Media bytes

In “Colleges Make Way for Internships,” The New York Times described how a paid internship turned things around for theater major Nicholas Roybal ’07. “I have contacts now that I didn’t have before,” he said. “These are people with whom, over winter break, I can send an e-mail or call and say, ‘Can I work for you?’” The article also appeared July 21 in the International Herald Tribune. CC’s internships also were mentioned in an Aug. 2 MTV.com article.

An Associated Press story, “Sleep Away Camps Losing Appeal,” included comment by Abigail Van Slyck, Dayton Associate Professor of Art History and Architecture and author of A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and Shaping of American Youth, 1890–1960. “For many, particularly private camps, the pattern had been to hand it over to the next generation. But the next generation is not always interested in taking on that kind of work.” The July 31 story was published in newspapers throughout the United States and in Canada and the United Kingdom. Also, Slate.com posted an excerpt from Van Slyck’s book in its July 20 “Summer Camp” issue.

The July 30 issue of The Republican (Springfield, Mass.) featured Robert Cole ’78, a texture artist who worked on the computer-animated Paramount picture “Barnyard,” which opened Friday, Aug. 4. “It’s gratifying to do the equivalent of realistic-type painting using advanced computer technology…The best background is studying classical art plus drawing and painting. Color theory, art history, drawing skills—there’s a lot that goes into it,” he said.

Psychology Professor Stuart Vyse was quoted in the Aug. 3 edition of Science & Theology News that focuses on how people become superstitious thinkers. “[Superstition] happens through a process of accidental conditioning,” he said. “It also is maintained once it a rises through a number of well-known cognitive biases.”

In an Aug. 11 Associated Press story on the demise of New England salt marshes that appeared in the Boston Herald Scott Warren, the Jean C. Tempel ’65 Professor of Botany, is quoted as saying, “salt marshes (are) structured by the plants. Take away the plants, you don’t have it.”

An article in the July 31 issue of the Hartford Courant on colleges that use campus-grown food in their dining halls mentioned CC’s efforts in that respect. A day earlier, the Courant published an article on carbon offsetting, noting that CC is a “leader…among universities and colleges in the U.S.” It quoted Amy Cabaniss, environmental coordinator, as saying that “there are a multitude of things that an institution can do to minimize their ecological footprints.”

The Austin (Texas) Statesman published an article July 30 on the nation’s “hidden past” of racial violence which, it said, has been addressed primarily through the courts. Mab Segrest, Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, commented:  “There’s a whole generation of district attorneys and attorneys general in a lot of southern states who have developed a commitment to try to bring some of those people to justice.”

The cover of the July/August issue of Trusteeship features “Tiger in the Wind,” a painting by Chen Hai-shao from the Chu-Griffis Collection of Asian Art.