Foreword by John Vinciਗ ਗ ਗ umਗ does more than just add to the con- ਗ the problems of health insurance in Roth began teaching at the Universi- “Davis has created an extraordinary guide to a remarkable Jay Pridmore versation on campus. It reshapes how India? Where else could an interdis- we approach, encourage, and support ty in 1980; Small joined the UChicago ciplinary research team boldly aim place. Chicago’s Historic Hyde Park is a compelling visual With Photographs by Tom Rossiter interdisciplinary work, offering the faculty in 2006. to create a new Chicago school on the account that introduces the reader not only to a complex Building Ideas explores the stunning built environment that space, resources, and global institu- state, violence, and social control? local history, but also to one grounded firmly in the larger has supported more than a century of exceptional thinkers tional reach that can help faculty turn And how would scholars from medi- currents of both architectural change and urban develop- at the University of Chicago. is photographic guide traces their most ambitious ideas and aspira- intellectual and physical destination cine, classics, and comparative litera- ment.”—Dominic A. Pacyga, author of Chicago: A Biography the evolution of campus architecture from the university’s tions into sustained collaboration. We on campus. In October 2013 we were ture investigate issues of end-of-life Cloth $60.00 founding in 1890 to its plans for the twenty-first century. see the Neubauer Collegium as a labo- pleased to announce a major gift from care if not for the Neubauer Collegi- ਗ ਗ To ਗsee sample images, go to http://bit.ly/UCPHOTOS.ਗ ratoryਗ for the humanities and human- ਗEmmanuel Roman, MBA’87, to sup- um’s support? The 11 research projects Paper $25.00 istic social sciences—a gathering space port a named directorship for the col- funded for the coming year display an From Park Books where scholars from around the world legium. That same month, hundreds exceptionally curious faculty, and the Chicagoisms can join with UChicago faculty to learn of campus and community members topics they cover demonstrate the From Columbia College Chicago Press from one another and experiment col- packed Mandel Hall for a public lec- Neubauer Collegium’s flexibility to The City as Catalyst for Architectural laboratively with new methods and ture delivered by internationally re- accommodate scholars and methodol- Speculation Stray Light ideas to address complex questions be- nowned artist William Kentridge, ogies from disciplines across campus. Edited by Alexander Eisenschmidt David Hartt yond the scope of any discipline. marking the official launch of the Neu- There is no better home for the Neu- and Jonathan Mekinda Under the leadership of David Ni- bauer Collegium. bauer Collegium for Culture and So- When the Johnson Publishing Company, best known for renberg, the Deborah R. and Edgar The first cohort of faculty research ciety than the University of Chicago, ਗ More than simply an architecturalਗ biography of the city, Jet ਗand Ebony, moved into its iconic building ਗon Michigan D.ਗ Jannotta professor of medieval ਗprojects—the centerpiece of the col- and there is no university better suited Chicagoisms shows Chicago to have an important role as a Avenue, the structure symbolized a bold entry into both the history and social thought, the first legium’s work on campus—engages to accommodate the Neubauer Colle- catalyst for international development and pinpoints its Chicago skyline and the city’s cultural environment. David year of the collegium has been a re- widely with big questions and broad gium’s goals of experimentation on remarkable influence around the world. Hartt was given unprecedented access to the building, much of markable success. With the support topics. A group of classicists, archae- complex questions and interdisciplin- Cloth $39.00 which retains its ’70s design, from bright gold accents to vintage of a founding $26.5 million gift from ologists, and economists are using ary innovation. This campus-wide see-through furniture. His resulting photographs take viewers Joseph Neubauer, MBA’65, and comparative economics, from ancient venture pushes the limits of inquiry on a rich and revealing tour. Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer, and the societies to the present, to create new beyond disciplinary boundaries and Cloth $60.00 selection of 5701 South Woodlawn forms of analysis and debate. This methodologies and in doing so places as its future home, the Neubauer Col- group is also interested in using new the University of Chicago at the fore-

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Last at the job, maintaining the client rela- A training program called the Pom- October the Associated Press report- tionship, and hopefully getting asked bo Project, run by News 12 The Bronx, ed that “the average American woman change back for more work. “You really act as brought her to New York. After three is about 25 pounds heavier than she your own business person.” weeks of chasing stories—driving to was in 1960. Yet women’s plus-size Plus-size model Amanda Tice, She has appeared in magazines, in on- the scene, filming, writing, editing clothing, generally defined as size 14 AB’06, believes her work can have line catalogs, on bra tags. A few weeks video—Tice received a job offer. She and up, still makes up only about 9 per- a positive eect on women’s lives. after our meeting, I walked into Target turned it down. “On the last day I get cent of the $190 billion spent annually and saw Tice on a poster, wearing a called to a shooting. When I get there, on clothes.” Amanda Tice, AB’06, is a plus-size white blazer with a black splatter print. [the police] can’t find the shooter,” she But Tice sees the demand every model, but this past fall she did not At Wilhelmina, Tice is one of some recalls. “So I’m at a shooting in prog- day. “It’s really only a matter of time wear her usual size 12. “Right now, 65 models on the agency’s plus-size ress. ... I knew emotionally I was not before the [fashion] industry will shift For Frohardt-Lane, this San Francisco 49ers field goal was very, very good. I’m actually the smallest I’ve ever board, called Curve. The majority of cut out for that.” its ideology and start to realize that been. I’m smaller than I should be,” Tice’s business—she estimates about Tice found other work as a host for there’s a market for real bodies, for Tice says, explaining in a November 80 percent—is modeling swimwear TV and online outlets like MSNBC real people.” Frohardt-Lane started watching GAMBLING interview that she had gotten married and lingerie. And since swimwear looks .com, producing segments on “light- This past July, Ford New York, a sports in 1984, when his hometown a week earlier and wanted to look a bit best on the beach, Tice gets to travel. “I hearted, lifestyle sorts of things”: the Wilhelmina competitor, closed its Detroit Tigers won the World Series more “svelte” for the wedding. just had a job a couple weeks ago where surf report in the Hamptons, the top plus-size board. The reaction within after an MLB-record 35–5 start. He I met Tice on a Thursday, at the tail they wanted me to feed flamingos on the electronics this holiday season. the industry, Tice says, was shock. Best was seven years old. “I had no idea end of the fashion industry’s under - beach,” she says. “In Aruba.” A photographer she had met at a previ- After the announcement, two for- that it would not be this easy,” he says. wear market week, when buyers from Plus-size work has its own unique ous TV job encouraged her to attend an mer Ford model agents opened Jag “Like, I could live a full life and die major retail outlets like Macy’s and upside. In contrast to the image of a open casting call at Wilhelmina, which Models, which bills itself as “the first bettor without ever seeing the Tigers win Kohl’s come to view the next season’s “straight size” model squeezing into set her on a new path. Now 30, Tice fig- agency in New York that’s dedicated another World Series. It’s incredible.” designs and decide which products to a runway gown, Tice says many long- ures she could model for another decade solely to women of all sizes.” Chicago trader David Frohardt- To celebrate, a relative gave him Bill stock. “I am pretty much locked in a time clients have confidence in her or so. She still finds the work exciting, Still, Tice admits that her work isn’t Lane, SM’00, put his statistics James’s 1985 Baseball Abstract—the closet waiting until someone comes ability to sell their products and aren’t but doubts she’ll be in the industry that always put to encouraging use. Con- education to lucrative use. pioneering sports statistician’s take in and says ‘We need you to show this all that concerned with her exact size. long. It lacks the “intellectual stimulus” sider her first print job, for O, the Oprah on the year in baseball—and a couple bra.’” Over the course of an eight-hour “If I lose the weight then they’ll pin she craves, although the travel and the Magazine. In the photo, Tice is sur- The best sports bettors have a success years later, he was hooked. “My dad day, she might work anywhere from 40 the clothes more, if I gain the weight variety of people she meets feed the rounded by plain white T-shirts hang- rate of about 54 percent, says David was a math professor, so I’ve always minutes to two hours, depending on the then they’ll cut the back.” same interest as her major. “It’s almost ing in the air, each identifying a diet: Frohardt-Lane, SM’00, and anything been interested in numbers,” explains number of showings required of her. Tice never considered modeling un- like doing field work for me,” she says. South Beach, Weight Watchers, At- higher is luck. He should know; the Frohardt-Lane. “I love just playing Tice has been modeling with the til after the economic crash in 2008. “It’s anthropological in this sense.” kins, and so on. Tice is standing in the Chicago trader won $557,850 last De- pickup football, basketball, whatever, middle with her hands in the air—her cember in Las Vegas’s largest handi - but I was terrible, I never played on a shirt reads “Overeaters Anonymous.” capping contest by nailing a record 67.9 team or anything.” She also often models bras that percent of his picks. He kept up with advanced sports promise to smooth back fat or reduce Every week during football sea- statistics but didn’t think seriously underarm bulge. “In the plus industry son, the 1,028 entrants in the Las Ve - about handicapping until his second in general, the majority of what you’re gas Hotel and Casino SuperContest year as a math major at Carleton Col - shooting is how to fix problems.” picked five NFL games against the lege, when he made a model to predict There are signs, though, that retail- point spread. In Week 17, for example, the results of NFL games. ers are realizing a woman’s size doesn’t Frohardt-Lane picked San Francisco “Until that point I just assumed that dictate her interest in fashion. Robyn (-1), meaning he thought San Francisco markets are totally efficient,” including Lawley, another Wilhelmina Curve would beat Arizona by more than one Vegas, and that trying to beat the odds- model, made waves in 2012 as the first point. The whole contest came down makers is futile, Frohardt-Lane says. plus-size model to appear in a Ralph to that game. With two seconds left His “simple” model would have beaten photography by anthony chiappetta chiappetta anthony anthony by by photography photography Lauren campaign, and recently posed and the score tied, the 49ers’ Phil Daw- the line on over 60 percent of games for Chantelle lingerie wearing items son nailed a 40-yard field goal, winning over the previous five years. “That kind from the brand’s line not specifically the game for San Francisco and the Su- of just changed my whole thinking.” marked as plus-size. perContest for Frohardt-Lane. So he enrolled in the PhD statistics “The industry is on the verge of mak- After spending all day checking the program at UChicago, leaving after a ing substantial changes,” Tice says. “I score on his iPhone at his brother-in- year with a master’s. “It ended up be - feel like you’ll be hearing more often, law’s wedding reception, Frohardt- ing a naïve idea,” he says. “I just like ‘This is the first-ever plus model used Lane got in front of a television for the numbers, and I didn’t appreciate that for X or Y or Z.’” Last year, for example, final kick. “Just looking at my iPhone, at the graduate school level statistics Tice became one of the first plus-size I felt helpless,” he told the Associated ceases to be about numbers and starts models for Frederick’s of Hollywood Press. “But just seeing the game, I to be more like analysis.”

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After three is about 25 pounds heavier than she your own business person.” weeks of chasing stories—driving to was in 1960. Yet women’s plus-size Plus-size model Amanda Tice, She has appeared in magazines, in on- the scene, filming, writing, editing clothing, generally defined as size 14 AB’06, believes her work can have line catalogs, on bra tags. A few weeks video—Tice received a job offer. She and up, still makes up only about 9 per- a positive eect on women’s lives. after our meeting, I walked into Target turned it down. “On the last day I get cent of the $190 billion spent annually and saw Tice on a poster, wearing a called to a shooting. When I get there, on clothes.” Amanda Tice, AB’06, is a plus-size white blazer with a black splatter print. [the police] can’t find the shooter,” she But Tice sees the demand every model, but this past fall she did not At Wilhelmina, Tice is one of some recalls. “So I’m at a shooting in prog- day. “It’s really only a matter of time wear her usual size 12. “Right now, 65 models on the agency’s plus-size ress. ... I knew emotionally I was not before the [fashion] industry will shift For Frohardt-Lane, this San Francisco 49ers field goal was very, very good. I’m actually the smallest I’ve ever board, called Curve. The majority of cut out for that.” its ideology and start to realize that been. I’m smaller than I should be,” Tice’s business—she estimates about Tice found other work as a host for there’s a market for real bodies, for Tice says, explaining in a November 80 percent—is modeling swimwear TV and online outlets like MSNBC real people.” Frohardt-Lane started watching GAMBLING interview that she had gotten married and lingerie. And since swimwear looks .com, producing segments on “light- This past July, Ford New York, a sports in 1984, when his hometown a week earlier and wanted to look a bit best on the beach, Tice gets to travel. “I hearted, lifestyle sorts of things”: the Wilhelmina competitor, closed its Detroit Tigers won the World Series more “svelte” for the wedding. just had a job a couple weeks ago where surf report in the Hamptons, the top plus-size board. The reaction within after an MLB-record 35–5 start. He I met Tice on a Thursday, at the tail they wanted me to feed flamingos on the electronics this holiday season. the industry, Tice says, was shock. Best was seven years old. “I had no idea end of the fashion industry’s under - beach,” she says. “In Aruba.” A photographer she had met at a previ- After the announcement, two for- that it would not be this easy,” he says. wear market week, when buyers from Plus-size work has its own unique ous TV job encouraged her to attend an mer Ford model agents opened Jag “Like, I could live a full life and die major retail outlets like Macy’s and upside. In contrast to the image of a open casting call at Wilhelmina, which Models, which bills itself as “the first bettor without ever seeing the Tigers win Kohl’s come to view the next season’s “straight size” model squeezing into set her on a new path. Now 30, Tice fig- agency in New York that’s dedicated another World Series. It’s incredible.” designs and decide which products to a runway gown, Tice says many long- ures she could model for another decade solely to women of all sizes.” Chicago trader David Frohardt- To celebrate, a relative gave him Bill stock. “I am pretty much locked in a time clients have confidence in her or so. She still finds the work exciting, Still, Tice admits that her work isn’t Lane, SM’00, put his statistics James’s 1985 Baseball Abstract—the closet waiting until someone comes ability to sell their products and aren’t but doubts she’ll be in the industry that always put to encouraging use. Con- education to lucrative use. pioneering sports statistician’s take in and says ‘We need you to show this all that concerned with her exact size. long. It lacks the “intellectual stimulus” sider her first print job, for O, the Oprah on the year in baseball—and a couple bra.’” Over the course of an eight-hour “If I lose the weight then they’ll pin she craves, although the travel and the Magazine. In the photo, Tice is sur- The best sports bettors have a success years later, he was hooked. “My dad day, she might work anywhere from 40 the clothes more, if I gain the weight variety of people she meets feed the rounded by plain white T-shirts hang- rate of about 54 percent, says David was a math professor, so I’ve always minutes to two hours, depending on the then they’ll cut the back.” same interest as her major. “It’s almost ing in the air, each identifying a diet: Frohardt-Lane, SM’00, and anything been interested in numbers,” explains number of showings required of her. Tice never considered modeling un- like doing field work for me,” she says. South Beach, Weight Watchers, At- higher is luck. He should know; the Frohardt-Lane. “I love just playing Tice has been modeling with the til after the economic crash in 2008. “It’s anthropological in this sense.” kins, and so on. Tice is standing in the Chicago trader won $557,850 last De- pickup football, basketball, whatever, middle with her hands in the air—her cember in Las Vegas’s largest handi - but I was terrible, I never played on a shirt reads “Overeaters Anonymous.” capping contest by nailing a record 67.9 team or anything.” She also often models bras that percent of his picks. He kept up with advanced sports promise to smooth back fat or reduce Every week during football sea- statistics but didn’t think seriously underarm bulge. “In the plus industry son, the 1,028 entrants in the Las Ve - about handicapping until his second in general, the majority of what you’re gas Hotel and Casino SuperContest year as a math major at Carleton Col - shooting is how to fix problems.” picked five NFL games against the lege, when he made a model to predict There are signs, though, that retail- point spread. In Week 17, for example, the results of NFL games. ers are realizing a woman’s size doesn’t Frohardt-Lane picked San Francisco “Until that point I just assumed that dictate her interest in fashion. Robyn (-1), meaning he thought San Francisco markets are totally efficient,” including Lawley, another Wilhelmina Curve would beat Arizona by more than one Vegas, and that trying to beat the odds- model, made waves in 2012 as the first point. The whole contest came down makers is futile, Frohardt-Lane says. plus-size model to appear in a Ralph to that game. With two seconds left His “simple” model would have beaten photography by anthony chiappetta chiappetta anthony anthony by by photography photography Lauren campaign, and recently posed and the score tied, the 49ers’ Phil Daw- the line on over 60 percent of games for Chantelle lingerie wearing items son nailed a 40-yard field goal, winning over the previous five years. “That kind from the brand’s line not specifically the game for San Francisco and the Su- of just changed my whole thinking.” marked as plus-size. perContest for Frohardt-Lane. So he enrolled in the PhD statistics “The industry is on the verge of mak- After spending all day checking the program at UChicago, leaving after a ing substantial changes,” Tice says. “I score on his iPhone at his brother-in- year with a master’s. “It ended up be - feel like you’ll be hearing more often, law’s wedding reception, Frohardt- ing a naïve idea,” he says. “I just like ‘This is the first-ever plus model used Lane got in front of a television for the numbers, and I didn’t appreciate that for X or Y or Z.’” Last year, for example, final kick. “Just looking at my iPhone, at the graduate school level statistics Tice became one of the first plus-size I felt helpless,” he told the Associated ceases to be about numbers and starts models for Frederick’s of Hollywood Press. “But just seeing the game, I to be more like analysis.”

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UCJ_Main_v16.indd 14 2/28/14 9:57 AM UCJ_Main_v17.inddweb_2014_mar-apr.indd 15 15 2/28/143/7/14 2:199:51 PMAM nia, taking “frankly unambitious” gambling comes first. And in fact, he consulting for a major league sports jobs at Wells Fargo and the now-de - says, the experience of having money team, although they’ve asked him to funct NextCard to focus his energy on the line is similar to that of being a keep mum. Sports teams “are a lot WILLIAM on betting baseball. After hundreds fan. “You have something you’re root- smarter than you think,” says Fro- RAINEY of hours spent looking for factors with ing for, and you just root for that,” hardt-Lane. “I think ten years ago they HARPER’S predictive value, he built a model in even if it means cheering against his were far behind the public even, and I INDEX the stats program R with individual hometown teams. “If the model says just don’t think they are anymore.” EDUCATION projections for every player based on bet Detroit or fade Detroit”—mean- Frohardt-Lane’s trust in data PROMISING past performances. A second model, ing, bet against—“that’s what I’ll do.” even extends to what he does with built in C, simulates each game thou- In 2004 Frohardt-Lane moved to his winnings; he donated half of STATISTICS sands of times and identifies the prob- Chicago and took a job at trading firm his contest windfall to GiveWell, American ability of every discrete outcome for Getco (now KCG Holdings), which a nonprofit that evaluates other Percentage increase in each batter’s appearance at the plate: left less time for gambling. Increas- charities. “They think in terms of Chicago-area high school walk, strikeout, hit, out, and homer. ingly restrictive sports betting laws probabilities and expected values,” studies students applying to the Another model he designed for foot- also made it harder. But in the fall of he says. “They talk about expected College in the first year of ball predicts final scores. 2011, looking for a way to bet more return on dollar invested.” Leon and Amy Kass develop an UChicago Promise, which By the end of 2003, Frohardt-Lane often than his annual trips to Vegas, Frohardt-Lane does play fantasy online curriculum that inspires waives admission fees and had worked his bankroll from $10,000 Frohardt-Lane jumped at the chance football to keep up with old friends— insight into the national soul. replaces loans with grants to almost $100,000, betting $1,000 to to compete in high-stakes handicap- model-free—and his wife of five for accepted students: $2,000 per game. “I love having some ping contests. That year he won the months doesn’t mind his sports For decades Leon and Amy Kass skin in the game,” he says. He still con- Cantor Football Contest, beating out betting. “She just kind of writes it off were loved and lauded teachers, but siders himself a sports fan—“When 14 other entries for $75,000. as the one quirky thing, maybe not the finding that out firsthand wasn’t the Tigers had their runs in ’06 and The sports world took notice; since one, but one quirky thing she has to easy. “We taught in small classes, 48.8 ’12, I was really into it,” he says—but last summer, Frohardt-Lane has been deal with.”—Derek Tsang, ’15 maximum 25 students. We liked to see the faces of the people,” says more than a quarter century, but over Total amount in application Leon Kass, U-High’54, SB’58, time—especially after the terrorist fees that the program MD’62. “We didn’t lecture in Chi - attacks of September 11, 2001—it waived for Chicago ORIGINAL SOURCE cago.” What they offered was “a became “more urgent,” as Amy puts families: way of taking the great books seri - it, to place that debate in the specific OLD HAND ously, not as sources of answers, but context of the United States. as sources of questions,” says their “We think, notwithstanding the former student Yuval Levin, AM’02, political differences between left $89,475 Modern anatomical images treat the human body as PhD’10, editor of the journal Na- and right, the fate of this country is abstraction, says Mindy Schwartz, one of two UChicago tional Affairs. important to everybody,” Leon says. Number of students and physicians curating Imaging/Imagining: The Body as Art, Now countless students can ex - “The principles and ideals of this families who participated in an upcoming Smart Museum exhibit on representations of plore the big questions with the country are important to everybody, workshops on admissions the body in art and in science. No such abstraction exists in Kasses’ help without having to come even if different groups will empha- essays, interviews, and William Cowper’s 1698 Anatomy of Humane Bodies. Dutch to Chicago or even go to college. size different ones amongst them.” financial aid: artist Gérard de Lairesse’s engravings fill Anatomy with The Kasses launched a website last The Kasses moved to Washing- flies, flayed skin, nooses, and rigid faces. “Most anatomists library library chicago of chicago of university university center, center, research research collections collections special special year, What So Proudly We Hail, that ton in 2001 after George W. Bush don’t really bring you into their world, because they’re offers high school teachers curricula appointed Leon chair of the newly trying to portray something from a pedagogical or an designed to get students thinking formed President’s Council on Bio- 1,100 educational standpoint,” says Schwartz, who studies the about what it means to be an Ameri- ethics, a position he held until 2005. history of medicine. De Lairesse “wants you to never forget can. The project—which includes He had council members read and Number of Chicago high that you’re seeing something that was hacked up.” free lesson plans, discussion guides, discuss the Nathaniel Hawthorne school students who Cowper acquired (exactly how is a source of historical video conversations, and e-books— story “The Birth-Mark,” about the enrolled in the Class of controversy) the printing plates for Anatomy from Dutch follows their 2011 anthology, What quest for human perfection. 2017: anatomist Govard Bidloo, whose own tract didn’t sell nearly So Proudly We Hail: The American Hawthorne can be found on the as well. This engraving shows the muscles of the lower arm Soul in Story, Speech, and Song (In- new website—along with George and hand spread across a book and dissection table. “It’s tercollegiate Studies Institute). But Washington, Mark Twain, Willa almost as if it’s alive,” says Schwartz. the enterprise was really born just a Cather, Cornel West, John Updike, 73 Cocurated by UChicago physician Brian Callender, AB’97, year after the pair began their long Barack Obama, and more. Francis AM’98, MD’04, Imaging/Imagining opens March 25, along careers at the University. Scott Key and Irving Berlin are Value of grants, in millions, with related exhibits at the Special Collections Research “In 1977 we started the Human joined by Johnny Cash (“Ragged to those students, who Center and the John Crerar Library. The exhibit compares Being and Citizen course, which Old Flag”) and Stevie Wonder will graduate debt-free as hand-drawn anatomies to modern medical images—like asks the question: what is the excel- (“Happy Birthday”). The emphasis part of a UChicago Promise Wilhelm Rntgen’s 1895 X-ray of his wife’s hand, which lence of the human being, what is on imaginative literature in a cur- pledge: prompted her to say, “I have seen my death.” The drawings the excellence of the citizen, and are riculum like this is “indispensable,” actually measure up, says Schwartz. Cowper’s Anatomy they in tension with one another?” Leon says, “because developing citi- reflects a very dierent world, in which medical students says Amy Kass, AB’62. The couple zens is a matter of both the heart and “lived with death in a way that we don’t.”—Derek Tsang, ’15 ©2014©2014 daniel daniel horowitz horowitz c/o theispot.com c/o theispot.com taught the Common Core course for the head. … It’s the poets that shape $2.2

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UCJ_Main_v16.inddweb_2014_mar-apr.indd 16 16 2/28/143/7/14 9:589:51 AM UCJ_Main_v16.indd 17 2/27/14 6:48 PM nia, taking “frankly unambitious” gambling comes first. And in fact, he consulting for a major league sports jobs at Wells Fargo and the now-de - says, the experience of having money team, although they’ve asked him to funct NextCard to focus his energy on the line is similar to that of being a keep mum. Sports teams “are a lot WILLIAM on betting baseball. After hundreds fan. “You have something you’re root- smarter than you think,” says Fro- RAINEY of hours spent looking for factors with ing for, and you just root for that,” hardt-Lane. “I think ten years ago they HARPER’S predictive value, he built a model in even if it means cheering against his were far behind the public even, and I INDEX the stats program R with individual hometown teams. “If the model says just don’t think they are anymore.” EDUCATION projections for every player based on bet Detroit or fade Detroit”—mean- Frohardt-Lane’s trust in data PROMISING past performances. A second model, ing, bet against—“that’s what I’ll do.” even extends to what he does with built in C, simulates each game thou- In 2004 Frohardt-Lane moved to his winnings; he donated half of STATISTICS sands of times and identifies the prob- Chicago and took a job at trading firm his contest windfall to GiveWell, American ability of every discrete outcome for Getco (now KCG Holdings), which a nonprofit that evaluates other Percentage increase in each batter’s appearance at the plate: left less time for gambling. Increas- charities. “They think in terms of Chicago-area high school walk, strikeout, hit, out, and homer. ingly restrictive sports betting laws probabilities and expected values,” studies students applying to the Another model he designed for foot- also made it harder. But in the fall of he says. “They talk about expected College in the first year of ball predicts final scores. 2011, looking for a way to bet more return on dollar invested.” Leon and Amy Kass develop an UChicago Promise, which By the end of 2003, Frohardt-Lane often than his annual trips to Vegas, Frohardt-Lane does play fantasy online curriculum that inspires waives admission fees and had worked his bankroll from $10,000 Frohardt-Lane jumped at the chance football to keep up with old friends— insight into the national soul. replaces loans with grants to almost $100,000, betting $1,000 to to compete in high-stakes handicap- model-free—and his wife of five for accepted students: $2,000 per game. “I love having some ping contests. That year he won the months doesn’t mind his sports For decades Leon and Amy Kass skin in the game,” he says. He still con- Cantor Football Contest, beating out betting. “She just kind of writes it off were loved and lauded teachers, but siders himself a sports fan—“When 14 other entries for $75,000. as the one quirky thing, maybe not the finding that out firsthand wasn’t the Tigers had their runs in ’06 and The sports world took notice; since one, but one quirky thing she has to easy. “We taught in small classes, 48.8 ’12, I was really into it,” he says—but last summer, Frohardt-Lane has been deal with.”—Derek Tsang, ’15 maximum 25 students. We liked to see the faces of the people,” says more than a quarter century, but over Total amount in application Leon Kass, U-High’54, SB’58, time—especially after the terrorist fees that the program MD’62. “We didn’t lecture in Chi - attacks of September 11, 2001—it waived for Chicago ORIGINAL SOURCE cago.” What they offered was “a became “more urgent,” as Amy puts families: way of taking the great books seri - it, to place that debate in the specific OLD HAND ously, not as sources of answers, but context of the United States. as sources of questions,” says their “We think, notwithstanding the former student Yuval Levin, AM’02, political differences between left $89,475 Modern anatomical images treat the human body as PhD’10, editor of the journal Na- and right, the fate of this country is abstraction, says Mindy Schwartz, one of two UChicago tional Affairs. important to everybody,” Leon says. Number of students and physicians curating Imaging/Imagining: The Body as Art, Now countless students can ex - “The principles and ideals of this families who participated in an upcoming Smart Museum exhibit on representations of plore the big questions with the country are important to everybody, workshops on admissions the body in art and in science. No such abstraction exists in Kasses’ help without having to come even if different groups will empha- essays, interviews, and William Cowper’s 1698 Anatomy of Humane Bodies. Dutch to Chicago or even go to college. size different ones amongst them.” financial aid: artist Gérard de Lairesse’s engravings fill Anatomy with The Kasses launched a website last The Kasses moved to Washing- flies, flayed skin, nooses, and rigid faces. “Most anatomists library library chicago of chicago of university university center, center, research research collections collections special special year, What So Proudly We Hail, that ton in 2001 after George W. Bush don’t really bring you into their world, because they’re offers high school teachers curricula appointed Leon chair of the newly trying to portray something from a pedagogical or an designed to get students thinking formed President’s Council on Bio- 1,100 educational standpoint,” says Schwartz, who studies the about what it means to be an Ameri- ethics, a position he held until 2005. history of medicine. De Lairesse “wants you to never forget can. The project—which includes He had council members read and Number of Chicago high that you’re seeing something that was hacked up.” free lesson plans, discussion guides, discuss the Nathaniel Hawthorne school students who Cowper acquired (exactly how is a source of historical video conversations, and e-books— story “The Birth-Mark,” about the enrolled in the Class of controversy) the printing plates for Anatomy from Dutch follows their 2011 anthology, What quest for human perfection. 2017: anatomist Govard Bidloo, whose own tract didn’t sell nearly So Proudly We Hail: The American Hawthorne can be found on the as well. This engraving shows the muscles of the lower arm Soul in Story, Speech, and Song (In- new website—along with George and hand spread across a book and dissection table. “It’s tercollegiate Studies Institute). But Washington, Mark Twain, Willa almost as if it’s alive,” says Schwartz. the enterprise was really born just a Cather, Cornel West, John Updike, 73 Cocurated by UChicago physician Brian Callender, AB’97, year after the pair began their long Barack Obama, and more. Francis AM’98, MD’04, Imaging/Imagining opens March 25, along careers at the University. Scott Key and Irving Berlin are Value of grants, in millions, with related exhibits at the Special Collections Research “In 1977 we started the Human joined by Johnny Cash (“Ragged to those students, who Center and the John Crerar Library. The exhibit compares Being and Citizen course, which Old Flag”) and Stevie Wonder will graduate debt-free as hand-drawn anatomies to modern medical images—like asks the question: what is the excel- (“Happy Birthday”). The emphasis part of a UChicago Promise Wilhelm Rntgen’s 1895 X-ray of his wife’s hand, which lence of the human being, what is on imaginative literature in a cur- pledge: prompted her to say, “I have seen my death.” The drawings the excellence of the citizen, and are riculum like this is “indispensable,” actually measure up, says Schwartz. Cowper’s Anatomy they in tension with one another?” Leon says, “because developing citi- reflects a very dierent world, in which medical students says Amy Kass, AB’62. The couple zens is a matter of both the heart and “lived with death in a way that we don’t.”—Derek Tsang, ’15 ©2014©2014 daniel daniel horowitz horowitz c/o theispot.com c/o theispot.com taught the Common Core course for the head. … It’s the poets that shape $2.2

