Reed College Research Articles

An Interview with Professor Kenneth Raymond on Supramolecular Chemistry: Symmetry Based Cluster Formation

A n I nterview with P rofessor K enneth R aymond on S upramolecular C hemistry : S ymmetry B ased C luster F ormation B S J Manraj Gill, Yana Petri, Tiffany Nguyen, Sabrina Berger Dr. Kenneth Raymond is a Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. Professor Raymond has been interested in a variety of topics in bioinorganic chemistry and coordination chemistry. In this interview, we focus on one of his specialties, the assembly of highly symmetric supramolecular clusters. We discuss not only the role of symmetry in the Figure #1. Dr. Kenneth formation of such molecular Raymond, Chancellor’s Professor of Chemistry structures but also the application of these clusters in catalytic chemistry. Berkeley Scientific Journal: How did you get involved in research in chemistry? Kenneth Raymond: I liked chemistry since I was 12 years old. I was 12 years old when I got my first chemistry set. My mother thought I was too young when I wanted it two years earlier. In those days, real chemicals came in those chemistry sets! In high school, I had a really good chemistry teacher who also taught physics. He let me have free run of the lab for making standard solutions. Aside from almost killing myself a couple of times, that was a really good experience! Also, it got me into Reed College, which turned my life around. In my first two years of high school, I had a math teacher that was sort of egg shaped and wore these purple dresses. She would be up next to the chalkboard and would get this perfect white ring around her. And she looked just like an Easter egg. She thought I was rude and I’m sure that’s true. She gave me bad grades for behavior but all of the people I was tutoring in the class were getting A’s. So, by my reckoning at the time, I thought I was winning this battle. In my junior year, I decided I didn’t want to be a juvenile delinquent; I wanted to be an intellectual. And that turned out to be more productive. BSJ: And was it at Reed that you began focusing on chemistry? KR: I started doing undergraduate research at Reed after my freshman year. And Reed had this undergraduate thesis. It’s up there on the shelf but I won’t show it to you, it’s too embarrassing. An undergraduate research thesis was great preparation for the PhD. The PhD was almost easy by comparison. My best friend at Northwestern Graduate School and I were probably the two best-prepared students. He was from Harvard; I was from Reed. So I was in a hurry; I went straight from graduate school to my job here. I have never applied for a job in my life! BSJ: Really? KR: It was a different world. My PhD supervisor was a very well known inorganic chemist at Northwestern. He pulled me into his office at the end of my second year and said, “Well Ken, things are going fast for you this year. What do you want to do in the future? Not industry right?” I said, “I don’t think so.” “Not the national labs?” “No.” “So you want to be an academic?” “Yeah, what do I do?” “Don’t worry I’ll take care of it.” Next thing you know, I get a phone call from Caltech, Berkeley, and Riverside. So I went off to give talks. Harry Gray, who just turned 80, introduced me at my interview at Caltech and I was so nervous—I had just turned 25. I got up and said, “It is very nice to be here at MIT.” True story! He thought it was a joke and everybody laughed. Things got easier after that and I got the job of my dreams and I kept it. Very dull job history; I’ve been here my whole career! Figure #2. The molecular structure of ferritin 35 • B erkeley S cientific J ournal • S ymmetry • F all 2015 • V olume 20 • I ssue 1

How can we best think about an emerging technology?

