Hey professor, why’d I get a B?
February 14, 2008
Hey, we’ve been there… standing in front of the professor’s closed office door, hearing Philip Glass’s “Orphee Suite” playing on the other side, wondering whether to knock–even though it’s definitely during office hours–and wondering whether our complaint about a D-…
Back to school
February 09, 2008
Brent Maddin (’94) is bailing on the last sliver of time he was supposed to spend in Cambridge, Mass. He got a job down in New York, and will have to wrap up his dissertation from a distance. Brent’s new…
Word of the day: Oligopolistic
February 05, 2008
Matt Stone (’03), who we think lives in the dungeon of a 13th-century castle on the outskirts of Dundee, Scotland, has an article in The Stockholm Network‘s journal on energy and the environment, Climate of Opinion. Matt’s article, about the…
Watch out for sea lions
February 02, 2008
Annie Roethel (’04) is wayyy far away from her usual haunts around ASU. For those of you with GPS chips embedded behind your ear, she’s at coordinates -53.166667,-70.933333. For the rest of us, we’re talking about Punta Arenas, Chile, which…
Michel Becquet, watch your back
January 22, 2008
Six months to go until the world premiere of Lost Canyon II, and everywhere we turn, people are already getting revved up for the talent show. We just saw three hacky sack prodigies doing calisthenics out on the quad. Regarding…
Who to call if you burn your fingers on a parabolic oven
January 18, 2008
We were trying to think of a good lawyer joke, but it’s hard to make a really good lawyer joke when the lawyer in question, Chris Jaap (’91), is doing really good work. Sigh. This job is tough sometimes. We’re…
Globetrotting McGinnity wins Marshall Scholarship
January 17, 2008
Megan McGinnity, a 2003 Flinn Scholar, has won one of the world's most esteemed graduate fellowships, the Marshall Scholarship. Next fall she will begin studying Middle East politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of…
