Lake Forest College Research Articles

Pauline Saliga (1953–2022)

Pauline Saliga (1953–2022)

Using ENCODE Project Data As Part Of A Course‐Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE): Student Perspectives And Feedback

At Lake Forest College, molecular biology is taught as a third‐year upper‐level course. A central learning objective of this course is for students to independently formulate and test hypotheses by evaluating genome‐wide epigenetic data. In this course‐based undergraduate research project, students (1) select high confidence differentially methylated regions (DMRs) present in colorectal cancer samples (2) justify their selection based on literature review (3) predict the effect of DMR methylation on gene expression based on ENCODE project data, (4) predict if the DMR is methylated in HCT‐116 colorectal cancer cells, and (5) test if the DMR is methylated in HCT‐116s and demethylated following decitabine treatment. I will present anonymous survey data of students’ perceptions of the scientific method and their perceptions of themselves as researchers as they engage in research based on big data projects.Support or Funding InformationResearch equipment funded by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation Scientific Equipment Grant. Other funding provided by Lake Forest College Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program.

Decitabine Treatment Demethylates Vast Majority of High‐Confidence Differentially Methylated Regions in HCT‐116 Colorectal Cancer Cells

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common, and often incurable, form of cancer. Gene silencing by CpG island hypermethylation often plays a role in CRC progression. Certain regions of the genome, called high confidence differentially‐methylated regions (DMRs), are consistently hypermethylated across numerous patient samples. In this study, we used bisulfite PCR sequencing to investigate methylation levels at DMRs in the promoter region of CDKN2A, DKK3, EN1, MiR34b, SPG20, and TLX1 in HCT‐116 CRC cells. We observed that for all DMRs except CDKN2A, the demethylating agent decitabine significantly reduced CpG methylation. Using ENCODE project data, we observed that transcriptional activator binding inversely correlates with DNA methylation at all of these sites across diverse cancers and cell types. Our data increase resolution of the methylation status at the above DMRs, show the reversibility of methylation at these sites by decitabine, and the likely role of hypermethylation at these sites in gene silencing. In the future, we plan to test if DMR any specific gene silencing protects HCT116 cells.Support or Funding InformationThis work is supported by the Lake Forest College biochemistry and molecular biology program.This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.

Rhetoric, Humor, and the Public Sphere: From Socrates to Stephen Colbert

Rhetoric, Humor, and the Public Sphere: From Socrates to Stephen Colbert

Insight into Parkinson's Disease from Yeasts: Evidence for sumoylation as a protective factor against alpha‐synuclein toxicity

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder linked to the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the midbrain. A key pathological marker of PD is the presence of Lewy bodies, which are mainly composed of misfolded alpha‐synuclein protein. Alpha‐synuclein is a highly post‐translationally modified protein. While the contributions of phosphorylation and nitration of alpha‐synuclein as aids to PD pathology is well studied, less is known about sumoylation, which is proposed to be neuroprotective based on limited studies. The majority of sumoylation takes place on the lysine‐96 and lysine‐102 sites of alpha‐synuclein and it increases the protein's solubility. The goal of this research was to better understand the role of sumoylation in regulating alpha‐synuclein toxicity, and we performed four studies towards it. First, we evaluated the effects of blocking sumoylation on alpha‐synuclein in budding and fission yeast models for PD and found that alpha‐synuclein becomes more aggregated and toxic and localized less at the plasma membrane. Second, we evaluated the effects altering sumoylation pathways by using yeast strains with reduced (ulp1ts) or excessive sumoylation (smt3ts), and found that alpha‐synuclein aggregates more with reduced sumoylation, but becomes less toxic with increased sumoylation. Third, we asked how altering phosphorylation of alpha‐synuclein would alter sumoylation's protective role and found that blocking phosphorylation reduced alpha‐synuclein toxicity. Finally, we evaluated whether blocking sumoylation on familial PD mutant versions of alpha‐synuclein would exacerbate its toxicity; preliminary studies suggest that exacerbation for some, but not all mutants. In the future, we will conduct further studies to understand how sumoylation affects other variants and modifications of alpha‐synuclein.Support or Funding InformationNeuroscience Program and Biology Department, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL 60045

