July / August 2006

Richard O. Fleischer '39

A novel of the West and how it shaped those who survived it.  

Cinematographer Peter Zuccarini shoots whales, sharks, and, yes— Johnny Depp

Developer Steve Glenn ’87 is building prefab houses that he says will make money and still be good for the planet.

Andrew Revkin talks about the North Pole, the difficulties in getting adults to focus on global warming, and how teaching children about it may be our best hope.  

An environmental journalist writes a global warming adventure tale for kids.

How to make fireworks the old-fashioned way.  

Class notes for alums who haven’t cured cancer or acted on Broadway.

Panhandlers in Rwanda teach a recent grad what school costs.

Craig Robinson leaves Northwestern to become head coach of men’s basketball.

Stars of women’s sports talk about athletics, money, and respect.  

Brown searches for a provost and finds one right on campus

The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik explains why Americans just don’t get the French.  

A new study finds therapy with medication may be the key to sobriety

How do you lose a house? More interesting is how you find one.

Brown divests from companies supporting the Sudanese government, and Providence follows suit. [Elms]  

W. Warren Harper was the father of a poet and the grandfather of a novelist. No wonder that, after he died, they found a way to keep him alive.

Four years of tuition, room, board, and fees: $155,876 Commencement day: Priceless

Scientists are creating games usingvirtual boxers, medieval trolls, and robotic poodles that observe howyou think. What they learn may one day be used to reshape your everydaychoices.

Tradition requires that graduates wear caps and gowns. But concealed beneath the uniform are more than 2,000 extraordinary young men & women. Here are portraits of a random few.

Truth and Memory Robert Scholes writes that he commented to William Faulkner that the imaginative reconstruction of events is perhaps closer to the truth than even (or especially) eyewitness accounts (“Mr. Faulkner Comes to Class,” May/June). The comment surely must have resonated with the novelist. The first sentence of Chapter 6 of Faulkner’s Light in August says it all: “Memory believes before knowing remembers.”