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UCJ_Main_v16.indd 16 2/28/14 9:58 AM web_2014_mar-apr.indd 17 3/7/14 9:51 AM UCJ_Main_v16.indd 17 2/27/14 6:48 PM the souls and form the community.” around the country, including sev- The Kasses care about the great The Kasses retired from the Uni- eral of our former students from books, but they care about the people versity in 2010, but this project al- the University.” Some of these high reading them even more. “They’re FOR THE RECORD lows them to reach more students school teachers have written les- just deeply interested in the souls of each year than they ever could have son plans and study guides, using young people,” says Levin, the author Gates. Giachello, professor deaths, according to Ralph (University of Chicago in their small seminars at Chicago— feedback from their own students of The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, of preventive medicine at Weichselbaum, codirector Press, 2006). In 2008 Oxford which is why they overcame their to shape the material. Laura Galli- Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right Northwestern University, has of the Ludwig Center at the University Press published initial reservations about it. “We nari, AB’98, an English teacher at and Left (Basic Books, 2013). The site helped establish organizations University of Chicago. Explaining Indian Democracy: are not virtual people. We like real Fenwick High School in Oak Park, includes a video conversation with such as the Hispanic Health A Fifty-Year Perspective. life, living, and synchronous con- Illinois, wrote the lesson on Benja- his old mentors about Hawthorne. Alliance, the Midwest Hispanic AIDS Coalition, and PRESIDENTIAL ENDORSEMENT versation,” Leon says. “But we were min Franklin’s “Project for Moral “They have a very high opinion of the National Latino Institute University president Robert J. encouraged to think we had this ma- Perfection.” Her students kept their students—often a higher opin- COLLEGE FUNDS for Reproductive Health. Zimmer supported the South terial and ought to find some way journals, as Franklin did, tracking ion than the students themselves do,” A $10 million gift from Forde, assistant dean of Side of Chicago as a site for the of joining the new age and try our their progress at making habits out he says. That inspires pupils to try to University trustee Steven students, created a mentoring Obama Presidential Library hands at a digital learning project.” of their own chosen virtues, with prove them right. Kersten, JD’80, and his wife, program for LGBTQ students. after the January establishment Technology wasn’t their only chal- surprising candor. “I think it’s very straightforward,” Priscilla Kersten, will support Gates, director of arts and of a foundation dedicated to its the Urban Education Institute’s public life, led the development GATES TO CAMBRIDGE planning. “I strongly believe lenge: “We were obliged to write Gallinari uses strategies straight affirms Leon. “Put the best materi- efforts to better prepare low- of the Washington Park Tim Rudnicki, ’14, is one of 40 the Obama Presidential Library study guides for the stories we used from the Kasses’ Chicago class - als you can in front of people, ask income students for college. Arts Incubator, which offers US students to receive a Gates would be ideal for one of our on the meaning of America. We’d rooms to get students engaged genuine questions that promote real Highlighting UEI’s work at a artist residencies, education, Cambridge Scholarship. With neighboring communities,” never done that before,” Amy says. enough to “conduct their own seri- thoughtfulness, believe that people, January 16 White House event, exhibitions, and performances. plans to pursue an MPhil in Zimmer said in a statement. To help in that task, Leon says, ous examination of the material and if you treat them as better than they President Barack Obama economic and social history Chicago mayor Rahm “we put together an advisory coun- struggle to develop their own con- think they are, will rise to the invita- said “not enough low-income at Cambridge, Rudnicki will Emanuel called for a unified, students are taking the steps study how economic growth citywide effort to attract the cil of outstanding teachers from nections and conclusions.” tion.”—Kelly Jane Torrance required to prepare for college.” in Britain between the 14th library and Zimmer pledged UEI’s initiative will “reach and 19th centuries might apply the University’s support for 10,000 high schools over the today in the developing world. that process, “working in next five years,” Obama added. partnership with the City The Kerstens’ gift will also WELL APPOINTED of Chicago, our neighbors, FIG. 1 help UEI provide data to policy David Fithian, vice civic leaders, and cultural and makers, elected officials, and SUCCESSFUL RESEARCH president and secretary of educational institutions.” SURGE PROTECTION education leaders to improve A $17 million gift from the the University, will become Federal contracting by week, 2004–09 college preparation, access, Hymen Milgrom [AB’35] executive vice president on Spending in billions of dollars and success. Supporting Organization March 31. Fithian succeeds has established a research David Greene, who has been Much of the federal government’s $250 initiative to study ways to help appointed president of Colby wasteful spending happens at urban schoolchildren become College. Darren Reisberg, graphic courtesy neale mahoney and jeffrey b. liebman; adapted by joy olivia miller miller olivia olivia joy joy by by adapted adapted liebman; liebman; b. b. jeffrey jeffrey and and mahoney mahoney neale neale courtesy courtesy graphic graphic more successful adults. Called executive director of the the very end of the fiscal year, Successful Pathways from Institute of Politics, will and a recent study by UChicago School to Work, the program replace Fithian as secretary $200 economist Neale Mahoney and has so far awarded $1.2 of the University. Steve ASTRONOMICAL ACHIEVEMENT Harvard’s Jerey B. Liebman million in grants to study how Edwards, the institute’s Joshua Frieman, PhD’89, has demonstrates how. In a National early-childhood intervention director of programming, will been named an honorary fellow ARTISTIC GIFT Bureau of Economic Research influences long-term outcomes become executive director. of the Royal Astronomical $150 A $25 million gift from and the impact of vocational Society. A UChicago astronomy paper, the researchers report the George Lucas Family training in the Chicago Public and astrophysics professor that 2013 spending skyrocketed Foundation will support the Schools. Another $2 million and a member of Fermilab’s in the final week of the fiscal year, Laboratory Schools’ new in grants are expected to be theoretical astrophysics group, to roughly five times the weekly $100 arts hall. At the request of the announced this year. Frieman directs the Dark average. Most federal agencies filmmaker George Lucas and Energy Survey, a collaboration must either spend their entire his wife, financial executive among 300 scientists from 25 Mellody Hobson, the hall will institutions on three continents. budgets before the fiscal year be named in honor of American ends or return the unused amount $50 artist Gordon Parks. The SCHOLARS HONORED IN INDIA EXECUTIVE DECISION IN DELHI to the Treasury and risk a budget building, scheduled to open on Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, Bharath Visweswariah, cut the following year. Mahoney the Lab Schools’ Hyde Park the William Benton a management consultant and Liebman refer to this as a campus in 2015, will include distinguished service in India, has been named flawed “use it or lose it” approach, $0 three new performance halls, professor emerita, and executive director of the 1 WEEK 10 WEEKS 20 WEEKS 30 WEEKS 40 WEEKS 50 WEEKS studios, rehearsal and practice ALTERING CANCER’S COURSE Lloyd I. Rudolph, professor University’s new Center in forcing many agencies to commit spaces, and a digital media lab. UChicago cancer researchers emeritus of political science, Delhi. As managing director to lower-quality projects. Using received a $90 million will each receive the Padma of CEB Asia since 2011, the government’s own data, the next fiscal year, without later, IT spending at the DOJ is DIVERSE ACCOMPLISHMENTS infusion from Ludwig Bhushan Award, the third- Visweswariah oversaw a the researchers gauged quality consequences for the following considerably lower than non-IT In January public health Cancer Research. One of highest civilian honor from research staff of 130. At based on cost, schedule, and year’s budget. It is a solution spending at the DOJ, lower than researcher Aida Giachello, six institutions that shared the government of India. the Center in Delhi, he will performance. that has worked well, they argue, year-end IT spending at other AM’71, PhD’88, received the equally in the $540 million University faculty members work with faculty director University’s 2014 Diversity Ludwig gift, UChicago’s since 1964, the Rudolphs have Gary Tubb to implement a The economists advocate for the Justice Department’s agencies, and does not drop in Leadership Alumni Award, research efforts will focus on together coauthored eight strategic plan and oversee allowing federal agencies to information technology budget quality at the end of the year. joining staff recipients targeting metastasis, which books, including Postmodern administrative and staffing

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web_2014_mar-apr.indd 18 3/7/14 9:51 AM UCJ_Main_v17.indd 19 2/28/14 2:59 PM UCJ_Main_v16.indd 18 2/27/14 6:48 PM the souls and form the community.” around the country, including sev- The Kasses care about the great The Kasses retired from the Uni- eral of our former students from books, but they care about the people versity in 2010, but this project al- the University.” Some of these high reading them even more. “They’re FOR THE RECORD lows them to reach more students school teachers have written les- just deeply interested in the souls of each year than they ever could have son plans and study guides, using young people,” says Levin, the author Gates. Giachello, professor deaths, according to Ralph (University of Chicago in their small seminars at Chicago— feedback from their own students of The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, of preventive medicine at Weichselbaum, codirector Press, 2006). In 2008 Oxford which is why they overcame their to shape the material. Laura Galli- Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right Northwestern University, has of the Ludwig Center at the University Press published initial reservations about it. “We nari, AB’98, an English teacher at and Left (Basic Books, 2013). The site helped establish organizations University of Chicago. Explaining Indian Democracy: are not virtual people. We like real Fenwick High School in Oak Park, includes a video conversation with such as the Hispanic Health A Fifty-Year Perspective. life, living, and synchronous con- Illinois, wrote the lesson on Benja- his old mentors about Hawthorne. Alliance, the Midwest Hispanic AIDS Coalition, and PRESIDENTIAL ENDORSEMENT versation,” Leon says. “But we were min Franklin’s “Project for Moral “They have a very high opinion of the National Latino Institute University president Robert J. encouraged to think we had this ma- Perfection.” Her students kept their students—often a higher opin- COLLEGE FUNDS for Reproductive Health. Zimmer supported the South terial and ought to find some way journals, as Franklin did, tracking ion than the students themselves do,” A $10 million gift from Forde, assistant dean of Side of Chicago as a site for the of joining the new age and try our their progress at making habits out he says. That inspires pupils to try to University trustee Steven students, created a mentoring Obama Presidential Library hands at a digital learning project.” of their own chosen virtues, with prove them right. Kersten, JD’80, and his wife, program for LGBTQ students. after the January establishment Technology wasn’t their only chal- surprising candor. “I think it’s very straightforward,” Priscilla Kersten, will support Gates, director of arts and of a foundation dedicated to its the Urban Education Institute’s public life, led the development GATES TO CAMBRIDGE planning. “I strongly believe lenge: “We were obliged to write Gallinari uses strategies straight affirms Leon. “Put the best materi- efforts to better prepare low- of the Washington Park Tim Rudnicki, ’14, is one of 40 the Obama Presidential Library study guides for the stories we used from the Kasses’ Chicago class - als you can in front of people, ask income students for college. Arts Incubator, which offers US students to receive a Gates would be ideal for one of our on the meaning of America. We’d rooms to get students engaged genuine questions that promote real Highlighting UEI’s work at a artist residencies, education, Cambridge Scholarship. With neighboring communities,” never done that before,” Amy says. enough to “conduct their own seri- thoughtfulness, believe that people, January 16 White House event, exhibitions, and performances. plans to pursue an MPhil in Zimmer said in a statement. To help in that task, Leon says, ous examination of the material and if you treat them as better than they President Barack Obama economic and social history Chicago mayor Rahm “we put together an advisory coun- struggle to develop their own con- think they are, will rise to the invita- said “not enough low-income at Cambridge, Rudnicki will Emanuel called for a unified, students are taking the steps study how economic growth citywide effort to attract the cil of outstanding teachers from nections and conclusions.” tion.”—Kelly Jane Torrance required to prepare for college.” in Britain between the 14th library and Zimmer pledged UEI’s initiative will “reach and 19th centuries might apply the University’s support for 10,000 high schools over the today in the developing world. that process, “working in next five years,” Obama added. partnership with the City The Kerstens’ gift will also WELL APPOINTED of Chicago, our neighbors, FIG. 1 help UEI provide data to policy David Fithian, vice civic leaders, and cultural and makers, elected officials, and SUCCESSFUL RESEARCH president and secretary of educational institutions.” SURGE PROTECTION education leaders to improve A $17 million gift from the the University, will become Federal contracting by week, 2004–09 college preparation, access, Hymen Milgrom [AB’35] executive vice president on Spending in billions of dollars and success. Supporting Organization March 31. Fithian succeeds has established a research David Greene, who has been Much of the federal government’s $250 initiative to study ways to help appointed president of Colby wasteful spending happens at urban schoolchildren become College. Darren Reisberg, graphic courtesy neale mahoney and jeffrey b. liebman; adapted by joy olivia miller miller olivia olivia joy joy by by adapted adapted liebman; liebman; b. b. jeffrey jeffrey and and mahoney mahoney neale neale courtesy courtesy graphic graphic more successful adults. Called executive director of the the very end of the fiscal year, Successful Pathways from Institute of Politics, will and a recent study by UChicago School to Work, the program replace Fithian as secretary $200 economist Neale Mahoney and has so far awarded $1.2 of the University. Steve ASTRONOMICAL ACHIEVEMENT Harvard’s Jerey B. Liebman million in grants to study how Edwards, the institute’s Joshua Frieman, PhD’89, has demonstrates how. In a National early-childhood intervention director of programming, will been named an honorary fellow ARTISTIC GIFT Bureau of Economic Research influences long-term outcomes become executive director. of the Royal Astronomical $150 A $25 million gift from and the impact of vocational Society. A UChicago astronomy paper, the researchers report the George Lucas Family training in the Chicago Public and astrophysics professor that 2013 spending skyrocketed Foundation will support the Schools. Another $2 million and a member of Fermilab’s in the final week of the fiscal year, Laboratory Schools’ new in grants are expected to be theoretical astrophysics group, to roughly five times the weekly $100 arts hall. At the request of the announced this year. Frieman directs the Dark average. Most federal agencies filmmaker George Lucas and Energy Survey, a collaboration must either spend their entire his wife, financial executive among 300 scientists from 25 Mellody Hobson, the hall will institutions on three continents. budgets before the fiscal year be named in honor of American ends or return the unused amount $50 artist Gordon Parks. The SCHOLARS HONORED IN INDIA EXECUTIVE DECISION IN DELHI to the Treasury and risk a budget building, scheduled to open on Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, Bharath Visweswariah, cut the following year. Mahoney the Lab Schools’ Hyde Park the William Benton a management consultant and Liebman refer to this as a campus in 2015, will include distinguished service in India, has been named flawed “use it or lose it” approach, $0 three new performance halls, professor emerita, and executive director of the 1 WEEK 10 WEEKS 20 WEEKS 30 WEEKS 40 WEEKS 50 WEEKS studios, rehearsal and practice ALTERING CANCER’S COURSE Lloyd I. Rudolph, professor University’s new Center in forcing many agencies to commit spaces, and a digital media lab. UChicago cancer researchers emeritus of political science, Delhi. As managing director to lower-quality projects. Using received a $90 million will each receive the Padma of CEB Asia since 2011, the government’s own data, the next fiscal year, without later, IT spending at the DOJ is DIVERSE ACCOMPLISHMENTS infusion from Ludwig Bhushan Award, the third- Visweswariah oversaw a the researchers gauged quality consequences for the following considerably lower than non-IT In January public health Cancer Research. One of highest civilian honor from research staff of 130. At based on cost, schedule, and year’s budget. It is a solution spending at the DOJ, lower than researcher Aida Giachello, six institutions that shared the government of India. the Center in Delhi, he will performance. that has worked well, they argue, year-end IT spending at other AM’71, PhD’88, received the equally in the $540 million University faculty members work with faculty director University’s 2014 Diversity Ludwig gift, UChicago’s since 1964, the Rudolphs have Gary Tubb to implement a The economists advocate for the Justice Department’s agencies, and does not drop in Leadership Alumni Award, research efforts will focus on together coauthored eight strategic plan and oversee allowing federal agencies to information technology budget quality at the end of the year. joining staff recipients targeting metastasis, which books, including Postmodern administrative and staffing roll over unused funds into since 1992: more than a decade —Adrianna Szenthe universityuniversity of chicago of chicago news news office office Kathleen Forde and Theaster is the leading cause of cancer Gandhi and Other Essays functions.

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UCJ_Main_v17.inddweb_2014_mar-apr.indd 19 19 2/28/143/7/14 2:599:51 PMAM UCJ_Main_v16.indd 18 2/27/14 6:48 PM the ones inventing and mixing those There’s no formal system set up to position even deeper into the institu - ART art-inspired cocktails. Austin has an art evaluate Austin’s or the residency’s tion,” Christiano says. “We’re even project of his own, called The Perch, success—“it feels like we should go kind of shifting the nature of the work which aims to engage people in much the through this first year and see how it we have—not shifting the work in the Interpret same way that the Smart was hoping to works”—but Christiano is pleased collection but how we treat the work in do. Operated out of Austin’s apartment with the anecdotal evidence. “It’s re - the collection, how we position it, how in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, The ally interesting to see people spend we frame it. The more we look at it, the station Perch is part printing press, part social 15, 20, 30, 40 minutes talking with more we see this person really steering forum, part experimental dinner party. him,” he says. “And to me that sug- the ways we engage our visitors.” An interpreter in residence holds During curated meals, Austin initiates gests that there is a desire for that kind Austin has been documenting his “oce hours” for visitors to the conversation among his guests using of human engagement. When Matt’s conversations with visitors over the Smart Museum of Art. prompts that ask them, for instance, here, it does tend to inflect the space year and plans to compile them into a to chart their artistic progress, discuss with a different sense of wonder and handmade book, offering, he says, a With 30 pieces of particle board, 28 their creative practices, or describe awe.” The museum is making plans poetic perspective on the visitor expe- screws, a drill, and about 45 minutes, their philanthropic projects as if deliv- for future interpreters in residence rience. “My only real goals in life are artist Ma Austin can create a tempo- ering a eulogy. From his Perch outpost and how exhibits and events might to keep doing things like this,” he says. rary office big enough to accommo- at the Smart, during office hours and At be structured around collaboration “Talk to people about interesting ideas date himself and a guest. the Threshold events, Austin strikes up with the artists who will inhabit the and challenge myself to do it better.” His pop-up workspace materializes similar conversations. job. “We want to keep pushing the —Megan Doherty, AM’05, PhD’10 periodically in the lobby of the Smart Museum of Art, where Austin is the museum’s inaugural interpreter in residence. A yearlong position, paid with an honorarium, it is intended to provide a framework for artists—Austin Guests carve the names of their first kisses into the wall of Ma Austin’s is a photographer and bookmaker—to Perch during a February event at the Smart Museum. engage museum visitors and for visitors to have more dynamic give-and- take experiences with the Smart’s they talk for longer. At the end of the ums—and among some individual collections and with art in general. conversation, he asks visitors to take artists rethinking their own creative “There are people who already know a knife and carve something—any- practices—to explore new ways of the museum, who have a relationship thing—into the walls of his office, engaging the public and offering them with the museum and probably have made from walnut-veneered panels compelling, lasting experiences. This a relationship with the works in the salvaged from the recently renovated exploration is “in the air,” Christiano museum, and this is a way that we’re Special Collections Research Center says, “and it’s manifesting differently inviting them to see those works dif - at Regenstein Library. Among the at different institutions.” ferently,” says Michael Christiano, carvings, which Austin calls “evolv- The interpreter in residence pro- the Smart’s director of education and ing signifiers of participation,” are a gram was born out of the 2012 ex- interpretation. “And it also serves as an coffee cup with a balloon rising from hibition Feast: Radical Hospitality in opportunity to invite new people into it; a cursive “h”; “Harold at the beach”; Contemporary Art, which orchestrated the conversation about those works.” an ampersand in a square; “Don’t for- meals and participatory experiences During periodic “office hours” and get about me.” to spark dialogue among museum go- other museum events, Austin invites By appointing an interpreter in ers. These were a hit, and they devel- people to come talk to him about all residence instead of the more obvi- oped into monthly events called At the kinds of things: who they are, why ous “artist in residence,” the Smart is Threshold—evenings of conversation, they’re there, their experiences with examining the idea of interpretation cocktails, and music inspired by the mu- art, what they think about the art- itself, moving beyond the traditional seum’s current exhibits. The interpreter work. On days when he’s there, visitors explanatory text that accompanies a in residence program, which launched receive a printed card when they step work of art, Christiano says, to also last August, was a way of formalizing into the museum, listing several open- include more “ephemeral” interac- this “yearlong adventure” that preceded photgraphy by joel wintermantle joel by photgraphy photgraphy by joel wintermantle joel by photgraphy ended questions and inviting them to tions: things like museum-hosted it, Christiano says. talk to Austin before they leave. “What parties, art-making programs, or con- Austin, who teaches at the School events and plans of your day have led versations with the interpreter in resi- of the Art Institute and the Museum you here?” one card asked. “Why right dence. “We’re interpreting our role as of Contemporary Photography, was now? How much time do you have?” an institution,” he says. “We want to an apt choice for the first interpreter Also, “What experiences throughout experiment with what interpretation in residence, he adds. He came recom- your life have had an influence on the is and what it means to be an inter - mended by artists Joseph Rynkiewicz kind of art you are drawn to? Why do preter. The program provides a place and Graham Hogan, whose experi- you think that is?” for us to think a little more loosely mental project Hornswaggler Arts was Sometimes people come and talk about that.” The Smart’s program is instrumental in the At the Threshold photography by erik peterson to Austin for 20 minutes; usually part of a wider trend among muse - events—Rynkiewicz and Hogan were photography by erik peterson When Austin sets up shop, people visit for extended conversations about their experiences with art.

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web_2014_mar-apr.indd 20 3/7/14 9:51 AM UCJ_Main_v16.indd 20 2/27/14 6:48 PM UCJ_Main_v16.indd 21 2/27/14 6:49 PM the ones inventing and mixing those There’s no formal system set up to position even deeper into the institu - ART art-inspired cocktails. Austin has an art evaluate Austin’s or the residency’s tion,” Christiano says. “We’re even project of his own, called The Perch, success—“it feels like we should go kind of shifting the nature of the work which aims to engage people in much the through this first year and see how it we have—not shifting the work in the Interpret same way that the Smart was hoping to works”—but Christiano is pleased collection but how we treat the work in do. Operated out of Austin’s apartment with the anecdotal evidence. “It’s re - the collection, how we position it, how in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, The ally interesting to see people spend we frame it. The more we look at it, the station Perch is part printing press, part social 15, 20, 30, 40 minutes talking with more we see this person really steering forum, part experimental dinner party. him,” he says. “And to me that sug- the ways we engage our visitors.” An interpreter in residence holds During curated meals, Austin initiates gests that there is a desire for that kind Austin has been documenting his “oce hours” for visitors to the conversation among his guests using of human engagement. When Matt’s conversations with visitors over the Smart Museum of Art. prompts that ask them, for instance, here, it does tend to inflect the space year and plans to compile them into a to chart their artistic progress, discuss with a different sense of wonder and handmade book, offering, he says, a With 30 pieces of particle board, 28 their creative practices, or describe awe.” The museum is making plans poetic perspective on the visitor expe- screws, a drill, and about 45 minutes, their philanthropic projects as if deliv- for future interpreters in residence rience. “My only real goals in life are artist Ma Austin can create a tempo- ering a eulogy. From his Perch outpost and how exhibits and events might to keep doing things like this,” he says. rary office big enough to accommo- at the Smart, during office hours and At be structured around collaboration “Talk to people about interesting ideas date himself and a guest. the Threshold events, Austin strikes up with the artists who will inhabit the and challenge myself to do it better.” His pop-up workspace materializes similar conversations. job. “We want to keep pushing the —Megan Doherty, AM’05, PhD’10 periodically in the lobby of the Smart Museum of Art, where Austin is the museum’s inaugural interpreter in residence. A yearlong position, paid with an honorarium, it is intended to provide a framework for artists—Austin Guests carve the names of their first kisses into the wall of Ma Austin’s is a photographer and bookmaker—to Perch during a February event at the Smart Museum. engage museum visitors and for visitors to have more dynamic give-and- take experiences with the Smart’s they talk for longer. At the end of the ums—and among some individual collections and with art in general. conversation, he asks visitors to take artists rethinking their own creative “There are people who already know a knife and carve something—any- practices—to explore new ways of the museum, who have a relationship thing—into the walls of his office, engaging the public and offering them with the museum and probably have made from walnut-veneered panels compelling, lasting experiences. This a relationship with the works in the salvaged from the recently renovated exploration is “in the air,” Christiano museum, and this is a way that we’re Special Collections Research Center says, “and it’s manifesting differently inviting them to see those works dif - at Regenstein Library. Among the at different institutions.” ferently,” says Michael Christiano, carvings, which Austin calls “evolv- The interpreter in residence pro- the Smart’s director of education and ing signifiers of participation,” are a gram was born out of the 2012 ex- interpretation. “And it also serves as an coffee cup with a balloon rising from hibition Feast: Radical Hospitality in opportunity to invite new people into it; a cursive “h”; “Harold at the beach”; Contemporary Art, which orchestrated the conversation about those works.” an ampersand in a square; “Don’t for- meals and participatory experiences During periodic “office hours” and get about me.” to spark dialogue among museum go- other museum events, Austin invites By appointing an interpreter in ers. These were a hit, and they devel- people to come talk to him about all residence instead of the more obvi- oped into monthly events called At the kinds of things: who they are, why ous “artist in residence,” the Smart is Threshold—evenings of conversation, they’re there, their experiences with examining the idea of interpretation cocktails, and music inspired by the mu- art, what they think about the art- itself, moving beyond the traditional seum’s current exhibits. The interpreter work. On days when he’s there, visitors explanatory text that accompanies a in residence program, which launched receive a printed card when they step work of art, Christiano says, to also last August, was a way of formalizing into the museum, listing several open- include more “ephemeral” interac- this “yearlong adventure” that preceded photgraphy by joel wintermantle joel by photgraphy photgraphy by joel wintermantle joel by photgraphy ended questions and inviting them to tions: things like museum-hosted it, Christiano says. talk to Austin before they leave. “What parties, art-making programs, or con- Austin, who teaches at the School events and plans of your day have led versations with the interpreter in resi- of the Art Institute and the Museum you here?” one card asked. “Why right dence. “We’re interpreting our role as of Contemporary Photography, was now? How much time do you have?” an institution,” he says. “We want to an apt choice for the first interpreter Also, “What experiences throughout experiment with what interpretation in residence, he adds. He came recom- your life have had an influence on the is and what it means to be an inter - mended by artists Joseph Rynkiewicz kind of art you are drawn to? Why do preter. The program provides a place and Graham Hogan, whose experi- you think that is?” for us to think a little more loosely mental project Hornswaggler Arts was Sometimes people come and talk about that.” The Smart’s program is instrumental in the At the Threshold photography by erik peterson to Austin for 20 minutes; usually part of a wider trend among muse - events—Rynkiewicz and Hogan were photography by erik peterson When Austin sets up shop, people visit for extended conversations about their experiences with art.

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web_2014_mar-apr.indd 21 3/7/14 9:51 AM UCJ_Main_v16.indd 20 2/27/14 6:48 PM UCJ_Main_v16.indd 21 2/27/14 6:49 PM lion people watched its most recent most transparent to radio waves, mak- MEDICINE PHYSICS season premiere. Ever since the 2006 ing Earth’s poles prime spots to use pilot, it’s been Saltzberg’s job to keep radio antennas and pick up any inter- the actors’ portrayal of university re- actions between neutrinos and the ice. Disturbing Popular searchers believable. “Even though Saltzberg has been to Antarctica three it’s a comedy,” Saltzberg says, “it’s a times, sometimes sending telescopes in fairly accurate representation of what unmanned balloons to the outer reach- results science physicists do all day.” es of the atmosphere to observe broad Saltzberg’s own work focuses on swaths of the ice. “Most people go in Researchers show that quality David Saltzberg, SM’91, PhD’94, neutrinos, particles with no electri- balloons to look up,” Saltzberg says, of sleep has a profound e ect on keeps the research realistic on cal charge and almost no mass, which “and we’re the crazy people that point cancer growth rates. The Big Bang Theory. rarely interact with other matter. The the telescope down.” high-energy neutrinos Saltzberg ob- When he turns his professional at- Poor-quality sleep marked by fre - Particle physicist David Saltzberg serves near the South Pole could shed tention to The Big Bang Theory, Saltz- quent awakenings can speed cancer was in Antarctica in 2008, hunting light on the mysterious properties of berg works with writers who keep up growth, increase tumor aggressive- for evidence of little-understood cosmic rays, which seem to flout phys- with prominent scientific news but of- ness, and dampen the immune sys- Fragmented sleep can lead to more aggressive tumor growth. subatomic particles striking the ice icists’ theories. ten leave blanks in the script for him tem’s ability to control or eradicate continent. During his expedition, the Saltzberg has used the world’s most to fill in with science “gobbledygook.” early cancers, according to a study UCLA physics and astronomy profes- powerful particle accelerators, where Sometimes the writers will devise published online January 21 in the from one of two tumor types (TC-1 or of the tumors. Sleep-fragmented mice sor had another task that was almost subatomic particles are smashed to- a key plot point and ask Saltzberg to journal Cancer Research. 3LLC). All mice developed palpable had primarily M2-type TAMs. These as important to him: making sure gether at nearly the speed of light for a flesh it out with realistic research. The study is the first to demon - tumors within nine to 12 days. Four were abundant, especially around the scripts for the hit CBS sitcom The Big glimpse of rarely seen building blocks In a recent episode, for example, strate, in an animal model, the direct weeks after inoculation the research- periphery of the tumors. The sleep- Bang Theory didn’t say sine when they of the universe. He conducted his doc- the writers wanted main character effects of fragmented sleep on tumor ers evaluated the tumors. disrupted mice also had high levels of meant cosine. toral research at Fermilab’s now-de- Sheldon to make a significant discov- growth and invasiveness, and it points They found that tumors from mice toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4). Saltzberg, SM’91, PhD’94, is the funct Tevatron and currently works ery, but then realize he made a seri- to a biological mechanism that could with fragmented sleep were twice as Three key molecules are part of the science consultant for Big Bang, which on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in ous error. The achivement needed to serve as a potential target for therapy. large, for both tumor types, as those signaling pathway that appeared to be follows four brilliant, but often so- Switzerland. be big enough to warrant Sheldon’s “It’s not the tumor, it’s the immune from mice that had slept normally. A tilting macrophages toward M2: TLR4 cially inept, Caltech researchers. Im- But instead of sifting through the crowing, but not so large that it would system,” says study director David follow-up experiment found that when and two downstream signals called probably, a show that finds comedy in aftereffects of an atomic collision in- appear unrealistic. Saltzberg gave the Gozal, chair of pediatrics at the Uni- tumor cells were implanted in the thigh MYD88 and TRIF. So the research- electron transport and dark matter side an accelerator, Saltzberg looks for writers about a dozen suggestions, versity of Chicago Comer Children’s muscle, which should help contain ers injected tumor cells into a series of has become one of the most popular neutrinos made by cosmic rays in other and they settled on Sheldon discov- Hospital. “Fragmented sleep changes growth, the tumors were much more mice that were unable to produce one of shows on television—nearly 19 mil- galaxies that travel to Earth. Ice is al- ering a superheavy element. “It’s in- how the immune system deals with aggressive and invaded surrounding these three proteins and subjected them teresting and important, but it’s not cancer in ways that make the disease tissues in mice with disrupted sleep. to fragmented sleep. Tumor growth an earthquake that would change the more aggressive.” “In that setting, tumors are usually was slightly reduced in mice lacking scientific world as you know it,” Saltz- “Fortunately, our study also points to encased by a capsule of surrounding MYD88 or TRIF, but in mice lacking berg says. a potential drug target,” he says. “Toll- tissue, like a scar,” Gozal says. “They TLR4, tumor growth was no greater In creating his formula, Sheldon like receptor 4, a biological messenger, form little spheres, with nice demar- than in mice with undisturbed sleep. misreads the units on a table, caus- helps control activation of the innate cation between cancerous and normal Taking TLR4 out of the picture re- ing his result to be off by a factor of immune system. It appears to be a linch- tissue. But in the fragmented-sleep sulted in major curtailment of tumor 10,000. That’s a common mistake in pin for the cancer-promoting effects of mice, the tumors were much more in - growth. “When we injected tumor nuclear particle physics, according to sleep loss. The effects of fragmented vasive. They pushed through the cap- cells into mice that lacked TLR4,” Saltzberg, an Easter egg for experts in sleep that we focused on were not seen sule. They went into the muscle, into Gozal says, “the differences between the field who may be watching. “There in mice that lacked this protein.” the bone. It was a mess.” undisturbed and sleep-fragmented are probably dozens of people who got Gozal, an authority on the conse - The difference appeared to be driv- mice disappeared.” that joke,” Saltzberg deadpans. quences of sleep apnea, was struck by en by cells from the immune system, “This study offers biological plau- Saltzberg also plans out the scien- two recent studies linking apnea to in- called tumor-associated macrophages sibility to the epidemiological asso- tific scribblings on whiteboards scat- creased cancer mortality. So he and col- (TAMs), which cluster at the site of ciations between perturbed sleep and tered about the set. He tries to have leagues from the University of Chicago tumors. TAMs are a hallmark of the cancer outcomes,” Gozal says. “The the boards relate to scientific discov- and the University of Louisville devised immune system’s response to cancer, take home message is to take care of eries the characters are discussing, a series of experiments to measure the but they can respond in a variety of your sleep quality and quantity like but if a scene is light on science, he’ll

effects of disrupted sleep on cancer. ways, depending on chemical signals you take care of your bank account.” ng ng h. h. images/kim images/kim istock/getty istock/getty sneak in references to recent real- They used mice, housed in small they receive. Some, labeled M1, pro- The Centers for Disease Control world discoveries. groups. During the day—when mice mote a strong immune response and and Prevention estimate that about The whiteboards have developed normally sleep—a quiet, motorized can eliminate tumor cells. Others, 70 million Americans suffer from their own following, and Saltzberg brush moved through half of the cages known as M2, suppress the immune chronic sleep problems. “Consider- occasionally hears from people ques- every two minutes, forcing those mice response and instead promote the ing the high prevalence of both sleep tioning his calculations. Sometimes to wake up and then go back to sleep. growth of new blood vessels—which disorders and cancer in middle age or he plants a reference in tribute—as he The rest of the mice were not disturbed. encourages tumor growth. older populations,” the authors wrote, did after the death of physicist John After seven days in this setting, both Well-rested mice had primarily M1- “there are far-reaching implications.” Wheeler, who coined the term “black

groups of mice were injected with cells type TAMs, concentrated in the core —John Easton, AM’77 photographyphotography by by anthony anthony chiappetta chiappetta Physicist Saltzberg has goen a big bang out of his television experience. hole”—or for members of the studio

