http://www.ephblog.com All Things Eph Fri, 16 May 2008 11:00:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Brandi Brown '07, the greatest takedown of a Record editorial ever. It's a year old, but still worth the read. http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/16/how-awesome/ Click below for full image: http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/16/1988-yearbook-page-219/ Click below for full image: http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/15/1988-yearbook-page-218/ Bethany McLean '92 is moving from Fortune to Vanity Fair. Congratulations! One of her last columns for Fortune may have been this one on the trials and tribulations of we beleaguered short sellers. Think the life of a famous financial journalist like Bethany is all glamor? Consider the madness ... http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/15/deep-capture/ at 2:00 today. Third ranked Williams looks to avenge an early-season loss to top ranked and undefeated Washington & Lee, which is the defending national champion. The last team to beat them? Williams, in 2007. Follow the action live here. Go Ephs! http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/15/womens-tennis-plays-for-national-championship/ If you are a reader of EphBlog and visiting Cambridge, MA, make sure to drop me a line. Lunch is on me! In that spirit, I am taking Sam and Anna (our Yale friends from this thread) out to lunch today. Got a question about life at Yale? Leave it ... http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/15/lunch-with-sam-and-anna/ In this final episode in the class of 1988 reunion series and penultimate episode in this project, I speak with Tom Smith, who is currently Associate Professor of Chemistry at Williams. Learn about stair diving in Hubbell House, why non-Ephs don't understand why we will start up a conversation with ... http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/15/eph-interviews-podcast-class-of-1988-tom-smith/ Click below for full image: http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/15/1988-yearbook-page-217/ What if Williams organized a star chamber and no one showed up? Williams Speaks Up is a "Web site on which campus members can report and share incidents of unwanted, abusive, or harassing behavior." (See background here.) Turns out that only one brief comment has been submitted after several ... http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/14/empty-star-chamber/ Click below for full image: http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/14/1988-yearbook-page-216/ Congratulations to the seniors who defended their Economic theses earlier this week. I defended mine 20 years ago. Special thanks to my adviser, Mike McPherson, for guiding me through the process. Sad to know that I can't ever again thank Peter Lipton for his generous reading. Comments: 1) Kudos to the ... http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/14/senior-economics-thesis-presentations/ Aidan sent this interesting story featuring Dean Grodzins '83. [Theodore] Parker, too, had famously bad handwriting. William Lloyd Garrison, hard-line abolitionist and editor of the Liberator, once complained that an essay Parker submitted was so unreadable it would require a dozen assistants to interpret his clotted sentences for the printer "without ... http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/14/my-wife-is-a-devil/ In response to my request to "Show us the data" with regard to student activities, Drew Newman '04, former president of ACE (All Campus Entertainment) from 2003-2004 delivers. See below for Drew's extensive write-up and links to supporting documents. Comments: 1) Drew is probably too modest to mention his outstanding Record ... http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/14/history-of-ace/ In this penultimate episode of the Class of 1988 series, I speak with my other JA, Lisa Mandl. Find out about the cultural and meteorological differences between Williamstown and Vancouver, BC, how she met her husband (though we are getting only her side of the story) and Lisa clears up ... http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/14/eph-interviews-podcast-class-of-1988-lisa-mandl-3/ Click below for full image: http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/14/1988-yearbook-page-215/ Some Eph connections in this year's Tony nominees: First, the once, present, and future most prominent Eph in theater, Stephen Sondheim, is receiving a lifetime achievement award. Adam Schlesinger (who is also a member of Fountains of Wayne) received a nomination for his score to Cry-Baby, which was ... http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/13/eph-tony-nominees-2/ Click below for full image: http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/13/1988-yearbook-page-214/ Solid article in the Eagle about a silly idea. Massachusetts lawmakers have caught the attention of Williams College leadership with a proposal to study taxing any private college's endowment funds that exceed $1 billion. Williams College's various endowment funds total about $1.8 billion. If the proposal to assess a 2.5 percent tax ... http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/13/defending-the-endowment/ For the last couple years, I have seen announcements like this one. Hey Seniors, Had you not planned on going to Hilton Head because you didn’t have the time to plan it, or couldn’t find enough people for a house? Have other plans for Hilton Head week fallen through and you now ... http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/13/ephs-at-hilton-head/ Wick Sloane's '76 latest column in Inside Higher Ed highlights the marvelous pamphlet (pdf) that he has written in the spirit of Thomas Paine. Common Sense calls for an American educational revolution for the 21st century. The bachelor’s degree is obsolete and expensive. That degree started in the 14th century, before ... http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/13/common-sense/ In this episode of Eph Interviews, I speak with Phil Wilcox about moving from Denver in the 50's to Williamstown and driving the backroads of New England. Whit Stoddard and Lane Faisal make their first appearance on the show.  http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/13/eph-interviews-podcast-class-of-1958-phil-wilcox/ Click below for full image: http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/13/1988-yearbook-page-213/ The Great Orange Satan reports on how this year's race for Connecticut's 5th District is shaping up: The Fifth is Connecticut's least Democratic district (D+3.7). Republican Nancy Johnson represented the area for 24 years until 2006, when she was defeated by Democrat Chris Murphy. Murphy, 34, has had a remarkable record of ... http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/13/fear-and-smear-chris-murphy-96-update/ Click below for full image: http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/12/1988-yearbook-page-212/ I hope that they are writing articles like this about me in 50 years. Here are some vital statistics on Phil Cole. He stands 5-foot-6-inches, weighs about 150 pounds, and has been canoeing for 35 years. He can paddle at a pace of 60 strokes per minute, and he competes in ... http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/12/i-can-beat-you/ Aidan points out this New York Times article on girls and sports and injuries. There is no direct Eph connection, but Aidan was reminded of this EphBlog entry on Eph soccer player Ana Sani's '08 rehabilitation from a similar injury. Friend-of-various-Ephs Laura thought that the article was "crappy" because it ... http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/12/girls-and-sports/ In this episode, I speak with Jody Abzug and learn about life as an Art History major, the irony of her rugby nickname, and the incidental parts of Williams life that she misses. http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/12/eph-interviews-podcast-class-of-1988-jody-abzug/ Click below for full image: http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/12/1988-yearbook-page-211/ Was it only three years ago that posts like this used to appear on WSO? If you want to get charged for after-party damages, get disgusted with vomit in bathrooms, and being left with no place to take shower or at least brush your teeth, then Spencer house is probably the ... http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/11/cluster-housing-a-success/ Click below for full image: http://www.ephblog.com/2008/05/11/1988-yearbook-page-210/