tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63574452422889750282024-02-18T18:51:11.959-08:00HaverblogView from Foundershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273131243645779277noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-80548238780960173972008-05-18T05:39:00.000-07:002008-05-18T09:43:27.961-07:00Commencement 200812:38 pm<br /><br />The sun comes out as <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/news/gallery.php?id=491">the crowd moves to Founders Green</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDg5Ivpoq_KsNqCrkxM7NFp-ZRw53_HxlieS5smgXrDPsxu87HIOVjFIw2xnYq7uSFddAXpwIf4oeD9Lkf5g9D1BEmKtMV6lZMPsXVQx-uvVa4bGqTCDOB7LuJ0nlMp8qniKd_pCPV4k/s1600-h/IMG_0654%5B1%5D.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201744681977705778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDg5Ivpoq_KsNqCrkxM7NFp-ZRw53_HxlieS5smgXrDPsxu87HIOVjFIw2xnYq7uSFddAXpwIf4oeD9Lkf5g9D1BEmKtMV6lZMPsXVQx-uvVa4bGqTCDOB7LuJ0nlMp8qniKd_pCPV4k/s320/IMG_0654%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>11:42 am:</div><br /><div>Kosman: "Benjamin Morris Zussman." Well done! Crowd cheers. Nancy Vickers, President of Bryn Mawr College, delivers the close. "Remember the time before the wax hardened, when each was a fresh seal..."</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>11:07 am:<br />President Emerson: "As Faculty Marshal Aryeh Kosman reads your name, please come forward to receive your diploma..." Kosman: "Allyson Kimberly Abrams...Emmy L. Acevedo..."<br /><br /><br /><div>10:30 am:</div><div>The awarding of honorary degrees has begun. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>First up: <a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=142730">John Carroll '63</a>. "For your editorial excellence, mentoring of reporters and dedication to integrity..."</div><br /><div>Carroll riffs on money. "The Class of '63, to my knowledge, produced no business moguls...we responded to the call to serve society, not ourselves...Haverford grads were more attuned to issues of right and wrong...Newspapers remain America's great engine of original reporting...How much will the public know -- and not know -- in the future?...My message to you is this: among other forms of success, I do wish you prosperity. Yes, make a little money along the way, but don't fail to do more..."</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Next: <a href="http://www.trincoll.edu/pub/Mosaic/11.01/Morton.htm">Dr. D. Holmes Morton.</a> "Thousands of children worldwide have been helped -- or saved."</div><br /><div>Dr. Morton sees modern slavery in poverty. "Educational debt, medical debt, insurance debt... restricts our freedom, our choices...Think about that before you rush off to buy that BMW...I work in a different place...small, nonprofit, whose mission is humanitarian...Take with you the ability to care..."</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Finally, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/232/index.html">Anna Deavere Smith.</a> "For your compassionate engagement in social issues..."</div><br /><div>Smith reminisces about her undergraduate life at Beaver College (now known as Arcadia University). "There was a mere thimble-full of Negro girls...We were not asked if we had a preference about the race of our roommate...but white girls were asked if they would 'mind' rooming with a Negro...MLKing was killed during my first year...Most girls were concerned if race riots would complicate travel plans for Spring Break...But by sophomore year, we Negro girls were called 'Blacks'...The drumbeat of change today is no softer...I know you're excited about the opportunities that await outside these gates, waiting for you...You've been educated for a global community...You're now about to have more mobility than mankind has ever known...Pay attention to how you move...increase your circle, strengthen your reach...Stay savvy that we are ultimately as vulnerable as the most vulnerable and never as powerful as the most powerful...As you move out of here, move with grace. Keep grace alive."</div><br /><div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-yEzdlwI3rUF_woRIEgbtLK9Mr56WyUhf3wFdGSHauBodE5tJTM53fHpSrA0sUIxYZeE6niYptmbeH-zl-z9_lgy-RDRPfnzgx1GtAlcU8R5OL8xjmyhsZVKwwYeRMZA9uxd20M3Ot_8/s1600-h/IMG_0653%5B1%5D.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201723241500964130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-yEzdlwI3rUF_woRIEgbtLK9Mr56WyUhf3wFdGSHauBodE5tJTM53fHpSrA0sUIxYZeE6niYptmbeH-zl-z9_lgy-RDRPfnzgx1GtAlcU8R5OL8xjmyhsZVKwwYeRMZA9uxd20M3Ot_8/s320/IMG_0653%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /></a>10:20 am:<br /></div><div>President Emerson greets the crowd. "You have worked hard. Really, really hard...You are now fully prepared to go forward and find your life's work. I salute you!" </div><br /><div><br />10:00 am:<br />And they're off!</div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201719131217261842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIWe8CSQYmu74sLBhZSOH_yTAvJ6TZAYIj-6uF3vcgrtasd6GGmP1oTvMIY5pFihyHCwFjn33MdaoJ6XEQAagjFWeFXC9Gl5JqIhgW88Fz6FwnQkH7y_5DuWL7oKX09IFGoHwxVH7J-5s/s320/IMG_0650%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div>9:45 am:<br />Students head to Ryan Gym to line up:</div><br /><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201717146942371074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6rBXozt59FmU-eRlfH4a84TYSxoy-YrIie218qSqH-ZtuJ3Oy1JJ3TBaXBVnmsZg_N8L5AuVFcz2SpdcITsyruAoTEqAb67jYnUAcANUGRTZ0wW5zjmwtQWEI7-T8TwtdPgQWuEh6wKg/s320/IMG_0647%5B2%5D.jpg" border="0" /></div><br /><br /><div>9:42 am<br />Testing, testing, 1,2,3:<br /><br /></div><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201714355213628658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy2dkS8AFYFgX3mlHf70DLFINy3dv5bcvdlUK1snZ96HyL7VDBeTxb5LQ5SfrXZed2rn2-GBPfvHLFThyphenhyphencyRsBUU7cPBAGNajdXEJktcbn6i2eEm37zosWHW2Pb4dmZ3OjJ-nyb2c86WQ/s320/IMG_0632%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" />9:40 am </p><p>The diplomas arrive. That's registrar Lee Watkins in the foreground. Although we are conferring 301 degrees, only 295 will be on hand to receive their diplomas (six started their Haverford career in the Class of 2007 but completed their degree requirements after last year's exercises):<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201712757485794530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJAiNBFWay13tx3gBUIu69K9e01aLF_3rTwl_fnC-yVwTwXmHdACsjZ2zHUyFAIt9RscPw0DeXgBkXVpRcnY1LxlVTyqS5p4yoRsWXLI447g0apdiYwdAJ-psqfGRF8tSAFKArxMlNPOg/s320/IMG_0645%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><br /><div>9:30 am</div><br /><div>Violet Brown, Steve's assistant, joins the conversation. Contingencies are discussed. Decision: we stay outside.<br /></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201712233499784402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwPbOcOUk2BDg2JD9_KvzYFgEzBwM_ddXq2Gx95WBb7XGy_JYtyXYk-Ubm0mk3-E6i6t0LmldAuWPd7nnFeqQZejl6Ol79F4WQNCw2pBk1ymPqftCjgu-iVpcU57LYj_WuBVDzrOCKKEE/s320/IMG_0644%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /> 9:27 am<br /><div>Tom King (Security) and President Steve Emerson '74 check out the weather radar:<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201711653679199426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyDV06I3zrIjrJRWJaO9tMh-tVupWiu6tAyfqPAhneGgI7WmXeYJJDECHkKj9FOQhY6US-9Z1WdB9SjMr5xXiKUNt3I8KKdcwKPX0ycVzJptcfdulY3pfJlpRylYphh7huGfuB8FP7Fbw/s320/IMG_0637%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /> 8:50 am<br /><br /><div><div>Aryeh Kosman, emeritus professor of Philosophy and <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/news/stories/9061/51">Reader of the Names</a>, says "inside."</div><br /><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201702243405853874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBq618YSOoCcqZqKovmtotoGtb1FJ-WXrYU_SCrq0Fd2fdMPnOGmO6e6Od6EKSRusgNTITy2NODMIQvrELVzACONMIAJeL_4wr2qPPvhsazf8PTZTV_aXMfBaL7PfvbIuX_yDmqJdCuM4/s320/IMG_0629.jpg" border="0" /><br />8:41 am:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqyLM6blitUPjBaeNcJu5AmpuBsKBy3j87gzLLgWWnriscy89vzFYnDcxWNm4FU9i5u68aV7Q9e_2h4ud86oYdlbfcyvuAwIFyCMCPLqwGq9S41fyRK59e8kJszJkzvke3EXPICtivQJM/s1600-h/IMG_0628.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201697845359342722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqyLM6blitUPjBaeNcJu5AmpuBsKBy3j87gzLLgWWnriscy89vzFYnDcxWNm4FU9i5u68aV7Q9e_2h4ud86oYdlbfcyvuAwIFyCMCPLqwGq9S41fyRK59e8kJszJkzvke3EXPICtivQJM/s320/IMG_0628.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.haverford.edu/commencement/">The big day is here</a> and at 8:41 am the question is not "Where did I put my mortar board????" but rather "In or out?" Everything is set up...