Contributors

Previous article FreeContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreN’DRI THÉRÈSE ASSIÉ-LUMUMBA ([email protected]) is a professor at Cornell University in the Africana Studies and Research Center, president of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), immediate past president of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), currently distinguished visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg, extraordinary professor at Stellenbosch University, and Carnegie Diasporan Fellow at the University of Ghana.BRAD BARHAM’s ([email protected]) research program centers on themes related to Wisconsin agriculture, technology adoption and innovation, and environment and development issues, especially in Latin America, related to migration, education, and job opportunities for rural youth and bargaining power of women and human capital outcomes of their children.MATTHEW THOMAS BECKER ([email protected]) is a visiting assistant professor of political science at the University of Tampa. He earned his PhD in political science at the University of Mississippi, where he taught for 2 years. He was a 2012–13 David L. Boren Fellow to Bosnia and Herzegovina.NANCY BREKKE ([email protected]) is associate professor of psychology at Lake Forest College. Her primary interests lie in the fields of social cognition; stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination; and psychology, law, and public policy. She is currently studying the psychophysiology of prejudice, biases against people with nonnative accents, and racial/ethnic categorization processes.SARAH DRYDEN-PETERSON ([email protected]) leads a research program that focuses on the connections between education and community development, specifically the role that education plays in building peaceful and participatory societies. Her work is situated in conflict and postconflict settings and with Diaspora communities. She is concerned with the interplay between local experiences of children, families, and teachers and the development and implementation of national and international policy. She is on the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.SETH GITTER ([email protected]) is associate professor of economics at Towson University. He holds a PhD from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research focuses on a variety of issues in Latin American countries including early childhood development, cash transfers, schooling, migration, and fair-trade coffee.R. SERGIO GUGLIELMI ([email protected]) is professor of psychology at Lake Forest College. His research interests focus on the physiological correlates of emotional states (e.g., psychophysiology of prejudice; stress, burnout, and health). More recently, he has applied structural equation modeling procedures to the examination of important educational issues (e.g., effectiveness of bilingual education, understanding the US achievement gap).BETHANY MULIMBI ([email protected]) is a doctoral student in the Culture, Communities, and Education concentration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on the interplay between how formal education systems, individual schools, and teachers address the needs of students of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, particularly in southern Africa.JENNA NOBLES ([email protected]) is an associate professor of sociology and the associate director of the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.LEON TIKLY ([email protected]) is professor in education at the University of Bristol, Graduate School of Education. He is visiting professor at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation at the University of Johannesburg and at the International Centre for Teacher Education at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.JESSA LEWIS VALENTINE ([email protected]) earned her PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research centered on the intersection of immigration and education issues appears in Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, and American Journal of Education. She is managing consultant at DVP-PRAXIS.HERMAN G. VAN DE WERFHORST ([email protected]) is professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam, and director of the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS). His comparative research focuses on educational systems in relation to inequalities, particularly educational careers, labor market outcomes, and civic engagement. Rewarded with a Vici grant, his current research project centers on educational institutional contexts and inequality of educational opportunity. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Comparative Education Review Volume 61, Number 1February 2017 Sponsored by the Comparative and International Education Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/689923 PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Love as Communication: A Short, Redacted Argument from the Phaedrus

Love as Communication:A Short, Redacted Argument from the Phaedrus Rui Zhu οὕτω τὸ τοῦ κάλλους ῥεῦμα πάλιν εἰς τὸν καλὸν διὰ τῶν ὀμμάτων ἰόν1 —Plato, Phaedrus, 255c If truth is reapedfrom the garden of love, sown by loversin earnest toil,waiting patiently for eight monthsfor the seeds to ripen and growinto flowers and fruits, Talk to me then, my love. For our conversation is drawing water (I from you)and pouring water (I upon you);the cold inspiration will wet the roots of featherspacked dormant on our sides,and will make them sprout wings like green shoots of lilac.We will flap our new wings,and ride our joys and sorrows,always mixed in one,brushing the white clouds and silver starsin the sky of day and night. [End Page 230] Writings, the image of a mind,no longer present,gift you with a loom that does not weavethe rivulets of minutes into the currents of hours,but unweaves youthinto a rich pall of velourgorgeously spread. Poetry pursues a woman for four long years,having wasted her grains like the fat geese,haunting the parapet of her dream,until one daythe sweet hero of conversation came homeand slew them all. But don't fret over shades of a palinode,Thrice removed from truth.They don't give and need help from a mother,figured in dark from the dark,simply shadow living speech. O, pure water comes from the running brook of our love,of our small talk under the city wallor the tall plane tree, words rising like the Castalian Springwashing our souls clean—two supplicants of truth, not fromHomer,or his duplicitous gods and heroesthat need no recognition,but from you and our living wordsfluttering like a capein the ancient Athenian breeze. Rui Zhu Lake Forest College Footnotes 1. So the river of beauty flows back through the eyes into the beauty (my translation). [End Page 231] Copyright © 2017 Johns Hopkins University Press