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web_2014_mar-apr.indd 22 3/7/14 9:51 AM UCJ_Main_v17.indd 23 2/28/14 2:57 PM UCJ_Main_v16.indd 22 2/27/14 6:49 PM lion people watched its most recent most transparent to radio waves, mak- MEDICINE PHYSICS season premiere. Ever since the 2006 ing Earth’s poles prime spots to use pilot, it’s been Saltzberg’s job to keep radio antennas and pick up any inter- the actors’ portrayal of university re- actions between neutrinos and the ice. Disturbing Popular searchers believable. “Even though Saltzberg has been to Antarctica three it’s a comedy,” Saltzberg says, “it’s a times, sometimes sending telescopes in fairly accurate representation of what unmanned balloons to the outer reach- results science physicists do all day.” es of the atmosphere to observe broad Saltzberg’s own work focuses on swaths of the ice. “Most people go in Researchers show that quality David Saltzberg, SM’91, PhD’94, neutrinos, particles with no electri- balloons to look up,” Saltzberg says, of sleep has a profound e ect on keeps the research realistic on cal charge and almost no mass, which “and we’re the crazy people that point cancer growth rates. The Big Bang Theory. rarely interact with other matter. The the telescope down.” high-energy neutrinos Saltzberg ob- When he turns his professional at- Poor-quality sleep marked by fre - Particle physicist David Saltzberg serves near the South Pole could shed tention to The Big Bang Theory, Saltz- quent awakenings can speed cancer was in Antarctica in 2008, hunting light on the mysterious properties of berg works with writers who keep up growth, increase tumor aggressive- for evidence of little-understood cosmic rays, which seem to flout phys- with prominent scientific news but of- ness, and dampen the immune sys- Fragmented sleep can lead to more aggressive tumor growth. subatomic particles striking the ice icists’ theories. ten leave blanks in the script for him tem’s ability to control or eradicate continent. During his expedition, the Saltzberg has used the world’s most to fill in with science “gobbledygook.” early cancers, according to a study UCLA physics and astronomy profes- powerful particle accelerators, where Sometimes the writers will devise published online January 21 in the from one of two tumor types (TC-1 or of the tumors. Sleep-fragmented mice sor had another task that was almost subatomic particles are smashed to- a key plot point and ask Saltzberg to journal Cancer Research. 3LLC). All mice developed palpable had primarily M2-type TAMs. These as important to him: making sure gether at nearly the speed of light for a flesh it out with realistic research. The study is the first to demon - tumors within nine to 12 days. Four were abundant, especially around the scripts for the hit CBS sitcom The Big glimpse of rarely seen building blocks In a recent episode, for example, strate, in an animal model, the direct weeks after inoculation the research- periphery of the tumors. The sleep- Bang Theory didn’t say sine when they of the universe. He conducted his doc- the writers wanted main character effects of fragmented sleep on tumor ers evaluated the tumors. disrupted mice also had high levels of meant cosine. toral research at Fermilab’s now-de- Sheldon to make a significant discov- growth and invasiveness, and it points They found that tumors from mice toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4). Saltzberg, SM’91, PhD’94, is the funct Tevatron and currently works ery, but then realize he made a seri- to a biological mechanism that could with fragmented sleep were twice as Three key molecules are part of the science consultant for Big Bang, which on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in ous error. The achivement needed to serve as a potential target for therapy. large, for both tumor types, as those signaling pathway that appeared to be follows four brilliant, but often so- Switzerland. be big enough to warrant Sheldon’s “It’s not the tumor, it’s the immune from mice that had slept normally. A tilting macrophages toward M2: TLR4 cially inept, Caltech researchers. Im- But instead of sifting through the crowing, but not so large that it would system,” says study director David follow-up experiment found that when and two downstream signals called probably, a show that finds comedy in aftereffects of an atomic collision in- appear unrealistic. Saltzberg gave the Gozal, chair of pediatrics at the Uni- tumor cells were implanted in the thigh MYD88 and TRIF. So the research- electron transport and dark matter side an accelerator, Saltzberg looks for writers about a dozen suggestions, versity of Chicago Comer Children’s muscle, which should help contain ers injected tumor cells into a series of has become one of the most popular neutrinos made by cosmic rays in other and they settled on Sheldon discov- Hospital. “Fragmented sleep changes growth, the tumors were much more mice that were unable to produce one of shows on television—nearly 19 mil- galaxies that travel to Earth. Ice is al- ering a superheavy element. “It’s in- how the immune system deals with aggressive and invaded surrounding these three proteins and subjected them teresting and important, but it’s not cancer in ways that make the disease tissues in mice with disrupted sleep. to fragmented sleep. Tumor growth an earthquake that would change the more aggressive.” “In that setting, tumors are usually was slightly reduced in mice lacking scientific world as you know it,” Saltz- “Fortunately, our study also points to encased by a capsule of surrounding MYD88 or TRIF, but in mice lacking berg says. a potential drug target,” he says. “Toll- tissue, like a scar,” Gozal says. “They TLR4, tumor growth was no greater In creating his formula, Sheldon like receptor 4, a biological messenger, form little spheres, with nice demar- than in mice with undisturbed sleep. misreads the units on a table, caus- helps control activation of the innate cation between cancerous and normal Taking TLR4 out of the picture re- ing his result to be off by a factor of immune system. It appears to be a linch- tissue. But in the fragmented-sleep sulted in major curtailment of tumor 10,000. That’s a common mistake in pin for the cancer-promoting effects of mice, the tumors were much more in - growth. “When we injected tumor nuclear particle physics, according to sleep loss. The effects of fragmented vasive. They pushed through the cap- cells into mice that lacked TLR4,” Saltzberg, an Easter egg for experts in sleep that we focused on were not seen sule. They went into the muscle, into Gozal says, “the differences between the field who may be watching. “There in mice that lacked this protein.” the bone. It was a mess.” undisturbed and sleep-fragmented are probably dozens of people who got Gozal, an authority on the conse - The difference appeared to be driv- mice disappeared.” that joke,” Saltzberg deadpans. quences of sleep apnea, was struck by en by cells from the immune system, “This study offers biological plau- Saltzberg also plans out the scien- two recent studies linking apnea to in- called tumor-associated macrophages sibility to the epidemiological asso- tific scribblings on whiteboards scat- creased cancer mortality. So he and col- (TAMs), which cluster at the site of ciations between perturbed sleep and tered about the set. He tries to have leagues from the University of Chicago tumors. TAMs are a hallmark of the cancer outcomes,” Gozal says. “The the boards relate to scientific discov- and the University of Louisville devised immune system’s response to cancer, take home message is to take care of eries the characters are discussing, a series of experiments to measure the but they can respond in a variety of your sleep quality and quantity like but if a scene is light on science, he’ll

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UCJ_Main_v17.inddweb_2014_mar-apr.indd 23 23 2/28/143/7/14 2:579:51 PMAM UCJ_Main_v16.indd 22 2/27/14 6:49 PM INTERVIEW now is free verse that is inflected CITATIONS with metrical phrasing. I feel like that’s the voice that I found my way SHARK TALES TRAVEL FOR WORK agreeing, sometimes also sequenced a golden jackal Call of into that I’m happy with. In the backward days of Partly an ongoing legacy of disagreeing. Then the babies genome, to serve as an out- Pangaea, Badringa sharks racial segretation in American were shown videos in which group representing earlier Exactitude migrated like salmon in cities, African Americans the same adults either greeted divergence from wolves. To the wild reverse, living as adults in spend more time commuting each other in a friendly tone their surprise, they found that I try in my own writing to calibrate freshwater swamps and to work than any other group. or turned away with a grunt. the dogs were most closely Going to the Law School helped a metaphor as tightly as I can to what heading to the coast to breed. According to Virginia Parks, When the tone of those related to each other, rather Natalie Shapero, JD’11, let her I’m talking about underneath the sur- Paleontologists Michael associate professor in the greetings did not match up than to the wolf lineages, and poetry loose. face. But the danger with that is that Coates, from the University School of Social Service with the adults’ previous the wolves’ closest relatives your poems get too packed, so you of Chicago, and Lauren Administration, the average agreement or disagreement were each other as well. have to find other ways of introduc- Sallan, SM’09, PhD’12, from urban two-way commute is over the food, babies expressed This suggests that dogs and the University of Michigan, about an hour, but for black surprise by lingering longer on wolves both descended from Last September Natalie Shapero, ing wildness into the poem. There’s analyzed 24 Badringa fossils workers it can be significantly those videos. “This is some of an older wolf-like common JD’11, was awarded a 2013 Ruth something to a poem representing a previously categorized into longer. Parks analyzed 2011 the first evidence that young ancestor. Analyzing genome- Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry little bit of the messiness of actual life two separate species—one a census data and found that infants are tracking other wide patterns of variation, Foundation and Poetry magazine, and not being sewn up shut too much. freshwater swamp dweller, low-wage black workers’ people’s social relationships,” the researchers concluded one of the most prestigious prizes I’m a disciple of Robert Frost in a lot the other inhabiting saltwater commutes are an average of says Woodward. The that dogs and wolves both for poetry in America. It came soon of ways: “no surprise in the writer, shallows—and concluded that seven minutes longer each way study was published online suffered massive decreases the species’ differences were than those of low-wage whites. September 23 in the Journal in population after their after the publication of her first no surprise in the reader.” And as a actually evidence of the earliest That’s evidence, Parks says, of Experimental Psychology: divergence, and that early book, No Object (Saturnalia Books), reader I’m always looking for a book known shark migration. The of a “jobs-housing mismatch,” General. dogs—lacking the gene for written during her three years at the to tell me something that I couldn’t sawfish-like Badringa, extinct driven in part by segregation, starch digestion, critical for Law School. have come to on my own. I want to for 30 million years, inhabited as blacks must travel far out WOLVES LET THE DOGS OUT domestication because it Shapero’s poems overlay quirky write poems that tell me something I an ancient river delta system of their neighborhoods to Dogs are commonly helped dogs adapt to human imaginative leaps on formal frames Pu ing on a new suit couldn’t have come to on my own, in in today’s Upper Midwest, find service and other jobs. understood to have evolved agricultural diets—were more using its extended snout for Parks presented her research from wolves domesticated by carnivorous than modern of meter and rhyme, at once spon- I worked at a nonprofit that did litiga- the absence of taking that trip. suction feeding off of river at the annual meeting of the early farmers. But a January dogs.—Derek Tsang, ’15 taneous and controlled, like a tion and advocacy to promote the Es- floors. Coates and Sallan’s American Association for the 16 PLoS Genetics study argues figure-skating routine set to the Ra- tablishment Clause, which is the part Jolly good fellow study was published in the Advancement of Science in that modern wolves and dogs mones. In “Your Other Heart,” for of the First Amendment that guaran- Fellowships have been incredibly January Journal of Vertebrate February. descended from a common example, she spins the story of an tees the separation of church and state. helpful in terms of allowing me to Paleontology. ancestor between 11 and 16 illustration by john megahan/university of michigan; photography by roger trentham/istock trentham/istock roger roger by by photography photography michigan; of michigan; of megahan/university megahan/university john john by by illustration illustration ill-fated rescue dog on moments of It was great. It was a real crash course carve out time and space for writing BABYWATCH millennia ago, when humans Even at nine months old, were still hunter-gatherers. wordplay: “I took in a dog the way in how actual lawsuits proceed. Law in my life. It’s a difficult thing to do. babies can tell whether or not An international team of some might take in / a dress,” and, school was a great education and very I’m kind of a slow writer, and I work adults get along with each researchers, including later, “That dog: I called it Help, theoretical, which I was really digging best when I have focused time that I other. University of Chicago University of Chicago genetics and I cried for it.” while I was there, but when I came can devote to it. I’m pretty steadily psychologists Amanda L. professor John Novembre, Shapero spent one year as a Steven out of law school I didn’t know how at work on a second book in a way Woodward and Katherine compared genomes from Gey Fellow with Americans United to bring a lawsuit or what happens on that I wouldn’t have been able to D. Kinzler, believing that two dog breeds, basenji from infants understand eating central Africa and dingo from for Separation of Church and State the ground. I had taken classes about without the fellowship, so I’m very, as a social activity, showed Australia, to the genomes of before returning to poetry full time as the procedural rules of lawsuits, but very happy about that. 64 nine-month-olds videos three gray wolves from China, the Kenyon Review Fellow at Kenyon there’s no substitute for actually being in which adults ate different Croatia, and Israel, regions College, where she teaches undergrad- involved in one. It was really fascinat- On being wrong Prehistoric Badringa was foods and reacted positively where dogs are believed to have Gene research complicates uate creative writing. The Magazine’s ing, and I love constitutional law, so I try to write a lot of poetry about the first migratory shark. or negatively, sometimes originated. The researchers the wolf-to-dog story. interview with her is condensed and the subject matter appealed to me a being wrong, and from the stance edited below.—Daniel Story lot. And I got to work with some re- of someone who is wrong, working ally awesome clients. through the problems of the world to audience. A group of his graduate day night is an experiment where they Saltzberg says, just like his pas - Stranger in a strange land try to come to an answer. It’s a nice students attended a taping after tak- decide whether a joke is funny.” sion for Isaac Asimov inspired him. I think of my time in law school like Critical thinking and poetic form place of vulnerability and humility ing an exam and Saltzberg adorned Since its premiere, Big Bang has been “There are people out there that may going to live in another country and I continued to write formal poetry to start from, saying “I don’t under- the whiteboard with solutions to the criticized for perpetuating negative have thought all of science ended with learn the language and culture and through my MFA program, and it stand this.” I try to read pretty broadly questions on their test. stereotypes about scientists—that they Newton or Maxwell.” expand the mind and heart that way. was getting increasingly elaborate and use a lot of diverse sources in my Saltzberg attends the taping most can’t muster the courage to talk to the A particle physicist could spend an It almost feels like going backward, and weighted down by its own in- poetry—and not just poetry but schol- weeks to chat with the writers and opposite sex and are social misfits. But entire career going down dead ends, in terms of where you are in the sane trickery. The classes in law arly literature and pop literature—to occasionally field questions on the fly. Saltzberg says the characters are funda- Saltzberg says, so increasing scientific discipline. Most people who go to school were really terrific, and they see how other people are thinking Watching the show live, he has come mentally likable and have evolved over literacy through the show could be as MFA programs have been writing were like a pressure release valve through the problems of the world. to realize that comedy writing is an the seven seasons; one has gotten mar- important as his research. for a long time and are trying to hone for the analytical part of my brain, And I try to chart those same trajec- empirical science. “You can argue, ried and others are dating. “My career’s not over yet—I don’t something that they already have a which freed up the poetry-writing tories through the smaller problems in theory, that your joke is funny and Big Bang shows its characters out- know if I’m going to stumble across a handle on. Whereas in law school ev- part of my brain to kind of chill out a of my own world. explain to everyone why your joke is side their labs more often than not, major discovery,” Saltzberg says. “So eryone is starting from scratch—no little bit. No Object does have a lot of funny, just like our theorists can ex- but even brief looks at the work they it may well be that the thing I have one’s been practicing law in advance. formal impulses in it, and a number Advice to young poets plain to us why supersymmetry must do can only encourage more people with the most lasting impact is the I felt like I was sitting farther back of the poems are in pentameter, but Get out of your poetry head, even

be true,” Saltzberg says. “Every Tues- to view research as a viable career, show.”—Michael Lipkin, AB’11 photophoto courtesy courtesy kenyon kenyon college college from what I was trying to see. mostly what I wrote then and write just a little bit.

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web_2014_mar-apr.indd 24 3/7/14 9:51 AM UCJ_Main_v16.indd 24 2/27/14 6:51 PM UCJ_Main_v16.indd 25 2/27/14 6:51 PM INTERVIEW now is free verse that is inflected CITATIONS with metrical phrasing. I feel like that’s the voice that I found my way SHARK TALES TRAVEL FOR WORK agreeing, sometimes also sequenced a golden jackal Call of into that I’m happy with. In the backward days of Partly an ongoing legacy of disagreeing. Then the babies genome, to serve as an out- Pangaea, Badringa sharks racial segretation in American were shown videos in which group representing earlier Exactitude migrated like salmon in cities, African Americans the same adults either greeted divergence from wolves. To the wild reverse, living as adults in spend more time commuting each other in a friendly tone their surprise, they found that I try in my own writing to calibrate freshwater swamps and to work than any other group. or turned away with a grunt. the dogs were most closely Going to the Law School helped a metaphor as tightly as I can to what heading to the coast to breed. According to Virginia Parks, When the tone of those related to each other, rather Natalie Shapero, JD’11, let her I’m talking about underneath the sur- Paleontologists Michael associate professor in the greetings did not match up than to the wolf lineages, and poetry loose. face. But the danger with that is that Coates, from the University School of Social Service with the adults’ previous the wolves’ closest relatives your poems get too packed, so you of Chicago, and Lauren Administration, the average agreement or disagreement were each other as well. have to find other ways of introduc- Sallan, SM’09, PhD’12, from urban two-way commute is over the food, babies expressed This suggests that dogs and the University of Michigan, about an hour, but for black surprise by lingering longer on wolves both descended from Last September Natalie Shapero, ing wildness into the poem. There’s analyzed 24 Badringa fossils workers it can be significantly those videos. “This is some of an older wolf-like common JD’11, was awarded a 2013 Ruth something to a poem representing a previously categorized into longer. Parks analyzed 2011 the first evidence that young ancestor. Analyzing genome- Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry little bit of the messiness of actual life two separate species—one a census data and found that infants are tracking other wide patterns of variation, Foundation and Poetry magazine, and not being sewn up shut too much. freshwater swamp dweller, low-wage black workers’ people’s social relationships,” the researchers concluded one of the most prestigious prizes I’m a disciple of Robert Frost in a lot the other inhabiting saltwater commutes are an average of says Woodward. The that dogs and wolves both for poetry in America. It came soon of ways: “no surprise in the writer, shallows—and concluded that seven minutes longer each way study was published online suffered massive decreases the species’ differences were than those of low-wage whites. September 23 in the Journal in population after their after the publication of her first no surprise in the reader.” And as a actually evidence of the earliest That’s evidence, Parks says, of Experimental Psychology: divergence, and that early book, No Object (Saturnalia Books), reader I’m always looking for a book known shark migration. The of a “jobs-housing mismatch,” General. dogs—lacking the gene for written during her three years at the to tell me something that I couldn’t sawfish-like Badringa, extinct driven in part by segregation, starch digestion, critical for Law School. have come to on my own. I want to for 30 million years, inhabited as blacks must travel far out WOLVES LET THE DOGS OUT domestication because it Shapero’s poems overlay quirky write poems that tell me something I an ancient river delta system of their neighborhoods to Dogs are commonly helped dogs adapt to human imaginative leaps on formal frames Pu ing on a new suit couldn’t have come to on my own, in in today’s Upper Midwest, find service and other jobs. understood to have evolved agricultural diets—were more using its extended snout for Parks presented her research from wolves domesticated by carnivorous than modern of meter and rhyme, at once spon- I worked at a nonprofit that did litiga- the absence of taking that trip. suction feeding off of river at the annual meeting of the early farmers. But a January dogs.—Derek Tsang, ’15 taneous and controlled, like a tion and advocacy to promote the Es- floors. Coates and Sallan’s American Association for the 16 PLoS Genetics study argues figure-skating routine set to the Ra- tablishment Clause, which is the part Jolly good fellow study was published in the Advancement of Science in that modern wolves and dogs mones. In “Your Other Heart,” for of the First Amendment that guaran- Fellowships have been incredibly January Journal of Vertebrate February. descended from a common example, she spins the story of an tees the separation of church and state. helpful in terms of allowing me to Paleontology. ancestor between 11 and 16 illustration by john megahan/university of michigan; photography by roger trentham/istock trentham/istock roger roger by by photography photography michigan; of michigan; of megahan/university megahan/university john john by by illustration illustration ill-fated rescue dog on moments of It was great. It was a real crash course carve out time and space for writing BABYWATCH millennia ago, when humans Even at nine months old, were still hunter-gatherers. wordplay: “I took in a dog the way in how actual lawsuits proceed. Law in my life. It’s a difficult thing to do. babies can tell whether or not An international team of some might take in / a dress,” and, school was a great education and very I’m kind of a slow writer, and I work adults get along with each researchers, including later, “That dog: I called it Help, theoretical, which I was really digging best when I have focused time that I other. University of Chicago University of Chicago genetics and I cried for it.” while I was there, but when I came can devote to it. I’m pretty steadily psychologists Amanda L. professor John Novembre, Shapero spent one year as a Steven out of law school I didn’t know how at work on a second book in a way Woodward and Katherine compared genomes from Gey Fellow with Americans United to bring a lawsuit or what happens on that I wouldn’t have been able to D. Kinzler, believing that two dog breeds, basenji from infants understand eating central Africa and dingo from for Separation of Church and State the ground. I had taken classes about without the fellowship, so I’m very, as a social activity, showed Australia, to the genomes of before returning to poetry full time as the procedural rules of lawsuits, but very happy about that. 64 nine-month-olds videos three gray wolves from China, the Kenyon Review Fellow at Kenyon there’s no substitute for actually being in which adults ate different Croatia, and Israel, regions College, where she teaches undergrad- involved in one. It was really fascinat- On being wrong Prehistoric Badringa was foods and reacted positively where dogs are believed to have Gene research complicates uate creative writing. The Magazine’s ing, and I love constitutional law, so I try to write a lot of poetry about the first migratory shark. or negatively, sometimes originated. The researchers the wolf-to-dog story. interview with her is condensed and the subject matter appealed to me a being wrong, and from the stance edited below.—Daniel Story lot. And I got to work with some re- of someone who is wrong, working ally awesome clients. through the problems of the world to audience. A group of his graduate day night is an experiment where they Saltzberg says, just like his pas - Stranger in a strange land try to come to an answer. It’s a nice students attended a taping after tak- decide whether a joke is funny.” sion for Isaac Asimov inspired him. I think of my time in law school like Critical thinking and poetic form place of vulnerability and humility ing an exam and Saltzberg adorned Since its premiere, Big Bang has been “There are people out there that may going to live in another country and I continued to write formal poetry to start from, saying “I don’t under- the whiteboard with solutions to the criticized for perpetuating negative have thought all of science ended with learn the language and culture and through my MFA program, and it stand this.” I try to read pretty broadly questions on their test. stereotypes about scientists—that they Newton or Maxwell.” expand the mind and heart that way. was getting increasingly elaborate and use a lot of diverse sources in my Saltzberg attends the taping most can’t muster the courage to talk to the A particle physicist could spend an It almost feels like going backward, and weighted down by its own in- poetry—and not just poetry but schol- weeks to chat with the writers and opposite sex and are social misfits. But entire career going down dead ends, in terms of where you are in the sane trickery. The classes in law arly literature and pop literature—to occasionally field questions on the fly. Saltzberg says the characters are funda- Saltzberg says, so increasing scientific discipline. Most people who go to school were really terrific, and they see how other people are thinking Watching the show live, he has come mentally likable and have evolved over literacy through the show could be as MFA programs have been writing were like a pressure release valve through the problems of the world. to realize that comedy writing is an the seven seasons; one has gotten mar- important as his research. for a long time and are trying to hone for the analytical part of my brain, And I try to chart those same trajec- empirical science. “You can argue, ried and others are dating. “My career’s not over yet—I don’t something that they already have a which freed up the poetry-writing tories through the smaller problems in theory, that your joke is funny and Big Bang shows its characters out- know if I’m going to stumble across a handle on. Whereas in law school ev- part of my brain to kind of chill out a of my own world. explain to everyone why your joke is side their labs more often than not, major discovery,” Saltzberg says. “So eryone is starting from scratch—no little bit. No Object does have a lot of funny, just like our theorists can ex- but even brief looks at the work they it may well be that the thing I have one’s been practicing law in advance. formal impulses in it, and a number Advice to young poets plain to us why supersymmetry must do can only encourage more people with the most lasting impact is the I felt like I was sitting farther back of the poems are in pentameter, but Get out of your poetry head, even be true,” Saltzberg says. “Every Tues- to view research as a viable career, show.”—Michael Lipkin, AB’11 photophoto courtesy courtesy kenyon kenyon college college from what I was trying to see. mostly what I wrote then and write just a little bit.

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little after two o’clock, biology profes- tached to poison glands.) “We’ll play with the millipedes research specialty—even means, but it doesn’t matter; you sor Michael LaBarbera strides toward THOSE OF YOU WHO after everybody is finished with the dissection,” he tells sign up anyway. “He makes everything interesting,” says the front of the lab with his customary the students, by which he means, let the millipedes walk fourth-year Andrew Burchill. “Whenever there’s been grin, the chatter in the room dies down, from student to student across hands and fingers and arms. a class offered that he’s teaching, I’ve taken it.” Burchill and 12 undergraduates fall into a cluster HAVE BEEN IN MY All those tiny legs, all moving at once. “Those of you who has taken four, including this fall’s Invertebrate Biology. around him. “OK!” he says, booming, have been in my biodiversity class know how much fun it is That’s not as unusual as it sounds. excited. He is not quite shouting. “Ar- BIODIVERSITY CLASS to have giant millipedes crawling up your arm,” LaBarbera Many students’ first encounter with LaBarbera is in a thropods!” It’s a Friday afternoon, the says, beaming. He’s completely serious. “Truly, it feels like course he teaches in the spring called Biodiversity. It’s ba- eighth week of fall quarter, and LaBar - KNOW HOW MUCH FUN magic fingers.” sically the story of all life on Earth, compressed into ten bera’s Invertebrate Biology class, having And finally, if there’s time, he’ll take out the grand dame weeks. Midway through, LaBarbera gives the students covered mollusks, sponges, hydroids, from the big tank up front, the female horseshoe crab, with waders and dip nets and takes them out to the Jackson Park corals, parasites, and all manner of worms, has arrived at IT IS TO HAVE GIANT a shell a foot across, another veteran of a previous class. lagoon, where they spend an hour and a half dredging up arthropods. It is an impossibly vast phylum, encompassing He’ll turn her belly side up (she doesn’t mind, he says) and whatever moves: fish; flatworms; leeches; freshwater in- Alobsters and shrimp, spiders and scorpions, centipedes, mil- MILLIPEDES CRAWLING feed her a wedge of shrimp (she loves shrimp) and maybe a sect larvae from dragonflies, damselflies, and mayflies. lipedes, and the exquisite, prodigious diversity of insects. live earthworm so the students can see how she chews with They take samples of the water, which they bring back to Taken together, arthropods account for the majority of all UP YOUR ARM. her powerful back legs, tearing and churning the food as she the lab and put under a microscope to try and identify all known living animal species—more than 80 percent, stud- marches it toward her mouth. the teeming, crawling organisms within. Students are al - ies estimate—and occupy nearly every habitat on Earth. “All right,” LaBarbera says, winding down. “We’re not ways amazed—and sometimes a little horrified, LaBarbera Earlier in the week, LaBarbera gave two lectures on ar- clams, jellyfish, sea fans, sea anemones, a hauntingly elegant doing the arthropods justice in any sense at all, but it’s still says—to see just how crammed with life their microscope thropods. Now he lays out the tasks for today’s lab: first, parchment worm, a dwarf octopus hiding under a rock. a busy lab. So get to it.” Breaking off into pairs, the students slides are. students will dissect crayfish, paying particular attention To this menagerie, LaBarbera has recently added several head first for the trays of crayfish. An expert in the biomechanics of marine invertebrates, to the limbs, noting how each branches out from the base arthropods, mostly shrimp and crabs (his marine biology LaBarbera joined the faculty in 1978, teaching in organ- like a Y, how different appendages share a similar architec- bias showing through, he confesses). In a freshwater jar, ismal biology and anatomy, geophysical sciences, the ture up and down the body, all drawing on the same ances- Daphnia, also called water fleas, and in another container, his December, after 36 years at the University of Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and the College. tral pathways and gene cascades, which eons ago coalesced pill bugs, a terrestrial crustacean. Elsewhere there are her- Chicago, LaBarbera is planning to retire. It will Especially the College. There’s enormous satisfaction and to build fins and, later, legs. mit crabs, fiddler crabs, a calico crab (“lots of personality,” leave a hole. He’s one of those professors whose reward in graduate-level teaching, LaBarbera says, but Then, a horseshoe crab dissection, lifting up the carapace he says), and tiny, mesmerizing Petrolisthes—the porcelain T class you take just because he’s teaching it. Maybe undergraduate education is “the heart and soul of it.” You to study the long thin tube of the heart, the gut nestled be- crab, waving its two fan-shaped appendages through the you think invertebrate biology sounds boring, or maybe have to work harder to get the students interested, but then neath it, the muscles that control the legs. There are also mi- water, grabbing at bits of floating food. Markings that look you’re not exactly sure what “biological fluid mechanics”— they’ll jump in with both feet. You watch them discover croscope slides of insects to examine—lice, mosquitoes, bed almost like sky-blue eyes gaze out from behind its claws. the title of another course and, incidentally, LaBarbera’s what they can do. You help them get there. bugs—and a collection of trilobite fossils. Horned and beetle- There’s also a three-inch-long pink shrimp, with a chemo- like, with their wide bodies and furrowed backs, trilobites sensor that looks like a big eyebrow; a red cleaning shrimp were among the planet’s most prosperous early animals; they (“if you put your finger in the water and pretend you’re a disappeared at the end of the Paleozoic, in a mass extinction fish, it will come up and clean your hand”); and several that killed off more than 90 percent of all marine life. grass shrimp, which LaBarbera tells the students to put into Finally, LaBarbera introduces the live animals. The a clear dish under a microscope with a little food, so they petting zoo. This is where the most boisterous learning can watch its gastric mill go to work, grinding the particles happens, and some of the best, as students interact with finer and finer until they’re small enough for the stomach to labarbera labarbera michael michael by by photography photography opening opening moving, breathing creatures; watch them swim, crawl, ingest. Don’t miss the heart, he says; it’s the thing that looks burrow, and feed; see them behave the way they do in the like a fluttering triangle. wild. A few weeks earlier, as an aquatic snail, guided by What else? “Millipedes!” LaBarbera suddenly remem - chemosensors on its tentacles, sniffed its way toward a bers his two pet millipedes, one of them a foot long and piece of shrimp—“just like a dog follows a rabbit trail”— as big around as a man’s thumb. Left over from a class he LaBarbera explained why these live interactions matter so taught a couple of years ago, now they spend most of their much: “Once you sit there and get down on the level of the time in a terrarium in his office, munching on green pep - animal,” he said, “you suddenly realize what its sensory pers and slumbering among the moss, but today they’re modalities are, what it’s doing, how it’s working. What its here, in their little traveling cases. Millipedes, LaBarbera world looks like.” likes to say, are basically invertebrate cows: harmless, her- And so the whole back of the lab hums with half a dozen bivorous, vaguely lumbering. (Their centipede cousins, saltwater aquariums, each filled with a growing census by contrast, are more like cheetahs: nocturnal predators

of live creatures the class has studied during the quarter: that chase down their prey and stab them with fangs at - photographyphotography by by anne anne ryan ryan Students line up to take their turn with the “magic ﬁngers” of LaBarbera’s pet millipede.