</div><div><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201698047222805650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYZNY5Jkrc7yuWWdBGQWPNQQnStgSNKLxHbYs7-h613i_CNPrqD_YMW6BDx4wOrnVUM7fTHNC-aTbxSvu7vx9qErcDOBFhWu_xRocPxQZjE81gphjqg5l95BbP_kRkmAxXIIGQLvhF4UA/s320/IMG_0630.jpg" border="0" />But the doppler radar isn't pretty:<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201699099489793186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihzVmSa3Lula07aUY5lyGdTbX1Xw9_cPxXUkNzLRohkoZCjGpV6Mbo16qCIxc6b2h4FL3AzhDc9XI2QDLTdUFcBVDRW6cfA-IFH0KYJTCtJtRcmf30FRP4NZy1GdmulqmapX_Dtwka03w/s320/wx1.jpg" border="0" /></div></div></div></div>Chris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-73885972674742012902008-05-14T07:53:00.001-07:002008-05-14T08:06:52.666-07:00Cranking Up to Wind Down<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4zIFaVz7ulyA6445sRBXoM4Fe1wtAjKvhmQr0x6eALO1F_oYzeKQunS_wyynLQ8pJmK10Pp3sJ5iFFknnCY__3Z47Z_lN9LWYsdbcDlPUb-86OC0L5UZQsoPRZ-B39rMcEmFDuznhHmg/s1600-h/IMG_0622%5B1%5D.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200249745595888738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4zIFaVz7ulyA6445sRBXoM4Fe1wtAjKvhmQr0x6eALO1F_oYzeKQunS_wyynLQ8pJmK10Pp3sJ5iFFknnCY__3Z47Z_lN9LWYsdbcDlPUb-86OC0L5UZQsoPRZ-B39rMcEmFDuznhHmg/s320/IMG_0622%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Commencement is Sunday and endings are in process. The Philosophy Dept. threw a party for its majors yesterday. Prof. Ashok Gangadean's academic interests include clarifying the universal logos or common ground at the heart of human reason and rational life; surely charcoal grills are a fine example of such common ground:<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200249925984515186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyeb2zHoezCvBc9mFtHvowPMy1QlJPp_pSCot8MCeMOCvlJjK6ukL6kWxxRT-vBh5sLlL9sit9nCfmeWAPLIYtI_GHpc0SKICHcx-Ptk5LZpVj34TUAAxuB5GoBZNVQW4M8P80xciCZZc/s320/IMG_0617%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /></div>Chris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-57262407462724259142008-05-08T13:01:00.000-07:002008-05-08T13:06:51.257-07:00Bees By The Ducks<a href="http://www.haverford.edu/multimedia/video/2008May/collegelanebees/collegelanebees.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://www.haverford.edu/multimedia/video/2008May/collegelanebees/collegelanebees.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />No pun today about the campus buzz re: a honeybee infestation in one of the faculty houses that line College Lane, by the duck pond. Instead, just the facts, which are <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/multimedia/video/2008May/collegelanebees/">these.</a>Chris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-78133097118881871692008-05-06T12:03:00.000-07:002008-05-06T12:19:56.100-07:00The Most Dangerous Job On Campus<div><div><div><div>Preparations for <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/commencement/">Commencement</a> have begun. Today the tree guys thinned out dead and dying limbs above Lloyd Green to ensure that nobody gets hurt on the big day.</div><div> </div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197344182471370658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi23dojUOc33QJzSVu5GNFMSxmhL2kL47b1jjxF9z6iRbxEMdcDPYuLPZlbcgxFSrWD1RwOYlgBnYc1KcL1b8jG-GA6VVGsnoF3bxJqr-rCeac9EooxXnLDsYg3HU24uUUe8mM6swbDebk/s320/IMG_0593.jpg" border="0" /></div><div>Surely, this guy must have the most dangerous job on campus:</div><div> </div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197344302730454962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigGS8U3clVi2HW9ONKSgw9EmHPAbLXvOuUbQ8-WZz2uc5A5F2D2FAQTVqU-R4nnjrfHoQ4jZvn2SgkasbX0OzQ2NMCJc_WiMnCVeXRPf2qZCiP-QdUfeVlNtXGUmwOVCG3XzZHDiK1YrU/s320/IMG_0590.jpg" border="0" /></div><div>But no. The most dangerous job on campus is Being A Car Belonging to Felicia Hutchison '08:</div><div> </div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197344405809670082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZQAbck0ktpUDKfkmhe-LDhRRP0CRzJRvZw-xIn88yq0DC9MEtu1dMcvC1JlLuI-R2VWa7D4LeRlBiFDuq70d8aXgghxnTxBnOiOjO37j1beg5jC2KsA4479TQiSj3pp9-RtbHf96KGv8/s320/IMG_0595.jpg" border="0" /></div><div>Felicia, depicted in her role as Coop Barista, has had not one but TWO vehicles crushed by falling limbs, most recently during a storm that ravaged a tree behind Leeds:<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197344534658688978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUfubL2UmgCa_U-gefG3tceaB6stKFkYkV6Cp9M5j0P-Qjacy6FRUby6dCJPhXKyOtVnTGh1m1LN_pYF8MASWqJMTn6n-0lsxq9V45RSXVN9Pr6EWdFbUKhhyphenhyphenQpZZetVVQr-LekzJ6lr4/s320/IMG_0596.jpg" border="0" /></div></div></div></div><br /><p>Something to show her grandchildren when they move in for Customs Week!</p><p>-CM</p>Chris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-68974969416158239292008-05-04T16:19:00.000-07:002008-05-06T06:23:42.509-07:0052 Years of Net Frustration EndThe year was 1956. A war hero was running for President against an Illinois politician. Citizens were angry about the price of gas, which had reached an all-time high for the decade--23 cents per gallon. Elvis Presley first hit the top 40 charts with "Heartbreak Hotel."<br /><br />Their names are Bob Pratt, Phil D'Arrigo, Geoff Steere, Carl Getty, Hans Engelhardt, Michael Heeg, John Coulthurst and David Willcox. They went on to become doctors, dentists, professors, and financial services consultants.<br /><br />Coached by Norm Bramall, those members of the Haverford tennis team turned the tables on the Swarthmore squad which had beaten them in 1955, and took a 5-4 victory for a Hood Trophy point. That team had a 12-1 record; Pratt, Steere and Coulthurst were undefeated during the season.<br /><br />The year is 2008. A war hero may be running....well, you know the rest. (If you're curious about the price of gas, we can tell you that the 23c/gallon in 1956 is $2.15 in today's dollars.) Elvis is dead.<br /><br />Their names are Tom Kinrade, Steve Feder, Evan Stiegel, Marc Rudolph, Hailu Yang and Marc Adelberg. Their coach is Sean Sloane, a fitting successor to the legendary Bramall.<br /><br />Supported by 14 teammates, all of whom played at least one varsity match this season, those six members of Haverford's men's tennis team turned the tables on a Swarthmore squad that had beaten them, 6-3, three days earlier, to take a 5-4 win in the first round of the Centennial Conference 2008 playoffs.<br /><br />And in between 1956 and 2008....a lot of tennis balls had flown over a lot of nets, Elvis had many hits, but no Haverford men's tennis team had ever beaten Swarthmore in one of the longest series losing streaks ever in college sports.<br /><br />Marc Rudolph applied the coup de grace to Swarthmore on April 26 when he took the final set of his 3-set match, 6-0, reversing a straight-set defeat by the same opponent on April 23 and ending Swarthmore's dominance. Teammates Adelberg in singles and Kinrade/Stiegel in doubles also found the winning secret somewhere between April 23 and 26.<br /><br />The Fords didn't have much left in the conference finals the next day vs. Johns Hopkins, but they finished with a winning record and second place in a very tough league. Kinrade was named Player of the Year in the Centennial, and he and doubles partner Stiegel made the All-Conference team.<br /><br />Adelberg will walk across the Haverford Commencement stage on May 18. The others will all be back in 2009. We don't think it will take Haverford 52 years to beat Swarthmore again.<br /><br />-Greg Kannerstein '63Greg Kannerstein '63http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472940843894606597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-62593698446725687432008-05-02T11:06:00.000-07:002008-05-02T13:57:21.317-07:00Haverfest!The ultimate study break!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJLNgkgJm9vDV1JJ95-t3_bD6LKC6s8mvNVGHA5ttqzUOwPhLt9P9IIqGzwX7BsUJC1natyM4MHnl4nAbzT1EvR-8jM34FLF8j7ppKcfcPzFARVTAxxEiu72uMAxVEMsOdczp5HvOkjU/s1600-h/IMG_0579.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195886672434571154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJLNgkgJm9vDV1JJ95-t3_bD6LKC6s8mvNVGHA5ttqzUOwPhLt9P9IIqGzwX7BsUJC1natyM4MHnl4nAbzT1EvR-8jM34FLF8j7ppKcfcPzFARVTAxxEiu72uMAxVEMsOdczp5HvOkjU/s320/IMG_0579.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2lGhtKDoHSTr6jIdIDTG_wjXkmtOWauwK8GP1-B_jrCzi1uw_wS3-zexlpKosQPBqnEQWiKG8ev014KkCT1ZO7lqtIkAmqBojQnp3IzQoQdYu9WFS8yCBERIwFRmtfyBH4sQ0gPQ8ans/s1600-h/IMG_0580.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195886586535225218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2lGhtKDoHSTr6jIdIDTG_wjXkmtOWauwK8GP1-B_jrCzi1uw_wS3-zexlpKosQPBqnEQWiKG8ev014KkCT1ZO7lqtIkAmqBojQnp3IzQoQdYu9WFS8yCBERIwFRmtfyBH4sQ0gPQ8ans/s320/IMG_0580.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ZmUVjKUr-MhlkKQPeAtathggyRHOZnBIESDD99-n_MQbeqbd91dCMVtwcoLN3VOFa7AUV5y_DH1mMJMkk3BZfhznRwVrZl5Bm5BM5kYQn0w6W-T2b13qsAfWQXnGWGqWsxgXfVydqFQ/s1600-h/IMG_0581.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195886504930846578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ZmUVjKUr-MhlkKQPeAtathggyRHOZnBIESDD99-n_MQbeqbd91dCMVtwcoLN3VOFa7AUV5y_DH1mMJMkk3BZfhznRwVrZl5Bm5BM5kYQn0w6W-T2b13qsAfWQXnGWGqWsxgXfVydqFQ/s320/IMG_0581.