AbstractHow should we think about synthetic biology—about the potential benefits and risks of these applications as well as the very idea of designed, extensively genetically modi­fied organisms? The lead article in this report sets out our thinking, but the article is rounded out with nine commentaries that sometimes expand on and sometimes argue with our perspective. Jonathan Wolff, a philosopher at the University College of London and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and Mark Bedau, a philosopher at Reed College and a participant in several projects aimed at de­veloping artificial cells, discuss the potential consequences of synthetic biology and suggest some reasons for a precau­tionary approach to deliberating about the consequences. Jane Calvert, reader in science, technology, and innovation studies at the University of Edinburgh and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics working party on emerging biotechnologies, recommends, however, that deliberation about the governance of emerging technologies focus less on consequences than on aims and purposes.Gigi Gronvall, senior associate at the Center for Health Security in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and David Relman, a microbiologist and immunologist at the Stanford School of Medicine, offer contrasting per­spectives about a question we raise concerning “the eth­ics of knowledge”—the values at stake in generating and disseminating potentially dangerous information. Gaymon Bennett offers some ruminations on the questions we raise about how synthetic biology might change the human re­lationship to nature in morally significant ways. He argues, too, that we can think about the ethics of synthetic biology more effectively by getting “upstream” in another way—by sitting next to the bioengineers doing the work and study­ing their “everyday practice” rather than by paying attention only to what is thought and said about their work. Colleen Grogan, professor at the University of Chicago's School of Social Administration and an expert on democratic partici­patory processes in governance, builds on our comments about the challenge of creating a meaningful public dialog about synthetic biology. Jim Thomas, a researcher with the ETC Group, challenges our view of how the public debate about synthetic biology is trending. And Sarah Carter, a policy analyst with the J. Craig Venter Institute, puts our discussion about synthetic biology in the context of debates about other new products and technologies.

A Tribute to Arthur Warmoth, PhD

The following presents similar perspectives from two of his peers on a most unusual man: Arthur Warmoth. About Arthur Warmoth, Eleanor Criswell, emeritus psychology professor at Sonoma State University, says: Arthur Warmoth, PhD, was born July 18, 1937, in Red Bluff, California. He died April 4, 2014, in his home in Rohnert Park, California. He was married to Georgina A. Warmoth, originally from Torreon, Mexico. The couple had three children: Monica Hinson, Arthur Warmoth, and Tonantzin Warmoth. He had a deeply fulfilling family life. Art was graduated from Reed College in 1959 with a BA in Theatre Arts and Literature. While at Reed, he was a member of the Latino Democratic Club. Art was a significant contributor to the field of humanistic psychology. He studied under Abraham Maslow, James Klee, and Ulric Neisser at Brandeis University, where he earned his PhD in 1967. He joined the psychology faculty of Sonoma State University in 1969 and was named full professor in 1985. Before coming to Sonoma State University, he worked as a clinical psychologist at Mendocino State Hospital in Talmage, California. In 1986, he was visiting professor at the Universidad Autonoma de la Laguna in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico. After 41 years as professor of psychology at Sonoma State University, he became an emeritus faculty member, continuing to work on university projects. His organizational involvements included serving as an at-large board member, Division 32, Humanistic Psychology (now the Society for Humanistic Psychology), and he served as president of the Association for

Digital field scholarship and the liberal arts: results from a 2012–13 sandbox

We summarize a recent multi-institutional collaboration in digital field scholarship involving four liberal arts colleges: Davidson College, Lewis & Clark College, Muhlenberg College, and Reed College. Digital field scholarship (DFS) can be defined as scholarship in the arts and sciences for which field-based research and concepts are significant, and digital tools support data collection, analysis, and communication; DFS thus gathers together and extends a wide range of existing scholarship, offering new possibilities for appreciating the connections that define liberal education. Our collaboration occurred as a sandbox, a collective online experiment using a modified WordPress platform (including mapping and other advanced capabilities) built and supported by Lewis & Clark College, with sponsorship provided by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education. Institutions selected course-based DFS projects for fall 2012 and/or spring 2013. Projects ranged from documentary photojournalism to home energy efficiency assessment. One key feature was the use of readily available mobile devices and apps for field-based reconnaissance and data collection; another was our public digital scholarship approach, in which student participants shared the process and products of their work via public posts on the DFS website. Descriptive and factor analysis results from anonymous assessment data suggest strong participant response and likely future potential of digital field scholarship across class level and gender. When set into the context of the four institutions that supported the 2012---2013 sandbox, we see further opportunities for digital field scholarship on our and other campuses, provided that an optimal balance is struck between challenges and rewards along technical, pedagogical, and practical axes. Ultimately, digital field scholarship will be judged for its scholarship and for extending the experimental, open-ended inquiry that characterizes liberal education.

Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health by Jeanne E. Abrams (review)

Reviewed by: Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health by Jeanne E. Abrams Simon Finger Jeanne E. Abrams. Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health. New York: New York University Press, 2013. viii + 306 pp. Ill. $30.00 (978-0-8147-8919-3). In Revolutionary Medicine, Jeanne E. Abrams mines the lives and careers of several key figures from the founding era of U.S. history to find out how the experience of disease touched their lives personally and how they contributed to the science and practice of medicine. Through their individual cases, the author attempts to survey their world of health and illness more generally. Structurally, the book resembles a group biography in the style of Joseph Ellis’s Founding Brothers, rotating through chapters on George and Martha Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and John and Abigail Adams, and concluding with two chapters on Thomas Jefferson. Others, including Benjamin Rush and James and Dolley Madison, surface periodically throughout the narrative. Abrams’s sensitive renderings of the founders’ personal experiences with disease and medicine offer an unusually intimate view of an often-familiar cohort, as when she details a young George Washington struggling with malaria, or the myriad ills that beset the Adams family. Vivid vignettes often segue into more general discussions of broader issues, but the focus on the individual founders sometimes crowds out satisfying explanations of the period’s wider medical and intellectual landscape. Abrams sketches out a vague consensus built on a foundation of humoral theory, but sometimes loses the texture and nuance of important debates over contagion, nosology, and the nervous system, among other controversies. A handful of minor anachronisms creep into the text. Abrams inexplicably includes cholera among the dangers of the founders’ epidemiological world, despite the fact that all of her key figures (save the Madisons, who occupy a significant but secondary place in the text) had already died by 1832, when the disease first arrived on American shores. At times, gaps in the broader intellectual history also strain the book’s biographical threads. Franklin suffers the most, as his insights become the inspired products of an individual genius, rather than the always-gregarious Franklin’s contributions to the era’s lively and complex medical discourse. Abrams ignores the substantial literature on sensibility and the nerves, for example, when she argues that Franklin’s willingness to acknowledge a psychosomatic aspect to physical ailments testified to a “sophisticated, sensitive understanding of the human mind” that set him ahead of his contemporaries (p. 95). Pulling her subjects out of their own context, Abrams frequently tries to fit them into our own. Rather than examining Franklin’s experiments with electrical medicine in relation to the era’s other electromagnetic healers, Abrams cites modern efforts to treat Parkinson’s disease with deep brain stimulation to prove that Franklin was ahead of his time, hobbled only by technological limitations. Elsewhere, she muses on how the founders would view the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate provision. Interestingly, the sections on Abigail Adams are among the book’s strongest examples of intellectual history, demonstrating how the Massachusetts matriarch read sources like William Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, then implemented or [End Page 383] circulated them in her broader community. Freed of the obligation to be a genius, Abigail Adams illustrates more clearly than her compatriots how medical ideas spread, and how Americans received and adapted them. Abrams is much stronger discussing the political aspects of medicine than explaining the development of medical concepts. She provides a readable and suggestive account of Washington’s decision to order the inoculation of the Continental Army, and devotes careful attention to Jefferson’s efforts to encourage the spread of smallpox vaccination during his presidency. Revolutionary Medicine is strongest as biography, and Abrams tells the founders’ stories in a lucid and engaging narrative voice. She renders their pains and pleasures with sensitivity and insight. Its pages will hold few surprises for the specialist, but any reader interested in the revolutionary era or the lives of the American founders will surely learn a great deal from Abrams’s study. Simon Finger Reed College Copyright © 2014 The Johns Hopkins University...

Kairos and the Pascalian Model of Time and History

Research Article| May 01 2014 Kairos and the Pascalian Model of Time and History Ann T. Delehanty Ann T. Delehanty Reed College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 273–291. https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-105.3-4.273 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ann T. Delehanty; Kairos and the Pascalian Model of Time and History. Romanic Review 1 May 2014; 105 (3-4): 273–291. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-105.3-4.273 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsRomanic Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The Elusive State of Jefferson: A Journey Through The 51st State by Peter Laufer