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Barbera of a story about the big mountain pond in northern Uganda where, during grad school, he and another student THEY WERE SO were taking sediment samples and suddenly discovered that their canvas boat was crawling with leeches. The animals HUNGRY, THEY WERE were coming over the side. “They were so hungry, they were coming after us,” LaBarbera said. “The scariest thing I’ve COMING AFTER US. THE ever seen in my life.” Yet he was grinning again. And that’s the thing. LaBarbera’s affection for ani - SCARIEST THING I’VE mals—all animals—is enormous. For him, there seems to be something wonderful and exhilarating in almost every encounter. That’s why he’s forever taking pictures, carry- EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. ing his camera to Botany Pond, Jackson Park, Washington Park, and to faraway oceans across the world. In the lab, he rious. At the end of every class, I always come away like, keeps a tripod trained on the aquariums, waiting to catch a ‘What’s going to happen in the next class?’” flower-like phoronid with its tiny mouth open, or a barnacle Sometimes the intellectual adventures seem inseparable with its feathery legs extended. (“This is what is captivat- from more tangible ones. For instance: the gigantic Hum- ing me in my old age,” he says, the beauty and strangeness boldt squid with ten-foot tentacles that washed ashore one of the natural world. Retirement will allow him more time summer near the Puget Sound marine lab where LaBarbera behind the camera; he has at least one photography expedi- was working. “We dissected this thing in a driveway,” he tion already on his calendar.) told his students, who at that moment were hunkered over LaBarbera’s love for animals is warmly generous and their own squid dissections with tweezers and clippers. familiar, even intimate, but it’s also a scientist’s love: “It was really fun. It took us all day. You don’t see these clear-eyed, unsentimental, without romantic illusions. He specimens very often. Everybody was in there taking sam- understands how an animal is working, what it needs, what ples and studying the morphology.” Instead of the rings of it’s trying to do. What its world looks like. teeth that line the suckers of smaller squids’ tentacles—the suction presses the teeth into the prey’s flesh, making the squid’s grasp inescapable (“such a cool adaptation”)—the aBarbera is also the guy people call when they find Humboldt had hooks, LaBarbera said. “Literal hooks.” He an animal on campus hurt or lost, or just in the wrong seemed amazed all over again. place—like, say, when a snapping turtle gets into Among the shells on display in the lab that day was one L Botany Pond and starts menacing the fish, or a duck- from a giant clam about a foot and a half wide. LaBarbera ling escapes, or wanderlust overtakes the painted turtles brought it home from Fiji himself, snorkeling down 25 feet and they start heading toward the road. (Spring, he says, is to get it. Swimming back up with it, he nearly drowned. a busy time of year; whenever he hears the phone ring, he “They get rid of predators by squirting water at them,” he reaches for his net.) He also gets calls about birds that fall told the students gathered around him, “so I had this clam to the ground after flying into buildings: “We’re on a major under my arm, and it was going, whoosh! Whoosh! And north-south flyway,” he says. “Birds that fly up to Canada shooting this rocket of water up. And every time I would come up along the lake, and they stop in Hyde Park because Most students call him “LaB,” an old grad school nick- hand back. “Which I have never had any professor do, ever,” kick we would go up, and every time it would close, we of Jackson Park and Washington Park, these semiwild ar- name he resurrected when he found that some students were Leu says. Plus, says Andrea Rummel, another fourth-year: would go down, and I wasn’t sure I was going to make it.” eas.” From the air, the whole neighborhood looks like a for- tripping over the syllables of his last name. Unable to say “I mean, the millipede. I love that. It’s like the most random, He paused. “Anyway. This is my giant clam.” est; trees everywhere, with the occasional roof and spire “LaBarbera,” they would retreat to “Professor.” “I didn’t kind of specialist animal you could keep for a pet.” A week later, during a lecture on annelids, the phylum of peeking through the canopy. like the wall that immediately went up,” he says. Switching But part of what draws students in is something else, an segmented worms, talk turned to the odd kinship between Other faculty call LaBarbera when they have animals they to LaB brought the wall back down. “They’re willing to say, idea that also animates LaBarbera’s own research and sends earthworms and leeches. LaBarbera was explaining how can no longer keep and don’t want to kill. A researcher came ‘Hey, LaB, I don’t understand what’s going on here.’” him chasing after new questions sometimes while he’s still ryan ryan anne anne by by photography photography leeches, with their suckers and jaws, are a sister group to in recently with some Daphnia left over from a study on heart Ask College students what they like so much about his answering the last one: it’s the sense that science is a shared earthworms, except they’ve undone many of the evolution- rates; one afternoon this past fall, a postdoc from another lab classes, and they’ll tell you how much fun his labs are, how adventure, one that his students can take part in, that it’s ary complexities of those “fancy worms”—the segmented showed up with a pleading look and a Styrofoam cooler full generous he is with his time, how it’s almost impossible to ask a story always being written and rewritten. “Which is the body cavities, the high-efficiency locomotory apparatus. of starfish and sea urchins. “I’m the guy that takes care of ev- a question he can’t answer, no matter how odd or esoteric. truth in all science, but usually no one presents it like that,” “What leeches do is lose all of that. … So they basically turn erybody else’s animals,” LaBarbera says. “Anything that’s Fourth-year Chelsea Leu notes that last fall he offered to Burchill says. “So something like taxonomy, which is usu- into flatworms with mesenchyme”—loosely packed, rela- aquatic, and especially aquatic and invertebrate—that’s read drafts of students’ papers and give comments for revi- ally considered pretty dry, he presents it like a mystery that tively undifferentiated cells—“filling in the spaces.” Why? mine. Everybody knows. Just call me up.” He’s inherited a sion before they handed them in for a grade. As many drafts we’re working on. Like, ‘We’re not done yet.’ And we’re He told students to think about it and offered a hint: “It has couple of fish and some corals from an aquarium upstairs. as they could turn out before the due date, he would read and not—taxonomies sometimes change. But it makes you cu- to do with the way they locomote.” Which reminded La- Some years ago, he took in an injured baby softshell turtle

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Barbera of a story about the big mountain pond in northern Uganda where, during grad school, he and another student THEY WERE SO were taking sediment samples and suddenly discovered that their canvas boat was crawling with leeches. The animals HUNGRY, THEY WERE were coming over the side. “They were so hungry, they were coming after us,” LaBarbera said. “The scariest thing I’ve COMING AFTER US. THE ever seen in my life.” Yet he was grinning again. And that’s the thing. LaBarbera’s affection for ani - SCARIEST THING I’VE mals—all animals—is enormous. For him, there seems to be something wonderful and exhilarating in almost every encounter. That’s why he’s forever taking pictures, carry- EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. ing his camera to Botany Pond, Jackson Park, Washington Park, and to faraway oceans across the world. In the lab, he rious. At the end of every class, I always come away like, keeps a tripod trained on the aquariums, waiting to catch a ‘What’s going to happen in the next class?’” flower-like phoronid with its tiny mouth open, or a barnacle Sometimes the intellectual adventures seem inseparable with its feathery legs extended. (“This is what is captivat- from more tangible ones. For instance: the gigantic Hum- ing me in my old age,” he says, the beauty and strangeness boldt squid with ten-foot tentacles that washed ashore one of the natural world. Retirement will allow him more time summer near the Puget Sound marine lab where LaBarbera behind the camera; he has at least one photography expedi- was working. “We dissected this thing in a driveway,” he tion already on his calendar.) told his students, who at that moment were hunkered over LaBarbera’s love for animals is warmly generous and their own squid dissections with tweezers and clippers. familiar, even intimate, but it’s also a scientist’s love: “It was really fun. It took us all day. You don’t see these clear-eyed, unsentimental, without romantic illusions. He specimens very often. Everybody was in there taking sam- understands how an animal is working, what it needs, what ples and studying the morphology.” Instead of the rings of it’s trying to do. What its world looks like. teeth that line the suckers of smaller squids’ tentacles—the suction presses the teeth into the prey’s flesh, making the squid’s grasp inescapable (“such a cool adaptation”)—the aBarbera is also the guy people call when they find Humboldt had hooks, LaBarbera said. “Literal hooks.” He an animal on campus hurt or lost, or just in the wrong seemed amazed all over again. place—like, say, when a snapping turtle gets into Among the shells on display in the lab that day was one L Botany Pond and starts menacing the fish, or a duck- from a giant clam about a foot and a half wide. LaBarbera ling escapes, or wanderlust overtakes the painted turtles brought it home from Fiji himself, snorkeling down 25 feet and they start heading toward the road. (Spring, he says, is to get it. Swimming back up with it, he nearly drowned. a busy time of year; whenever he hears the phone ring, he “They get rid of predators by squirting water at them,” he reaches for his net.) He also gets calls about birds that fall told the students gathered around him, “so I had this clam to the ground after flying into buildings: “We’re on a major under my arm, and it was going, whoosh! Whoosh! And north-south flyway,” he says. “Birds that fly up to Canada shooting this rocket of water up. And every time I would come up along the lake, and they stop in Hyde Park because kick we would go up, and every time it would close, we of Jackson Park and Washington Park, these semiwild ar- would go down, and I wasn’t sure I was going to make it.” eas.” From the air, the whole neighborhood looks like a for- He paused. “Anyway. This is my giant clam.” est; trees everywhere, with the occasional roof and spire A week later, during a lecture on annelids, the phylum of peeking through the canopy. segmented worms, talk turned to the odd kinship between Other faculty call LaBarbera when they have animals they earthworms and leeches. LaBarbera was explaining how can no longer keep and don’t want to kill. A researcher came photography by anne ryan anne by photography leeches, with their suckers and jaws, are a sister group to in recently with some Daphnia left over from a study on heart earthworms, except they’ve undone many of the evolution- rates; one afternoon this past fall, a postdoc from another lab ary complexities of those “fancy worms”—the segmented showed up with a pleading look and a Styrofoam cooler full body cavities, the high-efficiency locomotory apparatus. of starfish and sea urchins. “I’m the guy that takes care of ev- “What leeches do is lose all of that. … So they basically turn erybody else’s animals,” LaBarbera says. “Anything that’s into flatworms with mesenchyme”—loosely packed, rela- aquatic, and especially aquatic and invertebrate—that’s tively undifferentiated cells—“filling in the spaces.” Why? mine. Everybody knows. Just call me up.” He’s inherited a He told students to think about it and offered a hint: “It has couple of fish and some corals from an aquarium upstairs. to do with the way they locomote.” Which reminded La- Some years ago, he took in an injured baby softshell turtle

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after a former student rescued it from the jaws of a snapping The marine animals were the ones that interested him turtle at a Field Museum laboratory, prying the frightened most. They seemed so otherworldly, with their alien shapes animal loose with a screwdriver. That one LaBarbera took and bizarre formations. This, he realized, was where the home to his wife and two daughters, where it joined an ever- real diversity was. “I was absolutely captivated by the cni- evolving collection of pets that has included, at one time or darians,” he says. That group includes corals, jellyfish, and another, fish, lovebirds, parakeets, ferrets, gerbils, guinea sea anemones. For a kid living in a one-stoplight town far pigs, a tortoise, and a hamster. “We’ve always had a house- from the ocean, “sea anemones and corals were the ultimate ful,” he says. exotics—wonderful beasts that did so much with so little.” LaBarbera’s wife, Maggie Hivnor, AM’77, is the paper- The cnidarian body plan is surprisingly simple: two lay- back editor at the University of Chicago Press. His young - ers of cells separated by a gelatinous substance that acts as est daughter, Claire, U-High’10, is in college, and his oldest, a kind of flexible internal skeleton. Essentially, they are a Katie, U-High’06, is a PhD student at Berkeley, where she sac within a sac. “We got some occasional fossil corals in my studies behavioral ecology. The first sign of her scientific dis- neighborhood,” LaBarbera says, “but I’d never seen any of position, LaBarbera says, came when she was seven years these animals alive.” Hyman’s depictions set his mind on fire. old and one of the family parakeets died. “She said, ‘I miss And so in 1966 LaBarbera enrolled at Cornell University the bird so much,’” LaBarbera recalls. And then, knowing as a marine biology major, having never seen the ocean. “It that her father knew taxidermy, she asked, “‘Dad, can’t you was kind of this magic thing that I was just intrigued by,” he stuff it?’ And I foolishly said, ‘Sure.’ So we had this long says. He finally got there the summer after his junior year, afternoon in which we skinned this poor parakeet and I on a research fellowship at the Virginia Institute of Marine proceeded to prepare the skin and stuff it.” There’s an art Science, an academic laboratory on a little jut of land on the to taxidermy; you have to cut the legs off and clean out the Chesapeake Bay. The following year, an oceanography skull while keeping it intact. Everything else—bones, or- course took him on a cruise to the Sargasso Sea. gans, viscera—comes out, and then the body is packed with After Cornell, he went to Duke, where he studied with cotton. “It’s pretty gruesome,” LaBarbera says. “But Katie Steven Vogel, a founding scholar of modern biomechanics. was right in there, watching every step. … I thought a seven- A relatively small discipline, it suited LaBarbera’s concep - year-old would chicken out as soon as I started peeling back tual-yet-in-the-mud-up-to-his-elbows approach to science. the skin.” At Berkeley Katie LaBarbera studies the dark- Biomechanics studies the structure and function of living eyed junco, a species of sparrow. Her stuffed parakeet is in a systems using methods taken from mechanics, which ana- drawer back home in Hyde Park. lyzes the effect of forces on the motion of bodies. There’s physics in biomechanics, and more than a little engineering. Kristin Sherrard, SM’00, PhD’03, a former graduate student rom the time he was in middle school, LaBarbera of LaBarbera’s, explains: “Biology can be very descriptive, wanted to be a biologist. Paleontology was the thing or it can be very quantitative and technical.” Biomechanics that hooked him first. “Because I grew up in upstate makes it possible to do both, examining how an organism’s F New York, surrounded by all these wonderful De- structure influences its ability to survive and reproduce. vonian formations,” he says. “There, you kick a rock, and it’s a brachiopod.” In eighth grade, he discovered zoologist Libbie Hyman’s The Invertebrates (McGraw-Hill, 1940) at the public library, an exhaustive multivolume compendium that Hyman, SB 1910, PhD 1915, devoted the last decades SEA ANEMONES AND of her life to writing (the sixth and final volume came out in 1967, when LaBarbera was in college and Hyman was 79). CORALS WERE THE He read the whole thing cover to cover, encountering strange and fascinating creatures. The Invertebrates had loads of pic- ULTIMATE EXOTICS— tures, although some of them were less than elegant—mostly they were line drawings taken straight from journal articles. But they were endlessly detailed and scrupulously annotated. WONDERFUL BEASTS “Hyman labeled everything,” LaBarbera says: every joint and appendage and tissue and lobe. Every tentacle, every papilla, THAT DID SO MUCH every ventral groove. He spent hours lost in those pages, de-

ciphering each organism, structure by structure. WITH SO LITTLE. classroomclassroom photography photography by anne ryan; by specimen anne ryan; photography specimen by photography michael labarbera by michael labarbera

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n lab one afternoon, LaBarbera and his students crowd LaBarbera says, “so the only way to extend the life of the around a dish of yolky, translucent eggs, from which octopus is to go in and remove organs that normally secrete cuttlefish are hatching. The room goes silent as one of hormones associated with brooding and mating. If you do I the eggs begins to quiver and break open. Gasps. “Oh, that, they will live longer, but they’re not the same. They he came out!” says grad student Carrie Albertin, SM’12, just kind of turn into vegetables. It’s really sad.” who’d brought the eggs over from a lab down the hall, along He wonders what would happen if octopuses had “cul- with a newly hatched octopus in another dish. Each new- tural transmission,” if adults could teach things to their born is perhaps half an inch long, maybe less; the cuttlefish, young. Put two octopuses in adjacent tanks, and one will a Metasepia pfefferi, changes colors furiously as it emerges: watch the other and learn from it, he tells the students. “If yellow, red, purple, white, brown. With its ribbonlike there was generational overlap, they could give us real com- arms billowing, it looks almost like a tiny shifting flame in petition.” He trails off. the water. The newborn octopus, curled and motionless, waits at the bottom of its dish. In the wild, octopuses are on their own from the moment aBarbera’s biomechanics research focuses on fluid they hatch, because adults do not survive after reproduc- dynamics, and often—because that childhood cu- tion. The male dies after fertilizing the eggs—an elaborate riosity about the Devonian fossils in upstate New process that often involves a detachable sperm-carrying ten- L York never left him—the fluid dynamics of long- tacle, which swims through the water independently. The dead species. Years ago, when he wanted to test whether a female broods the eggs for as long as she can, forgoing food mathematical formula called Murray’s law, which predicts and losing strength until she dies. In her lab, Albertin says, the relative size of blood vessels in a branching network, the female usually stays alive until about ten days before her held up in invertebrates, he started with a 60-million-year- eggs hatch. A strange and tragic lifecycle, adds LaBarbera, old fossilized sponge. (Then he moved on to earthworms, for an animal of such intelligence. “Cephalopods are the horseshoe crabs, bivalves, and blue crabs.) Murray’s law invertebrates that most closely approximate vertebrates in worked, he found, after some initially confounding results. terms of intelligence and learning ability,” he says. Their More often than not, LaBarbera’s research has him brains are huge, and hugely complex, with nerve cords ex - building models of extinct marine animals, which almost tending into each of their eight arms. “In terms of basic intel- inevitably he ends up submerging in the ocean somewhere, ligence, it’s hard to compare animals, but estimates I’ve seen to see what happens out in the wild. To see how they might say that your average good-sized octopus is about as intelli- have behaved, what they did to eat and survive, what their ryan ryan anne anne by by photography photography gent as your average good-sized cat.” He pauses. “Which is worlds looked like. not bad for an animal whose nearest relative is a snail.” He’s famous for his models. “Elegant,” is how former A student asks LaBarbera why octopuses became geneti- gaduate student Paul Magwene, PhD’99, describes them: cally programmed to die. Mesozoic clams with shells shaped like giant ice-cream “We don’t know,” he says. “Best guess is that it’s an ac- cones; oysters from the Cretaceous; plant-like echino- cident of their evolutionary history.” At some point there derms called blastoids, with long stalks and hundreds of must have been advantages in investing everything it had arms radiating out from small kerneled bodies. Extinct for

into one brood. “It’s now built into the hormonal system,” 250 million years, blastoid fossils now litter the Midwest. photographyphotography by by michael michael labarbera labarbera

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into one brood. “It’s now built into the hormonal system,” 250 million years, blastoid fossils now litter the Midwest. photographyphotography by by michael michael labarbera labarbera

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UCH_LaBarbera_v12.indd 9 2/28/14 12:25 PM UCH_LaBarbera_v9.inddweb_2014_mar-apr.indd 3710 2/26/143/7/14 5:139:51 PMAM says the independence to explore, even blind alleys, was important to his education. “Mike makes the students so YOU SIMPLIFY, YOU fearless about trying things,” Kidwell says. “But also, they learn how to think, and how to conceptualize a problem and LOOK AT ONE VARIABLE, turn it into something doable and testable.” BUT YOU STILL LOOK n the day before his arthropod lab, LaBarbera is in UNPLANNED AT IT IN THE NATURAL his lab by noon. This week’s live animals have arrived, shipped from the Gulf of Mexico in a giant WORLD, SO IT’S GOT O Styrofoam cooler, each sealed in its own plastic bag ENCOUNTERS full of water. All those crabs and shrimp—which he pulls Surprise specimens in the lab. out one by one, greeting them merrily, “Hi there! Good to BY MICHAEL LABARBERA THE WHOLE MESSINESS see you, little guy”—are hungry and tired. LaBarbera will spend the next three or four hours slowly acclimating each OF THE NATURAL WORLD. animal to its new habitat in the aquariums: opening the bags to let in fresh oxygen, incrementally adding water from the tanks, careful not to stress the creatures with abrupt Porcelain crabs have begun showing up unexpectedly. LaBarbera’s blastoid model, with its wire stalk and 570 red changes in temperature or salinity. “I want the shock to be bristled arms (“I counted,” he says), sits atop his desk. minimal,” he says. His office, on the first floor of Culver Hall, with a win- With his TA, Liam Heins, AB’13, LaBarbera ventures hen you buy a shrimp from an animal sup- ent currents are low, porcelain crabs sweep their front ap- dow overlooking Botany Pond, resembles a machine shop, up to the fourth floor where the preserved specimens are plier, you generally get a shrimp (and, occa- pendages, called maxillipeds, through the water, catching with equipment and construction materials scattered ev- stored, in a narrow windowless closet crammed floor to sionally, some shrimp parasites). But when planktonic animals, but if the current is high enough, they erywhere—saws, drills, electrical wiring, a bucket of ep- ceiling with dead creatures, staring out opaquely from jars you buy an oyster, you get an ecosystem: the just hold the maxilliped in the flow, like a feathery catcher’s oxy, a can of WD-40. Aquariums crowd one corner. The of formaldehyde. “Here’s the house of horrors,” LaBar- oyster and the sponges, hydroids, barnacles, mitt, letting the current do the work. Because currents are whole place seems emblematic of LaBarbera’s approach to bera says cheerfully, swinging open the door. Scanning the and clams growing on the oyster (the “epi- stronger farther from the bottom, porcelain crabs tend to his work. His colleague Susan Kidwell, who teaches in geo- shelves, he hands jar after jar to Heins, who places them on fauna”); the flatworms, crabs, snails, and be climbers; in our tanks they routinely decorated the arms physical sciences and also studies marine fossils, describes a cart to wheel back to the lab: scorpions, tarantulas, sea Wcopepods living among the epifauna; and any eggs that hap- of the sea fans, semaphorically flashing the yellow and blue that approach. He’s able to “simplify,”she says—conceptu- spiders, gooseneck barnacles, a mantis shrimp. “Some of pen to be attached. bases of their maxillipeds with messages unknown. alizing complex animals as machines with measurable vari- these specimens are just ancient,” LaBarbera says. “That Some of these “volunteers” are obvious immediately, and Some volunteers are initially cryptic but as reliable as ables—but he’s also “completely willing to leave it messy.” thing up there?” He points to a jar on the top shelf contain- they add a note of extra diversity to the labs. (And teachable clockwork in their appearance. For example, each time I of- That’s why LaBarbera takes his models to the ocean, not ing cross sections of an eel-shaped, rasp-faced hagfish. moments. The sight of barnacles mating produces indelible fer Invertebrate Biology, sometime in the sixth or seventh relying solely on tests in specialized flow tanks with con- “That’s probably 100 years old.” memories of invertebrate debauchery.) The most obvi- week there appears an acoel flatworm, Heterochaerus sargassi, trollable forces. “You simplify, you look at one variable,” Back downstairs in the lab, the live animals are ready for ous—and charming—volunteers this past fall were several two to three millimeters long, a living representative of a Kidwell says, “but you still look at it in the natural world, full immersion. Fiddler crabs, set up in a tank that simu- dozen green porcelain crabs, Petrolisthes armatus, which group that immediately predates the major diversification so it’s got the whole messiness of the natural world.” As lates a sandy beach, are already building their burrows. came hidden among the clumps of oysters and barnacles. of multicellular animals. More commonly, the volunteers useful as it is to think about animals as machines, they’re In the back corner, Heins organizes the trilobite fossils. Porcelain crabs look like flattened crabs, but are actually are unpredictable, and every day offers the possibility of a still animals, living in environments that aren’t always pre- LaBarbera gets out the microscope slides of insects and more closely related to squat lobsters; this species has been surprise. Last quarter it came in week six when half a dozen dictable. It helps to see models in real marine conditions, crustaceans, some of which he made when he himself was progressively moving north from Brazil along the coast jellyfish, two millimeters in diameter, suddenly appeared even models of prehistoric animals in modern-day seas. As an undergraduate, from specimens collected on that trip to of the Atlantic over the past 80 years and now is common in one of the tanks, clinging to the aquarium glass like tiny LaBarbera says, “Let’s just see what happens.” the Sargasso in 1969. “M. LaBarbera,” they read, in minia- in the Gulf of Mexico and along the southeast coast. Like ornaments. A week and several trips to the library later, I In his classes, both graduate and undergraduate (Kidwell ture black script. barnacles, porcelain crabs are suspension feeders: if ambi- finally put a name to them: Cladonema radiatum. The jelly- and LaBarbera have cotaught College field courses in Mex- “When students come in, all of this is transparent,” he fish represents the sexually mature stage of a benthic hydroid ico and the Bahamas, where students conduct their own says. They never know how much work goes into each lab. (which I never found despite much searching). Cladonema is research projects), LaBarbera passes on this sensibility. One last check around the room to make sure every- unusual in that the jellyfish stage normally lives attached to Sherrard describes his willingness to let students make body’s fed and happy and settled. It’s nearly four o’clock. eelgrass blades, letting its tentacles stream out in the current instructive mistakes and attempt things that may not lead “All right,” LaBarbera says. “I’m out of here. I think we’re WHEN YOU BUY AN to catch zooplankton; when disturbed, it releases its hold, anywhere. She once spent several months on an experi- ready for tomorrow.” ◆ swims away, and finds another spot to attach to. Apparently ment that yielded no data; the effort, she says, was still To see more of LaBarbera’s photos and read about OYSTER, YOU GET AN the glass wall of an aquarium serves as well as an eelgrass valuable. Magwene, who switched dissertation topics mid- a fund he is organizing to support College student blade, giving the class—and me—a chance to appreciate the

way through his studies, from limbless lizards to turtles, research, visit mag.uchicago.edu/creatures. photographyphotography by michael by michael labarbera labarberaECOSYSTEM. delicate symmetry of this tiny predator. ◆

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UCH_LaBarbera_v12.inddweb_2014_mar-apr.indd 38 11 2/28/143/7/14 12:25 9:51 AMPM UCH_LaBarbera_v12.indd 12 2/28/14 12:25 PM says the independence to explore, even blind alleys, was important to his education. “Mike makes the students so YOU SIMPLIFY, YOU fearless about trying things,” Kidwell says. “But also, they learn how to think, and how to conceptualize a problem and LOOK AT ONE VARIABLE, turn it into something doable and testable.” BUT YOU STILL LOOK n the day before his arthropod lab, LaBarbera is in UNPLANNED AT IT IN THE NATURAL his lab by noon. This week’s live animals have arrived, shipped from the Gulf of Mexico in a giant WORLD, SO IT’S GOT O Styrofoam cooler, each sealed in its own plastic bag ENCOUNTERS full of water. All those crabs and shrimp—which he pulls Surprise specimens in the lab. out one by one, greeting them merrily, “Hi there! Good to BY MICHAEL LABARBERA THE WHOLE MESSINESS see you, little guy”—are hungry and tired. LaBarbera will spend the next three or four hours slowly acclimating each OF THE NATURAL WORLD. animal to its new habitat in the aquariums: opening the bags to let in fresh oxygen, incrementally adding water from the tanks, careful not to stress the creatures with abrupt Porcelain crabs have begun showing up unexpectedly. LaBarbera’s blastoid model, with its wire stalk and 570 red changes in temperature or salinity. “I want the shock to be bristled arms (“I counted,” he says), sits atop his desk. minimal,” he says. His office, on the first floor of Culver Hall, with a win- With his TA, Liam Heins, AB’13, LaBarbera ventures hen you buy a shrimp from an animal sup- ent currents are low, porcelain crabs sweep their front ap- dow overlooking Botany Pond, resembles a machine shop, up to the fourth floor where the preserved specimens are plier, you generally get a shrimp (and, occa- pendages, called maxillipeds, through the water, catching with equipment and construction materials scattered ev- stored, in a narrow windowless closet crammed floor to sionally, some shrimp parasites). But when planktonic animals, but if the current is high enough, they erywhere—saws, drills, electrical wiring, a bucket of ep- ceiling with dead creatures, staring out opaquely from jars you buy an oyster, you get an ecosystem: the just hold the maxilliped in the flow, like a feathery catcher’s oxy, a can of WD-40. Aquariums crowd one corner. The of formaldehyde. “Here’s the house of horrors,” LaBar- oyster and the sponges, hydroids, barnacles, mitt, letting the current do the work. Because currents are whole place seems emblematic of LaBarbera’s approach to bera says cheerfully, swinging open the door. Scanning the and clams growing on the oyster (the “epi- stronger farther from the bottom, porcelain crabs tend to his work. His colleague Susan Kidwell, who teaches in geo- shelves, he hands jar after jar to Heins, who places them on fauna”); the flatworms, crabs, snails, and be climbers; in our tanks they routinely decorated the arms physical sciences and also studies marine fossils, describes a cart to wheel back to the lab: scorpions, tarantulas, sea Wcopepods living among the epifauna; and any eggs that hap- of the sea fans, semaphorically flashing the yellow and blue that approach. He’s able to “simplify,”she says—conceptu- spiders, gooseneck barnacles, a mantis shrimp. “Some of pen to be attached. bases of their maxillipeds with messages unknown. alizing complex animals as machines with measurable vari- these specimens are just ancient,” LaBarbera says. “That Some of these “volunteers” are obvious immediately, and Some volunteers are initially cryptic but as reliable as ables—but he’s also “completely willing to leave it messy.” thing up there?” He points to a jar on the top shelf contain- they add a note of extra diversity to the labs. (And teachable clockwork in their appearance. For example, each time I of- That’s why LaBarbera takes his models to the ocean, not ing cross sections of an eel-shaped, rasp-faced hagfish. moments. The sight of barnacles mating produces indelible fer Invertebrate Biology, sometime in the sixth or seventh relying solely on tests in specialized flow tanks with con- “That’s probably 100 years old.” memories of invertebrate debauchery.) The most obvi- week there appears an acoel flatworm, Heterochaerus sargassi, trollable forces. “You simplify, you look at one variable,” Back downstairs in the lab, the live animals are ready for ous—and charming—volunteers this past fall were several two to three millimeters long, a living representative of a Kidwell says, “but you still look at it in the natural world, full immersion. Fiddler crabs, set up in a tank that simu- dozen green porcelain crabs, Petrolisthes armatus, which group that immediately predates the major diversification so it’s got the whole messiness of the natural world.” As lates a sandy beach, are already building their burrows. came hidden among the clumps of oysters and barnacles. of multicellular animals. More commonly, the volunteers useful as it is to think about animals as machines, they’re In the back corner, Heins organizes the trilobite fossils. Porcelain crabs look like flattened crabs, but are actually are unpredictable, and every day offers the possibility of a still animals, living in environments that aren’t always pre- LaBarbera gets out the microscope slides of insects and more closely related to squat lobsters; this species has been surprise. Last quarter it came in week six when half a dozen dictable. It helps to see models in real marine conditions, crustaceans, some of which he made when he himself was progressively moving north from Brazil along the coast jellyfish, two millimeters in diameter, suddenly appeared even models of prehistoric animals in modern-day seas. As an undergraduate, from specimens collected on that trip to of the Atlantic over the past 80 years and now is common in one of the tanks, clinging to the aquarium glass like tiny LaBarbera says, “Let’s just see what happens.” the Sargasso in 1969. “M. LaBarbera,” they read, in minia- in the Gulf of Mexico and along the southeast coast. Like ornaments. A week and several trips to the library later, I In his classes, both graduate and undergraduate (Kidwell ture black script. barnacles, porcelain crabs are suspension feeders: if ambi- finally put a name to them: Cladonema radiatum. The jelly- and LaBarbera have cotaught College field courses in Mex- “When students come in, all of this is transparent,” he fish represents the sexually mature stage of a benthic hydroid ico and the Bahamas, where students conduct their own says. They never know how much work goes into each lab. (which I never found despite much searching). Cladonema is research projects), LaBarbera passes on this sensibility. One last check around the room to make sure every- unusual in that the jellyfish stage normally lives attached to Sherrard describes his willingness to let students make body’s fed and happy and settled. It’s nearly four o’clock. eelgrass blades, letting its tentacles stream out in the current instructive mistakes and attempt things that may not lead “All right,” LaBarbera says. “I’m out of here. I think we’re WHEN YOU BUY AN to catch zooplankton; when disturbed, it releases its hold, anywhere. She once spent several months on an experi- ready for tomorrow.” ◆ swims away, and finds another spot to attach to. Apparently ment that yielded no data; the effort, she says, was still To see more of LaBarbera’s photos and read about OYSTER, YOU GET AN the glass wall of an aquarium serves as well as an eelgrass valuable. Magwene, who switched dissertation topics mid- a fund he is organizing to support College student blade, giving the class—and me—a chance to appreciate the way through his studies, from limbless lizards to turtles, research, visit mag.uchicago.edu/creatures. photographyphotography by michael by michael labarbera labarberaECOSYSTEM. delicate symmetry of this tiny predator. ◆

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is a model for what the JUDITHJUDITH VICTORVICTOR GRABGRABINERINER search for absolute truth BY DEREK TSANG, ’15 could be, because although the objects in mathematics aren’t as good as Plato’s form of good, they are unchanging, and so you can have unchanging truth about them. So the idea that you could have a mathematics of change, at least in the ancient world, athematics historian Judith the MAA’s Lester R. Ford Award for best article in Ameri- well, that doesn’t seem like Victor Grabiner, SB’60, took can Mathematical Monthly. After finishing her current project a reasonable thing to do. UChicago’s Core to heart. Now on math’s place in the liberal arts, Grabiner plans to research But that’s what calculus is. a Pitzer College professor, in the history of optimization in mathematics and philosophy. high school she found math to be In an interview with the Magazine, edited and adapted be- Misleading statistics the only subject “taught with any low, she talks about her life, teaching, and research. In political life, a little intellectual rigor and integrity” quantitative understanding and chose the University of Resonance can help you speak Chicago because of its strong There’s a guy who taught music at the University of Chi- intelligently about public math department. There Grabiner cago, back when I was a student, called Leonard Meyer Mathematics historian Judith Grabiner, SB’60, brings math to the liberal arts masses. policy. You have to figure discovered that problems in the [PhD’54]. And he wrote a book called Emotion and Meaning out whether the average is humanities were “just as challenging and just as interesting in Music (University of Chicago Press, 1956). I was flipping an arithmetic mean, where and just as important as problems in the sciences,” she through it one day, and this just jumped out on the page at the Indian, the Islamic, that have very sophisticated the outlier cases pull the mean very much, or whether it’s a Msays. Humanities 3, taught by Herman Sinaiko, AB’47, me: that musical beauty is a violation of your expectations mathematical systems. One of the subjects that’s been median, half above and half below, or whether it’s the most- PhD’61, was the turning point. She realized “that history, in a way that afterward seems natural. That’s what I think discovered in many different cultures is elementary often-achieved value. Statistical abstractions are very handy, philosophy, and literature were going to be part of my mathematical beauty is too. I’d like to see liberal arts stu - combinatorics. Say in medieval India, you’ve got a line of and they’re nice shorthand for a large amount of data. But intellectual approach to the world after that.” dents get that and have that experience. Sanskrit poetry that has five syllables in it, and every syllable what’s real, ultimately, are the individuals, and you really Grabiner wedded the humanities to her mathematical can be either heavy or light, and a good poem that’s got five have to look at how things are distributed. Francis Galton, a literacy with a PhD in the history of science from Harvard, Multicultural math syllable lines uses every possible combination of heavy and famous 19th-century British statistician, is supposed to have where she read Galileo’s and Newton’s original writings for Almost every culture that we know anything about has light—well, how many are there? said that, on the average, Switzerland is flat. the first time. After a few years as a Harvard instructor, she had some kind of mathematics, and the mathematics that and husband Sandy, a mathematician at the Massachusetts they have is developed to solve problems of that particular Fear and loathing in math class Math, philosophy, and the “real world” Institute of Technology, headed to California looking for culture. There are cultures that have mathematically My students don’t take mathematics as part of their At the end of my class, every student has to do a report on jobs. Grabiner bounced between teaching and working complicated kinship systems and geometric representations major. They want to find a math course that interests how mathematics is used in an area of interest to that student. on her first book—The Origin of Cauchy’s Rigorous Calculus of how those kinship systems work. There are cultures that them, and they don’t think there’s going to be one. I joke I just had a student report on mathematics and music in my (MIT Press, 1981)—before spending 14 years at California have experimented with all sorts of patterns and symmetries that I teach courses whose prerequisite is hatred and class last semester, and it’s news for a lot of people that there State University, Dominguez Hills, teaching history. to do art. And then the historic cultures like the Chinese, fear of mathematics. That’s an indictment of how we do is mathematics in music. When he was done, a guy got up Now in Pitzer’s math department, Grabiner teaches K–12 mathematics, you know. It’s taught as a collection to talk about ski jumping and the way mathematical physics courses such as Mathematics, Philosophy, and the of recipes. There’s no “why was this discovered and describes the curved course. Then I had a student do a logical “Real World” and Mathematics in Many Cultures to why would you ever need it?”And if there’s any subject analysis of arguments using symbolic logic and arguments humanities students looking to satisfy their general I JOKE THAT I TEACH in which the answers to “why” are very well known, it’s about free will. For probably the first time in my students’ education requirement. Her writing covers similar ground: mathematics. lives, the student is an expert in the class on that particular the importance of historical context when teaching COURSES WHOSE piece of mathematics. And let me say one more thing about mathematics, the way proof writing changed over time, and Not your mother’s calculus teaching math for a liberal arts course. Every math course the diverse traditions that led to modern mathematics. PREREQUISITE IS Aristotle said to understand motion is to understand these students have ever taken is a prerequisite to something In January Grabiner won the Mathematical Association nature, because nature is that which changes and the eternal else. You can’t do Algebra 2 if you didn’t get Algebra 1. But in of America’s (MAA) prestigious Beckenbach Book Prize HATRED AND FEAR OF principle of change itself. OK, Plato’s mathematics is the a liberal arts course, you’re not going anywhere. So you can for A Historian Looks Back: The Calculus as Algebra and Selected study of that which does not change, right? Two and two try to build a sense of mastery. Because the exciting thing