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Bico News Editor Dave Merrell threw bean bags (and caution) to the wind and invited me to be his partner in a round of cornhole. The presence of Dave, who plays on the tennis team, ensured our victory:<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdSXTglsjH1G8PuoFjvld4ZNKIrz21NFZMcVvP5P52h5ISF-2deICRLL0FqUp4rqxISU5OunbCBjOB5D5q6lN4anF_6lcO8hYEfR-9B6l8sv95K6XluTJZcEwHAETA2Knylp_NtGkrSjY/s1600-h/IMG_0582.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195886380376794978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdSXTglsjH1G8PuoFjvld4ZNKIrz21NFZMcVvP5P52h5ISF-2deICRLL0FqUp4rqxISU5OunbCBjOB5D5q6lN4anF_6lcO8hYEfR-9B6l8sv95K6XluTJZcEwHAETA2Knylp_NtGkrSjY/s320/IMG_0582.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Earlier...<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1PTdvaWMglbnOtcRaZ9tnpiAymbq4jjcGUyvHg-lwjQ288tdR2P4Da3Nm2Hm2U2q_Cr2TuM0aU7_bMRU_ZlZrFoX3iwT87W6bzlPvYkouZdcqD2P0OUD4o4BrwvNot8cPkoS7Etx2aRE/s1600-h/IMG_0576.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195844109308667682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1PTdvaWMglbnOtcRaZ9tnpiAymbq4jjcGUyvHg-lwjQ288tdR2P4Da3Nm2Hm2U2q_Cr2TuM0aU7_bMRU_ZlZrFoX3iwT87W6bzlPvYkouZdcqD2P0OUD4o4BrwvNot8cPkoS7Etx2aRE/s320/IMG_0576.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>The annual rite de printemps is unfolding on Founders Green. The stage will host an ipod from 4p-6p, followed by a Weezer copy band that will perform the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Weezer-Blue-Album/dp/B000003TAW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1209751653&sr=1-1">"Blue Album"</a> in its entirety.</div><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195844246747621170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO3T9fEOjOxKbvaolt02iKrciiUSKBwPGLvOx15aIinP8hp802lRqWNjBOrX51RquQ11Bz3-7TXH5T6FVccFGwylTcjiPkNaKOuqfsi4xMq9dxQyw6Y7_dTO-eMmnqcGzE6AkINhjc59U/s320/IMG_0577.jpg" border="0" /><br /></div></div><p>Jason McGraw, Coordinator of Student Activities, snarkily promised to spin "oldies" from 4p-5p for the benefit of the presumably oldies-preferring workers in Founders (e.g. people like your correspondent). Jason also suggested that we provide the following documentary photos of setup activities to the Admission Office as part of next year's recruiting effort, a campaign to outdo Middlebury in maximizing the amount of "Man Nipple" imagery we show to prospectives:</p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195844989776963394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8GrD_fWkuAELiEguSOoL4xdZ8DpInv3jA_tHYJQ9jwk9e4TD5HiJmX-rW4db6psx14q4om5gKsVXnwdtzCkluiYT1Sqj-APqit6vE37xk0O7fU9poBr9e_WrTNeFJmhr4XwUNKNkl-SE/s320/IMG_0574.jpg" border="0" /> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195845780050945874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJcTQMOA3Q_fs7O4rHXnaGzqS9Pe_MIq2rl-S-xDyoZZHR1_gbKCxhUTE6gYuMfHBc-nY9vqgS3IZAISviJM140uK9ejHFjj0gR-U4Csn7RcX0wDdHG8Og_nzetuuj47adLmllv0z2bQg/s320/IMG_0573.jpg" border="0" /><br /></div><div><p>-CM</p></div></div></div>Chris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-32939135654489657352008-04-17T09:38:00.000-07:002008-04-17T13:24:55.101-07:00Hillary Clinton Comes To CampusAfter the appearance, Chelsea came outside to say hello.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFUVBPGbOhA1jJeKVHommENzi9lQl0l0McehdyQTekJdBcJJGKPc2oTSRyx69iGWKPi_oD8JXLLLysFh0iLzNv1qPkkP2NhWDyEcQb2IuE-Twu2OVwub2zvtx4cEAPP8JD3Wt7ANPhCfc/s1600-h/IMG_0555.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190312778896626722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFUVBPGbOhA1jJeKVHommENzi9lQl0l0McehdyQTekJdBcJJGKPc2oTSRyx69iGWKPi_oD8JXLLLysFh0iLzNv1qPkkP2NhWDyEcQb2IuE-Twu2OVwub2zvtx4cEAPP8JD3Wt7ANPhCfc/s320/IMG_0555.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>The view from the green:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ_uGIxDKSNjiy74PPX5Ift2dTyC6g6nlSJnvzIq0flhzQnkHCDz0cafrHt5QQ_FiAvJwSuhvAQFssADW8pVMJK8t-rkDzDOCRHs2-hv_WraoTGRWhsHe2tpuYb6jq1xn4TS7XBdq2HPI/s1600-h/IMG_0553.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190311838298788882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ_uGIxDKSNjiy74PPX5Ift2dTyC6g6nlSJnvzIq0flhzQnkHCDz0cafrHt5QQ_FiAvJwSuhvAQFssADW8pVMJK8t-rkDzDOCRHs2-hv_WraoTGRWhsHe2tpuYb6jq1xn4TS7XBdq2HPI/s320/IMG_0553.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKgm5fM5BIES1CVTVKpb_Izqw1XkP5AyXBg5PP0HTIDOWS_f8uPjNOhU9hrQ_-5LAJ9joSkdlZT2434LRf2P9PV62Wv7xTXhhHjfuLjZGDhtnyzwxBbtRGTYm3NN6VFT5BjfZ6rsp-2dE/s1600-h/IMG_0544.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190281739167978482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKgm5fM5BIES1CVTVKpb_Izqw1XkP5AyXBg5PP0HTIDOWS_f8uPjNOhU9hrQ_-5LAJ9joSkdlZT2434LRf2P9PV62Wv7xTXhhHjfuLjZGDhtnyzwxBbtRGTYm3NN6VFT5BjfZ6rsp-2dE/s320/IMG_0544.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div>Chelsea, Hillary and a guest arrive in the Great Hall via the East Asian Studies wing. </div><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW9eik16pp1lGrosPK9vlqPo3jbVFu-OxWTDf8FIuQUi4E-IOZy0bKIB8s56tgLiMyT2TdibRF6N5W-_tYQKRFXarIlhC0Q4iNxM-RoTbSwxLzpoyyU9J82YOeH-s11znFtEsNj3KojBk/s1600-h/IMG_0548.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190281167937328098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW9eik16pp1lGrosPK9vlqPo3jbVFu-OxWTDf8FIuQUi4E-IOZy0bKIB8s56tgLiMyT2TdibRF6N5W-_tYQKRFXarIlhC0Q4iNxM-RoTbSwxLzpoyyU9J82YOeH-s11znFtEsNj3KojBk/s320/IMG_0548.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div>The backstory:<br /><br /><br /><br /><div>Hillary's turn. It'll be a small (~250 people) gathering inside Founders Great Hall -- and with Chelsea and, it is rumored, Dorothy Rodham in tow, the appearance is being promoted by the campaign as a special "women's event". I will leave the insightful questions to our bright student attendees; personally, I would like to ask Mrs. Rodham what it was like to meet Mick & Keith, as documented in that new Scorsese film about The Rolling Stones.<br /><br /><br />The same K-9 crew from Obama day has returned for the "sweep" of the building during which everyone had to evacuate:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190256136867926898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOVADI5xuoCM-Og0g22Csi4IyqIaTHVtKUQOKLf_6MKq50wF0f-gUTg_9hRgWxarb6rrNPAKSFXrD5od1AySeya7X1rMu8g-gXGG6DSR3iKbgn80pL1EIka3WwHWQB36GEGkItVKL0MDY/s320/dogs.jpg" border="0" />Big screen TV will pipe the proceedings out to the Green:<br /></p><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190255153320416082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirfm2zHS26fzJOZa1UG81JxLPFP6HuIsOShk4KiYVTcLsfdT1hsZwGYnsgIQytPXb9y4MitBulqZdKsIKJXtfti9fHHX_9yVBGi0SfBOjVcgqT8Aya8qZMM7fhx7lP7mh0a_KRvNtyQ5o/s320/IMG_0534.jpg" border="0" /></p>Excitement: One of the dogs apparently freaked out at a smell emanating from a TV/video cabinet located in a basement classroom...so out went the cabinet:<br /><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190256501940147074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMzS-oXM40wuNbbojTqEFjXcrn2gGhkQxaQirmLWW3_k7HwxmoPhlnSIYcglF6kZnbGWGmkFQG6-aQqfcfaMMS4rd9evLX1aCv9tbMpOT46y6ExfRgjgXMmf_q12AaNKXhgYwbP1V3vgw/s320/IMG_0536.jpg" border="0" />...meanwhile, the crowd lines up outside the building:<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190256824062694290" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPNxtiq-poGRWtKrwSPNQyjj-iFDAgnhTpPHGohO-xG7vH4eF9K11aCtRjguJ79QHo52DIvjyEJQAyz32_EQ6yJaSl8Z1TxX4OIdu4y3zKklo2n87qrq6lDerdi_pAfopywK6XgukqZLU/s320/IMG_0537.jpg" border="0" /> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190262652333314978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkjVLcbfx2g_7LM_1oE4O9RbIoJPPCDTMZNyl7iBbhQ1Dcu8-EqLl8F3716MJYqKGvD4usrdF_ETVRmWFLgWgH9IprTM945ZiEUQ2wBNko6Tu8BWmtMqfAnQELnmj2L0DHbrZZ2gBPEIk/s320/IMG_0538.jpg" border="0" /> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190263163434423218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcogWZwv6cCvczUt8x9S8hmHIH-82nHtsZEfIC0yqvdmc4zOMaw7X6SxY3GeLVjAhY1ZY04RK5s9wxW8d_h4CmoFXCtDRa3WFkAHf0gSizeD6dR7aWSQgr7sc8XI1AXeueIn33ZPzPqtg/s320/IMG_0535.jpg" border="0" /><br />Metal detection upon entry; a glacially polite security official has asked me not to photograph the process. Sorry. Here's the view from inside:<br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190267905078318034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5oh1jAFiF-h3vQWIVcsh6dqA0srNsAajvjRKVGRaSIE9gU83McfF8fxq8en1fHin1qRJSc4-yerBi0lw9eMFb2SjBGvNPf17Z9UH4XRp1lWKK0slrLRuMwAul-8OV1tlYtYmNbMz3FH8/s320/IMG_0542.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p></div></div></div></div>Chris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-89234023757197540482008-04-15T14:05:00.001-07:002008-04-15T14:36:57.620-07:00Michelle Obama Visits CampusShe came, they cheered, she left for UPenn and Stephen Colbert. <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br /></div><div></div><div>This appearance came together over the weekend, a "rally/community gathering" for the faithful and the curious. Yesterday brought several well-organized campaign advance people, all of them young (e.g. under 40), caucusing with our Facilities people to ensure that the Field House will be configured just-so. Hoping to be helpful, I ask Jeff, one of the head guys, whether he'd like me to call him on my cell so he's got the number if he needs anything. "Don't bother - I get so many calls it'll get blown out of the cache by dinner." I note that the window on his Blackberry is shattered ("takes a licking and keeps on...functioning properly").