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: Arne Duncan, Matthew Crawford, Mike Nichols, Arika Okrent, Shaindel Beers, Paul Holloway, and Sai Subramanian

SCHOOL TURNAROUNDS
“U.S. Effort to Reshape Schools Faces Challenges” (New York Times, Jun. 1, 2009)
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, U-High’82, says his education initiative seeks to correct a troubling legacy of the No Child Left Behind law.

LEAVING ‘CUBICLE ALLEY’
“Save Our Souls” (American Spectator, May 27, 2009)
“Nothing against motorcycle mechanics, but most simply don’t have the language and knowledge base to compare a leaky oil cylinder on a 1983 Honda Magna V45 with Heidegger’s question of being,” writes critic Christopher Orlet in his review of Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford, AM’92, PhD’00.

FILM FAVORITE
“Classic Movie of the Week, by Request: The Graduate” (Examiner, May 31, 2009)
The Graduate—the second film by director Mike Nichols, X’53—earns another accolade from the reviewers at the Examiner. They ignore their usual review labels “See It” and “Skip It.” Instead, the movie merits a custom label: “You Should Have Seen It Already.”

KLINGON, JABBERWOCKY, ESPERANTO…OH MY!
“Trying to Dismantle Our Tower of Babble” (Boston Globe, May 31, 2009)
Linguistics expert Arika Okrent, PhD’04, investigates the world of artificial languages.

MEANT-TO-BE POETRY
“Interview: Shaindel Beers” (Being and Writing blog, Jun. 3, 2009)
“Some people fall into alcohol, some people fall into drugs; I fell into poetry,” says Shaindel Beers, AM’00, on the final stop of her virtual book tour.

MILESTONES

• “Sewanee School of Theology Announces New Faculty Appointments” (Episcopal Life, Jun. 1, 2009)
  Paul Holloway, PhD’98, is now associate professor of New Testament at Sewanee’s school of theology.


• “WiMAX Forum Adds Cisco to Board of Directors” (OSS News Review, Jun. 1, 2009)
  Sai Subramanian, MBA’00, joined the board of directors of WiMAX Forum, an industry-led, nonprofit organization focused on standardizing broadband wireless technologies, as a representative of Cisco.

June 3, 2009