Writings (MAA, 2010). She is the only four-time winner of MATHEMATICS. college pitzer college courtesy pitzer photo courtesy photo is always four, the circle’s always round, etc. Mathematics about mathematics is when you get it. ◆

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METTLEEntrepreneurs meeting the demand for raw materials, not environmental virtue, drives the expansion of the recycling industry. BY ADAM MINTER, AB’93 ILLUSTRATIONS BY WALTER VASCONCELOS

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UCH_Junkyard_v6.indd 1 2/26/14 1:09 PM UCH_Junkyard_v6.inddweb_2014_mar-apr.indd 2 43 2/26/143/7/14 1:109:53 PMAM he first thing to do when you open up a metal and thin like wire. I’ve smelled it on four continents, It was fairly typical, though small, as scrap warehouses tomers who showed up before 7 a.m. were strongly repre- small American scrapyard in the morning from small towns in Thailand to warehouses on the edge of go. Still, it was more than enough to pay for two private sented by plumbers, electricians, and contractors with scrap is unlock the safe and count the money. Chicago. Each time, each breath, reminds me of my grand- college educations (mine and my sister’s). To my young that they’d acquired on recent jobs—usually plumbing, wire, Back in the 1980s and 1990s, I was active mother’s office, and the piles of metal just beyond it. eyes, though, the most amazing thing about that warehouse siding, and window frames. They weren’t panhandlers, but as a teenager and young college graduate While she cooked the hot dogs, one for my father and one wasn’t the scrap or the wealth, necessarily, but how quickly they too were at the bottom rungs of the American recycling at my family’s scrapyard in Minneapolis. for herself (and one for me, if I could be bothered to show up it all turned over. What that warehouse contained on Mon- chain, collecting what a large company would never have During the summer months, my younger so early), my father would leave his office, cross the hallway, day was never what it contained on Friday. The supply of bothered to collect because the volumes were just too small sister Amy would join my father and my open the metal warehouse door, turn on the lights, and raise scrap, and the demand for scrap, just never seemed to end. to be worth the trouble. Sometimes they brought a mere grandmother at the front desk, counting the loading dock door. While the lights buzzed to icy life, he’d day’s worth of stuff, just enough to be cashed in for a couple money. After college, I joined them, too. take a walk around, squinting in the darkness at his inventory. cases of beer; and sometimes it was enough to pay for a first- But for most years it was just the two of If he had a moment, my father might run his fingers along n 2012, the 7,000 or so businesses that constitute the class barbecue to go with that beer. Usually, though, the them, my father and grandmother, at 6:30 a.m., counting the edge of a carton filled with brass shavings generated by US scrap recycling industry were responsible for transaction fell somewhere in between those two extremes. money into the register, the short paunchy man with the a factory in St. Paul; then peek into the bottom of a carton transforming 135 million metric tons of recyclable A handyman, for example, might arrive with several white Tcircle of hair atop his head counting the big bills, and the hun- filled with automobile radiators delivered by a suburban I waste into raw materials that could be made into new plastic buckets. One might be filled with copper tubes used dred-pound whip with the ice-blue eyes counting the small repair shop. Near the front, there were always boxes of stuff. That’s 135 million tons of iron ore, copper ore, nickel, for bathroom plumbing; another might have old brass plumb- ones. Inevitably, though, the mother-son moment was inter- brass “drippings”—literally, the brass that dripped on the paper, plastic, and glass that didn’t have to be dug out of ing fixtures and perhaps a few brass electrical connectors; rupted by a ringing phone, and my father left his mother to floor of a factory during the casting process; aluminum clip- the ground or cut out of a forest. It also exceeded, by an as- and the last might be filled with a lightweight mix of wires finish the job on her own, while he took the call in his office. pings, the clean scraps that fell away when a machinist cut tounding 55 million tons, the volume of recycled municipal and an electrical meter or two. There were two features to that office: a tacky wall clock a widget from a piece of aluminum; boxes of copper tub- solid waste—that is, recyclables dumped into blue, green, My father, a man with a talent for gabbing with the ran- made from a slice of a giant tree stump, purchased at the ing delivered by plumbers; boxes of water meters; boxes of and single-stream bins—generated by homes, government dom characters who appear on scrapyard docks, would Minnesota State Fair, and a very large window that looked fine, shiny copper wires, dropped off by defense manufac- offices, and businesses during that same period. saunter over with a gambler’s confidence. “What’ve we out upon the front desk and its cash register. From there, turers who’d completed their smart bomb orders; steel bins What’s the difference between what a scrapyard recycles got?” Then, without waiting for an answer, he’d pick up my father could not only watch his mother and whoever full of aluminum cans dropped off by neighbors; cartons and what gets transported to facilities that deal with mu- one of the buckets and place it on the kitchen-table-sized she might be paying but also see the television screens that full of old PCs dropped off by well-intentioned environ- nicipal solid waste? There’s some overlap, but in general the metal scale built into the concrete floor. pointed at his metal warehouse filled with aluminum, cop- mentalists; more cartons overflowing with brass bullet scrap business handles everything that’s not generated in the As the electrician looked on, my father would slide the per, brass, and lead, the scales where his scrap was bought shell casings picked up from a local gun range favored by daily course of life in an office or home. Your old automo- scale balances down the beam, achieve a very quick weight, and sold, and the metal yard where people dropped off ev- cops, gangbangers, and, in my experience, dentists; printer bile ends up in a scrapyard; so do the metal grindings that and write the weight on an invoice. Then it was time for the erything from old cars, to mainframe computers from the plates from the local printer responsible for our business fall away when an automobile manufacturer makes a new second bucket, and my father would reach for it, quite often 1970s, to giant drill presses from the 19th century. cards and letterhead; and forks, knives, and spoons that my engine; the old electric meter on the back of your house ends before that customer could get around to asking what the As he slipped into his ratty office chair, he’d glance at father had bid for, and won, from a major airline. up in a scrapyard (if the power company has the good sense day’s price on copper tubes was. “Ah, so what’re you pay - the television cameras and then hit the line-one button on to sell it); so do the power and telephone lines that connect ing for copper these days?” the electrician might ask as he the phone. “Scrap Metal Processors. How can I help you?” to your house when they’re replaced; the cardboard pack - watched the second bucket slide onto the scale. It could be anything: aluminum cans, baseball bats, cop- ing boxes behind your local supermarket go to a paper scrap- This always took some reckoning. Scrap metal, despite its per mesh from a chemistry laboratory at the University yard; so do the unsold newspapers in newspaper boxes. association with trash, is as much a commodity as bushels of of Minnesota, whole automobiles, half of a refrigerator, WHAT THAT WAREHOUSE Altogether, according to the Institute of Scrap Recycling corn, barrels of oil, and ingots of gold. Pre-Internet, my father silver-plated wire, a load of bathroom scales. Nothing was Industries, the American scrap recycling industry, a set would just go to the Wall Street Journal, look for the price of surprising, and everything had a price. “Tuning forks?” CONTAINED ON MONDAY of companies that buy, pack, and process everything from copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) or the metal he’d ask the person on the other end of the line. “Maybe 15 metal to rubber, employed 138,000 people in 2012. But for trading division of the New York Mercantile Exchange cents a pound, but I’ll need to see them. Ask for Mickey all of the traceable businesses, with traceable employees, (COMEX), and offer that, minus a few cents to allow himself when you get here.” WAS NEVER WHAT IT there are just as many untraceable ones: everything from a profit. Then he’d sell it to a company that melts copper—per- Right around that time, the cash register drawer slammed the organized gangs of scrap thieves who roam Detroit to haps the nearby foundry that cast copper into pots and pans. shut, ready for business, and my grandmother retreated CONTAINED ON FRIDAY. panhandlers who stick their hands into subway waste bins A pound of wires isn’t quite so simple to buy. After all, a into the glorified broom closet that she called her office. It in search of a Coke can. It’s hard, I know, to think of a pan- pound of wire isn’t a pound of metal; it’s a pound of metal was notable for a handful of features: the microwave oven, THE SUPPLY OF SCRAP, handler as part of any industry, but believe me, if the pan- (often more than one kind) and insulation. The insulation the refrigerator where she kept her stash of kosher hot dogs, handler didn’t pull that bottle from the subway bin, nobody doesn’t weigh much, but you’ll have to pay somebody to and the odd array of brass figurines and loosely defined an- else would. He’s the bottom rung of the chain that moves up remove it, and separating different kinds of metals costs tiques that she had stolen from my father’s employees, who AND THE DEMAND FOR through your home recycling bin (he might steal the contents even more. So the price paid for the wire needs to reflect in turn had stolen them from the metal warehouse, hiding to sell rather than allow you to give them away) through my those costs. The experienced scrap buyers—people like my them in places that only she seemed to know. It was the SCRAP, JUST NEVER father, a processor and packer, to the companies that melt father—know by experience, if not instinct, what the metal one room in the office with the scrapyard smell known to and transform scrap into new metal, paper, and plastic. recovery will be from a certain kind of cable. Once a scrap scrap men (and grandmothers) all over the world: tangy like SEEMED TO END. On weekday mornings at my father’s scrapyard, the cus- buyer knows, or thinks he knows, the percentage of metal

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They weren’t panhandlers, but as a teenager and young college graduate While she cooked the hot dogs, one for my father and one wasn’t the scrap or the wealth, necessarily, but how quickly they too were at the bottom rungs of the American recycling at my family’s scrapyard in Minneapolis. for herself (and one for me, if I could be bothered to show up it all turned over. What that warehouse contained on Mon- chain, collecting what a large company would never have During the summer months, my younger so early), my father would leave his office, cross the hallway, day was never what it contained on Friday. The supply of bothered to collect because the volumes were just too small sister Amy would join my father and my open the metal warehouse door, turn on the lights, and raise scrap, and the demand for scrap, just never seemed to end. to be worth the trouble. Sometimes they brought a mere grandmother at the front desk, counting the loading dock door. While the lights buzzed to icy life, he’d day’s worth of stuff, just enough to be cashed in for a couple money. After college, I joined them, too. take a walk around, squinting in the darkness at his inventory. cases of beer; and sometimes it was enough to pay for a first- But for most years it was just the two of If he had a moment, my father might run his fingers along n 2012, the 7,000 or so businesses that constitute the class barbecue to go with that beer. Usually, though, the them, my father and grandmother, at 6:30 a.m., counting the edge of a carton filled with brass shavings generated by US scrap recycling industry were responsible for transaction fell somewhere in between those two extremes. money into the register, the short paunchy man with the a factory in St. Paul; then peek into the bottom of a carton transforming 135 million metric tons of recyclable A handyman, for example, might arrive with several white Tcircle of hair atop his head counting the big bills, and the hun- filled with automobile radiators delivered by a suburban I waste into raw materials that could be made into new plastic buckets. One might be filled with copper tubes used dred-pound whip with the ice-blue eyes counting the small repair shop. Near the front, there were always boxes of stuff. That’s 135 million tons of iron ore, copper ore, nickel, for bathroom plumbing; another might have old brass plumb- ones. Inevitably, though, the mother-son moment was inter- brass “drippings”—literally, the brass that dripped on the paper, plastic, and glass that didn’t have to be dug out of ing fixtures and perhaps a few brass electrical connectors; rupted by a ringing phone, and my father left his mother to floor of a factory during the casting process; aluminum clip- the ground or cut out of a forest. It also exceeded, by an as- and the last might be filled with a lightweight mix of wires finish the job on her own, while he took the call in his office. pings, the clean scraps that fell away when a machinist cut tounding 55 million tons, the volume of recycled municipal and an electrical meter or two. There were two features to that office: a tacky wall clock a widget from a piece of aluminum; boxes of copper tub- solid waste—that is, recyclables dumped into blue, green, My father, a man with a talent for gabbing with the ran- made from a slice of a giant tree stump, purchased at the ing delivered by plumbers; boxes of water meters; boxes of and single-stream bins—generated by homes, government dom characters who appear on scrapyard docks, would Minnesota State Fair, and a very large window that looked fine, shiny copper wires, dropped off by defense manufac- offices, and businesses during that same period. saunter over with a gambler’s confidence. “What’ve we out upon the front desk and its cash register. From there, turers who’d completed their smart bomb orders; steel bins What’s the difference between what a scrapyard recycles got?” Then, without waiting for an answer, he’d pick up my father could not only watch his mother and whoever full of aluminum cans dropped off by neighbors; cartons and what gets transported to facilities that deal with mu- one of the buckets and place it on the kitchen-table-sized she might be paying but also see the television screens that full of old PCs dropped off by well-intentioned environ- nicipal solid waste? There’s some overlap, but in general the metal scale built into the concrete floor. pointed at his metal warehouse filled with aluminum, cop- mentalists; more cartons overflowing with brass bullet scrap business handles everything that’s not generated in the As the electrician looked on, my father would slide the per, brass, and lead, the scales where his scrap was bought shell casings picked up from a local gun range favored by daily course of life in an office or home. Your old automo- scale balances down the beam, achieve a very quick weight, and sold, and the metal yard where people dropped off ev- cops, gangbangers, and, in my experience, dentists; printer bile ends up in a scrapyard; so do the metal grindings that and write the weight on an invoice. Then it was time for the erything from old cars, to mainframe computers from the plates from the local printer responsible for our business fall away when an automobile manufacturer makes a new second bucket, and my father would reach for it, quite often 1970s, to giant drill presses from the 19th century. cards and letterhead; and forks, knives, and spoons that my engine; the old electric meter on the back of your house ends before that customer could get around to asking what the As he slipped into his ratty office chair, he’d glance at father had bid for, and won, from a major airline. up in a scrapyard (if the power company has the good sense day’s price on copper tubes was. “Ah, so what’re you pay - the television cameras and then hit the line-one button on to sell it); so do the power and telephone lines that connect ing for copper these days?” the electrician might ask as he the phone. “Scrap Metal Processors. How can I help you?” to your house when they’re replaced; the cardboard pack - watched the second bucket slide onto the scale. It could be anything: aluminum cans, baseball bats, cop- ing boxes behind your local supermarket go to a paper scrap- This always took some reckoning. Scrap metal, despite its per mesh from a chemistry laboratory at the University yard; so do the unsold newspapers in newspaper boxes. association with trash, is as much a commodity as bushels of of Minnesota, whole automobiles, half of a refrigerator, WHAT THAT WAREHOUSE Altogether, according to the Institute of Scrap Recycling corn, barrels of oil, and ingots of gold. Pre-Internet, my father silver-plated wire, a load of bathroom scales. Nothing was Industries, the American scrap recycling industry, a set would just go to the Wall Street Journal, look for the price of surprising, and everything had a price. “Tuning forks?” CONTAINED ON MONDAY of companies that buy, pack, and process everything from copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) or the metal he’d ask the person on the other end of the line. “Maybe 15 metal to rubber, employed 138,000 people in 2012. But for trading division of the New York Mercantile Exchange cents a pound, but I’ll need to see them. Ask for Mickey all of the traceable businesses, with traceable employees, (COMEX), and offer that, minus a few cents to allow himself when you get here.” WAS NEVER WHAT IT there are just as many untraceable ones: everything from a profit. Then he’d sell it to a company that melts copper—per- Right around that time, the cash register drawer slammed the organized gangs of scrap thieves who roam Detroit to haps the nearby foundry that cast copper into pots and pans. shut, ready for business, and my grandmother retreated CONTAINED ON FRIDAY. panhandlers who stick their hands into subway waste bins A pound of wires isn’t quite so simple to buy. After all, a into the glorified broom closet that she called her office. It in search of a Coke can. It’s hard, I know, to think of a pan- pound of wire isn’t a pound of metal; it’s a pound of metal was notable for a handful of features: the microwave oven, THE SUPPLY OF SCRAP, handler as part of any industry, but believe me, if the pan- (often more than one kind) and insulation. The insulation the refrigerator where she kept her stash of kosher hot dogs, handler didn’t pull that bottle from the subway bin, nobody doesn’t weigh much, but you’ll have to pay somebody to and the odd array of brass figurines and loosely defined an- else would. He’s the bottom rung of the chain that moves up remove it, and separating different kinds of metals costs tiques that she had stolen from my father’s employees, who AND THE DEMAND FOR through your home recycling bin (he might steal the contents even more. So the price paid for the wire needs to reflect in turn had stolen them from the metal warehouse, hiding to sell rather than allow you to give them away) through my those costs. The experienced scrap buyers—people like my them in places that only she seemed to know. It was the SCRAP, JUST NEVER father, a processor and packer, to the companies that melt father—know by experience, if not instinct, what the metal one room in the office with the scrapyard smell known to and transform scrap into new metal, paper, and plastic. recovery will be from a certain kind of cable. Once a scrap scrap men (and grandmothers) all over the world: tangy like SEEMED TO END. On weekday mornings at my father’s scrapyard, the cus- buyer knows, or thinks he knows, the percentage of metal

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UCH_Junkyard_v6.indd 3 2/26/14 1:10 PM UCH_Junkyard_v6.inddweb_2014_mar-apr.indd 4 45 2/26/143/7/14 1:109:53 PMAM In the mid-1990s, when the family keep cash from disappearing, and we scrap business started trading in ear- labored to send my father to some of nest with China, the transactions were the finest chemical dependency treat- all but local. Chinese traders arrived at ment centers in the United States. our door, paid cash, and left with the By my late 20s two things were be- scrap. It was international trade, sure, coming painfully obvious to me: first, but it was trade that we could do from my father was never going to embrace home. In the midst of the 1990s boom, sobriety as my grandmother and I had my father flew to China for a couple of hoped; and two, I had no future in a in a load of scrap, he then formulates a price by looking up quick trips, returning with photos of Chinese scrapyards business where the top manager was extraordinarily tal- The Joliet scrapyard is owned by James Li, a naturalized the LME or COMEX price for, say, copper, and subtract- filled with people and colorful piles of wire. But I always sus- ented but mostly absent. American from Hangzhou, China, and he’s giving me a ing the cost of processing it. pected those trips were nothing more than excuses to travel, It wasn’t exactly a lost cause—my father had demon- tour of his warehouse. We pause beside a box of defective Meanwhile, one of our delivery trucks might be arriving, if not enjoy some big nights out on the (Chinese scrap) town. strated a talent for doing just enough to keep the company home food processors. James picks up one that’s been bro- loaded down with several washing-machine-sized boxes of The only lessons learned, so far as I could tell, were that the afloat—but it wasn’t a future. I needed a life, something be- ken apart and shows me the baseball-size motor inside it. copper shavings, generated during the overnight shift of Chinese were becoming rich, and that they’d be hungry for yond the scrapyard, even if “beyond” meant that I couldn’t The best way to get at the copper is by hand, using a pincer a factory across town and picked up 20 minutes ago. That scrap metal for a long, long time. They weren’t bad lessons— have lunch with my grandmother several times a week. and perhaps a hammer and screwdriver. That’s not going to load would be worth more than all of the scrap collected over the last two decades, giant fortunes in scrap metal have In Minneapolis, I started out freelancing for magazines, happen in the United States, so—predictably—that box is by the plumbers and electricians who wandered in during been made on those observations. quickly working myself into bigger and bigger assignments. bound for one of James’s scrapyards in China, where it can the course of the week (and there would be tens more such Ironically, though, my family didn’t manage to make Then, after a year or two, I was given the opportunity to be done cheaply. loads from various factories over the course of the week). one of those fortunes. The fact that the family business do a freelance assignment on scrap in China, and I took it James stops beside another box. “You know what this My father, meanwhile, would take the contractor’s ticket remained in business at all through that period is an accom- without hesitation. is?” he asks with a big smile. into the office, where more likely than not there was a hot plishment in its own right. What a terrible idea. I peer into it: there’s an oily mix of gray metal shavings dog and a kosher dill waiting on a paper plate next to a list Credit belongs to my father. He’s a talent, a scrap man to First, I didn’t know the language. Second, I’d never been of the kind left over when a factory grinds a block of metal of what he had in inventory, available to sell. the core, one of the great wheelers and dealers in an indus- to Asia. And third, the family business was still flailing in into a rounded shape. “No. What are they?” try that sends them spinning off like tires down a hillside. Minneapolis. But my grandmother, daughter of the scrap “Titanium.” But that was not enough to make him happy. industry, encouraged me to go. “You have to live your life,” Titanium is an expensive, extremely strong, lightweight can’t recall, precisely, when the first Chinese scrap buy- For much of the 1990s, in fact, while I was associated she told me. I don’t think she expected that I’d remain in metal commonly used in aerospace—and in golf clubs. A er appeared at the front window of my father’s scrap- with the business, he was heavily intoxicated with booze China for a decade; I sure didn’t. few years ago, while traveling in Taiwan, I visited the is - yard. It was probably around 1994, right around the and other substances. Back then I was a young, inexperi - land’s biggest titanium recycler. It was a memorable visit: I I time that China had begun to deregulate key industries, enced honors graduate in philosophy, ambivalent about the was shown sheets of titanium from which putter heads had and private entrepreneurs had decided that scrap metal was idea of devoting myself to the scrap-metal industry. There lobalization of waste is now a permanent feature been punched out like cookies from dough. The scrap at the business where they’d strike it rich. It was a good bet: were other things I wanted to do: write songs, write nov- of the world economy. So long as goods are made First America, however, looks more like oily confetti, and China was at the front end of a drive to become one of the els, get a PhD in evolutionary biology, and fall in love with in one place, and consumed and thrown away in I suspect it’s not easy to find somebody who wants to buy it. world’s great economies. It had labor and government sup- depressive women. But when your family—and your fam- G another, there will be companies that specialize in James, however, has the potential to surprise. “Fireworks,” port; the only thing it needed was raw materials. Digging ily business—is in trouble, you do what you can. So I made moving that waste to where it’s most valued as a raw mate- he tells me. “Titanium burns white. So you sell them to the mines was one way to obtain those raw materials; the other one of the best choices of my life and went to work closely rial. More often than not, those companies belong to what fireworks makers. They make white fireworks with them.” was to go to the United States, the place that many scrap with my grandmother at the scrapyard. We did our best to my grandmother called the junk business. Maybe those shavings were ground off an airplane jet traders call the Saudi Arabia of Scrap, the land where there’s First America Metal in Joliet, Illinois, looks like any oth- engine part destined for Boeing. Whatever the source, more scrap than the people can handle on their own. It’s a er American machine shop. It’s located at the end of a cul- they’re now bound for a central Chinese fireworks factory. funny nickname, Saudi Arabia of Scrap, but it’s not meant as de-sac, surrounded by a green lawn, and accented by a tall “How do you find those fireworks buyers?” a compliment. Rather, it’s an opportunity to exploit. flagpole that flies the American Stars and Stripes. Nothing “I know where to look,” he answers. “The American Those first Chinese traders are a blur to me. I just remem- GLOBALIZATION OF about the place suggests it’s one of the most successful Chi- scrap guys don’t know where to look.” ber Chinese faces, broken English, and a willingness to buy nese American–owned and –run scrapyards in the United James leads me through the warehouse doorway and into everything in our inventory. “You have number-two wire?” WASTE IS NOW A States. In fact, most people don’t realize that scrap men muted offices that could belong to a small real estate compa- Sure, we have number-two wire. We also have customers with a deeper personal connection to China—and they’re ny. “The face of the company is American,” James explains for it. “How much do you want?” almost all men—are quietly buying up and running scrap- as we walk the single hallway. “But the office is Chinese.” “Can we see it?” PERMANENT FEATURE yards across the United States. The motivation isn’t hard to It is, indeed. The receptionist is a white American; but So we’d go out to the warehouse, and after a quick inspec- discern: they want to cut out the middleman—in this case the small handful of offices behind the receptionist are oc- tion, they’d ask to buy all of it. My father would offer a price— OF THE WORLD the American scrapyard standing between China’s raw ma- cupied by Chinese, speaking Chinese. one significantly over what our customers in North America terials importers and the Americans who toss all that metal According to James, First America Metal ships 3.2 mil - were paying—and they’d accept on the spot, no question. ECONOMY. and paper into their recycling bins. lion pounds of metal per year, making it one of the top five

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In the midst of the 1990s boom, sobriety as my grandmother and I had my father flew to China for a couple of hoped; and two, I had no future in a in a load of scrap, he then formulates a price by looking up quick trips, returning with photos of Chinese scrapyards business where the top manager was extraordinarily tal- The Joliet scrapyard is owned by James Li, a naturalized the LME or COMEX price for, say, copper, and subtract- filled with people and colorful piles of wire. But I always sus- ented but mostly absent. American from Hangzhou, China, and he’s giving me a ing the cost of processing it. pected those trips were nothing more than excuses to travel, It wasn’t exactly a lost cause—my father had demon- tour of his warehouse. We pause beside a box of defective Meanwhile, one of our delivery trucks might be arriving, if not enjoy some big nights out on the (Chinese scrap) town. strated a talent for doing just enough to keep the company home food processors. James picks up one that’s been bro- loaded down with several washing-machine-sized boxes of The only lessons learned, so far as I could tell, were that the afloat—but it wasn’t a future. I needed a life, something be- ken apart and shows me the baseball-size motor inside it. copper shavings, generated during the overnight shift of Chinese were becoming rich, and that they’d be hungry for yond the scrapyard, even if “beyond” meant that I couldn’t The best way to get at the copper is by hand, using a pincer a factory across town and picked up 20 minutes ago. That scrap metal for a long, long time. They weren’t bad lessons— have lunch with my grandmother several times a week. and perhaps a hammer and screwdriver. That’s not going to load would be worth more than all of the scrap collected over the last two decades, giant fortunes in scrap metal have In Minneapolis, I started out freelancing for magazines, happen in the United States, so—predictably—that box is by the plumbers and electricians who wandered in during been made on those observations. quickly working myself into bigger and bigger assignments. bound for one of James’s scrapyards in China, where it can the course of the week (and there would be tens more such Ironically, though, my family didn’t manage to make Then, after a year or two, I was given the opportunity to be done cheaply. loads from various factories over the course of the week). one of those fortunes. The fact that the family business do a freelance assignment on scrap in China, and I took it James stops beside another box. “You know what this My father, meanwhile, would take the contractor’s ticket remained in business at all through that period is an accom- without hesitation. is?” he asks with a big smile. into the office, where more likely than not there was a hot plishment in its own right. What a terrible idea. I peer into it: there’s an oily mix of gray metal shavings dog and a kosher dill waiting on a paper plate next to a list Credit belongs to my father. He’s a talent, a scrap man to First, I didn’t know the language. Second, I’d never been of the kind left over when a factory grinds a block of metal of what he had in inventory, available to sell. the core, one of the great wheelers and dealers in an indus- to Asia. And third, the family business was still flailing in into a rounded shape. “No. What are they?” try that sends them spinning off like tires down a hillside. Minneapolis. But my grandmother, daughter of the scrap “Titanium.” But that was not enough to make him happy. industry, encouraged me to go. “You have to live your life,” Titanium is an expensive, extremely strong, lightweight can’t recall, precisely, when the first Chinese scrap buy- For much of the 1990s, in fact, while I was associated she told me. I don’t think she expected that I’d remain in metal commonly used in aerospace—and in golf clubs. A er appeared at the front window of my father’s scrap- with the business, he was heavily intoxicated with booze China for a decade; I sure didn’t. few years ago, while traveling in Taiwan, I visited the is - yard. It was probably around 1994, right around the and other substances. Back then I was a young, inexperi - land’s biggest titanium recycler. It was a memorable visit: I I time that China had begun to deregulate key industries, enced honors graduate in philosophy, ambivalent about the was shown sheets of titanium from which putter heads had and private entrepreneurs had decided that scrap metal was idea of devoting myself to the scrap-metal industry. There lobalization of waste is now a permanent feature been punched out like cookies from dough. The scrap at the business where they’d strike it rich. It was a good bet: were other things I wanted to do: write songs, write nov- of the world economy. So long as goods are made First America, however, looks more like oily confetti, and China was at the front end of a drive to become one of the els, get a PhD in evolutionary biology, and fall in love with in one place, and consumed and thrown away in I suspect it’s not easy to find somebody who wants to buy it. world’s great economies. It had labor and government sup- depressive women. But when your family—and your fam- G another, there will be companies that specialize in James, however, has the potential to surprise. “Fireworks,” port; the only thing it needed was raw materials. Digging ily business—is in trouble, you do what you can. So I made moving that waste to where it’s most valued as a raw mate- he tells me. “Titanium burns white. So you sell them to the mines was one way to obtain those raw materials; the other one of the best choices of my life and went to work closely rial. More often than not, those companies belong to what fireworks makers. They make white fireworks with them.” was to go to the United States, the place that many scrap with my grandmother at the scrapyard. We did our best to my grandmother called the junk business. Maybe those shavings were ground off an airplane jet traders call the Saudi Arabia of Scrap, the land where there’s First America Metal in Joliet, Illinois, looks like any oth- engine part destined for Boeing. Whatever the source, more scrap than the people can handle on their own. It’s a er American machine shop. It’s located at the end of a cul- they’re now bound for a central Chinese fireworks factory. funny nickname, Saudi Arabia of Scrap, but it’s not meant as de-sac, surrounded by a green lawn, and accented by a tall “How do you find those fireworks buyers?” a compliment. Rather, it’s an opportunity to exploit. flagpole that flies the American Stars and Stripes. Nothing “I know where to look,” he answers. “The American Those first Chinese traders are a blur to me. I just remem- GLOBALIZATION OF about the place suggests it’s one of the most successful Chi- scrap guys don’t know where to look.” ber Chinese faces, broken English, and a willingness to buy nese American–owned and –run scrapyards in the United James leads me through the warehouse doorway and into everything in our inventory. “You have number-two wire?” WASTE IS NOW A States. In fact, most people don’t realize that scrap men muted offices that could belong to a small real estate compa- Sure, we have number-two wire. We also have customers with a deeper personal connection to China—and they’re ny. “The face of the company is American,” James explains for it. “How much do you want?” almost all men—are quietly buying up and running scrap- as we walk the single hallway. “But the office is Chinese.” “Can we see it?” PERMANENT FEATURE yards across the United States. The motivation isn’t hard to It is, indeed. The receptionist is a white American; but So we’d go out to the warehouse, and after a quick inspec- discern: they want to cut out the middleman—in this case the small handful of offices behind the receptionist are oc- tion, they’d ask to buy all of it. My father would offer a price— OF THE WORLD the American scrapyard standing between China’s raw ma- cupied by Chinese, speaking Chinese. one significantly over what our customers in North America terials importers and the Americans who toss all that metal According to James, First America Metal ships 3.2 mil - were paying—and they’d accept on the spot, no question. ECONOMY. and paper into their recycling bins. lion pounds of metal per year, making it one of the top five

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Fritz, who died in August, began “grubbing” around De- Although he’s a satisfied iPhone 4S user—resisting an troit-area dumps in 1931 as a nine-year-old in need of money upgrade on environmental principle—Minter criticizes for school clothes. With a lot of effort, and more than a little Apple’s products from a sustainability perspective. Its TRASH luck, in less than a decade he made enough to build a business iPads cannot easily be taken apart and must be shredded to that would become the behemoth Huron Valley Steel Corpo- extract reusable materials, he says, a process that has some- ration. The company grew by virtue of its proximity to De- times caused them to burst into flames. troit’s auto industry, salvaging and selling scrap from cars, The company also collects used iPhones to recycle but TALKER but it has never become too big to let pennies go to waste. “probably 30 percent of that phone is going to end up in a Author Adam Minter, AB’93, Today, even as it receives more than half a billion pounds landfill,” Minter says. “As I describe in the book, this is ul - weighs in on the wide world of waste. of scrap metal a year for recycling, Huron Valley Steel still timately a way to encourage people to buy more phones. harvests loose change. The cars in American junkyards have Greenwashing.” BY JASON KELLY an average of $1.65 jangling around under the floor mats and That compromises the virtuous circle of reduce, reuse, between the seats. Gathering coins using a proprietary pro- recycle. High recycling rates, in Minter’s experience, tend cess—which Minter witnessed and declares “awesome”— to be associated with poverty, which makes reuse a finan - the company returns them to the US Treasury in exchange cial necessity. Among the wealthy, it often goes hand in high-tech Japanese recycling company called every few months because customers get tired of them. for a percentage of the overall value. “They’re making mon- hand with increased consumption, diminishing the envi- Econecol has a facility in the forest at the foot of They are often of very high quality, gold-plated—“not ey from money,” Minter says. “How great is that?” ronmental value of bins full of Amazon boxes. For those Mount Fuji. Adam Minter, AB’93, visited the gold-painted”—with state-of-the-art HD touchscreens. Making money, not saving the earth, is the impulse that who consider conservation their ultimate goal, he suggests plant while working on his book,Junkyard Planet, Econecol takes them apart to feed the market for those drives innovation in industrial design and waste manage- “stop buying so much crap in the first place.” but what he saw there didn’t make it into his nar- component parts. “They were extracting these touch- ment. “I’m a U of C guy, so I believe in markets,” the former Minter, a columnist for Bloomberg living in Kuala Lumpur rative of “travels in the billion-dollar trash trade.” screens and packing them in foam and shipping them off to philosophy major says. “I’m also a junkyard kid. I do think after 11 years in Shanghai, tries to live by that mantra. He uses Ask him about the most memorable sights China where they were remanufactured into GPS devices that markets are going to drive a lot of this change.” refurbished laptops and hangs on to that old iPhone despite and sounds from those travels, though, and Minter recalls and other stuff,” Minter says. “It was just amazing to me.” The price of copper, for example, has increased from about the flashbulb going off every time he turns on the screen. He