</div><div></div><div><br /></div><div>The campaign office in Wynnewood gave away a thousand tickets, and a thousand more were distributed here at HC/BMC.<br /><br />Step one: </div><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189583910061593282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjknkIE88MgzkKZhOLlID9ars7mDvVNnJEeH5NzF4jJ5OJrS1Fx8R8cEZssUcHbCUsbAMh7TwTwrNxWnV2RgLSe7RadIy3hU-q6EUS_Ua4wpm1loLc4vM2QwRdGmKbtqo4tMDzSW84pgQQ/s320/IMG_0520.jpg" border="0" /> <div>Mark off the entrance to Ryan Gym, through which she'll walk to the Field House. The fanbase starts arriving at around 1 pm.</div><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189584219299238642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNicJcOrcJBtnC5edG4IXRoo13d6TsfXgO-MFWYRFp-tnHcWq5tbh2U_eoxj3kJn1W3fkW1ATYfwipPrsMLowqbt3cc7FAD7MEdCxmrPkKSgDPyU2nWy-NrpsnAPaDzK174SuF5Dn9X3c/s320/IMG_0523.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189584004550873810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg655NH7rGklmohBC8g8_K3Tlj_m7bA7LM4ptfcpqbNDEDRrulbR6ljd9xkWpbtEgDljSqhqsZ8cQeWW5wE6Gav5aKZIpxBVUkpkHpPWlRr1yX__0o9-RwdX8p5dd_xf-FjzZljuh32_F8/s320/IMG_0521.jpg" border="0" /> <div></div><div>Secret Service "sweep" of media gear at 2:30. This involves bomb sniffing dogs, in this case provided by several Delaware County law enforcement agencies. When John Edwards stopped by four years ago, one of the dogs freaked out about a particular tumbling mat. "Decaying nitrites in the plastic foam set him off," noted HC Director of Security Tom King. Speaking of whom:</div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189584326673421058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt4c9fllXF8mhpzVaH2O-i4GQ8eMQA5wN2cNj-9UXW28Xz-9NmOyJ_ItDi88imts8fM3oxSXzBpNMYj6z4sb22OLFZGWZON52y2WzJciyvW4Q0wlPDRAmHNvB_9BZIzVX5FSglgxnU7kw/s320/IMG_0524.jpg" border="0" />Tom King and his Secret Service-issue lapel pin: "E" means "unarmed"...8 is the code for this event...black ink means "Tuesday."</div><div></div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189584434047603474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0XmInab4TD46MHVIpzha-7rbfbYta9eb9aPPx5AMf6CFzH_j_8xe7ntHRHtnHG-6tImcPev1Dgdin7ZbWTckEGpBg0uIyM4yjcIUWwJzhmSBKE8UgEaBG3k0aA7_WL7sNE6VtGQDQ_c0/s320/IMG_0525.jpg" border="0" /> <div></div><div>For the volunteers, this is a chance to get up close and personal, a payback for their tireless commitment. It's also a chance to recruit more volunteers.<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189584111925056226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZTXOHGGWwD7QKIX7VrFW6lCiWVQ0_SxFIFjczh_PJ_cIQCOPE606hXrpfD_8ODJWAFJ5kG4XghbkXtp742iNeDG0WSfyKzILQkqNYUfF1l0hY7vJLh7oowIIwsZSoIjuDBZW02wAqjZ8/s320/IMG_0522.jpg" border="0" /></div><div>Getting ready.</div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189584678860739378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNeC1v5CL8NFtJU7AjSrFXNkoDpUhKeb4LaodIaskS_20LJM5JjJlWc2aKov9wONjbc311nWPQsIj6k_2cV47H_a1uHB7rr3GBHfqzujVz4lke5exR_-EZNMhHUpKw6zu-vXeHCswkuVs/s320/IMG_0527.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div>Bico a cappella gets in place to sing the national anthem.</div><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189584562896622370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG8lngQdxZ-J6v5ntUHICg0cjp83UB2GFKXuLwz5diM0Rnjs76N75R_kjbarE42MfRr1uB06s-_50ZVLJU1Z0OsUQUAQq7SQLDXP9GTyIvmDv1obuoeg8c7VuDM95nKmjqdBXw1fJ8V28/s320/IMG_0526.jpg" border="0" /></div><div>Applause:</div><div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189585250091389762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxwCtlqU-qgqKapELGp14eMT4BXC0Wg4zyqWGVExxNGU1vTIKuHgqW2E-XsOTaGetru_On9EI4eBYOfPGMq6uV-_vJ5zcuu3bKyBQelzrWDhZ6TtJ8DmaFEphQV-NLxdjVfVie7Rk9aqg/s320/obama.jpg" border="0" /> <div></div><div>And in she comes.</div><div></div><br /><div>Video and real photos from a real photog soon...check out the homepage for links to news coverage and maybe...just maybe...details of another presidential primary visit, later this week....</div><div></div><div></div><div>-CM</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Chris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-42206243547194848922008-04-10T12:38:00.000-07:002008-04-10T12:57:22.744-07:00Can We Have Class Outside?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM-1IooytNFwJVhikDyKEn0_0vKTp_4LzAkpaXYpiSqIdHiF7yzb41iTE7B-xW8Sow133qNAZQO2UeSOTRUXghETsWq3ojKSyvSZsfXGmNd5fOBxoGyBfrBvifu0X0sgdzfpL6WR8q9Aw/s1600-h/classoutside.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187704366968156402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM-1IooytNFwJVhikDyKEn0_0vKTp_4LzAkpaXYpiSqIdHiF7yzb41iTE7B-xW8Sow133qNAZQO2UeSOTRUXghETsWq3ojKSyvSZsfXGmNd5fOBxoGyBfrBvifu0X0sgdzfpL6WR8q9Aw/s320/classoutside.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>...and after we chat about Hegel <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/multimedia/video/2008apr/blog/mvi_0519.avi">let's toss the friz!</a></div>Chris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-69211131008860456642008-04-08T12:22:00.000-07:002008-04-08T12:34:35.903-07:00Eyes Wide Open<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGI0q6v5oERMmtjQNPAbtfPRIKW7fI6ZoNKL2EFefP1bby61UkAEx0hPOg2QKnJ4O-XpPZW8vUn4WdgjxBJ8qrCp_WHy6B_onMpLEhs7eQpVZNuwrAwxXcEv-Tlh1XEH-Z35kXeZQP2F4/s1600-h/IMG_0506.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186958272031552194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGI0q6v5oERMmtjQNPAbtfPRIKW7fI6ZoNKL2EFefP1bby61UkAEx0hPOg2QKnJ4O-XpPZW8vUn4WdgjxBJ8qrCp_WHy6B_onMpLEhs7eQpVZNuwrAwxXcEv-Tlh1XEH-Z35kXeZQP2F4/s320/IMG_0506.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>The fifth anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq has come and gone, but the killing continues. Today, an exhibit on Founders Green invites us all to remember those who have fallen. </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186958430945342162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeZUpMftA9F6Nq9mOS548hQ3fbmCvyiII3c9WI5Ok3Zg8MY4F86YJBKXUAwVbiICQgJBy_gwdrQN3ZpfwIxXlaqdEBc_QCFxBcRg6sgAWvQjkn90w2Zha321l5IhmNiFgbOozwYGtO3D8/s320/IMG_0507.jpg" border="0" /></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Details from Emily Higgs '08:</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><em></em></div><div><em>The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in cooperation with Haverford College's Center for Peace and Global Citizenship and the Quaker Community of Haverford College will honor fallen U.S. military personnel and Iraqi civilians with its traveling exhibition: Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War to Pennsylvania, which will be on display at Haverford College on Tuesday, April 8th. Pennsylvania has the third highest number of causalities in the country.</em></div><div><em></em></div><div><em>Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War to Pennsylvania focuses on the specific costs of war to the state. The exhibit includes 183 pairs of boots representing fallen servicemen and women from Pennsylvania, and a visual representation of the Iraqi civilian casualties. </em></div><div><em></em> </div><div></div><div><em></em></div><div><em>This exhibit is part of AFSC's national Eyes Wide Open: The Human Cost of War network.AFSC, an international social justice organization, created Eyes Wide Open: The Human Cost of War to illustrate the lives lost in the war in Iraq. It first opened in Chicago's Federal Plaza with just over 500 pairs of boots in January 2004. The national exhibit was last displayed on Memorial Day weekend 2007 with over 3,400 pairs of boots. This was the last time that the entire death toll was represented in one location. </em></div><div><em></em> </div><div><em></em></div><div><em>Since then the exhibition has been divided into state displays and traveled throughout the nation to smaller cities and towns. All the state exhibits combined now include more than 4,010 pairs of combat boots representing U.S. military casualties, along with a memorial to the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians who have been killed in the conflict. </em></div><div><br /><em>Sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, Haverford College's Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, the Quaker Community of Haverford College.</em></div><div><em></em></div><div><em>The American Friends Service Committee is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace and humanitarian service. Its work is based on the belief in the worth of every person and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice.</em><br /></div><div></div>Chris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-39095049210724642632008-04-01T13:28:00.000-07:002008-04-01T13:34:55.687-07:00The Clothesline<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJfScgTnzf9TpwQym1FQuOPDDSfdDdv97yic7_OkzBO1ywx7-vbUCRlGnWzIsUj6vqcnJihsUkxt98W0Qh6CWXu7rpjgDgB7u2taSiX9Rtg5IdUiaDmGiFm9i-arWFHd249XlTvez-jFU/s1600-h/IMG_0500.