 OHQ vol. 115, no. 3 Hatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards by Salo Aizenberg foreward by Michael Berenbaum University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2013. Illustrations, bibliography, index. 248 pages. $31.95 cloth. There are moments in cultural life when hate speech weds with ephemera to produce a perfect tempest in a dainty teapot: big bigotry on an itty-bitty scale. A torrential outpouring of anti-Semitic picture postcards, as authoritatively selected in this attractively produced volume, appeared first at the end of the nineteenth century. The Dreyfus Affair that roiled France and spilled over to its European neighbors stimulated the formation of explicitly anti-Semitic political parties, first riding and then building a wave of popular suspicion and resentment against Jews. One ugly result was a veritable boom in the production of the cheapest and most quickly communicable medium, the anti-Semitic picture postcard. Readers may be shocked to see the thematic variety of such postcards, ranging from the vicious to the morbid, from the grotesque to the inventive,usually produced with a humorous flair to make the bile go down. Readers may furthermore be shocked that examples range widely,including Germany,France,Great Britain,the United States,and other countries. Useful chapters are devoted to the main stereotypes and canards, from the Spa Towns of Karlsbad and Marienbad,to Nazi-era postcards and, finally, to anti-Israel postcards. The stigma of old-fashioned scholarly snootiness has been removed from cultural studies. We are now, alas, free to revel in the minor horrors of old daily hatreds.And quite a revel it was:200–300 billion postcards were sold during the so-called Golden Age of postcards, from 1895 to the end of World War I. Scholarship cannot quantify what percentage of this outpouring was anti-Semitic. But Hatemail: Anti-SemitismonPicturePostcardsmakesaconvincing case that,especially (though not exclusively ) in its heyday, the nasty little sub-genre of the anti-Semitic postcard was quantitatively prolificandqualitativelyvariegated.Mostof the visual images played on standard features of the hook-nosed, sneering, physically unattractive Jew,while their content ranged from the overtly political to the subtly cultural, from the crassly comical to the portentously theological. While the bulk of postcards reproduced in this volume were“humorous,”by the 1930s the tone turns decidedly dark. The postcards shift from a mildly noxious culture practice into a new world, an unremittingly angry world. Instead of jokes,which had been the key feature of pre-Nazi anti-Semitic postcards, readers are confronted with digestibly bite-sized (if still no less disturbingly effective) adjuncts to genocide. The joke goes dark, then shades into pitch-black altogether. Hatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards , profusely illustrated with full-size, fullcolor reproductions,is perversely entertaining in its exceedingly dark comedy, surprisingly informative in forgotten byways of once popular practices. The first volume devoted its subject, this book belongs in the collection of any library interested in Judaica cultural studies, the history of hate speech, and media studies in general. Steven M. Wasserstrom Reed College The Elusive State of Jefferson: A Journey through the 51st State by Peter Laufer Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Connecticut, and Helena, Montana, 2013. Photographs, maps, notes, index. 253 pages. $18.95 paper. Many Oregonians have some familiarity with the 1941 secession movement to create a new Reviews  Westernstate,the“Stateof Jefferson.”This“49th state”wouldincludeseveraladjacentcountiesin southwestern Oregon and northern California. Peter Laufer, University of Oregon journalism professor,recounts the story in an informal and livelyway.Hecorrectlyemphasizesthesecession movementasahighlystagedandmanagedpublicity stunt,albeit one with the sincere intent of increasing funding for road construction into the region’s mining and logging areas. Still relatively remote by the end of the Great Depression, those sparsely populated counties had long been perennially disaffected with their respective state governments for perceived slights, including inadequate funding for local infrastructure.By mid 1941,the nation’s greatly increased defense spending spurred a handful of influential local boosters to launch the Jefferson movement in places such as Yreka, California,and Port Orford,Oregon,— all well choreographed for (and by) a national news media hungry for an amusing human-interest story. Although the State of Jefferson episode remains well-known within conceptual borders ,its origins,including its perceived seriousness , have...

Hatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards by Salo Aizenberg Michael Berenbaum

 OHQ vol. 115, no. 3 Hatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards by Salo Aizenberg foreward by Michael Berenbaum University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2013. Illustrations, bibliography, index. 248 pages. $31.95 cloth. There are moments in cultural life when hate speech weds with ephemera to produce a perfect tempest in a dainty teapot: big bigotry on an itty-bitty scale. A torrential outpouring of anti-Semitic picture postcards, as authoritatively selected in this attractively produced volume, appeared first at the end of the nineteenth century. The Dreyfus Affair that roiled France and spilled over to its European neighbors stimulated the formation of explicitly anti-Semitic political parties, first riding and then building a wave of popular suspicion and resentment against Jews. One ugly result was a veritable boom in the production of the cheapest and most quickly communicable medium, the anti-Semitic picture postcard. Readers may be shocked to see the thematic variety of such postcards, ranging from the vicious to the morbid, from the grotesque to the inventive,usually produced with a humorous flair to make the bile go down. Readers may furthermore be shocked that examples range widely,including Germany,France,Great Britain,the United States,and other countries. Useful chapters are devoted to the main stereotypes and canards, from the Spa Towns of Karlsbad and Marienbad,to Nazi-era postcards and, finally, to anti-Israel postcards. The stigma of old-fashioned scholarly snootiness has been removed from cultural studies. We are now, alas, free to revel in the minor horrors of old daily hatreds.And quite a revel it was:200–300 billion postcards were sold during the so-called Golden Age of postcards, from 1895 to the end of World War I. Scholarship cannot quantify what percentage of this outpouring was anti-Semitic. But Hatemail: Anti-SemitismonPicturePostcardsmakesaconvincing case that,especially (though not exclusively ) in its heyday, the nasty little sub-genre of the anti-Semitic postcard was quantitatively prolificandqualitativelyvariegated.Mostof the visual images played on standard features of the hook-nosed, sneering, physically unattractive Jew,while their content ranged from the overtly political to the subtly cultural, from the crassly comical to the portentously theological. While the bulk of postcards reproduced in this volume were“humorous,”by the 1930s the tone turns decidedly dark. The postcards shift from a mildly noxious culture practice into a new world, an unremittingly angry world. Instead of jokes,which had been the key feature of pre-Nazi anti-Semitic postcards, readers are confronted with digestibly bite-sized (if still no less disturbingly effective) adjuncts to genocide. The joke goes dark, then shades into pitch-black altogether. Hatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards , profusely illustrated with full-size, fullcolor reproductions,is perversely entertaining in its exceedingly dark comedy, surprisingly informative in forgotten byways of once popular practices. The first volume devoted its subject, this book belongs in the collection of any library interested in Judaica cultural studies, the history of hate speech, and media studies in general. Steven M. Wasserstrom Reed College The Elusive State of Jefferson: A Journey through the 51st State by Peter Laufer Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Connecticut, and Helena, Montana, 2013. Photographs, maps, notes, index. 253 pages. $18.95 paper. Many Oregonians have some familiarity with the 1941 secession movement to create a new ...

The Book Transformed

This article considers the interplay of traditional academic art history book forms with the transformations of Web publication. Special attention is given to the increased number, size, type, and quality of images, and to the new opportunities this provides for scholarly research, interpretation, and presentation. This interplay is considered through an examination of an academic website focused on one major work of art, the Ara Pacis Augustae (Rome, Italy, 13–9 BCE). This site (http://cdm.reed.edu/ara-pacis/) was published by Charles Rhyne and Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, on April 15, 2011, and is used extensively by students, teachers, scholars, and the public worldwide.

The “Old Wheelwork” and Its Revolutions: Precarious Authority in Gisela and Bettine von Arnim's Das Leben der Hochgräfin Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns

This article investigates tropes of sovereignty and revolution in Das Leben der Hochgräfin Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns, a novel-length Kunstmärchen written in 1840 by Gisela von Arnim with her mother Bettine. In its renditions of authority and resistance, the Gritta tale contains both an archive of the political frictions of the Vormärz period and an object-lesson in the ambiguous status of female authorship at the time. This reading calls attention to the proliferation of sites of precarious authority in the tale, from the eccentric Count's gimcrack Rettungsmachine (rescue machine)—a throne with an ejector seat that flings off anyone who sits in it—to the not-quite-satisfying fairy-tale ending, which raises Gritta herself to the role of sovereign even as it excludes her from the story's true locus amoenus: a “nature convent” in line with Schillerian ideals. I am grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their very helpful comments. I would also like to thank the students in my Reed College seminar, “Law and Outlaw in German Literature.” Our lively conversations about the Gritta story planted the seed that became this article.