A press bloomsbury courtesy photos press bloomsbury courtesy photos the invitation he received after seeing Econecol’s automo- Minter’s sense of amazement at the ingenuity and scale a dollar a pound in the 1980s at his family’s Minneapolis scrap- and his wife, Christine, don’t own a car, relying on public bile shredding and sorting machines. of recycling technology permeates Junkyard Planet. He yard to as much as $3.50 today. Those costs force manufactur- transit. Packaging informs their shopping decisions. “Do you want to see the pachinko recycling?” details problems as well as progress, but his personal his- ers to factor efficiencies into their designs—thinner or fewer While on tour to promote Junkyard Planet, though, Minter, who grew up around his family’s Minneapolis tory gives him an appreciation for the characters and their wires, alternative materials—that have a net environmental Minter found himself in “the uncomfortable role of being junkyard and has reported on the industry from Asia since accomplishments in an obscure, misunderstood industry. benefit, but the economic incentives sometimes reward waste- Mr. Sustainability.” A simple calculation of the carbon 2002, wanted to see that very much. Meeting Scott Newell, the CEO of a company that sup- ful production. “I’m also enough of a pragmatist,” Minter says, burned on his research trips, he says with a laugh, would A ride down a winding road led him to a warehouse plies metal shredders, thrilled him. Newell is the son of “to know that markets aren’t going to solve everything.” disabuse people of that notion. where the colorful, pinball-like devices that are a popular Alton Newell, whose design for a “machine that eats cars A policy in China gives electronics manufacturers a vis- Minter plans more travel this summer for his next book. gambling pastime in Japan were stacked by the hundreds. whole” helped solve an American epidemic of abandoned ible hand, imposing a fee that subsidizes the recycling of He won’t divulge the subject, saying only that it’s about “I remember there were Star Wars pachinko machines,” automobiles. “If there was an environmental Mount Rush- e-waste. After Japan instituted a similar program, Minter another overlooked industry but unrelated to the trash Minter says. “That stuck in my mind.” more in the United States, Alton Newell should be on it,” says, manufacturers and recyclers began working together trade—ideas being one of the few commodities Minter Pachinko parlor operators, he learned, replace machines Minter says, “along with guys like Leonard Fritz.” to find more efficient practices. finds no value in reusing. ◆

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Snyder specu lates that “he really admired theirfact that technology they had beaten him, and andhe almost the felt that they had earned of it.” balance Whether the tipped mercy, honor, or sim many, for act, the play, fair ple later, his confidantes Walter Plowden, the British consul to Ethiopia, rival and of John hands the Bell, at dead who were introduced Shakespeare, to him tribes.consul,new A Charles Cameron, arrived from Englandgiftwithpistolsa engravedof emperorthe to QueenfromVictoria. When Tewodros wrotebackto reaching never letter (the came response no and her her), he imprisoned Cameron and several European missionaries. After a series of failed negotiations, Britain’s Indian army invaded, arriving in October 1867with advanced weapons and 14,700 mento fight their 5,000. began they As emperor’s Ethiopian the march from the Red Sea to Magdala, where the pris photo courtesy john snyder - - - - - Crossing Crossing , AB’50, AM’54, IN A KE YOU I NG 1,000 NG1,000 Donald Levine IVI gave Snyder a chance to tell this grand his grand this tell to chance a Snyder gave The pristine world in these images has vanished. of figure affecting but destructive, brilliant, The In 1858 Tewodros lost his young wife, Tewabech, andmortara in the grass, lonely relics Tewodros’sof reignthat invoke “Ozymandias”; and faces Ethioof pians, young and old, Christian and Muslim. “There was absolutely no garbage,” Snyder recalls, “no plastic at that time. And there were no stores,” onlylocalmarkets selling localgoods. Twoyearslater, revolutionEthiopia,cameto faminesfollowedby that savaged the country. Today thethreefold population or more his since tested so Snyder’s that has journey visit, grown the of points and end a the roadnects con party. His photos, which he has donated to AddisAbaba University’s Institute of Ethiopian Studies, are among few records of what this part of the coun try used to look like. PhD’57, UChicago sociology professor emeritus and author of two books about Ethiopia, says visitors at this time had “the rare privilege of being witness to the old historic order; you felt like you were living 1,000years ago in culturea that had been preserved.” the and forgotten, or grasped easily isn’t Tewodros idea of a film never quite let go of Snyder. (Levine namedhis sonTheodore after the emperor.) Ethiopia torical character’s story. “He would seeterfuge through and he hardly slept,” Snyder driven, sub says. “A drivenperson. Unfortunately badstuff of lot didhea too.”The worst came in the 1860s. Snyderwhomcalls leveling“a influence.” Two years YOU FELT LIKE YOU YOU FELT L YOU FELT WERE LIVING WERE 1,000 L YEARS AGOYEARS IN A AGO HAD THAT HAD CULTURE THAT CULTURE BEEN PRESERVED. BEEN PRESERVED. ------John John , Cross . The Blue Lawrence Arabia of thought.In the middle theof 19th cen tury, Tewodros II, only 35 years old, rose to Ethiopia.inpower Theyoungemperorsought make and taxation, reform slavery, abolish to other improvements; he made enough prog - ress to be revered in the country a century and a half later. He befriended two English men, hoped to learn from Western technol ogy to advance his a country, with paired and ambition, his came But toShakespeare. adore t was a saga to rival Snyder Snyder (Harper and Row, 1962). Snyder, who had stud had who Snyder, 1962). Row, and (Harper Following the same rugged path Tewodros took on on took Tewodros path rugged same the Following The screenplay never materialized, but last year Fascinated by the emperor’s rise and fall, Snyder, ing Ethiopia: A 1972 Photographic Journal Retracing the Last March of Emperor Tewodros to Magdala (Smith/ Kerr).Theplatter-sized coffeetablehasbookstarkly gorgeous landscapes of a world half-earth, half-sky; seem that filter, red a with captured clouds, cumulus transplanted from a John Constable painting; a bell ied film writing at the New School, thought the tale Tewodros’sof rise andfall “had everything ... genius, drama,epic spectacularanda locale.” wouldmakeIt a knockoutfilm, wouldwriteandhe it,first traveling to Ethiopia for research. his collision course with the British, Snyder traveled by foot, mule, bus, and Land Rover across a country that was still essentially premodern.new wife, a local With translator, him and a wereprofessor of African his history who and knew camera the country Professional C-33 Mamiyaflex well. reflex lens He also had a twin- enough120rollsof filmtake to almost 500 photographs. publishedSnyderthan moreinphotosthe 90 of Schoolboysinthe northern city Axumof le ). (top Priests inside Libanos Church inLalibela, one churches 11 of there carved from living rock youngA (right). daughter Dejazmach of Bereded (boom the le ), Gayint Province governor who put up the travelers early in their journey and provided notes that allowed thempassage through other districts. “It wasjust lile pieces linedof tablet paper withsomething scrawled them,on butthey were magic,” Snyder. says lege. In the early 1970s he was doing marketing for a a for marketing doing was he 1970s early the In lege. New York carpet mill when he readabsorbing history Alan of Westerners in Moorehead’s Africa, Nile AB’56 (Class of 1954), set out on his own Ethiopian Ethiopian own his on out set 1954), of (Class AB’56 quest in 1972. A writer and artist who splits his time between City New York and North Carolina, Snyder left rural South Carolina in 1952 for the Hutchins Col temper fired hot after a series of tragic losses, earned him enemies throughout his country—and eventually provokedthe British tosend an army after him I

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With enemies of the emperor rife in the country, With enemies of the emperor rife in the country, Tewodros’s ambivalent legacy toward tragic hero. hero. tragictoward legacy ambivalent Tewodros’s onerswereheld, Tewodros traveled east from Debra Tabor to the same destination. the British had relatively safe passage.April,defeat certain, The Tewodros followingtook his own released life us he though, First, pistols. gift the of one ing the prisoners unharmed, losing his only leverage in the conflict. Why? Nobody knows. Snyder specu lates that “he really admired theirfact that technology they had beaten him, and andhe almost the felt that they had earned of it.” balance Whether the tipped mercy, honor, or sim many, for act, the play, fair ple later, his confidantes Walter Plowden, the British consul to Ethiopia, rival and of John hands the Bell, at dead who were introduced Shakespeare, to him tribes.consul,new A Charles Cameron, arrived from Englandgiftwithpistolsa engravedof emperorthe to QueenfromVictoria. When Tewodros wrotebackto reaching never letter (the came response no and her her), he imprisoned Cameron and several European missionaries. After a series of failed negotiations, Britain’s Indian army invaded, arriving in October 1867with advanced weapons and 14,700 mento fight their 5,000. began they As emperor’s Ethiopian the march from the Red Sea to Magdala, where the pris Tewodros’s ambivalent legacy toward tragic hero. hero. tragic toward legacy ambivalent Tewodros’s onerswereheld, Tewodros traveled east from Debra Tabor to the same destination. the British had relatively safe passage.April, defeat The certain, following released he though, Tewodros First, took pistols. gift his the own of life one ing us the prisoners unharmed, losing his only leverage in the conflict. Why? Nobody knows. Snyder specu lates that “he really admired theirfact that technology they had beaten him, and andhe almost the felt that they had earned of it.” balance Whether the tipped mercy, honor, or sim many, for act, the play, fair ple later, his confidantes Walter Plowden, the British consul to Ethiopia, rival and of John hands the Bell, at dead who were introduced Shakespeare, to him tribes.consul,new A Charles Cameron, arrived from Englandgiftwithpistolsa engravedof emperorthe to QueenfromVictoria. When Tewodros wrotebackto reaching never letter (the came response no and her her), he imprisoned Cameron and several European missionaries. After a series of failed negotiations, Britain’s Indian army invaded, arriving in October 1867with advanced weapons and 14,700 mento fight their 5,000. began they As emperor’s Ethiopian the march from the Red Sea to Magdala, where the pris photo courtesy john snyder - - - - - Crossing Crossing , AB’50, AM’54, IN A KE YOU I NG 1,000 NG1,000 Donald Levine IVI gave Snyder a chance to tell this grand his grand this tell to chance a Snyder gave The pristine world in these images has vanished. of figure affecting but destructive, brilliant, The In 1858 Tewodros lost his young wife, Tewabech, andmortara in the grass, lonely relics Tewodros’sof reignthat invoke “Ozymandias”; and faces Ethioof pians, young and old, Christian and Muslim. “There was absolutely no garbage,” Snyder recalls, “no plastic at that time. And there were no stores,” onlylocalmarkets selling localgoods. Twoyearslater, revolutionEthiopia,cameto faminesfollowedby that savaged the country. Today thethreefold population or more his since tested so Snyder’s that has journey visit, grown the of points and end a the roadnects con party. His photos, which he has donated to AddisAbaba University’s Institute of Ethiopian Studies, are among few records of what this part of the coun try used to look like. PhD’57, UChicago sociology professor emeritus and author of two books about Ethiopia, says visitors at this time had “the rare privilege of being witness to the old historic order; you felt like you were living 1,000years ago in culturea that had been preserved.” the and forgotten, or grasped easily isn’t Tewodros idea of a film never quite let go of Snyder. (Levine namedhis sonTheodore after the emperor.) Ethiopia torical character’s story. “He would seeterfuge through and he hardly slept,” Snyder driven, sub says. “A drivenperson. Unfortunately badstuff of lot didhea too.”The worst came in the 1860s. Snyderwhomcalls leveling“a influence.” Two years YOU FELT LIKE YOU YOU FELT L YOU FELT WERE LIVING WERE 1,000 L YEARS AGOYEARS IN A AGO HAD THAT HAD CULTURE THAT CULTURE BEEN PRESERVED. BEEN PRESERVED. ------John John , Cross . The Blue Lawrence Arabia of thought.In the middle theof 19th cen tury, Tewodros II, only 35 years old, rose to Ethiopia.inpower Theyoungemperorsought make and taxation, reform slavery, abolish to other improvements; he made enough prog - ress to be revered in the country a century and a half later. He befriended two English men, hoped to learn from Western technol ogy to advance his a country, with paired and ambition, his came But toShakespeare. adore t was a saga to rival Snyder Snyder (Harper and Row, 1962). Snyder, who had stud had who Snyder, 1962). Row, and (Harper Following the same rugged path Tewodros took on on took Tewodros path rugged same the Following The screenplay never materialized, but last year Fascinated by the emperor’s rise and fall, Snyder, ing Ethiopia: A 1972 Photographic Journal Retracing the Last March of Emperor Tewodros to Magdala (Smith/ Kerr).Theplatter-sized coffeetablehasbookstarkly gorgeous landscapes of a world half-earth, half-sky; seem that filter, red a with captured clouds, cumulus transplanted from a John Constable painting; a bell ied film writing at the New School, thought the tale Tewodros’sof rise andfall “had everything ... genius, drama,epic spectacularanda locale.” wouldmakeIt a knockoutfilm, wouldwriteandhe it,first traveling to Ethiopia for research. his collision course with the British, Snyder traveled by foot, mule, bus, and Land Rover across a country that was still essentially premodern.new wife, a local With translator, him and a wereprofessor of African his history who and knew camera the country Professional C-33 Mamiyaflex well. reflex lens He also had a twin- enough120rollsof filmtake to almost 500 photographs. publishedSnyderthan moreinphotosthe 90 of Schoolboysinthe northern city Axumof le ). (top Priests inside Libanos Church inLalibela, one churches 11 of there carved from living rock youngA (right). daughter Dejazmach of Bereded (boom the le ), Gayint Province governor who put up the travelers early in their journey and provided notes that allowed thempassage through other districts. “It wasjust lile pieces linedof tablet paper withsomething scrawled them,on butthey were magic,” Snyder. says lege. In the early 1970s he was doing marketing for a a for marketing doing was he 1970s early the In lege. New York carpet mill when he readabsorbing history Alan of Westerners in Moorehead’s Africa, Nile AB’56 (Class of 1954), set out on his own Ethiopian Ethiopian own his on out set 1954), of (Class AB’56 quest in 1972. A writer and artist who splits his time between City New York and North Carolina, Snyder left rural South Carolina in 1952 for the Hutchins Col temper fired hot after a series of tragic losses, earned him enemies throughout his country—and eventually provokedthe British tosend an army after him I

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Moving right along: This cheerful pair rolled to class in the spring of 1930. university of chicago photographic archive, apf4-02213, special collections research center, university of chicago library

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When it comes to the central role of eral for the District of Columbia, had Irving Rosenfeld, the swindler who been deputy assistant attorney general American Hustle and me turned FBI informer to save himself in charge of the Justice Department’s BY LESLIE M A ITLA ND, AB’71 from prison and then proved instru- Criminal Division in the Carter ad- mental in the sting, the movie does ministration in 1980 and hence in - the real con artist, Melvin Weinberg, volved in Abscam. It would be fun, Irv more than justice. Christian Bale’s had suggested, for us to go see Ameri- deliberately paunchy, bearded, bald- can Hustle together. And so we did, ing, cigar-chomping personification agreeing at dinner afterward that the is a younger and more seductive figure film was a terrifically amusing satire, if than was Weinberg. Nonetheless, in wildly different from what occurred. 1980, I couldn’t help but marvel at this Still, memories of Tom Puccio sadly charlatan’s ability to trick theoreti- tempered our evening. He died two n Saturday, February 2, cials who agreed to further their finan- cally sophisticated public officials into years ago at the age of 67 and is depict- 1980, Thomas P. Puccio, cial ventures. Code-named Abscam believing that an immensely wealthy ed in the film as a glory-seeking bureau- then chief of the federal for Arab scam or Abdul Enterprises Arab sheikh would choose him as a rep- crat with limited direct engagement in Organized Crime Strike Ltd.—the phony Arab business the resentative. For starters, he was a Jew, the case (Alessandro Nivola playing Force in Brooklyn, FBI concocted—it featured an agent and besides, his wise-guy language and Anthony Amado). “Not right!” Irv struggled in a last attempt to masquerading as a sheikh and surrep- demeanor seemed incongruous. groused, that the dynamic Abscam win the cooperation of a key titious video recordings to capture the Yet in meetings in posh places with prosecutor is portrayed that way. target in the most daring politicians pledging to trade favors for elected officials, Weinberg convinc- “Tom was the soul of the operation, undercover investigation of what ultimately totaled hundreds of ingly described the sheikh as prepared and the agents trusted him,” he said. political corruption in the thousands of dollars in cash. to pay bribes for help securing a casino “They expressly tried to set up meet- nation’s history. At the New Fast-forward more than three de- gaming license in Atlantic City and ings with the politicians in locations York Times, I was racing to finish a story cades. When I first learned that Amy permission to reside long-term in the that would put them on Tom’s turf.” Othat would soon make Abscam front- Adams would be starring in an Ab- United States. When outrage inevita- We clinked glasses to toast Tom, page headlines from coast to coast. scam movie called American Hustle, I bly erupted in Congress at what some the true scriptwriter of the evening. I was reaching out for comment couldn’t help but daydream that she’d decried as a “fishing expedition” that For all we seek to plan our lives, I from the operation’s biggest catch, be playing me. After all, I’d been the unfairly lured its victims into the net, found myself reflecting, our paths— Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr., woman most visibly involved, espe- the Justice Department took pains to including those that lead to prison and Democrat of New Jersey, while FBI cially as uproar mounted over pre- show that a modest attempt to inves- to front pages—are unexpectedly di- agents positioned around the country indictment publicity. Allegations tigate stolen art and counterfeit cer- verted by the people whom we meet swooped down on him and many oth- swirled, even within the Justice De- tificates of deposit had only detoured “The significant thing about this the New York Times’s reckless Jayson and the trust we place in one another. ers who would face charges in the brib- partment, that someone had leaked unexpectedly into political corruption. case is that if Tom [Puccio] had gone Blair not yet a warning symbol of re- “You can’t cheat an honest man,” my ery probe. As Puccio later described me the government’s confidential In each instance, crooked middlemen to the Justice Department with a scam portorial perfidy—my editors respect- father used to say. On the other hand, that climactic day in his memoirs, the 80-page prosecution memorandum. unwittingly led undercover agents to to catch congressmen and senators, ed my sources’ confidentiality. Scores some seem to con the gods themselves. potential informer rejected any fur- So when I recently asked federal politicians alleged to have previously they would not have authorized it in of agents assigned to a $750,000 gov- Mel Weinberg not only won a reprieve ther bargaining and stalked out of the district court judge Edward R. Kor- engaged in illicit bargains. Key among a million years,” Judge Korman told ernment leak investigation, in which from prosecution and $200,000 for Strike Force office around 8 p.m. after man whether he’d seen the movie yet— these middlemen was Camden, New me recently. “Not then, not now. But even Puccio had to take a lie detector his work in Abscam, but now near 90 overhearing talk in the hallway that the since he’d been the US attorney with Jersey, mayor Angelo Errichetti, or once it started going, the department test, failed to find the answer. in Florida retirement, he also report- story was already running in the Times. Abscam under his authority and han - Carmine Polito, sympathetically por- couldn’t stop it, especially since there When a Senate select committee edly sold the film rights to his “life” Indeed, the early edition of the Sun- dled the appeals—I had to laugh when trayed by Jeremy Renner, in the movie. was a Democratic administration in convened hearings on Abscam and story for a quarter of a million dollars. day paper hit Midtown newsstands he shot right back, “Who plays you?” the White House and most of the sus- the legality of its investigative tactics That’s American Hustle for you. ◆ that evening and the story was flying While the Times coverage makes pect officials were Democrats.” All in 1982, the Times transferred me from across the wires. Phones rang non- it into the movie, however, I person- When I first learned of those charged were convicted, he New York to the Washington Bureau stop, with other media organizations ally do not. And while the film begins that Amy Adams would noted, and every one of their convic - to report on them and then assigned Leslie Maitland is an award-winning calling from everywhere to demand with the disclaimer, “Some of this actions was upheld on appeal. me to cover the Justice Department. former investigative reporter for the whether the zany, blockbuster story tually happened,” there’s a good deal be starring in an Abscam teekay teekay credit photo credit photo I have never disclosed to anyone In Washington I met the man I mar - New York Times, the author of Cross- could be believed. It tested credulity. that Hollywood contributes to events. movie called American how I learned extensive details about ried, had children, and remained. ing the Borders of Time: A True Story of Senator Williams and seven House Most significantly, the two main female the probe before its targets were ar- Then one day last fall my husband War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed (Other members had been caught up in a characters played no part in the actual Hustle, I couldn’t help but rested or indicted. In that journalis- came home and said he had played golf Press, 2012), and a frequent panelist on two-year covert operation in which operation. Likewise, the involvement daydream that she’d be tic era—the Washington Post’s Deep with a really nice guy who claimed to NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show. Links to agents posed as businessmen and Arab of the Mafia, so brilliantly embodied on Throat already an anonymously have known me longer than he had. some of her original Abscam coverage photo creditphoto credit teekay teekay sheikhs willing to pay bribes to offi- screen by Robert De Niro, is fantasy. playing me. illustrationillustration by jamie by jamie ramsay, ramsay, ab’99 ab’99 honored Watergate whistleblower, Irvin B. Nathan, now attorney gen- can be found at lesliemaitland.com.

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When it comes to the central role of eral for the District of Columbia, had Irving Rosenfeld, the swindler who been deputy assistant attorney general American Hustle and me turned FBI informer to save himself in charge of the Justice Department’s BY LESLIE M A ITLA ND, AB’71 from prison and then proved instru- Criminal Division in the Carter ad- mental in the sting, the movie does ministration in 1980 and hence in- the real con artist, Melvin Weinberg, volved in Abscam. It would be fun, Irv more than justice. Christian Bale’s had suggested, for us to go see Ameri- deliberately paunchy, bearded, bald- can Hustle together. And so we did, ing, cigar-chomping personification agreeing at dinner afterward that the is a younger and more seductive figure film was a terrifically amusing satire, if than was Weinberg. Nonetheless, in wildly different from what occurred. 1980, I couldn’t help but marvel at this Still, memories of Tom Puccio sadly charlatan’s ability to trick theoreti- tempered our evening. He died two n Saturday, February 2, cials who agreed to further their finan- cally sophisticated public officials into years ago at the age of 67 and is depict- 1980, Thomas P. Puccio, cial ventures. Code-named Abscam believing that an immensely wealthy ed in the film as a glory-seeking bureau- then chief of the federal for Arab scam or Abdul Enterprises Arab sheikh would choose him as a rep- crat with limited direct engagement in Organized Crime Strike Ltd.—the phony Arab business the resentative. For starters, he was a Jew, the case (Alessandro Nivola playing Force in Brooklyn, FBI concocted—it featured an agent and besides, his wise-guy language and Anthony Amado). “Not right!” Irv struggled in a last attempt to masquerading as a sheikh and surrep- demeanor seemed incongruous. groused, that the dynamic Abscam win the cooperation of a key titious video recordings to capture the Yet in meetings in posh places with prosecutor is portrayed that way. target in the most daring politicians pledging to trade favors for elected officials, Weinberg convinc- “Tom was the soul of the operation, undercover investigation of what ultimately totaled hundreds of ingly described the sheikh as prepared and the agents trusted him,” he said. political corruption in the thousands of dollars in cash. to pay bribes for help securing a casino “They expressly tried to set up meet- nation’s history. At the New Fast-forward more than three de- gaming license in Atlantic City and ings with the politicians in locations York Times, I was racing to finish a story cades. When I first learned that Amy permission to reside long-term in the that would put them on Tom’s turf.” Othat would soon make Abscam front- Adams would be starring in an Ab- United States. When outrage inevita- We clinked glasses to toast Tom, page headlines from coast to coast. scam movie called American Hustle, I bly erupted in Congress at what some the true scriptwriter of the evening. I was reaching out for comment couldn’t help but daydream that she’d decried as a “fishing expedition” that For all we seek to plan our lives, I from the operation’s biggest catch, be playing me. After all, I’d been the unfairly lured its victims into the net, found myself reflecting, our paths— Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr., woman most visibly involved, espe- the Justice Department took pains to including those that lead to prison and Democrat of New Jersey, while FBI cially as uproar mounted over pre- show that a modest attempt to inves- to front pages—are unexpectedly di- agents positioned around the country indictment publicity. Allegations tigate stolen art and counterfeit cer- verted by the people whom we meet swooped down on him and many oth- swirled, even within the Justice De- tificates of deposit had only detoured “The significant thing about this the New York Times’s reckless Jayson and the trust we place in one another. ers who would face charges in the brib- partment, that someone had leaked unexpectedly into political corruption. case is that if Tom [Puccio] had gone Blair not yet a warning symbol of re- “You can’t cheat an honest man,” my ery probe. As Puccio later described me the government’s confidential In each instance, crooked middlemen to the Justice Department with a scam portorial perfidy—my editors respect- father used to say. On the other hand, that climactic day in his memoirs, the 80-page prosecution memorandum. unwittingly led undercover agents to to catch congressmen and senators, ed my sources’ confidentiality. Scores some seem to con the gods themselves. potential informer rejected any fur- So when I recently asked federal politicians alleged to have previously they would not have authorized it in of agents assigned to a $750,000 gov- Mel Weinberg not only won a reprieve ther bargaining and stalked out of the district court judge Edward R. Kor- engaged in illicit bargains. Key among a million years,” Judge Korman told ernment leak investigation, in which from prosecution and $200,000 for Strike Force office around 8 p.m. after man whether he’d seen the movie yet— these middlemen was Camden, New me recently. “Not then, not now. But even Puccio had to take a lie detector his work in Abscam, but now near 90 overhearing talk in the hallway that the since he’d been the US attorney with Jersey, mayor Angelo Errichetti, or once it started going, the department test, failed to find the answer. in Florida retirement, he also report- story was already running in the Times. Abscam under his authority and han - Carmine Polito, sympathetically por- couldn’t stop it, especially since there When a Senate select committee edly sold the film rights to his “life” Indeed, the early edition of the Sun- dled the appeals—I had to laugh when trayed by Jeremy Renner, in the movie. was a Democratic administration in convened hearings on Abscam and story for a quarter of a million dollars. day paper hit Midtown newsstands he shot right back, “Who plays you?” the White House and most of the sus- the legality of its investigative tactics That’s American Hustle for you. ◆ that evening and the story was flying While the Times coverage makes pect officials were Democrats.” All in 1982, the Times transferred me from across the wires. Phones rang non- it into the movie, however, I person- When I first learned of those charged were convicted, he New York to the Washington Bureau stop, with other media organizations ally do not. And while the film begins that Amy Adams would noted, and every one of their convic - to report on them and then assigned Leslie Maitland is an award-winning calling from everywhere to demand with the disclaimer, “Some of this actions was upheld on appeal. me to cover the Justice Department. former investigative reporter for the whether the zany, blockbuster story tually happened,” there’s a good deal be starring in an Abscam teekay teekay credit photo credit photo I have never disclosed to anyone In Washington I met the man I mar - New York Times, the author of Cross- could be believed. It tested credulity. that Hollywood contributes to events. movie called American how I learned extensive details about ried, had children, and remained. ing the Borders of Time: A True Story of Senator Williams and seven House Most significantly, the two main female the probe before its targets were ar- Then one day last fall my husband War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed (Other members had been caught up in a characters played no part in the actual Hustle, I couldn’t help but rested or indicted. In that journalis- came home and said he had played golf Press, 2012), and a frequent panelist on two-year covert operation in which operation. Likewise, the involvement daydream that she’d be tic era—the Washington Post’s Deep with a really nice guy who claimed to NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show. Links to agents posed as businessmen and Arab of the Mafia, so brilliantly embodied on Throat already an anonymously have known me longer than he had. some of her original Abscam coverage photo creditphoto credit teekay teekay sheikhs willing to pay bribes to offi- screen by Robert De Niro, is fantasy. playing me. illustrationillustration by jamie by jamie ramsay, ramsay, ab’99 ab’99 honored Watergate whistleblower, Irvin B. Nathan, now attorney gen- can be found at lesliemaitland.com.

UCH_Alumniweb_2014_mar-apr.indd Essay_Maitland_v3.indd 59 51 2/26/143/7/14 12:03 9:53 AMPM UCH_Alumni Essay_Maitland_v3.indd 58 2/28/14 1:20 PM ALUMNI ESSAY reconciliation was possible with his former enemies. Bob told reporters afterward, “The one message we got from the Vietnamese was, ‘We have an open door to America.’” Bob and thousands of other Ameri- can veterans have taken advantage of that open door since the 1980s. What The things they they have found in Vietnam is far from the bullet-strewn battlefields they once knew. The towns shelled to carried back rubble have since been rebuilt. Saigon, BY NISSA RHEE, A B’06 once the capital of South Vietnam, is now named after North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh and serves as a bustling economic center. But most striking, returning American veterans discover that Vietnamese veterans welcome them as equals. quinting through the Hanoi I wondered, would the Vietnamese American veteran Chuck Searcy smog, Bob Mulholland receive them? Could the violent past has lived and worked in Vietnam since points to a mud-colored ever be forgotten? the United States normalized rela- monument on the far end At the lake, a Caucasian man and his tions with the communist country in of Truc Bach Lake. son drive by on a motorcycle, towing a 1995. He’s worked closely with the “That’s where John red balloon against the gray winter sky. Vietnamese, first as a representative McCain’s plane was shot The neighborhood that was once the of the Vietnam Veterans of America down,” the American vet- target of American bombs is now home Foundation and then as a cofounder of Project Renew, which removes un- eran tells me. “He nearly to a large Western expat population. In central Vietnam, US veteran Chuck Searcy (le) discusses bomb disposal with members of Project Renew. drowned and had to be Hotels and cafés abound, but from the exploded bombs from the Vietnamese dragged out of the water.” street posts hang reminders of a darker countryside. Chuck says that instead It was October 1967, and the United time. Banners mark the 40th anniver- of blaming him and other veterans for and Representation (Indiana Univer- missile, and the pilot parachuted into bombs and chemicals dropped by the SStates was bombarding the North Viet- sary of the 1972 Christmas bombing, the casualties during the war, the Viet- sity Press, 2009). “Commemorating Tuan’s village. Children threw stones United States continue to claim Viet- namese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong America’s most concentrated air attack namese respect him for his service. the war together is one of the most at the pilot, whom Tuan remembers namese lives, the conflict has largely daily. The attacks targeted railways, of the war. The United States dropped “They tell me that the war was a important ways in which veterans are as being very tall, young, and scared. faded from the American conscious- roads, and bridges along with a major 20,000 tons of bombs in Operation tragic situation and an awful policy able to work through the past.” Tuan’s father knew some English, and ness, often reduced to a symbol of fail- power plant, but neighborhoods were Linebacker II, killing more than 1,000 of the US government, but you didn’t A few miles from Truc Bach Lake in when he spoke to the pilot, he calmed ure, a controversial war in which the also flattened and many civilians were civilians in the process. make that policy. You served your Hanoi, I meet Senior Colonel Phan Duc down. Tuan offered the American a world’s most powerful army could not killed. After McCain was pulled from A Vietnamese television crew had country when you were called to and Tuan, a 43-year veteran of the People’s guava, but he didn’t eat it. In the brief claim victory. the water, the locals beat him, shatter- invited Bob to return to mark the an - we respect that. You know what we Army of Vietnam. Tuan got his start reprieve from bombing, Tuan felt The veterans I met in Vietnam aren’t ing his shoulder with the butt of a rifle niversary. With a retired Russian suffered through because you suffered in the military as an 18-year-old, plant- sorry for the American soldier so far interested in winners and losers. For and bayoneting his foot and groin. general and some members of the the same thing. We’re brothers.” ing landmines meant to kill American from home. But the war marched on. Americans like Bob Mulholland and Today Bob and I stand at the lake’s Vietnamese military, he was to par- Recognizing shared experiences soldiers. Today he is working with the A North Vietnamese military car soon Chuck Searcy and Vietnamese like edge, sipping Coke and talking about ticipate in a nationally broadcast town can be healing for both American and Vietnam Veterans of America Foun- arrived and took the pilot away. And Phan Duc Tuan, the war is a shared the war. I had arrived in Hanoi just hall about the bombings. While Bob Vietnamese veterans. dation to remove the mines and other the next day, the US planes returned burden for which both sides are respon- a few hours earlier and was going to hadn’t flown in the operation, he had “Veterans who meet today in Viet- explosive remnants of war. and bombed his village, killing a girl sible. Four decades on, these veterans spend the next two months in the been a member of the 101st Airborne nam are sharing their sorrow and try- “It’s funny,” Tuan tells me. “Dur - from his school. are teaching us one of the most impor- country doing research for a book. I Division and was known to speak pub- ing to move forward together,” says ing the war all of us in the military In the four decades that have passed, tant lessons of the war—how to turn wanted to tell the story of American licly about his time in Vietnam. Christina Schwenkel, an anthropolo- tried to kill each other, but now we get Tuan has never forgotten that girl and enemies into friends. ◆ veterans who return to Vietnam to Bob has been back several times. gist at the University of California, along well.” the pain of seeing his village destroyed. work on some of the lingering legacies Initially he was interested in connect- Riverside. Schwenkel is the author Tuan’s experience with Americans But the memory has driven him to Nissa (Thompson) Rhee, AB’06, is writ- of the war, like Agent Orange and un- ing children fathered by US troops of The American War in Contemporary during the war was limited. He was reach out to his former enemies and ing a book about American veterans exploded bombs. with their Vietnamese family mem- Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance only nine years old when the United work for peace. who have returned to Vietnam to help I knew that in some ways the Amer- bers. In 1985 he was part of the first States began bombing North Viet- “Veterans hope to never again see overcome legacies of the war. Her work ican veterans in Vietnam were no official group of American tourists to teekay teekay credit photo credit photo nam. His family moved from one place the terrible things they saw at war,” has appeared in the Christian Science different from those who had made pil- visit Vietnam since the fall of Saigon How, I wondered, would to another trying to avoid the aerial at- Tuan says. “That’s why we make Monitor, on NPR, and in the Korean grimages to Normandy and Iwo Jima. a decade earlier. Bob carried letters tacks. He remembers making hats and good peace builders. We understand partner of the International New York But Vietnam was not World War II; and photos from the children living the Vietnamese receive shields out of straw for protection. well that war is a stupid human game.” Times. In 2011 Nissa was named a Ro- the veterans who returned to South- in the States to their mothers and them? Could the violent In 1968 Tuan met his first and only This April 30 will mark the 39th an- tary Peace Fellow for her reporting on east Asia would be doing so as the relatives who had stayed in Vietnam. American of the war. A US plane had niversary of the fall of Saigon, which conflict issues in the United States and photo creditphoto credit teekay teekay defeated enemy, not as heroes. How, On that first trip back he learned that past ever be forgotten? (landmines.org.vn) renew (landmines.org.vn) project renew courtesy project photo courtesy photo been shot down by a surface-to-air ended the war in Vietnam. While South Korea.