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184378044658676402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJfScgTnzf9TpwQym1FQuOPDDSfdDdv97yic7_OkzBO1ywx7-vbUCRlGnWzIsUj6vqcnJihsUkxt98W0Qh6CWXu7rpjgDgB7u2taSiX9Rtg5IdUiaDmGiFm9i-arWFHd249XlTvez-jFU/s320/IMG_0500.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>There's a clothesline strung from that big beech tree on Founders Green, tee shirts flapping in the wind.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Here's the word:</div><br /><div><br />"<em>The Women's Center presents The Clothesline Project as the first piece of this year's Rape and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It is a visual testimony to the prevalence of sexual violence. </em></div><br /><div><em>We hung it across Founders Green today, and it will remain up for one week. We strongly encourage you to take a few minutes during this week to stop and experience the powerful and emotional display. </em></div><br /><div><em></em></div><br /><div><em>The CLP began eighteen years ago in a small community in Massachusetts and has since spread across the country, and into other nations as well. In each display, a clothesline is hung with shirts that are designed and decorated by community members, representing a variety of voices and experiences. Haverford students made all of our t-shirts. Each shirt is decorated with words and/or images to represent a survivor's experience, by the survivor her/himself or by someone who cares about her/him. </em></div><br /><div><em></em></div><br /><div><em>According to the CLP's official website (</em><a href="http://www.clotheslineproject.org/"><em> www.clotheslineproject.org</em></a><em>) the purpose of the project is four-fold:</em></div><br /><div><em></em></div><br /><div><em>1. To bear witness to the survivors as well as the victims of the war against women</em></div><br /><div><em>2. To help with the healing process for people who have lost a loved one or are survivors of this violence</em></div><br /><div><em>3. To educate, document, and raise society's awareness of the extent of the problem of violence against women</em></div><br /><div><em>4. To provide a nationwide network of support, encouragement and information for other communities starting their own Clothesline Projects.</em></div><br /><div><em></em></div><br /><div><em>While these stated goals and reasons for making shirts are clear, we want to clarify that our version of the CLP is not limited in some of the ways the above suggests. We want the Haverford community to feel free to speak to issues of sexual violence in all ways and forms. Sexual violence is of course not restricted to violence against women; it affects all people. The vast majority of this violence is against women, but the men who are survivors/victims are suffering under the same system. Also, it occurs in a variety of forms; the category of sexual violence does not preclude domestic or verbal abuse. </em></div><br /><div><em></em></div><br /><div><em>We hope that this will be the beginning of a long-lasting tradition, as each year we will reuse these shirts and hope that we will accumulate more t-shirts from the community. If you would like to create a shirt, please contact us! We can provide you with all basic materials (blank white t-shirt, markers, paints). In a society where one out of two women will be in a violent relationship (National Victim Center), rape and sexual assault are too often ignored. </em></div><br /><div><em></em></div><br /><div><em>We feel that the Haverford Community will profoundly benefit from seeing The Clothesline Project in action."</em></div>Chris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-79835833364116340642008-03-17T14:44:00.000-07:002008-03-17T15:26:12.908-07:00Jen, Sasha and Caitlin Meet AgainIn the spring of 2002, a senior from St. Croix,<br />US Virgin Islands, named Sasha Brady and two<br />sophomores, Jen Ward from New York State and<br />Caitlin Kimura from Hawaii, found themselves<br />softball teammates at Haverford College.<br /><br />Brady was winding up a notable diamond career<br />at Haverford by hitting .368, speedy Kimura<br />was stealing 11 bases in 11 attempts, and<br />hard-throwing hurler Ward was starting to show<br />the form that would make her one of the Fords'<br />best pitchers in 2003 and 2004.<br /><br />If Jen, Caitlin and Sasha ever thought briefly<br />about fate taking a hand to bring them together<br />in 2002, we can guarantee you none of them<br />spent a second then predicting than an even <br />stranger turn of fate would lead to a softball<br />reunion in Orange, CA, on March 10, 2008--<br />with each of them having become a Division III<br />varsity coach!<br /><br />But that's just what happened last week when <br />Haverford with Ward as head coach and Kimura<br />as assistant outscored Wheaton College, 6-3,<br />in the Sun West Tournament at Chapman College.<br /><br />Brady left her sunny island last fall for the<br />snows of Chicago and a master's degree program<br />at Wheaton, where she is also assisting in<br />softball.<br /><br />Ward took over the Fords as head coach in fall, <br />2004, only a few months after her graduation.<br />She's already led the team to a Centennial<br />Conference championship and an NCAA tournament<br />berth.<br /><br />Kimura spent a year back in her native state,<br />and then returned to Haverford as an assistant<br />coach. She too is working on a master's degree <br />at Neumann College) and thinking about a career<br />in college sports.<br /><br />The spring break tournament was also a homecoming<br />for Southern California Fords Lindsey Sullivan '08,<br />all-time HC career leader in hits, and Dana Irshay<br />'09, another top Ford batswoman.<br /><br />We'll leave it to the philosophers to ponder the<br />meaning of time, space and coincidence and the<br />mathematicians to calculate the odds of three <br />teammates from 2002 ending up as coaches of colleges <br />which played each other in 2008. For our part, we're<br />just happy to see three such fine Fords still on<br />the diamond, passing on what they know to today's<br />students.<br /><br />--Greg Kannerstein '63Greg Kannerstein '63http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472940843894606597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-29678632298766263442008-03-12T07:15:00.000-07:002008-03-12T08:50:41.454-07:00Fords of The TimesHere's a game for Haverfordians to add some extra spice to their daily perusal of <span style="font-style: italic;">The New York Times</span>.<br /><br />While you catch up on world news, the campaign, various scandals, and the vain hopes of the New York Mets to beat the Phillies this year, try to count the number of Haverford alums mentioned every day in the <span style="font-style: italic;">NYT</span>'s pages.<br /><br />We'll give you a hint:<br /><br />For now--and for a good long time to come, we hope--you can start your count with an automatic minimum of one. <span style="font-style: italic;">Times</span> Senior Vice President and Deputy General Manager Dennis Stern '69 occupies a prominent daily space on the right side of The Times' masthead.<br />Most Sundays, you'll also find Mark Hulbert '78 in the Business Section with his column on<br />financial advice newsletters.<br /><br />But rarely a day goes by without at least a couple of other Fords appearing in the august pages of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Times</span>. We just wish that when they have a chance, the alums would mention where they went to college!<br /><br />We haven't opened our Times this morning, but we already know that the paper will be running a book review of "Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker '80.<br /><br />And, yes, there was even a Ford playing a tangential role yesterday in the extensive coverage of the New York State scandal--demonstrating just another reason we can be so proud of John Whitehead '44. Turns out John was once on the receiving end of an over-the-top rebuke from<br />the politico everyone else now realizes made being over-the-top a lifestyle.<br /><br />A week ago Sunday, two alums looked out of photos at <span style="font-style: italic;">Times</span> readers--Tim Hanrahan '95, who had just gotten married (which leads to the vital question of whether Fords are proportionately over-represented in the wedding pages) and Jon Berenbom, early '90s grad, who was the iconic<br />representative of folks commuting *out* of the city in roomy, relaxed surroundings on the train.<br /><br />So keep your score, and we'll keep ours, and at another time we'll see how the scoreboard looks.<br /><br />PS--while he didn't make the <span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span> Tuesday, senior Ben Zussman had a big day in the Philadelphia newspapers, being quoted in the Phila. Metro about how students at Haverford are reacting to calls for a smoking ban and then being photographed for <span style="font-style: italic;">The Inquirer</span>, gazing out at Philadelphia's new Cira Center, to accompany a story about how locals react to the controversial new lights there.