What’s the score, Kenneth?
December 29, 2007
If you’re like us, your cell phone is still recharging, after almost burning out completely Thursday from all the text messages announcing Texas touchdowns in the Holiday Bowl. We really have no idea how Robb Modica (’92) keeps track of…
Dept. of Scary New Vocab
December 28, 2007
Anna Thanukos (’93) has a newish article in the new journal Evolution: Education and Outreach, where she dishes on “host-switching,” a frightening term we didn’t know; it sounds like part of the Wikipedia entry on zombie movies. Not so, of…
Meanwhile, back at The Farm
December 27, 2007
We don’t want to imply that other classes of Scholars are slacking, but there’s no denying: That Class of 1997 has it going on. While Jason Baer (’87) was asking in forlorn tones what happened to the mega-reunions of Scholars…
“It’s a good gig, kid.”
December 04, 2007
Monti’s La Casa Vieja in Tempe is perhaps best known as Arizona’s best replica of the actual, original Labyrinth from Greek mythology (you know, with the irritated minotaur, a piece of string, etc…). Despite the twisting corridors, it’s also a…
What do you want to do today?
December 04, 2007
Our four-week Thanksgiving holiday is over at last, and there’s a whole bunch to catch up on. For starters, here’s the report that came in a little while ago from Niki Hale Price (’88), who writes for/owns the Oregon Coast…
Pulitzer-winning writer Anna Quindlen visits with Flinn Scholars
November 21, 2007
Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist and novelist Anna Quindlen spent the evening of Nov. 16 with a dozen Flinn Scholars, wrapping up a weeklong residency at Arizona State University as the 2007 Flinn Foundation Centennial Lecturer.