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web_2014_mar-apr.indd 60 3/7/14 9:53 AM UCH_Alumni Essay_Rhee_v7.indd 50 2/28/14 11:23 AM UCH_Alumni Essay_Rhee_v7.indd 51 2/28/14 11:25 AM ALUMNI ESSAY reconciliation was possible with his former enemies. Bob told reporters afterward, “The one message we got from the Vietnamese was, ‘We have an open door to America.’” Bob and thousands of other Ameri- can veterans have taken advantage of that open door since the 1980s. What The things they they have found in Vietnam is far from the bullet-strewn battlefields they once knew. The towns shelled to carried back rubble have since been rebuilt. Saigon, BY NISSA RHEE, A B’06 once the capital of South Vietnam, is now named after North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh and serves as a bustling economic center. But most striking, returning American veterans discover that Vietnamese veterans welcome them as equals. quinting through the Hanoi I wondered, would the Vietnamese American veteran Chuck Searcy smog, Bob Mulholland receive them? Could the violent past has lived and worked in Vietnam since points to a mud-colored ever be forgotten? the United States normalized rela- monument on the far end At the lake, a Caucasian man and his tions with the communist country in of Truc Bach Lake. son drive by on a motorcycle, towing a 1995. He’s worked closely with the “That’s where John red balloon against the gray winter sky. Vietnamese, first as a representative McCain’s plane was shot The neighborhood that was once the of the Vietnam Veterans of America down,” the American vet- target of American bombs is now home Foundation and then as a cofounder of Project Renew, which removes un- eran tells me. “He nearly to a large Western expat population. In central Vietnam, US veteran Chuck Searcy (le) discusses bomb disposal with members of Project Renew. drowned and had to be Hotels and cafés abound, but from the exploded bombs from the Vietnamese dragged out of the water.” street posts hang reminders of a darker countryside. Chuck says that instead It was October 1967, and the United time. Banners mark the 40th anniver- of blaming him and other veterans for and Representation (Indiana Univer- missile, and the pilot parachuted into bombs and chemicals dropped by the SStates was bombarding the North Viet- sary of the 1972 Christmas bombing, the casualties during the war, the Viet- sity Press, 2009). “Commemorating Tuan’s village. Children threw stones United States continue to claim Viet- namese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong America’s most concentrated air attack namese respect him for his service. the war together is one of the most at the pilot, whom Tuan remembers namese lives, the conflict has largely daily. The attacks targeted railways, of the war. The United States dropped “They tell me that the war was a important ways in which veterans are as being very tall, young, and scared. faded from the American conscious- roads, and bridges along with a major 20,000 tons of bombs in Operation tragic situation and an awful policy able to work through the past.” Tuan’s father knew some English, and ness, often reduced to a symbol of fail- power plant, but neighborhoods were Linebacker II, killing more than 1,000 of the US government, but you didn’t A few miles from Truc Bach Lake in when he spoke to the pilot, he calmed ure, a controversial war in which the also flattened and many civilians were civilians in the process. make that policy. You served your Hanoi, I meet Senior Colonel Phan Duc down. Tuan offered the American a world’s most powerful army could not killed. After McCain was pulled from A Vietnamese television crew had country when you were called to and Tuan, a 43-year veteran of the People’s guava, but he didn’t eat it. In the brief claim victory. the water, the locals beat him, shatter- invited Bob to return to mark the an - we respect that. You know what we Army of Vietnam. Tuan got his start reprieve from bombing, Tuan felt The veterans I met in Vietnam aren’t ing his shoulder with the butt of a rifle niversary. With a retired Russian suffered through because you suffered in the military as an 18-year-old, plant- sorry for the American soldier so far interested in winners and losers. For and bayoneting his foot and groin. general and some members of the the same thing. We’re brothers.” ing landmines meant to kill American from home. But the war marched on. Americans like Bob Mulholland and Today Bob and I stand at the lake’s Vietnamese military, he was to par- Recognizing shared experiences soldiers. Today he is working with the A North Vietnamese military car soon Chuck Searcy and Vietnamese like edge, sipping Coke and talking about ticipate in a nationally broadcast town can be healing for both American and Vietnam Veterans of America Foun- arrived and took the pilot away. And Phan Duc Tuan, the war is a shared the war. I had arrived in Hanoi just hall about the bombings. While Bob Vietnamese veterans. dation to remove the mines and other the next day, the US planes returned burden for which both sides are respon- a few hours earlier and was going to hadn’t flown in the operation, he had “Veterans who meet today in Viet- explosive remnants of war. and bombed his village, killing a girl sible. Four decades on, these veterans spend the next two months in the been a member of the 101st Airborne nam are sharing their sorrow and try- “It’s funny,” Tuan tells me. “Dur - from his school. are teaching us one of the most impor- country doing research for a book. I Division and was known to speak pub- ing to move forward together,” says ing the war all of us in the military In the four decades that have passed, tant lessons of the war—how to turn wanted to tell the story of American licly about his time in Vietnam. Christina Schwenkel, an anthropolo- tried to kill each other, but now we get Tuan has never forgotten that girl and enemies into friends. ◆ veterans who return to Vietnam to Bob has been back several times. gist at the University of California, along well.” the pain of seeing his village destroyed. work on some of the lingering legacies Initially he was interested in connect- Riverside. Schwenkel is the author Tuan’s experience with Americans But the memory has driven him to Nissa (Thompson) Rhee, AB’06, is writ- of the war, like Agent Orange and un- ing children fathered by US troops of The American War in Contemporary during the war was limited. He was reach out to his former enemies and ing a book about American veterans exploded bombs. with their Vietnamese family mem- Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance only nine years old when the United work for peace. who have returned to Vietnam to help I knew that in some ways the Amer- bers. In 1985 he was part of the first States began bombing North Viet- “Veterans hope to never again see overcome legacies of the war. Her work ican veterans in Vietnam were no official group of American tourists to teekay teekay credit photo credit photo nam. His family moved from one place the terrible things they saw at war,” has appeared in the Christian Science different from those who had made pil- visit Vietnam since the fall of Saigon How, I wondered, would to another trying to avoid the aerial at- Tuan says. “That’s why we make Monitor, on NPR, and in the Korean grimages to Normandy and Iwo Jima. a decade earlier. Bob carried letters tacks. He remembers making hats and good peace builders. We understand partner of the International New York But Vietnam was not World War II; and photos from the children living the Vietnamese receive shields out of straw for protection. well that war is a stupid human game.” Times. In 2011 Nissa was named a Ro- the veterans who returned to South- in the States to their mothers and them? Could the violent In 1968 Tuan met his first and only This April 30 will mark the 39th an- tary Peace Fellow for her reporting on east Asia would be doing so as the relatives who had stayed in Vietnam. American of the war. A US plane had niversary of the fall of Saigon, which conflict issues in the United States and photo creditphoto credit teekay teekay defeated enemy, not as heroes. How, On that first trip back he learned that past ever be forgotten? (landmines.org.vn) renew (landmines.org.vn) project renew courtesy project photo courtesy photo been shot down by a surface-to-air ended the war in Vietnam. While South Korea.

web_2014_mar-apr.indd 61 3/7/14 9:53 AM UCH_Alumni Essay_Rhee_v7.indd 50 2/28/14 11:23 AM UCH_Alumni Essay_Rhee_v7.indd 51 2/28/14 11:25 AM the country’s birth rate has declined, NOTES RELEASES so has morale, but Anne Allison chronicles how some modern Japanese are finding fulfillment in unconventional work and reconceived The Magazine lists a selection of general notions of home, family, and SECURING FUTURES interest books, films, and albums by togetherness. In January Carmen Heredia-Lopez, alumni. For additional alumni releases, IMBA’97, was named chief invest- use the link to the Magazine’s Goodreads THE HABSBURGS: THE HISTORY OF ment officer of the Chicago Teachers’ bookshelf at mag.uchicago.edu A DYNASTY Pension Fund. Previously director of /alumni-books. By Benjamin Curtis, AM’97, PhD’02; investments, Heredia-Lopez is now Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 responsible for managing the fund’s MIXED: MULTIRACIAL COLLEGE Ruling Europe for nearly a thousand nearly $10 billion investment portfo- STUDENTS TELL THEIR LIFE STORIES years is no small feat, especially lio. She also serves on the boards of the Edited by Andrew Garrod, Robert while juggling territories in Robert A. Toigo Foundation, from Kilkenny, and Christina Gómez, AB’85, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. which she received the Leading by Ex- MBA’87; Cornell University Press, 2013 Considered one of the most ample Award in 2013; the CFA Society What is it like to grow up identifying dominant dynasties in history, the of Chicago; the National Society of as multiracial in a “postracial” world Habsburgs endured enough drama to such as Ralph Waldo Emerson as well Hispanic MBAs; and the Alternative that often isn’t? Mixed shares the rival Game of Thrones. In his study of as less familiar figures like Christina Investments Forum. perspectives of 12 Dartmouth students the Spanish and Austrian branches Moody, an African American author who know how it feels. Whether of the dynasty, Benjamin Curtis who published her first book at 16. A PRESS-ING APPOINTMENT searching for middle ground between documents the family’s journey This winter Phillip T. Walzak, AB’99, black and white or navigating a from rise to fall. A GUIDE TO WIDER HORIZONS joined New York City mayor Bill de rainbow of roots around the world, By Kevin Krisciunas, AM’76; Blasio’s administration as press sec- MICROSOFT MAN the student essayists reveal how OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2013 retary. Walzak previously served as Satya Nadella, MBA’97, was named Microso’s new CEO on February 4. their experiences, families, and THE WOOD: AN ANTHOLOGY OF In A Guide to Wider Horizons, Kevin senior communications adviser for de Nadella, who has master’s degrees in computer science and business surroundings have shaped their NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN Krisciunas assembles a potpourri Blasio’s campaign. Before that, he led administration, has worked at Microso since 1992 and was head of the identities and worldviews. CHILDREN’S POETRY of facts and stories about physics, Wisconsin communications for Presi- company’s Cloud and Enterprise Group before his promotion to CEO. Edited by Karen L. Kilcup and Angela biology, math, ethics, history, dent Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, “Satya is a proven leader with hard-core engineering skills, business SONG ONE Sorby, AM’89, PhD’96; Johns Hopkins linguistics, and literature. An served as director of strategic com- vision, and the ability to bring people together,” said Microso founder Wrien and directed by Kate University Press, 2014 astronomer at Texas A&M University munications at the US Department of Bill Gates in a press release. Barker-Froyland, AB’04; World View In their new anthology Karen L. whose other books focus more strictly Homeland Security, and worked on Entertainment, Marc Pla Productions, Kilcup and Angela Sorby resurrect on astronomy, Krisciunas intended Tammy Baldwin’s successful US Sen- 2014 hundreds of 19th-century American this one as an omnivorous read. ate run in Wisconsin. Song One chronicles Franny’s (Anne children’s poems—many of which Chapter titles include “Astronomical National Film Registry. Adapted AN APPEALING COURTS HIP Hathaway) return to her estranged have languished in obscure periodicals Measurements without a Telescope” THE RIGHT STUFF from Tom Wolfe’s novel of the same On December 24 state representative family after a car accident leaves and primers for more than a century— and “Books with a Moral Angle.” Director Philip Kaufman’s (AB’58) title and starring Sam Shepard and Christopher Lewis Garrett, JD’00, (left) images bros./getty warner (top); kozloff robert by photography her brother in a coma. Prompted with themes ranging from creepy 1983 film The Right Stuff has been Scott Glenn, The Right Stuff depicts was appointed to the Oregon Court of by regret to explore her brother’s crawlies to politics and social reform. DRAGNET NATION: A QUEST FOR added to the Library of Congress’s the space program as sparking both Appeals by Governor John Kitzhaber. passion for Brooklyn’s live music Including kid-friendly period PRIVACY, SECURITY, AND FREEDOM IN A national pride and media-fueled hero Garrett, a Democrat who was elected scene, Franny befriends a guitarist illustrations, Over the River and through WORLD OF RELENTLESS SURVEILLANCE worship. Kaufman’s film becomes one to the state house in 2008, worked her brother idolized. The daughter of the Wood features well-known names By Julia Angwin, AB’92; of 625 preserved in the National Film as a lawyer for New York’s Simpson Sony Pictures Classics copresident Times Books, 2014 Registry on the basis of their cultural, Thacher & Bartlett and clerked for and cofounder Michael Barker, writer- With the seemingly endless stream of historic, or aesthetic qualities. Judge Dennis Jacobs of the US Sec- director Kate Barker-Froyland is no revelations about how governments ond Circuit Court of Appeals before stranger to film, but it was music that and corporations keep tabs on THE BUSINESS OF BIS HOP-ELECT returning to Oregon to practice busi- inspired her tale of love, loss, and citizens around the world, sometimes On November 30 Melissa M. Skelton, ness law at Portland’s Perkins Coie. human connection. 2014 feels more like 1984. In Dragnet MBA’89, was elected bishop of Van- Nation, Pulitzer Prize–winning couver’s Anglican New Westminster ENTERTAINMENT NEWS PRECARIOUS JAPAN investigative journalist Julia Angwin diocese. She is the first woman and Former SportsIllustrated.com manag- By Anne Allison, AM’80, PhD’86; describes the extreme measures she first US citizen to be granted the post. ing editor Ma Bean, AB’00, became Duke University Press, 2013 took to protect her privacy over one Ordained in 1993 while working as a editor of Entertainment Weekly on Feb- Until the collapse of Japan’s economic year—using a “burner” phone, among brand manager at Procter and Gamble, ruary 10. Bean worked for eight years bubble in 1991, most Japanese other tactics—and shows us just Skelton is the rector at St. Paul’s Epis- at Rodale publishing prior to joining men were able to secure lifelong how difficult it is to elude the gaze of copal Church, Seattle, where her con- Sports Illustrated, where traffic rose to employment and a middle-class Google and the NSA. Her account gregation has doubled in size since she record levels during his tenure, and he lifestyle. Today fewer and fewer holds far-reaching implications for arrived in 20 05. She was to be ordained led digital initiatives including the live people are able to find full-time balancing safety and freedom in the and installed as Westminster’s ninth daily talk show SI Now. work and buy the homes that afford information age. Philip Kaufman bishop on March 1. —Adrianna Szenthe a comfortable family lifestyle. As —Ingrid Gonçalves, AB’08

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web_2014_mar-apr.indd 62 3/7/14 9:53 AM Notes_March April 2014_Layout_v12.indd 52 2/28/14 1:22 PM Releases_March April 2014_Layout_v9.indd 55 2/28/14 11:05 AM the country’s birth rate has declined, NOTES RELEASES so has morale, but Anne Allison chronicles how some modern Japanese are finding fulfillment in unconventional work and reconceived The Magazine lists a selection of general notions of home, family, and SECURING FUTURES interest books, films, and albums by togetherness. In January Carmen Heredia-Lopez, alumni. For additional alumni releases, IMBA’97, was named chief invest- use the link to the Magazine’s Goodreads THE HABSBURGS: THE HISTORY OF ment officer of the Chicago Teachers’ bookshelf at mag.uchicago.edu A DYNASTY Pension Fund. Previously director of /alumni-books. By Benjamin Curtis, AM’97, PhD’02; investments, Heredia-Lopez is now Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 responsible for managing the fund’s MIXED: MULTIRACIAL COLLEGE Ruling Europe for nearly a thousand nearly $10 billion investment portfo- STUDENTS TELL THEIR LIFE STORIES years is no small feat, especially lio. She also serves on the boards of the Edited by Andrew Garrod, Robert while juggling territories in Robert A. Toigo Foundation, from Kilkenny, and Christina Gómez, AB’85, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. which she received the Leading by Ex- MBA’87; Cornell University Press, 2013 Considered one of the most ample Award in 2013; the CFA Society What is it like to grow up identifying dominant dynasties in history, the of Chicago; the National Society of as multiracial in a “postracial” world Habsburgs endured enough drama to such as Ralph Waldo Emerson as well Hispanic MBAs; and the Alternative that often isn’t? Mixed shares the rival Game of Thrones. In his study of as less familiar figures like Christina Investments Forum. perspectives of 12 Dartmouth students the Spanish and Austrian branches Moody, an African American author who know how it feels. Whether of the dynasty, Benjamin Curtis who published her first book at 16. A PRESS-ING APPOINTMENT searching for middle ground between documents the family’s journey This winter Phillip T. Walzak, AB’99, black and white or navigating a from rise to fall. A GUIDE TO WIDER HORIZONS joined New York City mayor Bill de rainbow of roots around the world, By Kevin Krisciunas, AM’76; Blasio’s administration as press sec- MICROSOFT MAN the student essayists reveal how OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2013 retary. Walzak previously served as Satya Nadella, MBA’97, was named Microso’s new CEO on February 4. their experiences, families, and THE WOOD: AN ANTHOLOGY OF In A Guide to Wider Horizons, Kevin senior communications adviser for de Nadella, who has master’s degrees in computer science and business surroundings have shaped their NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN Krisciunas assembles a potpourri Blasio’s campaign. Before that, he led administration, has worked at Microso since 1992 and was head of the identities and worldviews. CHILDREN’S POETRY of facts and stories about physics, Wisconsin communications for Presi- company’s Cloud and Enterprise Group before his promotion to CEO. Edited by Karen L. Kilcup and Angela biology, math, ethics, history, dent Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, “Satya is a proven leader with hard-core engineering skills, business SONG ONE Sorby, AM’89, PhD’96; Johns Hopkins linguistics, and literature. An served as director of strategic com- vision, and the ability to bring people together,” said Microso founder Wrien and directed by Kate University Press, 2014 astronomer at Texas A&M University munications at the US Department of Bill Gates in a press release. Barker-Froyland, AB’04; World View In their new anthology Karen L. whose other books focus more strictly Homeland Security, and worked on Entertainment, Marc Pla Productions, Kilcup and Angela Sorby resurrect on astronomy, Krisciunas intended Tammy Baldwin’s successful US Sen- 2014 hundreds of 19th-century American this one as an omnivorous read. ate run in Wisconsin. Song One chronicles Franny’s (Anne children’s poems—many of which Chapter titles include “Astronomical National Film Registry. Adapted AN APPEALING COURTS HIP Hathaway) return to her estranged have languished in obscure periodicals Measurements without a Telescope” THE RIGHT STUFF from Tom Wolfe’s novel of the same On December 24 state representative family after a car accident leaves and primers for more than a century— and “Books with a Moral Angle.” Director Philip Kaufman’s (AB’58) title and starring Sam Shepard and Christopher Lewis Garrett, JD’00, (left) images bros./getty warner (top); kozloff robert by photography her brother in a coma. Prompted with themes ranging from creepy 1983 film The Right Stuff has been Scott Glenn, The Right Stuff depicts was appointed to the Oregon Court of by regret to explore her brother’s crawlies to politics and social reform. DRAGNET NATION: A QUEST FOR added to the Library of Congress’s the space program as sparking both Appeals by Governor John Kitzhaber. passion for Brooklyn’s live music Including kid-friendly period PRIVACY, SECURITY, AND FREEDOM IN A national pride and media-fueled hero Garrett, a Democrat who was elected scene, Franny befriends a guitarist illustrations, Over the River and through WORLD OF RELENTLESS SURVEILLANCE worship. Kaufman’s film becomes one to the state house in 2008, worked her brother idolized. The daughter of the Wood features well-known names By Julia Angwin, AB’92; of 625 preserved in the National Film as a lawyer for New York’s Simpson Sony Pictures Classics copresident Times Books, 2014 Registry on the basis of their cultural, Thacher & Bartlett and clerked for and cofounder Michael Barker, writer- With the seemingly endless stream of historic, or aesthetic qualities. Judge Dennis Jacobs of the US Sec- director Kate Barker-Froyland is no revelations about how governments ond Circuit Court of Appeals before stranger to film, but it was music that and corporations keep tabs on THE BUSINESS OF BIS HOP-ELECT returning to Oregon to practice busi- inspired her tale of love, loss, and citizens around the world, sometimes On November 30 Melissa M. Skelton, ness law at Portland’s Perkins Coie. human connection. 2014 feels more like 1984. In Dragnet MBA’89, was elected bishop of Van- Nation, Pulitzer Prize–winning couver’s Anglican New Westminster ENTERTAINMENT NEWS PRECARIOUS JAPAN investigative journalist Julia Angwin diocese. She is the first woman and Former SportsIllustrated.com manag- By Anne Allison, AM’80, PhD’86; describes the extreme measures she first US citizen to be granted the post. ing editor Ma Bean, AB’00, became Duke University Press, 2013 took to protect her privacy over one Ordained in 1993 while working as a editor of Entertainment Weekly on Feb- Until the collapse of Japan’s economic year—using a “burner” phone, among brand manager at Procter and Gamble, ruary 10. Bean worked for eight years bubble in 1991, most Japanese other tactics—and shows us just Skelton is the rector at St. Paul’s Epis- at Rodale publishing prior to joining men were able to secure lifelong how difficult it is to elude the gaze of copal Church, Seattle, where her con- Sports Illustrated, where traffic rose to employment and a middle-class Google and the NSA. Her account gregation has doubled in size since she record levels during his tenure, and he lifestyle. Today fewer and fewer holds far-reaching implications for arrived in 20 05. She was to be ordained led digital initiatives including the live people are able to find full-time balancing safety and freedom in the and installed as Westminster’s ninth daily talk show SI Now. work and buy the homes that afford information age. Philip Kaufman bishop on March 1. —Adrianna Szenthe a comfortable family lifestyle. As —Ingrid Gonçalves, AB’08

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C. Noel Bairey Merz, AB’77 A pioneer who was among the first to show that heart disease affects women differently than men, Bairey ALUMNI MEDAL Terri Travis-Davis, AM’99 (School of Merz is chair of the American College Donald F. Steiner, MD’56, SM’56 Social Service Administration) of Cardiology Cardiovascular Disease (Biological Sciences) In addition to supporting the School in Women Committee. A fellow car- For more than five decades, Steiner, of Social Service Administration diologist says, “Her research has and the A. N. Pritzker distinguished community through fundraising, will have profound implications for service professor in biochemistry event planning, and mentorship, Tra- women, clinical practice, and public and molecular biology, has pursued vis-Davis established SSA’s annual policy.” groundbreaking research on diabe- African American Alumni Award. tes, earning international acclaim for A fellow SSA alumni board member Peter Selz, AM’49, PhD’54 his discoveries on the biosynthesis says her “commitment to SSA, its (Humanities) of insulin. His work “has improved students, and alumni has been un- An internationally recognized art At last year’s 72nd Annual Alumni Awards Ceremony, recipients of alumni awards and graduating seniors who life for millions of people,” says a wavering and unconditional.” historian, Selz was the first curator of received the Howell Murray Alumni Association Award processed into Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. This year’s colleague in the Biological Sciences modern painting and sculpture exhibi- ceremony takes place Saturday, June 7, at 10:30 a.m. Division. A member of the National YOUNG ALUMNI SERVICE AWARDS tions at the Museum of Modern Art Academy of Sciences, Steiner has Jenna Beletic, AB’07 and founding director of the Berkeley been recognized with the Canada Beletic has chaired Phoenixphest Art Museum. “When I think of him,” Gairdner International Award, Is- Chicago, interviewed prospective a colleague says, “I see erudition, en- chair of the Senate Veterans Affairs intellectual competence, honesty, Susanne Rudolph, Benton Distin- rael’s Wolf Prize in Medicine, and students, reviewed Metcalf applica- thusiasm, and energy.” Committee and the Subcommittee on and ethical commitment.” guished Service Professor Emerita, the American Diabetes Association’s tions, hosted an Alumni Board of Primary Health and Aging, Sanders, and Lloyd Rudolph, Professor Banting Medal, among many other Governors extern, and served on the Bret Stephens, AB’95 writes an alumna, “fights for working NORMAN MACLEAN Emeritus in Political Science honors. 2012 Caucus Advisory Committee. A foreign affairs columnist and dep- people and those who are left behind FACULTY AWARDS Susanne and Lloyd Rudolph, coau- A fellow alumna writes, “Jenna has uty editorial page editor at the Wall in this time of growing inequality.” Richard A. Epstein, James Parker thors of many publications on the ALUMNI SERVICE AWARDS convinced me, and other reluctant Street Journal, Stephens received Hall Distinguished Service Professor comparative politics of South Asia, Judith Munson, AB’63, and alumni, that we owe a great deal to the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Commen- Michael L. Shakman, AB’62, AM’64, Emeritus of Law and Senior Lecturer are former Guggenheim Fellows and Lester Munson, JD’67 the University of Chicago.” tary. A fellow alumnus describes JD’66 (Social Sciences) A member of the American Academy Ryerson Lecturers. In 2014 they Judith and Lester Munson have his work as “reliably and beautifully A partner at Miller Shakman & Beem of Arts and Sciences and senior fel- were honored with India’s Padma shown their commitment to students Luke Rodehorst, AB’09 researched, accurate, and thought LLP since 1972, Shakman has battled low of Pritzker’s Center for Clinical Bhushan Award. The Rudolphs, and alumni as Taking the Next Step Rodehorst has served on alumni club provoking.” political patronage throughout his Medical Ethics, Epstein has mentored “teachers by inclination, mentors panelists, Metcalf Internship hosts, boards in Chicago, Detroit/Ann career, establishing the influential University of Chicago law students in the deepest sense of the word,” a committee volunteers, and more. Arbor, and Washington, DC, and PUBLIC SERVICE AWARDS Shakman Decrees prohibiting politi- for four decades. A former student former student says, “have created a The Munsons, says a young alumna spoken on panels at numerous alum- Bernard (Bernie) Sanders, AB’64 cally motivated treatment of gov- writes, “In a school known for excel- community, always growing, always who interned with Judith, “are icons ni events. He established and main- After serving 16 years in the House ernment employees. According to a ling in the domain of teaching, Rich- interesting, intellectual, and social of guidance and leadership for the tains the Chicago Men’s A Cappella of Representatives, Sanders was colleague, Shakman “represents the ard Epstein is a legend. I saw the world and very human.”