<br /><br />And speaking of making us proud, you'll find Tony Petitti '83 in USA TODAY today (no, that's not a typo). Tony, Executive Producer of CBS Sports, reacting to ESPN's hiring of boorish Bobby Knight as a commentator, makes it clear CBS has no room for and no interest in adding the loudmouth ex-coach to its roster.<br /><br />--Greg Kannerstein '63Greg Kannerstein '63http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472940843894606597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-12122811284694294652008-03-04T11:11:00.000-08:002008-03-05T06:36:52.409-08:00In Memoriam: Joe Schwartz '83A life of courage and triumph over adversity came to an end all too soon this Sunday when Joe Schwartz '83 passed away.<br /><br />Joe had been a star cross-country and track athlete and a history major at Haverford and later graduated from law school. At the age of 33 Joe began to suffer from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).<br /><br />Though almost completely paralyzed for many years, Joe not only kept up a lively and cheerful stream of messages to Haverfordians and other friends, but attended Haverford meets and championships and other events in his wheelchair.<br /><br />Plans have been underway for a long time for the First Annual Joe Schwartz 3K Run/Walk, now to be held in memory of Joe on April 20, 2008. See the <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/news/stories/4791/51">Athletic web page</a> for details.<br /><br />Joe is survived by a son, a high school student and runner.<br /><br />The College would like to hear more stories about Joe and the impact he had on the many people<br />whose lives he touched. Please send any information or reminiscences you would like to see made available about this remarkable Haverfordian to <a href="mailto:gkanners@haverford.edu">gkanners@haverford.edu</a><br /><br />--Greg Kannerstein '63Greg Kannerstein '63http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472940843894606597noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-62379340117589212302008-02-20T14:06:00.001-08:002008-02-20T14:12:01.290-08:00Rick aka Rich Pressler '81 Returns!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh75KibrcDuwV7VSYBMMKFodyuQsERm_jt4vUaGApR5pWeToIropDFVGwhIrTopVA7Uy-Kiur6LA_p3N894qQ3qey_5ZmxqXEEiGXs6jj5sXn4Zu9kSaF19mjjk-AHUf2z_iyRmOhua9Ck/s1600-h/pressler.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169188510628854594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh75KibrcDuwV7VSYBMMKFodyuQsERm_jt4vUaGApR5pWeToIropDFVGwhIrTopVA7Uy-Kiur6LA_p3N894qQ3qey_5ZmxqXEEiGXs6jj5sXn4Zu9kSaF19mjjk-AHUf2z_iyRmOhua9Ck/s320/pressler.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Friday night the Ford welcomes musician alum Rick Pressler as part of our <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/thearts/aya/">Alumni Year in the Arts</a> series.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Rick (who was 'Rich' back in the days of the Carter Administration!) was my customsman and informal guitar teacher. More recently, he indulged my request for an <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/news/stories/5081/51">intvu</a>. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Greg offers this: "He was one of Haverford's best-ever pitchers, beat Swarthmore four years in a row (only pitcher ever to do that) and pitched a no-hitter, Haverford's first-ever, vs. Johns Hopkins. The whole baseball team went to his senior music major project recital (guitar concert) straight from the field in their muddy practice unifoms."</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Hope to see you Friday!</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>-CM</div>Chris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-86940245868799913952008-01-31T08:41:00.000-08:002008-01-31T10:50:43.895-08:00Haverford Architectural SalvageI'm a big fan of old buildings, and enjoy visiting 'architectural salvage' stores that stock old windows, doors, sinks, lamps -- stuff that's been saved from the wrecking ball.<br /><br />So when the College started renovating the President's victorian home at 1 College Circle I asked what would become of the many old windows, some of which are (to my eyes at least) just gorgeous. Could they be saved?<br /><br />Yes, as it turned out, and they have been saved; Facilities put them in cold storage:<br /><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161684074102298146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSpQe7wsGLXvE1arZx7lz1r6vUzzMmncaVsYck3qq5xaAVCnBricTsmdorTKCTJF0vot1foTV5xrnHFFL7G0ANO2Nmp-FWzzIP60PeC3Tbvo76_so_XvD1RIvfyOqhHdQ6cP-EZQvTxnU/s320/DSCF0968.JPG" border="0" /><br />Many different shapes & sizes. Question now is, what do we do with them?<br /><br /><br />Alum <a href="http://www.ryanassociates.com/wh/whohow_int.html">Jim Friedman </a>'67 points out that it's very very very very (get it?) difficult to build antique sashes into an existing structure, so I suppose their appeal is more along the lines of the aesthetic and, for us Fords, sentimental. (There, I said it.) Hang a sash on your living room wall and start a conversation. Think of the Presidential eyes that have looked through these windows and over to campus! The Vision Thing!<br /><br /><br />So how should we dispose of them? First come, first serve? Raffle at Alumni Weekend? Gifts/awards associated with HC annual giving? Dumpster? Sell them?<br /><br /><br />Also available: the old balustrades from the back of the Morris Infirmary:<br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161685607405622834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh34TdYnXi2tkuBAhPipl3CE7U-M5OBLinomTNBYylHOuwsSW7GODxC2H15UoM7oo_J9sQh64q4qPk_aqSPNr9AW96-B7_Kl-xPlhiberKHZpLwgmJfE2tJ4uMOnMo6qdsom3GW1RVQfx0/s320/IMG_0448.jpg" border="0" /><br />To refresh your memory, they used to run along the roof line:<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161685860808693314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3t6gSItu238XxvYLEXg5mEOeMVRolMde3BalgZcL4snFl1nZSOcXWy_AG7fxQzkxOzpdtypTSmXY0PXDT8Y2q-MzEdNYK5KYjoh6REH4J9X_B_wj5FMudevjCoTnYUnlwGMpA5Y2g0EI/s320/IMG_0447.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p>Look forward to your thoughts.</p><p>-CM<br /><br /></p>Chris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-74521627503932139502008-01-30T11:32:00.000-08:002008-01-30T12:29:56.004-08:00Movie People II: Luke Wilson<div align="center"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGV0ytfGo2kVqVk565rY_a19hdmwVSu_nt_MuOcqDkycp3XXI-uIeHkJQyfExnIxzEXH6lfQXFUXbUy17lXgx51ZY7gLJJYSNGyJEE7-GN7E-_4qWj4UHqSJfqhzxY_AcIcJJ6xQsV87s/s1600-h/luke+wilson.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161358571415836162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGV0ytfGo2kVqVk565rY_a19hdmwVSu_nt_MuOcqDkycp3XXI-uIeHkJQyfExnIxzEXH6lfQXFUXbUy17lXgx51ZY7gLJJYSNGyJEE7-GN7E-_4qWj4UHqSJfqhzxY_AcIcJJ6xQsV87s/s320/luke+wilson.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Come now more folks from Hollywood, this time scouting locations. Writer/Director Mike Million is looking for a college campus on which to shoot scenes for his film 'Tenure' which stars Luke Wilson as a prof who's trying to lock in a slot at Hypothetical Miniversity.<br /><br />Mike and his guys -- who, I must say, could not have been more polite and un-Hollywood -- dropped by Monday and snapped endless photos as I showed them around. Many spots got a polite "nice" (= yawn) while others prompted whispers, which I took to be a sign of interest. They seemed to love the Phillips Wing and Aryeh Kosman's office; they seemed to love Aryeh (who doesn't).<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161369291654206994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx234fi-Ejln9sUbB4uAHoUlmEUVfos1AmCpehedvs_X3iWf5sT6KpGEc9JS7spPO1gl8V7dcQkbqQxoy0o7eGDnCYa_uGewq6hsAvJbZKJJOklN5zB5CPz9g6bEDZOR6mqfuNMl2hFqk/s320/kosman.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="left"> "Central casting? Get me a philosopher!"<br /><br />Mike says it'd be a 10-day shoot in March and the College would not be identified; a proposal (including script) to come.<br /><br />Not sure whether their project is a good fit for us: in my experience as an extra (yep, that's me in line at a restaurant in the 1987 classic 'Mannequin' starring Andrew McCarthy) moviemaking is a high-impact process that can be pretty disruptive. Fun to watch the sausage getting made, though.<br /><br />-CM</p>Chris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-50537555118780515742008-01-30T10:41:00.000-08:002008-01-30T11:50:44.476-08:00Movie People I: Russell Crowe<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYT5IGTcpFg6nn400Atab9N6NCpqWBmh7fDL27G9826oGiDw84Gmu3bgaLYHMh36mRonYvMqXmuEeWFvRoXTgvQx0JF_ciGMZwvwFQC46VTTHD7OpMmgIMUZAmMar2dq-ZJrTDOnaX4bo/s1600-h/crowe.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161344045836441074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYT5IGTcpFg6nn400Atab9N6NCpqWBmh7fDL27G9826oGiDw84Gmu3bgaLYHMh36mRonYvMqXmuEeWFvRoXTgvQx0JF_ciGMZwvwFQC46VTTHD7OpMmgIMUZAmMar2dq-ZJrTDOnaX4bo/s320/crowe.