Intellectual preparedness: Dr. Hu Shih, Lake Forest College, and Chinese diplomacy during World War II

The summer of 1941 was a critical juncture in WWII history. As the war intensified and threatened the security of the United States, the American people were sharply divided into two opposing political camps, one sympathetic to interventionism and the other in favor of isolationism. Frightened by the recent memory of WWI and the reality of a worldwide economic depression, many Americans believed that their country should separate itself from troubling events in the world, thereby refuting President Roosevelt’s call for America to intervene against Hitler’s aggression in Europe and Japan’s atrocities in Asia. Against this historical background, Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese ambassador to the United States, came to Lake Forest in Illinois, the center of the isolationist movement, in the summer of 1941 to deliver a speech at Lake Forest College’s Sixty-Third Annual Commencement. This article uses various archives to reveal an untold story about Dr. Hu’s speech-diplomacy during his ambassadorial career. Tied to this event was a drama conveyed via multiple layers of historical accounts and contextualized by a series of political discourses ranging from the rise of isolationism in America to China’s use of soft-power diplomacy in the international arena, in which Dr. Hu played a significant role.

Translations of Poems from "Morpo"

About the Translator Jose Perez Beduya earned his BFA in Painting from the University of the Philippines and his MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University. His work has appeared in High Chair, Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Ploughshares, Fence, Toad Suck Review, Lana Turner, and Boston Review. He has received the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize, a Lannan Foundation Scholarship at the Santa Fe Art Institute, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. His first book Throng was published by Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books in 2012. He lives in Ithaca, New York.

Music Teacher Education at a Liberal Arts College

In 2012, a committee at a small Midwestern liberal arts college, Lake Forest College, embarked on a journey to create a music education teacher licensure major. Drawing from narrative inquiry, this article reports how the dean of faculty, education department chair, music department chair, and assistant professor of music/music education coordinator collaborated on a curricular creation. Findings from this process included (a) the created music education major, (b) each participant’s rationale for wanting the new music education major, (c) valued components of the music education major, and (d) unique elements of a music education major at a liberal arts college. Implications from this experience could be valuable for music education programs at small liberal arts colleges, those involved in university/school partnerships such as professional development schools, and those looking to advocate for their music education programs across campus.

Wrigley Regulars: Finding Community in the Bleachers (review)