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She and Row, 1990), Barbour received the TRUSTEES cago, associate professor of biochemistry ematics, died December 30 in Chicago. He and two grandchildren. was 90. For many years, Davis coordinat - Templeton Prize for a lifetime of work and molecular biology, died January 13. He was 80. Joining UChicago in 1965, Sally ed the activities of the faculty-staff dining that helped expand the field of theology. A lifelong resident of Chicago’s South Side was 86. Escaping Nazi Germany, Fried- pioneered outreach programs for elemen- 1920s club at Beloit College, where her husband, He is survived by two daughters; two with deep ties to the University, includ - mann moved to India, where he earned an tary and secondary math teachers and stu- Harry R. Davis, AM’49, PhD’51, taught, sons, including John D. Barbour, AM’75, ing as a life member of the Medical Center undergraduate degree and worked in bio - dents, including the University of Chicago Roma (Clift) Montgomery, AM’29, of and was active in local organizations in- PhD’81; a brother; three grandchildren; Board of Trustees, Lindy Bergman, U- chemistry labs at the University of Madras School Mathematics Project and Seminars Lawton, OK, died November 28. She was cluding the Rock County Democratic and a great-grandson. High’35, AB’39, died January 18 in Chi - before moving to Chicago in 1954 to begin for Endorsement of Science and Math- 108. A Lawton resident since 1931, Mont - Party. Survivors include her husband, a Don A. Mills, AB’51, of Philadelphia, died cago. She was 96. Bergman enriched the doctoral studies at the University. An au - ematics Educators (SESAME); taught gomery helped found or lead local organi- daughter, two sons, three grandchildren, November 15. He was 89. Mills was a fam- life of her native city and former school thority on bacterial enzymes, the biosyn - in UChicago’s Urban Teacher Education zations including the Lawton Community and four great-grandchildren. ily physician for more than 40 years, and through six decades of dedication and gen- thesis of vitamin B12, and the history of Program; and cofounded the Young Schol- Theater, Comanche County Red Cross, William C. Davidon, SB’47, SM’50, worked at Holy Redeemer Hospital in erous financial commitment to the arts, biology, Friedmann taught at UChicago ars Program. Sally held several residen - and the Shakespeare Club. Survivors in- PhD’54, died November 8 in Highlands Meadowbrook, PA. He retired at age 83. education, and medical care. After losing for almost 50 years. In 1978 he received the cies at the Institute for Advanced Study in clude two daughters, three grandchildren, Ranch, CO. He was 86. A Navy veteran, Survivors include his wife, Evelyn; four her eyesight in later years, she became a Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Princeton, NJ, and received many awards and seven great-grandchildren. Davidon headed the Chicago section of children; and six grandchildren. tireless advocate for the blind. She and Quantrell Award for Excellence in Under- for his teaching, including the Llewellyn the Federation of American Scientists Althea J. (Greenwald) Horner, SB’52, died her husband, Edwin A. Bergman, AB’39, graduate Teaching. Survivors include his John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell 1930s and codeveloped the Davidon-Fletcher- December 24 in Sierra Madre, CA. She former chair of the University Board of wife, Joan; daughter Elisabeth Pryor, U- Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Powell formula. He then taught physics was 87. A clinical psychologist, Horner Trustees, were avid art collectors whose High’80; and two grandchildren, Amalia Teaching, the University of Chicago Pro- Dena (Polacheck) Epstein, AB’37, a music and mathematics at Haverford College for had a private practice for 40 years. She family art collection is now part of the Pryor, AM’11, and Eric Pryor, U-High’13. vost’s Teaching Award, and the American librarian, died November 14 in Chicago. 30 years. A peace activist and opponent of also taught at the University of California, Art Institute of Chicago’s permanent col- Marlene Richman, of Chicago, a retired Mathematical Society Award for Distin- She was 96. Assistant music librarian at nuclear weapons, Davidon was a leader of Los Angeles, and was supervising psy- lection. At the University she established counselor for Career Advising and Plan- guished Teaching. Type I diabetes had UChicago from 1964 to 1986, Epstein docu- the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear chologist at Beth Israel Medical Center in the Bergman Gallery, home to the Re - ning Services (now UChicago Career Ad- afflicted Sally since he was a teenager, re- mented the history of black American music Policy. He is survived by two daughters, New York. Horner published nine books naissance Society, and donated artwork vancement), died January 7. She was 75. sulting in the loss of both legs and one eye. through Reconstruction in Sinful Tunes and two sons, a stepdaughter, two stepsons, including Being and Loving (Schocken for the hallways of the University of Chi- Richman worked at the University for 36 Students affectionately nicknamed him Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War and eight grandchildren. Books, 1978) and Object Relations and the cago medical center. Endowing the Uni- years, also serving as resident master of the “Math Pirate” for the black eye patch (University of Illinois Press, 1977). Her Donald H. Bates, SB’48, SM’51, died Octo- Developing Ego in Therapy (Jason Aron- versity’s Lindy Bergman Distinguished Burton-Judson with her husband, Harold he wore. Survivors include his wife, Ju- work established the banjo’s West African ber 6 in Park Ridge, IL. He was 87. A W W son, 1979). She is survived by two daugh- Service Professorship and the Edwin A. A. Richman, AM’61, PhD’69, the Hermon dith (Donovan) Sally, PhD’71; three sons, origin and became the subject of a 2013 doc- II Navy veteran, Bates worked at Fermilab ters, including Martha J. Hartley, AB’70; Bergman Scholarship in the College, she Dunlap Smith professor emeritus and for - including David Francis Sally, PhD’95; a umentary film, The Librarian and the Banjo. and Argonne National Laboratory. He two sons; ten grandchildren; and three also funded the Bergman Family Eye mer dean at the School of Social Service brother; a sister; and eight grandchildren, Epstein also edited her mother’s memoir, I studied the geology of the moon and also great-grandchildren. Center. Her honors from the University Administration. An annual award named in including Benjamin Sally, AB’09, and Ra- Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House helped develop biomedical engineering Carl Albert Westberg Jr., U-High’4 4 , of Chicago include the University of Chi- her honor recognizes UChicago staff mem- chel Sally, ’17. Girl (University of Illinois Press, 1989). departments at several Chicago-area hos- PhD’50, MBA’55, of Placentia, CA, died cago Medal and the Alumni Association’s bers’ service to students. She is survived by Harry Schoenberg, professor emeritus The past president of the Music Library pitals. He is survived by his wife, Mary Al- December 18. He was 85. An accountant, Public Service Award. Bergman’s hus - her sons, Andrew Richman, U-High’86, of surgery and urology and former chair Association, Epstein received the MLA ice; two brothers, including Vincent Bates, photographer, and computer enthusi - band died in 1986. She is survived by two and Robert Richman, U-High’88; a broth- of urology, died November 19 in Sedona, Citation and the Chicago Folklore Prize, MBA’62; and a grandson. ast, Westberg worked for Hunt-Wesson daughters, including Betsy Rosenfield, er; and four grandchildren. AZ. He was 86. After teaching at the awarded jointly by the American Folklore John W. Rogers Sr., JD’48, a Chicago law- Foods. Survivors include his wife, Win- U-High’70, and her husband, Univer - Janet (Davison) Rowley, U-High’4 2 , University of Pennsylvania and St. Louis Society and the University of Chicago. She yer and judge, died January 21. He was 95. ifred; three sons; seven grandchildren; sity trustee Andrew Rosenfield, JD’78; PhB’45, SB’46, MD’48, the Blum-Riese University, Schoenberg joined the Pritz- is survived by daughter Suzanne L. Ep- A member of the Tuskegee Airmen during and two great-grandchildren. son Robert Bergman, U-High’67; seven distinguished service professor of medi- ker School of Medicine faculty as urology stein, U-High’68; a son; two grandsons; WW II, Rogers was one of approximately Jack J. Honomichl, AM’56, of Bar - grandchildren, including Zachary Rosen- cine, molecular genetics and cell biology, chair, serving from 1976 to 1993. In retire- and one great-grandson. 300 Tuskegee Airmen honored in 2007 for rington, IL, died December 8. He was 85. field, JD’10, Henry Bergman, U-High’11, and human genetics, died December 17 in ment he was a board member of the Sedona their valor with a Congressional Gold Med- A Navy veteran, Honomichl was a pioneer and Law School student Edwin Rosen- Chicago. She was 88. Rowley was the first Medical Center, Verde Valley School, and 1940s al. Attending the Law School on the GI in the field of market research. Honomichl field; and six great-grandchildren. scientist to establish the genetic basis of Chamber Music Sedona. Schoenberg is Bill, Rogers met and married Jewel Strad- started his career in the Chicago Tribune’s cancer, identifying a genetic process called survived by his wife, Lelia West Schoen - Thelma (Iselman) Hayes, AB’40, died ford Lafontant, JD’46, the Law School’s marketing/advertising research depart- FACULTY AND STAFF translocation. Her discovery led to target- berg; a daughter; two sons; two stepdaugh- May 31, 2012, in Oceanside, CA. She was first black alumna. They divorced in 1961. ment. After working on research panels ed drug treatment for leukemia and laid the ters; and 14 grandchildren. 94. Hayes was an administrative assistant After several decades in private practice at firms including Dun & Bradstreet, J. Terry Ernest, MD’61, PhD’67, the Cyn- foundation for the field of cancer genetics. Francis H. Straus II, MD’57, SM’64, pro- before helping her husband set up and run and with Earl L. Neal & Associates, in 1977 he started his own firm, Marketing Aid thia Chow professor emeritus and former Joining UChicago in 1962, Rowley devoted fessor emeritus of pathology, died Janu- his geriatric internal medicine practice Rogers was named a juvenile court judge Center, in the late 1970s. Credited with chair of ophthalmology and visual science, the following decades to her chromosome ary 8 in Mackinac Island, MI. He was 81. in Carlsbad, CA. In 1983 Hayes founded in Illinois, where he served for 21 years. In helping to define the market research in - died December 26 in Chicago. He was 78. research, becoming distinguished service Straus spent his entire medical career at the National Alliance on Mental Illness 2012 the University of Chicago Law School dustry, Honomichl was an Advertising Age An expert on retinal treatments and glau- professor by 1984. She served on federal the University of Chicago, training many (NAMI) North Coastal San Diego Coun- honored Rogers and Lafontant (who died columnist for 18 years and founded the coma, Ernest led a team that performed advisory boards including the National of the nation’s leading surgical patholo - ty, serving as its president for many years. in 1997) by naming its dean of admissions trade newsletter Inside Research. His “Ho- the first experimental cell transplantation Cancer Advisory Board under President gists. The coauthor of Hypoparathyroidism Long active in organizations including the office for the couple. Rogers is survived by nomichl Top 50” ranked market research to treat age-related macular degeneration, Jimmy Carter and the President’s Council (Grune and Stratton, 1973) and Essentials of Buena Vista Lagoon Foundation Board his wife, Gwendolyn D. Rogers, AM’53; firms in the United States. Honomichl was which influenced future treatment of the on Bioethics under President George W. Surgical Pathology (Little, Brown, and Co., and the League of Women Voters, Hayes son John W. Rogers Jr., U-High’76, a Uni- inducted into the Market Research Coun- disease. In 1970, after three years in the Bush. Rowley’s many awards and honors 1974), author of a dozen book chapters, and was named a Carlsbad Citizen of the Year versity trustee; and granddaughter Victo- cil’s Hall of Fame in 2002 and received Army Medical Corps, Ernest joined the include the Lasker Award, the National a contributor to nearly 10 0 research papers, in 1994 and received the UChicago Alum - ria Rogers, U-High’08. the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award UChicago ophthalmology and visual sci- Medal of Science, the Presidential Medal Straus made major contributions to the ni Association’s Public Service Award in from the Council of American Survey ence faculty, where he taught until 1977. of Freedom, and the UChicago Alumni understanding of thyroid pathology and 1996. 1950s Research Organizations. He is survived He returned in 1985 as chair, a role he held Association’s Alumni Medal and Norman other endocrine and urologic disorders. A Egbert Frederick “Tex” Schietinger , by three daughters, including Beth (Ho- for 19 years. Also a pioneer in medical eth- Maclean Faculty Award. She is survived teacher and clinician, Straus was named by AB’40, AM’48, PhD’53, died September Ian G. Barbour, PhD’50, a scholar of sci- nomichl) Cole, MBA’85; a son; and eight ics, Ernest retired as professor emeritus in by three sons, including geophysical sci- students as one of UChicago Medicine’s 20 1 in Washington, DC. He was 94. A WW ence and religion, died December 24 in grandchildren. 2011. Named one of Time magazine’s He- ences professor David Rowley and Roger best teachers on 15 occasions in the 1970s II Army Signal Corps veteran, Schietinger Minneapolis. He was 90. Barbour was a Shirley (Weinstein) Kaplan, AM’56, died roes of Medicine in 1997, he was also hon- H. D. Rowley, U-High’81, and five grand - and ’80s. With his wife, Lorna Straus, was director of research at the Southern pioneer in promoting discourse between December 5 in Wilmette, IL. She was 83. ored by the National Institutes of Health children, including Jason Rowley, U- U-High’49, X’53, SM’60, PhD’62, he Regional Education Board, where he initi- religion and science. In 1955 he was hired From 1970 to 1996, Kaplan was a psychiat- and the American Academy of Ophthal - High’08, and Gia Rowley, U-High’12. Her developed and cotaught a course on mam- ated the SREB-State Data Exchange and to teach physics and religion at Carleton ric social worker at the Josselyn Center in mology. Survivors include a daughter and husband, Donald Rowley, SB’45, SM’50, malian anatomy and physiology in the Col- wrote six editions of the periodic Fact Book College, retiring in 1986. The first chair Northfield, IL. Survivors include her hus- three granddaughters. MD’50, professor emeritus in pathology lege. Straus is survived by his wife; their on Higher Education in the South (Southern of Carleton’s religion department, he cre- band, William Kaplan, A M’57; two daugh-

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She and Row, 1990), Barbour received the TRUSTEES cago, associate professor of biochemistry ematics, died December 30 in Chicago. He and two grandchildren. was 90. For many years, Davis coordinat - Templeton Prize for a lifetime of work and molecular biology, died January 13. He was 80. Joining UChicago in 1965, Sally ed the activities of the faculty-staff dining that helped expand the field of theology. A lifelong resident of Chicago’s South Side was 86. Escaping Nazi Germany, Fried- pioneered outreach programs for elemen- 1920s club at Beloit College, where her husband, He is survived by two daughters; two with deep ties to the University, includ - mann moved to India, where he earned an tary and secondary math teachers and stu- Harry R. Davis, AM’49, PhD’51, taught, sons, including John D. Barbour, AM’75, ing as a life member of the Medical Center undergraduate degree and worked in bio - dents, including the University of Chicago Roma (Clift) Montgomery, AM’29, of and was active in local organizations in- PhD’81; a brother; three grandchildren; Board of Trustees, Lindy Bergman, U- chemistry labs at the University of Madras School Mathematics Project and Seminars Lawton, OK, died November 28. She was cluding the Rock County Democratic and a great-grandson. High’35, AB’39, died January 18 in Chi - before moving to Chicago in 1954 to begin for Endorsement of Science and Math- 108. A Lawton resident since 1931, Mont - Party. Survivors include her husband, a Don A. Mills, AB’51, of Philadelphia, died cago. She was 96. Bergman enriched the doctoral studies at the University. An au - ematics Educators (SESAME); taught gomery helped found or lead local organi- daughter, two sons, three grandchildren, November 15. He was 89. Mills was a fam- life of her native city and former school thority on bacterial enzymes, the biosyn - in UChicago’s Urban Teacher Education zations including the Lawton Community and four great-grandchildren. ily physician for more than 40 years, and through six decades of dedication and gen- thesis of vitamin B12, and the history of Program; and cofounded the Young Schol- Theater, Comanche County Red Cross, William C. Davidon, SB’47, SM’50, worked at Holy Redeemer Hospital in erous financial commitment to the arts, biology, Friedmann taught at UChicago ars Program. Sally held several residen - and the Shakespeare Club. Survivors in- PhD’54, died November 8 in Highlands Meadowbrook, PA. He retired at age 83. education, and medical care. After losing for almost 50 years. In 1978 he received the cies at the Institute for Advanced Study in clude two daughters, three grandchildren, Ranch, CO. He was 86. A Navy veteran, Survivors include his wife, Evelyn; four her eyesight in later years, she became a Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Princeton, NJ, and received many awards and seven great-grandchildren. Davidon headed the Chicago section of children; and six grandchildren. tireless advocate for the blind. She and Quantrell Award for Excellence in Under- for his teaching, including the Llewellyn the Federation of American Scientists Althea J. (Greenwald) Horner, SB’52, died her husband, Edwin A. Bergman, AB’39, graduate Teaching. Survivors include his John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell 1930s and codeveloped the Davidon-Fletcher- December 24 in Sierra Madre, CA. She former chair of the University Board of wife, Joan; daughter Elisabeth Pryor, U- Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Powell formula. He then taught physics was 87. A clinical psychologist, Horner Trustees, were avid art collectors whose High’80; and two grandchildren, Amalia Teaching, the University of Chicago Pro- Dena (Polacheck) Epstein, AB’37, a music and mathematics at Haverford College for had a private practice for 40 years. She family art collection is now part of the Pryor, AM’11, and Eric Pryor, U-High’13. vost’s Teaching Award, and the American librarian, died November 14 in Chicago. 30 years. A peace activist and opponent of also taught at the University of California, Art Institute of Chicago’s permanent col- Marlene Richman, of Chicago, a retired Mathematical Society Award for Distin- She was 96. Assistant music librarian at nuclear weapons, Davidon was a leader of Los Angeles, and was supervising psy- lection. At the University she established counselor for Career Advising and Plan- guished Teaching. Type I diabetes had UChicago from 1964 to 1986, Epstein docu- the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear chologist at Beth Israel Medical Center in the Bergman Gallery, home to the Re - ning Services (now UChicago Career Ad- afflicted Sally since he was a teenager, re- mented the history of black American music Policy. He is survived by two daughters, New York. Horner published nine books naissance Society, and donated artwork vancement), died January 7. She was 75. sulting in the loss of both legs and one eye. through Reconstruction in Sinful Tunes and two sons, a stepdaughter, two stepsons, including Being and Loving (Schocken for the hallways of the University of Chi- Richman worked at the University for 36 Students affectionately nicknamed him Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War and eight grandchildren. Books, 1978) and Object Relations and the cago medical center. Endowing the Uni- years, also serving as resident master of the “Math Pirate” for the black eye patch (University of Illinois Press, 1977). Her Donald H. Bates, SB’48, SM’51, died Octo- Developing Ego in Therapy (Jason Aron- versity’s Lindy Bergman Distinguished Burton-Judson with her husband, Harold he wore. Survivors include his wife, Ju- work established the banjo’s West African ber 6 in Park Ridge, IL. He was 87. A W W son, 1979). She is survived by two daugh- Service Professorship and the Edwin A. A. Richman, AM’61, PhD’69, the Hermon dith (Donovan) Sally, PhD’71; three sons, origin and became the subject of a 2013 doc- II Navy veteran, Bates worked at Fermilab ters, including Martha J. Hartley, AB’70; Bergman Scholarship in the College, she Dunlap Smith professor emeritus and for - including David Francis Sally, PhD’95; a umentary film, The Librarian and the Banjo. and Argonne National Laboratory. He two sons; ten grandchildren; and three also funded the Bergman Family Eye mer dean at the School of Social Service brother; a sister; and eight grandchildren, Epstein also edited her mother’s memoir, I studied the geology of the moon and also great-grandchildren. Center. Her honors from the University Administration. An annual award named in including Benjamin Sally, AB’09, and Ra- Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House helped develop biomedical engineering Carl Albert Westberg Jr., U-High’4 4 , of Chicago include the University of Chi- her honor recognizes UChicago staff mem- chel Sally, ’17. Girl (University of Illinois Press, 1989). departments at several Chicago-area hos- PhD’50, MBA’55, of Placentia, CA, died cago Medal and the Alumni Association’s bers’ service to students. She is survived by Harry Schoenberg, professor emeritus The past president of the Music Library pitals. He is survived by his wife, Mary Al- December 18. He was 85. An accountant, Public Service Award. Bergman’s hus - her sons, Andrew Richman, U-High’86, of surgery and urology and former chair Association, Epstein received the MLA ice; two brothers, including Vincent Bates, photographer, and computer enthusi - band died in 1986. She is survived by two and Robert Richman, U-High’88; a broth- of urology, died November 19 in Sedona, Citation and the Chicago Folklore Prize, MBA’62; and a grandson. ast, Westberg worked for Hunt-Wesson daughters, including Betsy Rosenfield, er; and four grandchildren. AZ. He was 86. After teaching at the awarded jointly by the American Folklore John W. Rogers Sr., JD’48, a Chicago law- Foods. Survivors include his wife, Win- U-High’70, and her husband, Univer - Janet (Davison) Rowley, U-High’4 2 , University of Pennsylvania and St. Louis Society and the University of Chicago. She yer and judge, died January 21. He was 95. ifred; three sons; seven grandchildren; sity trustee Andrew Rosenfield, JD’78; PhB’45, SB’46, MD’48, the Blum-Riese University, Schoenberg joined the Pritz- is survived by daughter Suzanne L. Ep- A member of the Tuskegee Airmen during and two great-grandchildren. son Robert Bergman, U-High’67; seven distinguished service professor of medi- ker School of Medicine faculty as urology stein, U-High’68; a son; two grandsons; WW II, Rogers was one of approximately Jack J. Honomichl, AM’56, of Bar - grandchildren, including Zachary Rosen- cine, molecular genetics and cell biology, chair, serving from 1976 to 1993. In retire- and one great-grandson. 300 Tuskegee Airmen honored in 2007 for rington, IL, died December 8. He was 85. field, JD’10, Henry Bergman, U-High’11, and human genetics, died December 17 in ment he was a board member of the Sedona their valor with a Congressional Gold Med- A Navy veteran, Honomichl was a pioneer and Law School student Edwin Rosen- Chicago. She was 88. Rowley was the first Medical Center, Verde Valley School, and 1940s al. Attending the Law School on the GI in the field of market research. Honomichl field; and six great-grandchildren. scientist to establish the genetic basis of Chamber Music Sedona. Schoenberg is Bill, Rogers met and married Jewel Strad- started his career in the Chicago Tribune’s cancer, identifying a genetic process called survived by his wife, Lelia West Schoen - Thelma (Iselman) Hayes, AB’40, died ford Lafontant, JD’46, the Law School’s marketing/advertising research depart- FACULTY AND STAFF translocation. Her discovery led to target- berg; a daughter; two sons; two stepdaugh- May 31, 2012, in Oceanside, CA. She was first black alumna. They divorced in 1961. ment. After working on research panels ed drug treatment for leukemia and laid the ters; and 14 grandchildren. 94. Hayes was an administrative assistant After several decades in private practice at firms including Dun & Bradstreet, J. Terry Ernest, MD’61, PhD’67, the Cyn- foundation for the field of cancer genetics. Francis H. Straus II, MD’57, SM’64, pro- before helping her husband set up and run and with Earl L. Neal & Associates, in 1977 he started his own firm, Marketing Aid thia Chow professor emeritus and former Joining UChicago in 1962, Rowley devoted fessor emeritus of pathology, died Janu- his geriatric internal medicine practice Rogers was named a juvenile court judge Center, in the late 1970s. Credited with chair of ophthalmology and visual science, the following decades to her chromosome ary 8 in Mackinac Island, MI. He was 81. in Carlsbad, CA. In 1983 Hayes founded in Illinois, where he served for 21 years. In helping to define the market research in - died December 26 in Chicago. He was 78. research, becoming distinguished service Straus spent his entire medical career at the National Alliance on Mental Illness 2012 the University of Chicago Law School dustry, Honomichl was an Advertising Age An expert on retinal treatments and glau- professor by 1984. She served on federal the University of Chicago, training many (NAMI) North Coastal San Diego Coun- honored Rogers and Lafontant (who died columnist for 18 years and founded the coma, Ernest led a team that performed advisory boards including the National of the nation’s leading surgical patholo - ty, serving as its president for many years. in 1997) by naming its dean of admissions trade newsletter Inside Research. His “Ho- the first experimental cell transplantation Cancer Advisory Board under President gists. The coauthor of Hypoparathyroidism Long active in organizations including the office for the couple. Rogers is survived by nomichl Top 50” ranked market research to treat age-related macular degeneration, Jimmy Carter and the President’s Council (Grune and Stratton, 1973) and Essentials of Buena Vista Lagoon Foundation Board his wife, Gwendolyn D. Rogers, AM’53; firms in the United States. Honomichl was which influenced future treatment of the on Bioethics under President George W. Surgical Pathology (Little, Brown, and Co., and the League of Women Voters, Hayes son John W. Rogers Jr., U-High’76, a Uni- inducted into the Market Research Coun- disease. In 1970, after three years in the Bush. Rowley’s many awards and honors 1974), author of a dozen book chapters, and was named a Carlsbad Citizen of the Year versity trustee; and granddaughter Victo- cil’s Hall of Fame in 2002 and received Army Medical Corps, Ernest joined the include the Lasker Award, the National a contributor to nearly 10 0 research papers, in 1994 and received the UChicago Alum - ria Rogers, U-High’08. the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award UChicago ophthalmology and visual sci- Medal of Science, the Presidential Medal Straus made major contributions to the ni Association’s Public Service Award in from the Council of American Survey ence faculty, where he taught until 1977. of Freedom, and the UChicago Alumni understanding of thyroid pathology and 1996. 1950s Research Organizations. He is survived He returned in 1985 as chair, a role he held Association’s Alumni Medal and Norman other endocrine and urologic disorders. A Egbert Frederick “Tex” Schietinger , by three daughters, including Beth (Ho- for 19 years. Also a pioneer in medical eth- Maclean Faculty Award. She is survived teacher and clinician, Straus was named by AB’40, AM’48, PhD’53, died September Ian G. Barbour, PhD’50, a scholar of sci- nomichl) Cole, MBA’85; a son; and eight ics, Ernest retired as professor emeritus in by three sons, including geophysical sci- students as one of UChicago Medicine’s 20 1 in Washington, DC. He was 94. A WW ence and religion, died December 24 in grandchildren. 2011. Named one of Time magazine’s He- ences professor David Rowley and Roger best teachers on 15 occasions in the 1970s II Army Signal Corps veteran, Schietinger Minneapolis. He was 90. Barbour was a Shirley (Weinstein) Kaplan, AM’56, died roes of Medicine in 1997, he was also hon- H. D. Rowley, U-High’81, and five grand - and ’80s. With his wife, Lorna Straus, was director of research at the Southern pioneer in promoting discourse between December 5 in Wilmette, IL. She was 83. ored by the National Institutes of Health children, including Jason Rowley, U- U-High’49, X’53, SM’60, PhD’62, he Regional Education Board, where he initi- religion and science. In 1955 he was hired From 1970 to 1996, Kaplan was a psychiat- and the American Academy of Ophthal- High’08, and Gia Rowley, U-High’12. Her developed and cotaught a course on mam- ated the SREB-State Data Exchange and to teach physics and religion at Carleton ric social worker at the Josselyn Center in mology. Survivors include a daughter and husband, Donald Rowley, SB’45, SM’50, malian anatomy and physiology in the Col- wrote six editions of the periodic Fact Book College, retiring in 1986. The first chair Northfield, IL. Survivors include her hus- three granddaughters. MD’50, professor emeritus in pathology lege. Straus is survived by his wife; their on Higher Education in the South (Southern of Carleton’s religion department, he cre- band, William Kaplan, A M’57; two daugh-

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Effinger volunteered as a youth advocate trials and testimonials, short form comedy supervisor at Brucker and Associates in Walter Oi, PhD’61, an economist, died for foster children with his wife, Kathy, Duralast 900 A, 12 V DC jump-start bat- films to complex motion graphics, we’ve St. Louis. A photographer and amateur December 24 in Brighton, NY. He was and served on the board of directors for tery. Good for jump-starting cars or re- seen and done it all, on time every time recording engineer, he donated photos of 84. During WW II, Oi spent three years Goodcity. He is survived by his wife, four charging mobile devices in a power outage. and always on budget. See thehoyde.com. animals to the St. Louis Zoo. He is sur - in Japanese American internment camps, daughters, and eight grandchildren. Includes jumper cables, USB port. Taken vived by his wife, June (Dunn) Silverman, where he first showed signs of a degen - out of box but never used. Retails for $10 0+ WANTED X’60; a daughter; a brother; a sister; and erative eye disease that left him blind by 1970s but asking $50. Contact brecchie@gmail three grandchildren. his late 20s. In 1967—the same year he .com. Inkwater Press publishes book-length fic- Sheldon Wolfe, MD’56, died August joined the University of Rochester eco - Gerald Lee Schertz, MD’71, of Troutville, tion, nonfiction, and poetry. Royalties. 17 in Berkeley, CA. He was 82. Wolfe nomics faculty, where he would serve VA, died November 29 from injuries in a College memories. Are your memories of 503.968.6777. inkwaterpress.com. practiced psychoanalysis and psychiatry for 41 years—Oi published two influen- pedestrian accident. He was 67. An on- the College boring, negative, or hazy? Buy in San Francisco and Berkeley until his tial papers on the costs of conscription cologist, Schertz practiced medicine in the new ones! Available memories include: the 2006 retirement. He was a member of the and the real cost of a volunteer military. Roanoke Valley for more than 35 years. He time the girl/guy you had a crush on ad- San Francisco Institute for Psychoanaly- His analysis helped convince President was a senior partner with Blue Ridge Can- mitted s/he was in love with you; the time sis and an associate clinical professor of Richard Nixon and Congress to end the cer Care, the area’s first oncologic partner- you shook hands with John McCain and psychiatry at the University of Califor- military draft, and two years later he was ship. He is survived by his wife, Denise; Russ Feingold; the resident masters’ party nia, San Francisco. Wolfe also sang in the appointed senior staff economist to the a daughter; a son; two sisters; and two where you rocked the karaoke machine; Berkeley Community Chorus. Survivors President’s Commission on an All-Volun- grandchildren. and how awful the pizza at Woodward include his wife, Nancy; two daughters; teer Armed Force. An expert on applied Richard Calica, AM’73, of Highland Court was. Reasonable prices; wholesale two sons; a sister; and ten grandchildren. economic theory and labor markets, Oi Park, IL, died of cancer December 22. He discounts available. Contact old.college Richard P. Hartung, U-High’53, AB’58, also served as vice chair of the President’s was 67. After more than 30 years as the [email protected] of Janesville, WI, died October 30. He Commission on Employment of People executive director of the Juvenile Protec- was 75. As director of the Rock County with Disabilities, was a consultant for the tive Association, Calica became director RENTALS Historical Society for 25 years, Hartung Department of Defense and the National of the Illinois Department of Children and helped develop the society’s archives, Commission on State and Workmen’s Family Services in 2011. He also served on Oregon Wine Country, three-bedroom Have opened a museum of Rock County his - Compensation Laws, and received the the faculties of the Institute for Clinical house in Dundee Hills, Pinot Noir coun- tory, and worked to increase community Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstand- Social Work and the Loyola University tryside. Special U of C discount. vrbo you written awareness about historic preservation. ing Public Service. Survivors include his Chicago School of Social Work. Survivors .com/384832. Chris at 503.538.6072. Under his supervision, the society was wife, Marjorie Robbins; two daughters; a include his wife, Judith Calica, AM’74; a a book? one of the first recipients of certification sister; and three grandchildren. son; two brothers, including Arnold Cali- US Virgin Islands, St. John. Hillcrest from the American Association of Muse- Mike Michaels, X’63, a musician by pro- ca, SM’61, MD’75; and a grandson. Guest House. hillcreststjohn .com. ums, and Hartung was named to the Rock fession and avocation, of Guilford, CT, Christine Winton Jones, AB’74, an econ- 340.776.6744. Let us know. Help us County Hall of Fame in 2006. In retire - died November 5. He was 72. For 35 years omist, died of leukemia May 11 in Port - fill every book and cranny ment, he consulted on private National Michaels recorded and created scores for land, OR. She was 60. After serving in Italy, Tuscany-Umbria border. Beautiful Register nominations. Survivors include entertainment and advertising. Michaels the Peace Corps in eastern Congo, Jones 5-bedroom country villa, designer interi- of the Magazine’s shelves his wife, Ilah (Bjorklund) Hartung, helped organize the first University of earned a PhD from Harvard, studying the ors, stunning views, heated infinity pool, at Goodreads. BFA’60; two sons; four grandchildren; Chicago Folk Festival in 1961, now an an- economics of women’s work in Cameroon. private grounds. Available year-round. Chicago Classifieds and two great-grandchildren. nual three-day festival in its 54th year. He As an economist for the World Bank, she poderepalazzo.com. Reach 155,000 Readers. became a blues and jazz harmonica player, focused first on Africa and then on East- Go to AD RATES $3 per word, ten-word minimum. 1960s collaborating with local musicians and ern Europe and the former Soviet Union. DownEast Maine Studio on Frenchmen’s mag.uchicago.edu DISCOUNTS 5% for advertising in 3–5 issues and performing in schools and libraries. Mi- Jones moved to Sisters, OR, in 2003, Bay. Woodland paths and extensive beach. 15% for 6 or more issues. Morris Finder, AM’49, PhD’60, of Pitts- chaels also published his writing and pho- where she chaired the local school board, See vacationhomerentals.com/74397. /alumni-books DEADLINES March 28 for the May–June/14 issue. burgh, died November 11. He was 96. A tography in music magazines and journals. volunteering in classrooms and advocat- to submit a book to our To learn more, visit mag.uchicago.edu. WW II veteran, Finder spent 21 years Survivors include two sons, a brother, a ing for better schools; in 2012 she received Maine Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor- library or browse books as an English education professor at the stepsister, and three grandchildren. the Sisters Citizen of the Year Award. She Ellsworth area. Lakefront cottage. Loons, ADVERTISING CATEGORIES (Check one.) University at Albany, State University William S. Bice, MBA’65, died October is survived by her husband, Chuck; two eagles, two kayaks, canoe, rowboat. $750 by UChicago affiliation. ❒ ❒ ❒ of New York. Retiring in 1987, he later 29 in Petersburg, VA. He was 85. An artil- sons; her mother; a brother; and a sister. weekly. Sandy Quine. Cell: 207.671.2726. For Sale Professional Services Events ❒ Real Estate ❒ Personals ❒ Travel published a book about his former profes- lery and ordnance officer in the US Army James D. Zalewa, JD’74, an intellectual E-mail: [email protected]. Web: ❒ Rental ❒ Wanted ❒ Other sor at UChicago Ralph W. Tyler, PhD’27, for 29 years, Bice served two tours of duty property attorney, died of cardiac prob- www.freewebs.com/quinecottage. called Educating America: How Ralph W. in Vietnam, as well as tours in Korea and lems November 19 in Fort Lauderdale, Tyler Taught America to Teach (Praeger, Germany. Moving to Petersburg in 1973, FL. He was 66. Zalewa was a partner at the Rules For Dating Name SERVICES 2004). Survivors include his wife, Nata- he was the officer in charge of the logistics now-defunct boutique law firm Liss before lie Finder, AB’41, AM’46; two daughters; division of Combined Arms Support Com- joining Leydig, Voit & Mayer in 1990. 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Effinger volunteered as a youth advocate trials and testimonials, short form comedy supervisor at Brucker and Associates in Walter Oi, PhD’61, an economist, died for foster children with his wife, Kathy, Duralast 900 A, 12 V DC jump-start bat- films to complex motion graphics, we’ve St. Louis. A photographer and amateur December 24 in Brighton, NY. He was and served on the board of directors for tery. Good for jump-starting cars or re- seen and done it all, on time every time recording engineer, he donated photos of 84. During WW II, Oi spent three years Goodcity. He is survived by his wife, four charging mobile devices in a power outage. and always on budget. See thehoyde.com. animals to the St. Louis Zoo. He is sur - in Japanese American internment camps, daughters, and eight grandchildren. Includes jumper cables, USB port. Taken vived by his wife, June (Dunn) Silverman, where he first showed signs of a degen - out of box but never used. Retails for $10 0+ WANTED X’60; a daughter; a brother; a sister; and erative eye disease that left him blind by 1970s but asking $50. Contact brecchie@gmail three grandchildren. his late 20s. In 1967—the same year he .com. Inkwater Press publishes book-length fic- Sheldon Wolfe, MD’56, died August joined the University of Rochester eco - Gerald Lee Schertz, MD’71, of Troutville, tion, nonfiction, and poetry. Royalties. 17 in Berkeley, CA. He was 82. Wolfe nomics faculty, where he would serve VA, died November 29 from injuries in a College memories. Are your memories of 503.968.6777. inkwaterpress.com. practiced psychoanalysis and psychiatry for 41 years—Oi published two influen- pedestrian accident. He was 67. An on- the College boring, negative, or hazy? Buy in San Francisco and Berkeley until his tial papers on the costs of conscription cologist, Schertz practiced medicine in the new ones! Available memories include: the 2006 retirement. He was a member of the and the real cost of a volunteer military. Roanoke Valley for more than 35 years. He time the girl/guy you had a crush on ad- San Francisco Institute for Psychoanaly- His analysis helped convince President was a senior partner with Blue Ridge Can- mitted s/he was in love with you; the time sis and an associate clinical professor of Richard Nixon and Congress to end the cer Care, the area’s first oncologic partner- you shook hands with John McCain and psychiatry at the University of Califor- military draft, and two years later he was ship. He is survived by his wife, Denise; Russ Feingold; the resident masters’ party nia, San Francisco. Wolfe also sang in the appointed senior staff economist to the a daughter; a son; two sisters; and two where you rocked the karaoke machine; Berkeley Community Chorus. Survivors President’s Commission on an All-Volun- grandchildren. and how awful the pizza at Woodward include his wife, Nancy; two daughters; teer Armed Force. An expert on applied Richard Calica, AM’73, of Highland Court was. Reasonable prices; wholesale two sons; a sister; and ten grandchildren. economic theory and labor markets, Oi Park, IL, died of cancer December 22. He discounts available. Contact old.college Richard P. Hartung, U-High’53, AB’58, also served as vice chair of the President’s was 67. After more than 30 years as the [email protected] of Janesville, WI, died October 30. He Commission on Employment of People executive director of the Juvenile Protec- was 75. As director of the Rock County with Disabilities, was a consultant for the tive Association, Calica became director RENTALS Historical Society for 25 years, Hartung Department of Defense and the National of the Illinois Department of Children and helped develop the society’s archives, Commission on State and Workmen’s Family Services in 2011. He also served on Oregon Wine Country, three-bedroom Have opened a museum of Rock County his - Compensation Laws, and received the the faculties of the Institute for Clinical house in Dundee Hills, Pinot Noir coun- tory, and worked to increase community Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstand- Social Work and the Loyola University tryside. Special U of C discount. vrbo you written awareness about historic preservation. ing Public Service. Survivors include his Chicago School of Social Work. Survivors .com/384832. Chris at 503.538.6072. Under his supervision, the society was wife, Marjorie Robbins; two daughters; a include his wife, Judith Calica, AM’74; a a book? one of the first recipients of certification sister; and three grandchildren. son; two brothers, including Arnold Cali- US Virgin Islands, St. John. Hillcrest from the American Association of Muse- Mike Michaels, X’63, a musician by pro- ca, SM’61, MD’75; and a grandson. 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