RECENT ENTRIES

• Architectural digest
• Audio/Visuals: Artists’ rendering
• Handsprings eternal
• Air Hubble
• Rabbit is rich in metaphor

BLOG ROLL

• The Becker-Posner blog
• Law School Faculty blog
• Maroon News blog
• Special Collections Research Center
• Uncommon Application
• University Press Chicago
• More UChicago blogs

True Maroons: Joe Perez, Mark Hollmann, Edward Jack Helbig, Thomas Gale Moore, Michael W. McConnell, Paula L. Rogers, Bonnie Urciuoli

LOVE AND MARRIAGE...AND POLITICS
"Could the GOP Win Converts with a New, Pro-Family, Anti-Divorce Agenda?" (My TPM blog, Talking Points Memo, May 8, 2009)
Writer Joe Perez, AM'69, looks at the politics of same-sex marriage: "It's quite possible that youth raised in an age where Britney Spears and other celebrities have trivialized marriage could be attraced to a pro-family policy agenda that isn't just a mask for homophobia."

OF GOATS & GROUCHY FARMERS
"Steel Beam to Bring Local Writer's Musical to Life" (Daily Herald, May 10, 2009)
Wild Goat, a new musical collaboration between Mark Hollmann, AB’85, and Edward Jack Helbig, AB'80, opens this Friday at Steel Beam Theatre in suburban Chicago and runs through June 28.

AGAINST ALL ODDS
"Know When to Walk Away" (AntiWar.com, May 11, 2009)
"It is too late to capture bin Laden. It is time to fold and walk away. The longer we stay, the more occupying soldiers will die," writes Thomas Gale Moore, AM'59, PhD'61.

MILESTONES

• "Law Professor Resigns from Federal Appeals Court" (Salt Lake Tribune, May 5, 2009)
  Michael W. McConnell, JD'79, is leaving the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to go back to his first love: teaching.
• "Rogers Named President of Institutional Capital LLC" (PRNewsWire.com, May 2009)
  Paula L. Rogers, MBA'88, was promoted to president of Institutional Capital LLC, a large-cap value investment management company.
• "Teaching Awards Presented at Annual Class and Charter Day" (Hamilton College News Office, May 8, 2009)
  Bonnie Urciuoli, AM'76, PhD'84, was awarded the Sidney Wertimer Award in recognition for her work as a "mentor and active participant within the Hamilton community."

May 11, 2009