Reviewed by: Wrigley Regulars: Finding Community in the Bleachers P. J. Dragseth Holly Swyers . Wrigley Regulars: Finding Community in the Bleachers. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. 200 pp. Paper, $25.00. Readers who pick up this book expecting to read about Chicago Cubs baseball are in for a surprise. Swyers, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lake Forest College, suggests that the longtime fans in the centerfield bleachers at Wrigley Field are not a random group, but a structured community. As a member of the inner sanctum, she put together a self-designed informal study which included personal experiences and interviews with some of those fans dubbed "Wrigley Regulars." The result is a cleverly woven fabric of Chicago Cubs baseball and Wrigley Field memories that are the ties that bind this unique community. She begins by stating "too much scholarly ink has been spilled over the question of community" (x), followed by her working definition that touches on such facets as proximity, shared mutual benefits, established rules of behavior, division of labor, biological-emotional-generational connections of members, a common enemy, and, in this case, what Emile Durkheim called a "collective effervescence." To avoid confusion with the die-hard Cubs fans, she quickly points out that die-hard Cubs fans don't require a community [End Page 161] to validate a love of the Cubs, but "loving the Cubs can become the baseline for community." The Wrigley Regulars don't "require" community, either, yet they have inadvertently created one. In their case, proximity is perhaps the second most significant factor behind love of the team because the bleachers are physically isolated from the rest of the park and even have a separate entrance. Prior to the 1980s, when bleacher tickets were only sold on the day of the game, fans got acquainted as they stood in long lines along the outfield wall waiting for Gate N to open, and perhaps sat together at the games. Over time, a division of labor became apparent due to pressures associated with limited seating on strips of benches without defined seats, as early arrivals had the "job" of spreading towels along the benches to save space for friends. They even established a seat of honor for the oldest member of the community in what used to be Section 311, playfully and affectionately referred to as "the Death Seat." Eventually a sort of Wrigley curse about the powers of that seat appeared. The "common enemy" at Wrigley games seems obvious: the visiting team. But, believe it or not, that's not always the case. Swyers points to what she terms "the Lee Elia rant" of April 29, 1983. The team had only won five of its first nineteen games, and the bleacher fans erupted with particularly noisy and tough jeers to the players. It's been said, but not proven, that beer was dumped on an outfielder during the game. Afterward Manager Lee Elia's postgame press conference was a brutal, foul-mouthed attack on fans in the bleachers, accusing them of being a bunch of unemployed bums, among other things, and saying that "eighty-five percent of the f-- world is working. The other fifteen percent come out here" (16). It was all published in the Chicago Tribune and replayed on WGN and other TV news broadcasts with the assumed intent of whipping the bleacher fans into shape. But it more or less backfired and "galvanized bleacher fans into a more united body and gave them a recognizable identity." (p. 16) Soon bleacher fans appeared sporting buttons that read "Working Cubs Fan." The group has social taboos, such as not discussing jobs or professions. However, when one member accidentally revealed his job, their "pencils to Peru" campaign began in support of his endeavors. More seriously, when a longtime member violated a taboo regarding trustworthiness, he was subsequently ostracized. Of course, he returned to the bleachers, but he was no longer accepted by the community. Wrigley nostalgia and discussions of benchmark events is a relished steady diet of the regulars. All members in good standing must be well versed about them: "The Ryne Sandberg Game" against the Phillies on June 23, 1984; Kerry Wood...

Ragland And Woestman, Eds., The Teaching American History Project

This book delivers the first scholarly examination of the Teaching American History Project, which awards grants to colleges, universities, local educational agencies, schools, libraries, museums, and nonprofit historical and humanities institutions, to improve instruction in American history. The editors are Rachel Ragland, assistant professor of education at Lake Forest College near Chicago, and Kelly Woestman, a former teacher who now is professor of history and history education director at Pittsburg State University in Kansas. The editors have organized the book well. Its contents include a foreword by leading education researcher Sam Wineburg, a preface by the editors, and four sections: Emerging Practices for Historians: Introduction, Emerging Practices for Classroom Teachers: Introduction, Emerging Practices for Professional Development: Introduction, and Emerging Practices in the Larger Perspective: Introduction. The editors frame each section with an introduction that articulates the themes and overviews the chapters in each section.

Eukaryon: An undergraduate peer‐reviewed and managed life sciences scholarship journal

Undergraduate research and inquiry‐based pedagogy are increasingly crucial components to college education in the U.S. Providing undergraduates the opportunity to publish their scholarship is a tool to increase scientific literacy and motivation for scientific careers. Spurred by an NSF grant in 2004, the Lake Forest College Biology Department developed a peer‐reviewed undergraduate research journal of life science scholarship entitled Eukaryon (http://www.lakeforest.edu/eukaryon). In each annual issue, Eukaryon publishes scholarship in the life sciences that students produced within undergraduate classrooms and faculty labs. We detail three aspects of the journal's development: 1) how it is governed, published, and financed by undergraduates; 2) how it establishes content and format; and 3) specific strategies that maintain selectivity, encourage inquiry‐based curriculum, and support a community of student scholars. Next, we discuss a survey‐based assessment of our journal's impact on curriculum and student community. We found that Eukaryon contributes significantly to the preparedness for future careers of its board members. Finally, we report an analysis of our online readership using data from Google Analytics. Future goals include strengthening community familiarity with Eukaryon and improving communication with faculty on submission and review progress.(Supported by NSF‐CCLI)

