March / April 2005

Tips from the Trenches

As teenagers and their parents were concluding a grueling fourteen-month therapeutic program, author David Marcus asked them to offer advice to other parents of teens. Some of their pointers:

Barely Eating

For one of the girls in David Marcus’s book, the most basic challenge was to feed herself.

Quintet

Why would students with first-rate musical talent choose Brown over a music conservatory and then opt not to concentrate in music? And why, while taking a full load of courses, would they continue to spend hours each day rehearsing and performing?

Fritz’s Fame

In an honor many think was long overdue, Fritz Pollard ’19 enters the NFL Hall of Fame this year. His induction is the perfect time to recognize that this African American pioneer’s most far-reaching successes had little to do with football.

A Veteran Play

How Pollard was voted into the NFL Hall of Fame.

Close to Home

After covering drug wars in Colombia and civil war in Angola, journalist David Marcus ’82 thought he was emotionally bulletproof. Writing a book about troubled teenagers in pastoral western Massachusetts shattered that illusion.

Seen in Action

Frozen moments from indoor and outdoor winter seasons.

Tick Tock, Beat the Clock

What this generation of new moms has in common: middle age.

Bitten by the Bug

A sophomore succumbs to the allure of fruit flies.

Charity. Kindness

Snow Daze

Since Last Time

Calendar Girls (and Boys)

Twelve months of produce and recipes to promote local farmers

Going Places

Tracking Peace Corps volunteers

The Man for the Job

The medical school has a new dean. Can he keep the hospitals happy, the school growing, and his sanity intact?

The Ultimate Dance Partner

Way beyond fusion, Chris Elam ’98 is creating a new dance language. And he’s using Brown students as his verbs.

60 Seconds With...

Jon Grant: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Waiting for the Word

Among this year’s record-breaking 16,835 applicants to Brown is an anxious Midwestern blogger named Pete.

Monday, Bloody Monday

An exchange student becomes an unwitting witness to history.

Data Points

A Comic in the Kitchen

Jessica Porter ’88 goes macrobiotic, with an occasional side of McHeartbreak.

All Life’s a Stage, and God Is in the Audience

Marilynne Robinson’s long-awaited second novel.

Second Opinion

Marilynne Robinson berates collective hypochondria, Flannery O’Connor, and industrialized culture.

Dirty Rotten Songwriter

David Yazbek ’82 heads back to Broadway with a musical based on the Steve Martin comedy.

Extreme Bird-Watching

In 1912, just out of Brown and newly wed, ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy hitched a ride on an Antarctica-bound whale ship to observe seabirds.

The Upside of Deflation

Graham Tanaka ’70: How technology’s gains are upending the economy

Solo on the High Seas

Joe Harris ’81: Sixteen days with gale-force winds and thirty-foot waves.

Out of the Office and Back to Grandmother’s Kitchen

Shermay Lee '97: Sometimes you just have to go with your genes.

Pride and Prejudice

Leroy F. Aarons ’55

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