Down River by Charles Munch

View Large Image Figure ViewerDownload (PPT)View Large Image Figure ViewerDownload (PPT)Charles Munch was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1945. He studied for 2 years at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, then attended the Portland Art Museum School and the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. After returning to Reed College, he received a degree in painting in 1968.1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Munch_(painter). Accessed September 21, 2012.Google Scholar Much of his professional career has been spent as an art conservator, and he currently resides in Lone Rock, Wisconsin, where he finds inspiration from the surrounding landscape.1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Munch_(painter). Accessed September 21, 2012.Google Scholar Munch’s work has been clearly influenced by the Pop Art movement (a form of art that originated in New York City in the 1960s and included such iconic personages as Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg), as demonstrated in his use of primary colors, bold outlines, and simplified forms. The lack of detail weighs heavily on the power of symbolism, and Munch formally contrasts the struggle between humanity and nature in many of his paintings.2http://www.toryfolliard.com/painting/Charles-Munch.shtml. Accessed September 21, 2012.Google Scholar, 3http://www.thepaine.org/artist-in-res/pastAIR/CharlesMunch/res.htm. Accessed September 21, 2012.Google Scholar He states:The nearness of these varied animals has often led me to meditate on our relationship with them. Are we friends or enemies? Are we spiritually connected? Do they think about us? Is wild or tame better? Can we learn from them? Can we co-exist peacefully? Can they save us?4http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/8aa/8aa20.htm. Accessed September 26, 2012.Google Scholar Down River, consisting of three 40×65-inch panels, features oil on canvas and is highly consistent with the descriptions of Munch’s favored genre. Green pines and white birches bookend the borders of a deep blue river that contains cartoon stylized waves lapping its shoreline. A pair of canoers appears in the foreground and gives the impression that they are more like observers of the mystery rather than interlopers into the pristine woodlands. The bold, bright colors enhance the sense of the presence of sunshine without actually having the sun in the work. Down River is located on the 17th floor of the Gonda Building on the Mayo Clinic campus in Rochester, Minnesota.

Comrades of the Quest: An Oral History of Reed College by John Sheehy

Comrades of the Quest: An Oral History of Reed College by John Sheehy

Lew Welch: An Appreciation

Lew Welch: An Appreciation Maxine Hong Kingston (bio) Not everybody who writes poems knows what a poem is. Lew Welch knew. I’m glad I got to meet him before he disappeared. He’s often called a San Francisco poet or a California poet. He studied music in Stockton. He lived with his wife, Magda, in a house on a slope in Marin City, which is a Black city. They had been expecting Earll and me; Magda had made enough sandwiches for about ten people, then went outside to work in her garden. She probably fed lots of kid poets who came to see her husband. Being still young, we naturally expected food and attention from adults, and did not recognize largesse when we received it. Lew Welch then was working at the docks as a longshoremen’s clerk, and now that I’m a worker and writer myself, I know better than to take up a man’s time on his day off. He had cut his red hair for the summer. He had written about that: “In summer I usually cut it all off. / I do it myself, with scissors and a / little Jim Beam.” He looked exactly as he said in his poem: Not yet 40, my beard is already white. Not yet awake, my eyes are puffy and red, like a child who has cried too much. Only, I think, he had reached forty already; he had lines in his face, but though his eyes were red, they opened wide. He looked at you out of bright blue eyes, but at a part of you that isn’t your appearance or even your personality; he addressed that part of you that is like everybody. I would like to learn to look at people that way. He went for his papers and books and got down to business. He read to us. He cried. He sang: She bared her bos’m I whupped out m’knife Carved my initials on her thin breast bone. “I invented putting a note before and after the parts that need to be sung,” he said. “The book has these fussy sixteenth notes because those [End Page 183] were the only notes the printer had. They should have been quarter notes.” I admired his caring about detail, and have checked the editions of his work that were printed after he disappeared, to see if the notes had been changed. They had, and they do look better. He read a poem about driving, written by one of his students, and said, “Now, there’s a poem. There’s a poet. I phoned him to come do a reading with me, but he had to work on his car.” There was going to be a reading that weekend by the Bay Area’s best-known poets. “That’s cool. That’s right. He ought to be working on his car.” From the window, you could see down the hill to a round space filled with motorcycles and cars with their hoods up. Kids were repairing them. “Somebody ought to subsidize garages all over the country, stocked with automotive tools,” he said. “Kids can come and work on their cars, something real, when they drop out of school.” He had many ideas for things for you to do. There is a poem accompanied by a circle drawn in one brushstroke. The poem is in his clear handwriting. He read it as if it were a friendly but imperative suggestion: Step out onto the planet Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe, nobody’s ever really seen. How many can you find? One of his ideas was to organize to feed poets “so poets could have babies and fix their wives’ teeth and the other things we need.” He planned a magazine to be called Bread that would discuss the economics of being a poet in America. Somebody still needs to carry out these plans. He talked about being one of the young poets who had driven William Carlos Williams from the airport to Reed College. I love the way that car ride has become a...