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Betcha didn't know that actors Russell Crowe (above) and Ben Affleck were Fords, didja? Well...they aren't! But it looks like they are going to play Fords on the big screen.</div><br /><div></div><div>They've both been signed to star in "State of Play", director <a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm0531817/">Kevin Macdonald's </a>("The Last King of Scotland") tale of a muckraking DC journalist (Crowe) who takes on evil powerbrokers. Affleck plays a pol.</div><div></div><br /><div>The production company has been ordering HC swag from the bookstore that'll be used to dress up Crowe's "apartment", and just last week the guys on the cricket team posed for a shot that presumably will have Crowe (whose character played the game while a student here) photoshopped into place.<br /></div><br /><div></div><div><br />All that said, let's see what happens -- had I written this post last fall, you'd have seen a photo of Brad Pitt up top of this entry.<br /></div><br /><div></div><div>Last fictional filmic Ford I can recall was Twin Peaks' Agent Dale Cooper.</div>Chris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-83722277507546899042008-01-16T06:12:00.000-08:002008-01-16T06:44:37.044-08:00What Should Customs Week Be?A number of people on campus are asking how Customs Week might be enhanced. Hoping to establish something a 'baseline in time' that could inform my understanding of how Customs Week has evolved over the past 30 years, I queried my classmates via our Class of 82 Google group and invited their recollections.<br /><br />Many remember an experience heavy on the social side and light --very -- on the academics, though the substance was occasionally dark: "I had a meeting with the head of the French Department to discuss the dismal results of a French placement test I'd taken (he suggested that I never set foot in a French class and consider changing colleges)."<br /><br />I'd welcome your thoughts about Customs Week via the Comment function; to prime the pump I'm pasting in thoughts offered by BMC 82's Roz Cummins. (It's worth noting that many of us feel as close to these Mawrters as we do to our fellow Fords, so tight was the relationship between the two colleges.)<br /><br /><em>I remember the swimming test that was given during customs week and being told (perhaps erroneously) that it was because so many Princeton grads died on the Titanic that we had to take this test. I was shocked by the Lion “spitting” water into the BMC pool. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Most of my memories of Customs Week are of a horrible square dance in the BMC gym and having to perform stupid skits, but I also remember attending a presentation at Haverford given by faculty doing 5 minute descriptions of their courses. Wyatt McGaffey got up and said that most people think that Anthropology is “something to do with apes.” That was all he said. It made me want to take his course.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>I think that Customs Week was also the week that I stayed up camping outside of Founders Hall all night so that I could sign up for a specific Haverford course. At this point I have no memory of what class I thought was worth staying up all night to get into. I just remember hanging out with Judd Nelson since he was the only person there that I knew because he was in my Customs Group. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Whenever I see footage on the news of people camped outside Fenway to get Redsox tickets I remember camping out in front of Founders.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>The one happy memory I have of Customs Week was meeting some friends during Popsicle Night. Mostly I just liked being outdoors at night ­ something that I associate a lot with college. I’ve never spent so much time outdoors at night before that or since then. I remember walking between campi at all hours ­ sometimes alone, sometimes not, sometimes feeling fearful, sometimes not. I can remember going to Dunkin Donuts at one or two in the morning with my beau and having Wrong Way Wooten (the guy who worked there who also rode his bicycle backwards) ride his bike around the parking lot while singing “Chances Are” along with the 8-track tape player that was strapped to his bike. I once saw Wrong Way performing in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. A friend who stayed in Philly told me that Wrong Way died a few years later from AIDS.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Great. Now I want a French Cruller. Proust had his madeliene, I have my French Cruller. I don’t think I could even force myself to eat one of those things at this point! I guess I’ll have to go find out...</em><br /><em></em><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5156081894794027346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoSr3Y8IYm3CtmrUFRsUDzeckQ5UD0aIK3a29oOzLww_MHYBBdsMqECqbids6GPXsdJFNDqR1ZI54CHjp7ldjYvExLNEJAVDehKWQs-LGP19QnoUYloHwMIn_aXIS24_orWxFlXwJ5jwU/s320/crullers.bmp" border="0" /></p><p align="center">Oh baby.</p><p align="left">So what are your recollections of Customs Week? How could it have better prepared you for, or more accurately foreshadowed, what was to follow? (And for those who are into social networking and may be wondering "Why are you using a Google group...doesn't HC offer decent networking for its alums?" the solution is coming in Q4 08...stay tuned...)</p>For now, though, feel free to comment away.<br /><br />-CMChris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-29255113163885343292008-01-07T06:58:00.000-08:002008-01-10T06:09:06.171-08:00The College Returns: 2008All new Haverford employees have to learn the slogan "The College is Never Closed."<br /><br />Sure, a few feet of snow might slow things down, but almost every student and most faculty are within walking distance of campus and even if commuting employees can't get here, classes<br />continue.<br /><br />"Vacations" are vacations for the students, but the work of the College goes on 51 weeks a year. However, in the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, the place is as close to shut down as it ever is.<br /><br />The Security Office in the Gardner Center remains on duty 24/7 and a few lonely faculty and administrators huddle in semi-heated offices. You can be sure that some folks in Founders were opening envelopes to record contributions from alums with one eye on the calendar and the other on their IRS forms! But for the only time all year, Magill Library is uninhabited all week, no one is working out in the Fitness Center and except for a few international students, all the young Fords are elsewhere.<br /><br />Over the years, occasional activities have livened up this "dead week." One cold New Year's Eve some time ago, a lone campus wanderer thought he had encountered Brigadoon -- men in kilts and women in gowns dancing in Founders while a bagpiper's squeals announced the arrival of the ceremonial haggis.<br /><br />However, on close inspection, this was no annual apparition of a time and place far away but a more prosaic party of the local St. Andrew's Society which had somehow managed to rent Founders Great Hall for traditional Scottish New Year's festivities.<br /><br />The oddest year-end/ year-beginning ritual at Haverford occurred in the 1970s when Alumni Field House still featured a dirt track and infield. Obsessed runners from all over the world descended on Haverford to take part in one of the few "48-hour races" anywhere.<br /><br />Dozens of people circled the 1/7-mile dirt track 18 hours a day (the rules specified that contestants had to sleep or at least rest six hours out of every 24). Many spectators came to see this reprise of the 1920s craze for all-night bicycle races.<br /><br />The contestants did have to stop occasionally to....well, you get the idea... and they usually did stop for that purpose, though once in a while....<br /><br />They also had to eat. Support teams brought victuals which the runners could consume while in full stride.<br /><br />Therein lay the downfall of this unique event. In time, culinary provisions became more and more elaborate. Huge picnic hampers arrived and created considerable debris for College staff to clean up. Then, some enterprising folks started barbecuing chickens and other delicacies in corners of the cavernous old barn.<br /><br />The College wasn't sure it liked that. It would be pretty hard to burn down the Field House, sure, but a few dozen fires in its major athletic facility blazing all day and night didn't seem quite right.<br /><br />While the administration pondered this dilemma, fate took a hand. The Field House was scheduled for renovation, and the new floor was to be polyurethane, replacing the finely-ground dirt which still resides in older alums' lungs and athletic gear. Fires just wouldn't do.<br /><br />The race was cancelled.<br /><br />Considerable outcry came from the extreme sports crowd. The College was attacked as "Un-Quakerly" in a Philadelphia newspaper op-ed,though no one could find references<br />to 48-hour races or barbecuing chickens in the core writings of George Fox, William Penn, or Rufus Jones.