America Through European Eyes: British and French Reflections on the New World from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (review)

Reviewed by: America Through European Eyes: British and French Reflections on the New World from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Benjamin Goluboff America Through European Eyes: British and French Reflections on the New World from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Edited by Aurelian Craitu and Jeffrey Isaac. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2009. The introduction, conclusion and some very insistent dust-jacket copy for this book—a volume of essays written chiefly by political scientists—announce its relevancy to our moment. The development of European views of the United States, the editors remind us, has special meaning when Bush's War on Terror has discredited the U.S. for many Europeans, and when American global hegemony is under debate and under attack. This is certainly true, but it is also true that these essays on the plural meanings of America for the European imagination are sufficiently interesting in their own right. The volume includes a thoughtful overview essay by Alan Levine that surveys and theorizes the idea of America for European political thinkers from Contact to 9/11. The essays that follow cover a range of texts from Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes to G.K. Chesterton's 1922 What I Saw in America; many of the essays intersect in the 1830s America that Tocqueville visited. In choosing their materials our editors have "sought to underscore the complexity of European experiences of America as well as the complexity of European reflections on America" (5). Taken together, these materials constitute "an illuminating dialogue about American exceptionalism." (7) Several thematic preoccupations persist in French and British commentary on the United States; these unify the volume and illustrate that the cult of American exceptionalism has long had its European votaries. The essays demonstrate how, as Levine puts it, "America has since its discovery served as an imagined alternative, for good or ill, to the existing reality of Europe" (38). Indeed many of the European writers who have concerned [End Page 117] themselves with this imagined alternative did so without the benefit of actually traveling to North America. The ironies associated with an imaginary America present themselves throughout the volume; they are developed most provocatively in Costica Bradatan's "Notes on Bishop Berkeley's New World." Consistently, too, European commentators have talked about America as if it were an historical condition, not just a place. From Berkeley's Bermudas as the "fifth act" of empire's drama to the "golden age" of liberty and toleration that Voltaire imagined was underway in William Penn's woods, America is imagined as a when as well as a where. Americanists in many fields may value these essays most for what they have to teach us about Alexis de Tocqueville. Christine Dunn Henderson frames and explores Tocqueville's relative silence on American slavery through a discussion of Gustave de Beaumont, Tocqueville's traveling companion, whose Marie; or, Slavery in the United States was published in 1835 with Democracy in America. Tocqueville is also collated with Victor Jacquemont, whose views of American social leveling anticipate his own, and with Victor Schoelcher, whose call for immediate abolition contrasts with Tocqueville's gradualism. With errors in grammar, usage, and typography, the volume is less tidily presented than most academic books this reader sees. America Through European Eyes is nevertheless a distinguished and illuminating collection. Benjamin Goluboff Lake Forest College Copyright © 2010 Mid-America American Studies Association

America's Early Experience with the Muslim Faith: The Nation of Islam

Middle East PolicyVolume 15, Issue 3 p. 129-138 America's Early Experience with the Muslim Faith: The Nation of Islam Ghada Hashem Talhami, Ghada Hashem Talhami D.K. Pearsons Professor of Politics, emerita, at Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL. This paper was presented at the ninth conference of the International Center for Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies, University of Victoria, March 28, 2008.Search for more papers by this author Ghada Hashem Talhami, Ghada Hashem Talhami D.K. Pearsons Professor of Politics, emerita, at Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL. This paper was presented at the ninth conference of the International Center for Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies, University of Victoria, March 28, 2008.Search for more papers by this author First published: 05 September 2008 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4967.2008.00364.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Volume15, Issue3Fall 2008Pages 129-138 RelatedInformation

Calcium and regulated volume decrease in Atlantic salmon and American alligator erythrocytes

