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Obituaries – Sept/Oct 2007

Obituaries from the September / October 2007 issue.

Fall Sports — Men’s Soccer

Under veteran coach Mike Noonan, men’s soccer is hot.

Dee-fense

With an inexperienced offense, the football team is looking to a veteran defense to hold its ground.

Class Equity

More incoming students are the first in their families to attend college.

Smart Feet

Walking gets easier for amputees —just in time for returning Iraq War veterans.

History On the Move

An 1868 building, home to half the history department, relocates to make way for a new walkway connecting the Brown and Pembroke campuses.

Medical Merger

Rhode Island’s two biggest health care companies propose a marriage that could bolster the medical school’s planned expansion.

Strangers on a Train

In his latest film, Nat Moss ’87 tells three stories of lonely New Yorkers whose lives collide.

Living the Good Life

A.J. Jacobs ’90 spent twelve months trying to follow the Bible’s every edict.

Into Ye Deep

Eric Jay Dolin ’83 offers a whale’s-eye view of American history.

House Crazy

Paige Rien ’97 is turning her obsession with home renovations into HGTV’s most popular show.

Collateral Damage

The award-winning documentary Lumo traces a hospital’s efforts to save rape victims in the Congo.

The Accidental Star

The Office heartthrob John Krasinski ’02 hits the big screen and edits his first film.

Lot’s Lot

Bible passages question in Mail Room in the May/June issue (“The Haggadah and Gays,” Mailroom),.

I guess the acrostic is a thing of the past, and I can’t say that its demise was a surprise to me. Not many readers would have been doing the puzzle, I always thought, so it probably wasn’t worth the space and cost for you to print it.

Long-Distance Cure?

Questioning the article on Mona Lisa Schulz’s work as a “medical intuitive” (“Brain Power,” The Classes, May/June).

Worth the Wait

In horse racing lingo, I finally broke my maiden with my first reunion—my sixty-fifth.

A Yes Vote

Ironically, Brown has adopted an open curriculum so that students can explore various interests and find their passion (“Exam Time,” Under the Elms, May/June), yet recommends (if not requires) that applicants follow the most demanding college preparatory track possible to improve their chances of admission: four years of English, four math, four science (3 labs), four foreign language, two history, and one academic elective.

King Philip’s Chair

The powerful past of the Haffenreffer Museum in Bristol, R.I.; a seat of government for a group of Native Americans in seventeenth-century New England that gave European colonists a run for their money in a literal sense.