Thinking Big with astronomer Sandra Moore Faber ’66 F e a t u r e s A n s e l m ’ s 1 6 Q u e s t i o n Astronomer Sandra Moore Departments Faber ’66 has built her career on thinking big. L e t t e r s 3 Alumni notes By Dana Mackenzie ’79 P r o f i l e s C o l l e c t i o n 4 Campus beat P l a y i n g 4 2 ShakeItOut 22 G e r s h w i n ’ s At Swarthmore, there are lots T u n e s of ways to be an individual. Connections 36 Alumni events and more Inspired by one of the masters, By Elizabeth Redden ’05 John Child ’37 still teaches ClassNotes 38 students how to play piano. Friends’ jobs and travels L e a r n i n g 2 6 By Tricia Maloney a t H o m e D e a t h s 4 5 The number of homeschooled Community condolences “ M o t h e r 5 6 students attending Swarthmore G a z e l a ” is on the rise. I n M y L i f e 6 0 Gay Burgiel’s [’61] work By Angela Doody Preserving a Family Legacy on Philadelphia’s tall ship By Denise Dennis ’72 is never done. By Angela Doody D e v i l s i n 3 0 Books&Arts 72 t h e D e t a i l s Movie review and other pearls Kurt Eichenwald ’83 is dedicated T h e A r t o f 6 4 to accuracy in uncovering A Day in the Life 80 C o o k i n g corporate crime. Professor of Physics Giuliano Hazan ’81 Amy Bug juggles teaching, shares the secrets of his By Sasha Issenberg ’02 research, and family. mouthwatering recipes. By Carol Brévart-Demm By Andrea Hammer B r o t h e r s 3 2 Fraternities work to find a new role on campus. P h i l l y ’ s 7 6 Quirkiest Paper By Sonia Scherr ’01 Matt Schwartz ’01 is editor of the Philadelphia Independent. By Deborah Bolling ON THE COVER: THE ANDROMEDA GALAXY (M31) IS THE NEAREST GALAXY TO THE MILKY WAY—AND THE ONLY ONE VISIBLE FROM EARTH WITH THE NAKED EYE. PHOTOGRAPH BY BILL SCHOENING, VANESSA HARVEY/REU PROGRAM/NOAO/AURA/NSF. STORY ON PAGE 16. CONTENTS: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE ELIZABETH BOLTON TAKES ADVANTAGE OF A SUNNY DAY IN APRIL TO TEACH HER CLASS ON ROMANTIC LITERATURE IN THE SCOTT AMPHITHEATER. PHOTOGRAPH BY JIM GRAHAM. spent a good part of the recent war in bed. I wish I could say I did it in Iprotest, like John and Yoko in Amsterdam, 1969, but it was pneumonia that had me down. It started as bronchitis; after ordering a chest X ray, the doctor Swarthmore said, “Let’s switch to the big guns.” He meant a more powerful antibiotic, but, COLLEGEBULLETIN during the first week of April, it was an appropriate metaphor. I’ll always equate the Iraq War with this pneumonia—and with the BBC Editor: Jeffrey Lott news that runs all night on National Public Radio. When the program comes Managing Editor: Andrea Hammer on at midnight, it’s already 5 a.m. GMT; dawn, it seems, is already breaking in Class Notes Editor: Carol Brévart-Demm the Middle East. Those clipped, competent British voices made it easier to pass Assistant Editor: Angela Doody the restless nights of coughing and fever that accompanied my illness. In a little Staff Writer: Alisa Giardinelli more than a week, I rode quite deliriously from Basra to Baghdad with my Desktop Publishing: Audree Penner embedded BBC buddies and their trusty NPR allies. Art Director: Suzanne DeMott Gaadt, Gaadt Perspectives LLC Thanks to the “big guns,” I recovered from pneumonia—an illness that once PARLORTALK Administrative Assistant: killed great numbers. And the U.S.-led coalition conquered Iraq with fewer Janice Merrill-Rossi than 200 American and British soldiers killed. By the time the looting started, I Intern: Elizabeth Redden ’05 was back in the office working on Editor Emerita: There was a grim this issue of the Bulletin. You won’t Maralyn Orbison Gillespie ’49 find much about the war in this issue Contacting Swarthmore College of the magazine. 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One of number 5, is published in August, Sep- tember, December, March, and June by these initiatives was the visit of an Iraqi artist, who led a workshop that pro- Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore PA 19081-1390. Periodicals moted cross-cultural understanding and produced visualizations of peace. As postage paid at Swarthmore PA and the semester ended, I was feeling a lot better, and the campus conversation had additional mailing offices. Permit No. 0530-620. Postmaster: Send address turned at last to how people of intelligence and good will might prevent the changes to Swarthmore College Bulletin, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore PA sickness of war from happening again. 19081-1390. —Jeffrey Lott ©2003 Swarthmore College SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN Printed in U.S.A. 2 LETTERS LEARNING FOR LIFE my own mind and those of others—and of I was pleased to read about the Learning a wide-ranging, persistent curiosity. There for Life Program at the College (“Learning was a spiritual awakening, which has led for Life,” March Bulletin). It sounds won- me to become a Quaker. There was the derful and much needed. Swarthmore foundation of some deep and lasting couldn’t run without all its staff, and they friendships. And then there was folk danc- deserve the same respect and appreciation ing, which convinced me that I was not given members of the faculty. Students irretrievably inept physically and socially. who want to make a difference in the world Since graduation, I have continued should not overlook what needs to be Scottish country dancing in various coun- changed in their own back yard—and in tries with undimmed enjoyment. This their own dining room, dormitory bath- activity has brought me my husband (a room, etc. Scottish dance teacher, whom I met at Why do some Swarthmore employees a dance workshop), has provided my major have to work two jobs to make ends meet? source of recreational exercise, and contin- I can think of nothing more important for H a v i n g ues to be the primary influence on my a B a l l the welfare of the Swarthmore communi- The Folk-Dance Tradition Continues social activity. I owe a great deal to Swarth- ty—and the education of Swarthmore stu- more—and much to the folk-dance activi- dents—than making sure that all Swarth- ties. I trust they will long continue to more employees are paid a livable wage. I flourish. would be eager to contribute toward a sig- BERTHA FUCHSMAN SMALL ’72 nificant raise for the Swarthmore employ- at Swarthmore College. That being the Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec ees who are now working two jobs to make case, it is only fair that conservatives ends meet, and I am sure many other should be aggressively recruited as faculty NO SPACE FOR FOLK DANCE alumni feel the same way. members, administrators, and students— In the 1960s, long before there was a BETH FERHOLT ’93 and, further, that practicing conservatives Department of Music and Dance at La Jolla, Calif. be given special preference over all other Swarthmore, all dance programs—folk, similarly situated candidates. modern, and water ballet—shared space AFFIRMATIVE ACTION In this regard, I speak from painful per- with the Women’s Athletics Program in the FOR CONSERVATIVES sonal experience. As a young man, I came old Hall Gym. When it was torn down [in Associate Dean Darryl Smaw’s essay “Does out of the closet at Swarthmore, proudly 1988] for the construction of the Lang Per- Diversity Include Me?” (March Bulletin) and publicly proclaiming that I love forming Arts Center (LPAC), the College graphically illustrates multiculturalism’s Edmund Burke, Irving Babbitt, and Russell repeatedly assured all users of the gym that fatal flaw.