A cell’s ability to regulate its volume is a property that has been conserved in a diversity of cell types; however, the mechanisms by which this compensation operates are not clearly understood. The goal of this study was to elucidate the role of Ca2+ in regulated volume recovery (RVD) in Atlantic salmon and American alligator erythrocytes. Mean cell volume was determined by electronic sizing using a Coulter counter, and changes in intracellular Ca2+ concentration were visualized using fluorescence microscopy and fluo-4. Hypotonic shock led to an increase in cytosolic Ca2+ in salmon. This increase resulted from Ca2+ influx because it was not observed in cells bathed in a hypotonic, low Ca2+ medium (10 nM, buffered with EGTA). Furthermore, cells of both species exposed to a low Ca2+ environment failed to recover from cell swelling, indicating that extracellular Ca2+ was needed for RVD. Interestingly, the Ca2+ ionophore A23187 inhibited RVD in Na-Ringer and when Na+ was replaced with NMDG+, indicating this inhibition was not due to Na+ influx. Further, although the Ca2+ channel antagonists gadolinium and lanthanum inhibited RVD in alligator, they enhanced volume recovery in salmon. Finally, pilot studies with hexokinase and ONO-RS-082 suggest that RVD in alligator depends on the activation of P2 receptors and the formation of arachidonic acid, respectively. In conclusion, our results indicate extracellular Ca2+ is necessary for RVD in both species. Future studies will examine how Ca2+ elicits volume recovery. (Supported by Lake Forest College.)

Carlos Castaneda and His Followers: Finding Life's Meaning in Your Local Bookstore

The Journal of Popular CultureVolume 39, Issue 4 p. 576-598 Carlos Castaneda and His Followers: Finding Life's Meaning in Your Local Bookstore DAVID L. KRANTZ, DAVID L. KRANTZ Northwestern UniversitySearch for more papers by this author DAVID L. KRANTZ, DAVID L. KRANTZ Northwestern UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 03 July 2006 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2006.00280.xCitations: 1 David L. Krantz is professor of psychology at Lake Forest College. Having obtained his PhD in experimental psychology at Northwestern University, he spent a postdoctoral year in history and philosophy of science with Thomas Kuhn. Subsequently president of APA's History of Psychology Division and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science, his research has examined various psychological issues from historical, philosophical, and social perspectives. The central concern of many of these studies is how people find meaning in their lives whether in work, spiritual engagement, or through self-help sources. He has taught and/or researched in Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Belgium, and Holland. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume39, Issue4August 2006Pages 576-598 RelatedInformation

Narrative Terrorism

Schneiderman continuedfrom previous page can't help but be taken in, not by the relative reality of the events, but by the seamlessness of the morethan -obvious threads. Olsen's novel announces its hyper-constructedness on every page, in every crevice, and yet, well, we've seen this movie so many times before that there is a certain satisfaction in seeing it again in this highly-stylized fashion: springs and wires flail prominently away from an inside that is no more real than the most twentieth-century moments of Proust. Marcel's voyage may be a story with no punchline (only more story), but Olsen's set-up is a punch line with no joke—scaled to an über-mall that feeds on the propagation ofpunch lines. At the end of several thousand pages, Marcel, for all his troubles, may quarry a small measure of recaptured time, but Olsen (with his final line: "[t]he film begins"), graces us with a project even more ambitious: a series of (im)precisely timed captures. Davis Schneiderman, chair ofAmerican Studies at Lake Forest College, is a writer and critic. He is coeditor ofRetaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto); and his project, Multifesto: A Henri d'Mescan Reader, is forthcomingfrom Spuyten Duyvil. Narrative Terrorism Jeffrey R. Di Leo Terror-Dot-Gov Harold Jaffe Raw Dog Screaming Press http://www.rawdogscreaming.com 154 pages; paper, $13.95 The Literary Terrorism of Harold Jaffe: The Journal of Experimental Fiction, no. 29 Edited by Eckhard Gerdes iUniverse http://www.iUniverse.com 169 pages; paper, $12.95 Terror-Dot-Gov is a tour-de-force rumination on the psychical damage and physical carnage resulting from present day terrorism and war. In his distinctively sparse and cool prose, Harold Jaffe takes on the contemporary cultural and political climate with narrative bravado and ideological courage. At heart, Terror-Dot-Gov is a work of political activism and deep humanity with a sense of outrage at the state of national and international affairs. Terror-Dot-Gov is not a simple straightforward assault on the Bush administration, Western culture and policy, or the nationalistic and xenophobic proclivities oftheAmerican public, but rather a complex mosaic of poignant vignettes that together amount to devastating critique. Jaffe criticizes government policies and the responses of the American public by highlighting the more local effects of them, and only suggests their global flows. His docufiction "Terrorchildren" is a good example ofJaffe's critical technique. "Terrorchildren" begins by recounting Heather Gosling's idea of using weeds as weapons in the war against terror. In Houseplants against Terror, Gosling showsAmericans how to use plants to signal the presence ofbiological and chemical agents in the environment . Writes Jaffe, "IfDr. Gosling's plan works, the technology could be used to turn forest oaks, backyard shrubs, pond algae, even festooned Christmas trees into sentinels in the war against terrorism." Then comes the punchline: "But ifherplant signals anthrax, smallpox or plague, most non-moronic Americans would know they were exposed before displaying symptoms." Jaffe continues, "Which would allow them ample time to ingest potent FDA-approved antibiotics and duct-tape themselves into their condos with their significant other, low-carb snacks, bible, cellphone, TV and Internet." Jaffe satirizes government -instigated paranoia, but also cuts into the culture of fear and consumption. Rather than assailing the Department ofDefense, the Department ofHomeland Security, and the early-warning alert system directly, Jaffe approaches his target through an absurd "human interest" story. And Jaffe is a master of manipulating the inane or absurd story to potent political effect. In "White Terror," Jaffe uses absurd news items to satirize the culture of violence and indiscriminate retaliation. Two interlocutors discuss who should be bombed in response to a list of unusual crimes or tragedies. Following an absurd story about South African beauty queens mauled in Botswana by a hippopotamus , characters respond to the question "Who would you bomb?": Can we bomb the colonizing British retroactively? Regrets, that isn'tpermitted. I'd bomb blonde beauty contest winners who live and thrive in Africa with hyphenated surnames. Me? I'd bomb the safari tourist trade. From an inane if vivid beauty-meets-beast story, Jaffe...