<br /><br />Haverford's back in full swing this week. Staff can't find an ideal parking place unless they get in early. There's a basketball game in the Gooding Arena tonight. While the main dorms remain closed, HCA houses winter athletes, students with classes at Penn, and those from far away. Offices are open.<br /><br />We don't know if ghosts of bagpipers or ultra-marathoners--or more substantial figures--flitted across campus last week. We're content to let one week a year keep its secrets. Haverford moves on to 2008, with both predictable rhythms of the academic year and no doubt undreamed-of adventures and challenges ahead. It's good to be back.<br /><br />--Greg Kannerstein '63Greg Kannerstein '63http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472940843894606597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-65002391119688323702008-01-04T12:29:00.000-08:002008-01-04T12:57:26.750-08:00Our Man In Madagascar<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_NtTtclR52MpzBz3v1FKuTAiuYyN2jwmQnhzYlOl4X7l9Q6yl3kp0Fdt6q45nodkCsSdCUCmSe2FraIf4K5HS4LvK0yEvEhfbSB_pwaJzpo4S7P8_USP__1sMGe6oClK1dGa8laNOzis/s1600-h/strauss.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5151727772913459522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_NtTtclR52MpzBz3v1FKuTAiuYyN2jwmQnhzYlOl4X7l9Q6yl3kp0Fdt6q45nodkCsSdCUCmSe2FraIf4K5HS4LvK0yEvEhfbSB_pwaJzpo4S7P8_USP__1sMGe6oClK1dGa8laNOzis/s320/strauss.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>This just in from Robert Strauss '78:</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><em>After five years as Country Director for the Peace Corps in Cameroon, my family and I relocated in August 2007 to Madagascar where I have started a management consulting firm. </em><em>Over New Year's, I traveled to the town of Fianarantsoa to see Karen Schoonmaker Freudenberg (BMC 1978) who has been living there for the last ten years. </em></div><div><em></em></div><br /><div><em>Karen has been working to keep the "Micheline," a rubber-wheeled train developed by Michelin in the 1930s and now considered to be the world's most unusual operating train, from joining the ranks of Madagascar's other extinct species. We had made it 18 of the scheduled 21 kilometers when the Micheline's clutch burnt out. We hoofed the last three kilometers before joining our families and the US Ambassador for lunch. </em></div><div><em><br /> </div></em><div><em>Regards,<br />Robert Strauss<br />Antananarivo, Madagascar</em></div><br /><div><em></em></div><div>Robert confesses that when they met up for the first time in 30 years, Karen didn't remember ever knowing him, despite his "once sporting an afro that was bigger than Sly Stone's."</div>Chris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-79186415443614541122007-12-22T13:56:00.000-08:002007-12-22T14:13:19.406-08:00Lloyd Lights IIStudents sometimes say Haverford doesn't have<br />enough traditions. The reappearance of the lovely<br />lights which lined the entryways to Lloyd Hall<br />this holiday season were brilliant testimony<br />to quick Haverfordian action to save one<br />tradition.<br /><br />Current memories suggest that the tradition<br />of Lloyd holiday lights goes back 5-6 years<br />(happy to learn more from alums). "Dorm<br />reps" were responsible for picking up a small<br />annual subvention from Students' Council<br />and organizing each year's lighting efforts.<br /><br />But dorm reps disappeared this year due to<br />SC reorganizaton.<br /><br />Fortunately, some students acted fast to be<br />sure the tradition didn't lapse. Judging<br />took place Dec. 16 with Dining Service<br />Director John Francone, Director of Student<br />Activities Jason McGraw, Students' Council<br />co-president Meghan McAllister '10 and<br />other current students rating the entries.<br /><br />Top honors went to Lloyd 11-12, whose<br />residents are Dennis Norris, Sonia Williams,<br />Shashi Neerukonda, James Meagher, Nikhil<br />Dhingra, Anna Krieger, Emily Green, Julianne<br />Eubank, Bethany Morrow, Allyson Abrams,<br />Tovah Tripp and Rachel Jacobson, all '08.<br /><br />Third Entry* took second prize, perhaps<br />because of the innovative rotating head of<br />our red-nosed friend Rudolph. Eighth Entry<br />won the bronze medal.<br /><br />Hearty congratulations to all the students<br />who made Lloyd Green a winter wonderland<br />at a stressful time.<br /><br />If anyone woders what happens to all the bulbs,<br />Jason McGraw can tell you. They fill up his office!<br />He's be very happy to donate shares of the<br />bulbs to anyone needing them. Contact Jason<br />at <a href="mailto:jmcgraw@haverford.edu">jmcgraw@haverford.edu</a><br /><br />*--A note on nomenclature: we're told that these<br />days students call the entries "Tens," "Twenties"<br />"Thirties," and so on. Not too long ago, it was<br />"First Entry," "Second," "Third," etc. (And<br />there was a mythic but not mythical "Tenth Entry"<br />up the road for students needing good burgers and<br />liquid refreshment.) Did any one ever call<br />the entries "Morris," "Stokes," "Strawbridge,"<br />"Logan" or any of those good Quaker names till<br />painted over each doorway?<br /><br />--Greg Kannerstein '63Greg Kannerstein '63http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472940843894606597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-26738416097777350982007-12-20T10:50:00.000-08:002007-12-20T10:56:11.393-08:00Lloyd Lights<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP1bFj0cAk1WgcqDtBufVwITVp1M3osXozapyMjG8U2JX0_XNV6_yN_iFTJS405GlwgbfIAxWzyePgTsqUOLU2974VlO3AW6CpAi4LaXsXVTMNs8ugqmnnyQJxrTBnt2JjiliGakKSgnU/s1600-h/IMG_0398.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5146130807756513586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP1bFj0cAk1WgcqDtBufVwITVp1M3osXozapyMjG8U2JX0_XNV6_yN_iFTJS405GlwgbfIAxWzyePgTsqUOLU2974VlO3AW6CpAi4LaXsXVTMNs8ugqmnnyQJxrTBnt2JjiliGakKSgnU/s320/IMG_0398.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Lloyd's annual holiday light display...<a href="http://www.haverford.edu/news/entryvote.php">vote for your favorite.</a></div>Chris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-55081427808706522912007-12-19T13:48:00.000-08:002007-12-19T13:54:34.857-08:00Big News re: Financial AidThe College announces major changes in its Financial Aid policies: grants replace loans for incoming freshmen; returning students to see relief scaled to most benefit the neediest; new endowment fund created to focus giving for those hoping to support such grants-in-aid. Recipients of the new grants will be invited to pledge support for the fund "as their means allow and the spirit moves" throughout their lifetimes, with no pre-set expectation of how much they might contribute.<br /><br />Details <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/news/stories/3821/51">here</a>.Chris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357445242288975028.post-81352585688626697302007-12-14T05:58:00.000-08:002007-12-14T08:25:23.070-08:00Fog & Clarity<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3BCovdY8m-NbhZPLh7QAOGppkJqrH-1SURz_cuhpspG0ArxBl9ZNQ5BrP0eKSu8lZ10Zaz6KxP8qwZy4u7JT59XBantGF7cNrAQx_ntuFXF73_BMzbc421RF84zViBHdtWHvTlVoIcg/s1600-h/IMG_0391.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143858190236344610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3BCovdY8m-NbhZPLh7QAOGppkJqrH-1SURz_cuhpspG0ArxBl9ZNQ5BrP0eKSu8lZ10Zaz6KxP8qwZy4u7JT59XBantGF7cNrAQx_ntuFXF73_BMzbc421RF84zViBHdtWHvTlVoIcg/s320/IMG_0391.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />We recently revamped our <a href="https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:Join/signupId:26719">eNewsletter</a> to make it more attractive and useful -- for you, certainly, and for us in that the software reports how many times each item is clicked, helping us to better program the piece going forward. Here's how the early returns are shaping up for the issue shipped this week. Count is expressed as a percentage of all clicks, rounded:<br /><br />Tom Donnelly Video 21%<br />First Snowfall Video 21%<br />Haverblog Main Page 21%<br />Nobel Prize 7%<br />Iron Chef 6%<br />Special Olympics 4%<br />AIDS Quilt 3%<br />18 in 08 Film 3%<br />Literary Magazine 3%<br />Haverford Fund 3%<br />Treasure Island 2%<br />Bronze Casting Video 2%<br />Art Show 2%<br />News Page 2%<br /><br />Looks like people go with what (or who) they know and for the newsletter's audience, it doesn't get much more familiar (and beloved) than Tom Donnelly and the first snow on Founders Green. Notably, those top entries were displayed low on the eNewsletter's page, echoing my experience formatting Philly.com: people scan for appealing links, location on a page be damned. It's almost as if perusing a web page taps into the same part of our brain that Neanderthals used in scanning the forest for glints of light and shadow and their associated message of "I will eat that/that will eat me."<br /><br />-CMChris Mills '82http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941141390430379094noreply@blogger.com0