Does Living Near Classmates Help Introductory Economics Students Get Better Grades?

This article examines whether first-year students in introductory economics courses get better grades if they have other students in their on-campus residential unit who either are taking the same course or have taken the course in the past. The study uses nine years of data for the introductory economics course at Reed College. The author finds that having dorm mates who are currently taking the class seems to have some benefit for students, but there is no evidence of benefit from having coresident students who have previously completed the class.

Reciprocal telomerase inhibition by human and Xenopus PinX1

The human TRF1/Pin2 interacting protein, hPinX1, has been shown to inhibit telomerase both in vitro and in vivo. Telomerase regulation is particularly important in the frog Xenopus, which expresses abundant telomerase in all adult somatic tissues. We have cloned and characterized the ortholog of PinX1 from X. laevis (xPinX1). The N‐terminal half of xPinX1 is 76% identical to hPinX1, while the C‐terminal half, containing hPinX1ˈs telomerase inhibition domain, is far more diverged. Quantitative RT‐PCR demonstrated that the xPinX1 transcript is relatively weakly expressed in high‐telomerase spleen, although there was no clear inverse correlation between telomerase activity and xPinX1 transcription in tissues with more modest levels of telomerase. To assess function in vitro, both xPinX1 and hPinX1 were purified from E. coli as fusions to His8‐GFP. Both fusion proteins inhibited telomerase in a PCR‐based assay, whereas His8‐GFP did not. Furthermore, each PinX1 was able to inhibit telomerase activity from both species. This suggests structural constraints on the inhibition mechanism, despite the rapid divergence in primary sequence between the two proteins. Further characterization of in vivo and in vitro functions are ongoing. Supported by grant 0642104 to JS from the National Science Foundation, a Betty Liu Research Fellowship to DAC, and a grant to Reed College by the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation.

Gazette

Eight new members of the APSA council were elected last fall. The new members are Paul Gronke, Reed College; Ange-Marie Hancock, University of Southern California; David A. Lake, University of California, San Diego; Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley; Kenneth J. Meier, Texas A&M University; Kathleen Thelen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stephen M. Walt, Harvard University; and Angelia R. Wilson, University of Manchester.

Meet the APSA Council and Officers

As noted in the October issue of PS, G. Bingham Powell, Jr., the Marie E .and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, became APSA's 108th president on September 4, 2011, at the close of the APSA Annual Meeting. Eight new members of the APSA council were elected fall 2011. The new members are Paul Gronke, Reed College; Ange-Marie Hancock, University of Southern California; David A. Lake, University of California, San Diego; Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley; Kenneth J. Meier, Texas A&M University; Kathleen Thelen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stephen M. Walt, Harvard University; and Angelia R. Wilson, University of Manchester.

Soul-Beating

I was a student at the New York Studio School during the fall of 1966 and spring of 1967. The school was then located in a loft building on the northeast corner of Broadway and Bleecker Street. Draft deferments during the Vietnam War were not granted to students attending an art school, especially an unaccredited one like the Studio School. But because I was still enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and came to New York on a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, I was safe. I studied with Mercedes Matter, Charles Cajori, Esteban Vicente, and especially Milton Resnick, among others. Frank Stella, Gandy Brody, Alfred Leslie, and others gave talks at the school. It was quite an immersion in New York painting culture for an idealistic would-be-painter from San Diego.

Gauging Politics: Water, Commensuration and Citizenship in Post‐Apartheid South Africa

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