Obituary: Robert A. Colby

Robert A. Colby, a member of the Senior Advisory Council of Victorian Periodicals Review, died on October 3, 2004 at the age of 84. His passing is an immense loss to RSVP and to VPR, to whose work he had contrib uted substantially for many years. Bob Colby was one of the most distinguished Victorian scholars of his generation. He was trained initially at the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. in 1949. His dissertation was on Spectator as a Literary Journal under the Editorship of Richard Holt and from this subject flowed his lifelong interests in the critical reception of writers and the social and cultural contexts of fiction and journalism. After teaching literature at Lake Forest College and Hunter College he moved to Queens College in 1953, where he became a member of the Library Science Department. He spent the bulk of his professional career at Queens College, CUNY, and retired there as Professor of Library Sci ence in 1986. Bob's background in both literature and library science enabled him to move easily across disciplines. He helped to develop collections in English, American, and European Literature, as well as in Theatre His tory and Communications. He also became a skilled bibliographer and produced a number of publications and exhibitions relating to holdings of the Divisions of Arts and Humanities in Queens College. Yet, Bob's chief interest lay in Victorian cultural history, and early on he began to publish articles and reviews on eminent figures such as Richard Holt Hutton, Charlotte Bront?, and George Eliot. In 1966, he and his wife, Vi?eta, an outstanding Victorian scholar and a member of the English Department at Queens College, collaborated in the writing of The Equivocal Virtue: Mrs. Oliphant and the Victorian Literary Market Place. This important study of Margaret Oliphant remains a definitive work on this nineteenth

Projectile Motion with Resistance and the Lambert W Function

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsEdward W. PackelEd Packel (packel@lakeforest.edu) did his undergraduate work at Amherst College and received a Ph.D. in functional analysis from M.I.T. in 1967. Since 1971 he has taught at Lake Forest College, where he served as department chair from 1986 to 1996. His research interests have oscillated among functional analysis, game theory, social choice theory, information-based complexity, and the use of technology (Mathematica) in teaching. His recreational enthusiasms have somehow gravitated towards sports where low numbers are good—namely, competitive distance running and golf.David S. YuenDavid Yuen (yuen@lakeforest.edu) did his undergraduate work at the University of Chicago and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1988. Since 1995 he has taught at Lake Forest College, where he is now department chair. His current mathematical research is in Siegel modular forms. He is co-author (with Craig Knuckles) of the book Web Applications, written as a result of his computer science interests. As a youngster, he was on the world-champion 1981 USA Math Olympiad Team.