True Maroons: Thomas Frank, Ben Zimmer, Abdul Alkalimat, and more

FRANK DISCUSSION
"Color Me Baffled! Frank's Magazine Lives Again" (New York Observer, Jun. 23, 2009)
Thomas Frank, AM'89, PhD'94, is reviving his cultural-political–criticism magazine.

MS. PRINT
"Hunting the Elusive First 'Ms.'" (Visual Thesaurus blog, Jun. 23, 2009)
Ben Zimmer, AM'98, describes how he found the first printed use of the word Ms. in the November 10, 1901, Springfield Sunday Republican.

MAKING A HOME IN TOLEDO
"96-Year-Old Symbolizes an Era of U.S. Migration" (Toledo Blade, Jun. 21, 2009)
Abdul Alkalimat, AM'66, PhD'74—a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—documents African American history in Northwest Ohio: "In 1936 only one [Toledo] firm employed more than 200 African-Americans."

RE-ENLISTERS' MORAL IMPERATIVE TO FIGHT
"Journey Back to the Civil War (The SUNY Press blog, Jun. 17, 2009)
Inspired by the service of his grandfather in the Civil War, D. Reid Ross, AM'51, tells the long-ignored stories of brave, dedicated soldiers in his book Lincoln's Veteran Volunteers Win the War.

HYPERPALATABLE
"Fat-Salt-Sugar Fix Impossible to Resist" (Washington Times, Jun. 10, 2009)
The food industry has successfully marketed—and created—highly addictive foods full of fat, salt, and sugar, says David A. Kessler, JD'78.

THE FRIEDMAN EFFECT
"Is Another Bear Market Around the Corner? (iStockAnalyst, Jun. 22, 2009)
Mark Skousen cites the "Friedman Effect"—named for Milton Friedman's (AM'33) 1961 paper “The Lag in Effect of Monetary Policy"—to give investment advice.

MILESTONES

  • "Pollard Named President" (CUNY Newswire, Jun. 22, 2009)
    William L. Pollard, PhD'76, was appointed president of Medgar Evers College by the City University of New York's board of trustees.

June 24, 2009