Media Bytes

The Feb. 8 edition of Rolling Stone magazine featured an article about the musical group Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, made up of alumni Alec Ounsworth '00, Tyler Sargent '00, Lee Sargent '00, Sean Greenhalgh '01 and Robbie Guertin '02, and the release of their second album. The article described how lead singer Ounsworth and Lee Sargent, the guitarist-keyboardist, were freshman-year roommates at Connecticut College.

A Jan. 23 article in The Wall Street Journal about the rise in job offers for college seniors quoted Jack Ticker, director of recruiting for the Office of Career Enhancing Life Skills (CELS), and Christopher Bothur '07. "We now again have the nice problem of having to help some of our students choose among multiple job offers," Tinker said.

Roger Brooks, Elie Wiesel Professor of Judaic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, published an opinion piece, "Defining Academic Vision," in Inside Higher Ed on Jan. 22. Brooks wrote, "So what's my academic vision? I see the classic encounter of liberal education: expert faculty put their own ideas into dynamic tension with those of their colleagues, and then eagerly begin to engage students."

A Feb. 6 article in the Baltimore Sun profiled alumna and college trustee Linda Lear '62 and her biographical work on Rachel Carson and Beatrix Potter. Laurie Deredita, director of special collections and archives, was quoted as saying that Lear's research for both biographies was "extremely meticulous, thorough and exhaustive." The article also points out that Lear's newly released Potter biography, Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature, "is already in its fourth printing, having been mentioned warmly in such august publications as The New Yorker magazine."

On Jan. 28, The Boston Globe printed an article about Brian Warner '09, a defenseman on the Camel hockey team. "Brian runs our first power play," Coach Jim Ward said about Warner. "He has matured into a very solid player."

An article about the role of college presidents in the January issue of Currents magazine, published by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), quoted President Lee Higdon. "What a president does has evolved and changed because the world has changed," Higdon said. "It puts a premium on communicating your [institution's] unique mission and how you fit into the higher education landscape."

David Canton, Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Assistant Professor of History, was quoted in a Feb. 4 article in The Hartford Courant about the role of race and racial labels in today's society. Canton said that racially related problems cannot be addressed unless race is acknowledged. "First, we have to admit that [racially related problems] still exist and that we live in a society with white privilege," he said.

On Jan. 24, Jefferson Singer, professor of psychology, was featured on a BBC Radio 4 segment, "The Memory Experience: A Journey of Self Discovery." The program detailed the results of a memory survey, which included questions about "self-defining memories," a term coined by Singer. "They're memories about relationships, about the moment you met someone that became important in your life, a future lover or wife," Singer said. "But they're also about relationship break ups ... the key factor is that they're intense, they're emotional."

Dorothy James, professor of government, was interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio Jan. 24 about President George W. Bush's "State of the Union" address. "He made one of the best speeches he's ever made," James said. "It was fluent and certainly very focused. Whether it convinces anyone one way or another is something else."