Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
A letter from an old classmate …
Darned if I didn’t receive a letter the other day postmarked Quark Island, ME, sent with dog-eared lick ‘em stamps that added up to 41¢ and written in ink with what I can only imagine was a Parker 51 fountain pen.
Sure enough, it was from my old roommate Rechtal Turgidley, Jr.
Swart, (it started).
I borrowed my [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in 1 by Dick Swart
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Legendary Brownnoser
Today’s reading assignment for the students in Frank Morgan’s MATH 373 is the recent New Yorker profile of Stephen Schwarzman. Excerpt, commentary and an appearance by legendary Eph banker Jimmy Lee ‘75 below the break. Pictures too!
2 Comments » - Posted in Finance, Jimmy Lee '75 by David Kane
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Marginally Happier
Are you a CC member interested in parking? Former Record editor-in-chief Mike Needham ‘04 has news for you.
My sister brought a copy of the Williams Record home which I was perusing for old times’ sake. There is a cartoon in the 1/16 issue indicating that no students are allowed in the parking garage. This was [...]
No Comments » - Posted in 1 by David Kane
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 51
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Social Honor Code?
Here’s a little more detail on the Social Honor Code push. There are multiple WSO threads on the subject, but I wanted to fill readers here in. We want maximum transparency on this.
As currently conceived, the committee to draft the “Code” will consist of students, faculty, and staff, with a student majority and chair. Who [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in 1 by wslack
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Eph Love You Long Time Again
A new thread at WSO about a too-boring-and-offensive-to-read non-Eph article references a WSO thread from two years ago that I discussed here. That WSO thread is, still, an interesting read, touching as it does on the reality and stereotypes of race and love, two of my favorite topics! Give it a look. My comments about [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in 1 by David Kane
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 50
Click below for full image. How many Ephs can you name? I see Bill Emptage, Scott Purdy and Stu Staley, all class of 1988.
And note how Williams had not won a little three championship in football from 1981 through 1987. Not only has there not been a similar seven year stretch since, I [...]
No Comments » - Posted in 1988 Yearbook, Class of 1988 by Gulielmensian
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Ride to Dartmouth?
WSO currently features a request for a ride to Dartmouth. Could that be from Morty?
Longtime observers of the Williams scene know several things. First, Morty is an ambitious man who dreams of more than the presidency of Williams. Over the last 8 years, he has been, and is widely perceived as being, a very successful [...]
87 Comments » - Posted in Morton O. Schapiro by David Kane
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 49
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 48
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Just Say No
A reader points out this Facebook group organized to fight against the imposition of a Social Honor Code at Williams.
Say NO to hate! But also say NO any social honor code.
As Morty said in his emails to community the use of racial slurs and the blatant disrespect of those that use such words is [...]
10 Comments » - Posted in Willy E. N-word by David Kane
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 47
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 46
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
New Ideas from Old Nassau: Would you have benefitted from a delayed start/service year?
While my time at Williams may have been more in the spirit of Scott Fitzgerald, here is an interesting idea reported in the New York Times today. My question: What would you be today if you had had this service year before starting ? Were you too young when you were in Sage or Williams?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/o2/19/education/19educ.htmMy [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in 1 by Dick Swart
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Visibly Shaken
Did you have a tough Valentine’s Day? Consider yourself lucky. Tracy McIntosh ‘75 and his family had it worse.
Former Neurosurgery professor Tracy McIntosh was sentenced to 3 1/2 to seven years in prison yesterday for the 2002 sexual assault of his college roommate’s niece.
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Pamela Pryor Dembe delivered McIntosh’s [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in Tracy McIntosh '75 by David Kane
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Swinging for the Fences
Useful interview with Steve Case ‘80.
How do you bounce back after engineering a merger widely considered the worst in history? If you’re Steve Case, you keep swinging for the fences. In 2000, Case, then chief executive of AOL, decided to buy Time Warner for more than $160 billion in AOL stock. The market cap [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Finance by David Kane
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 45
Click below for full image. The falling snow, the blown kisses, the leopard print trousers. Gotta love freshmen!
1 Comment » - Posted in 1988 Yearbook, Class of 1988 by Gulielmensian
Monday, February 18th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 44
Click below for full image. Note that Sage A and Williams A were both all male entries that year. When was the last year of single sex entries? Back in the day, there were, I think, two reasons for single sex entries. First, the sex ratio was less even (55:45?) so, if most entries [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in 1988 Yearbook, Class of 1988 by Gulielmensian
Monday, February 18th, 2008
Missing College Council Minutes
If you were a College Council Secretary anytime in the last three years, you are a bad person if you don’t dig up your minutes and post them at the CC website. You don’t even need to split them up into a separate page for each meeting. Just slap them all into one document. But [...]
No Comments » - Posted in 1 by David Kane
Monday, February 18th, 2008
Open Access
Does Williams have anything like this?
Harvard University’s arts and sciences faculty approved a plan on Tuesday that will post finished academic papers online free, unless scholars specifically decide to opt out of the open-access program. While other institutions have similar repositories for their faculty’s work, Harvard’s is unique for making online publication the default [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in 1 by David Kane
Monday, February 18th, 2008
Gates scholars
The Gates Scholarships are basically the equivalent of a Marshall Scholarship or a Rhodes Scholarship — kind of a big deal. They are less well known, because they are newer, but they are funded by the Gates Foundation to send students to Cambridge. The purpose is to:
award scholarships on the basis of a person’s intellectual [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in 1, Alumni, News by ddavis
Monday, February 18th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 43
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Thoughts on the Williams Conversation
I had a useful conversation with Ken Thomas ‘93 about the future of the Williams Conversation. Do you care? See below.
14 Comments » - Posted in Williams Conversation by David Kane
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 42
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Udder Madness
This weekend was Winter Carnival (”Udder Madness! Milk It For All It’s Worth”), and I thought I’d put up a few photographs of last night’s fireworks. As you might be able to tell from this first picture, they were set off from the practice field between Poker Flats and the field house.
Please note: I switched [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in 1 by amartin
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Living and Dead
Your feel-good Williams article of the day comes from the New York Times.
All around the room, alumni living and dead are staring at the kid. On one dark, oak-paneled wall, a picture of the 1901 football team — smallish players with their hair slicked back and parted in the middle in the style of [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in 1 by David Kane
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 41
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
That Dress You Wore
Memo
To: All Williams Women
From: All Williams Men
Subj: That Dress
Apologies for not paying enough attention to your clothing, for not taking you shopping enough, for being too impatient when shopping. Apologies for not understanding how hard it is to find just the right dress for Winter Carnival, for failing to understand that [...]
No Comments » - Posted in 1 by David Kane
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 40
Click below for full image. Note th Red Sox fan with the hat. Mike Caljow (sp?). Would he have been happy or sad to know in 1988 that the wait would only be another 16 years? Perhaps this year’s Gul will feature a similar picture of a Cub’s fan.
1 Comment » - Posted in 1988 Yearbook, Class of 1988 by Gulielmensian
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
CC Elections have (mostly) concluded
The new co-presidents are Jeremy Goldstein ‘09 and Peter Nurnberg ‘09, who received a majority on the first ballot against two other running pairs. Platform and self-nom in the rest of the post.
