September–October 2023 Politics & Law Family Matters Hard work. Personal responsibility. Republican presidential candidate Larry Elder ’74 aims to re-parent America the way his dad raised him. The Arts Less Rules. More Fun. Andrew Sean Greer ’92 blazed a path to the Pulitzer by breaking literary rules with protagonist Arthur Less. Now Less Is Lost—and readers are loving it. The Arts A Seminal Author Breaks Her Silence Palmares, the long-awaited novel by Gayl Jones ’73 AM, brings readers inside 17th-century Brazil and a colony of Africans who have escaped slavery Under the Elms The Arts How to Read a Picture A course applies seminal texts to classic LGBTQ images and films to show how imagery has been used to fight oppression. Religion & Spirituality God, Love, and Rap The message of Yeabfikir Ayele Alemayehu ’25 Military Taking Orders A recent ROTC grad does—and doesn’t Student Life Crowning Venture Miss Rhode Island 2023 on what it means to be a woman in finance Student Life Flocking Together A crochet scavenger hunt takes wing Obituaries In Memoriam A Disability Rights Pioneer Elias Wolff ’00 devoted his life to making sure people like him could participate in sports, fully and joyfully. The Classes Sports & Recreation The Team To Beat From the Archives First Person Human Studies Professor emeritus Arnold Weinstein reflects on the “vicarious, experiential, and enlarging” field of comparative literature. Student Life Bear Tales: The Black Horse Rides Roommates tackle a spectacular senior project Current Obsession First Person Jumping Rope Five minutes with Connor Kraska ’23 Beyond the Gates Service & Advocacy College Bound Education The College Problem Will Bunch ’81 examines the dismal state of higher education Service & Advocacy Flight Plan Advocating for disability inclusion in space Science & Tech Grand Design Is anatomy destiny? Science & Tech What’s Out There? David Grinspoon ’82 helps NASA investigate unexplained phenomena Business & Entrepreneurship Empowered Investing Venture capital for Latinx entrepreneurs The Arts Covid Memories A student creates art with medical instruments. Filmmaking Reenvisioning Vietnam A Netflix film on the booming and enchanting country of today Fresh Ink The Arts Fresh Ink for September–October 2023 Books by Jaime Green ’04, Tim Blake Nelson ’86, and Brianna Craft ’13. From the Editor University News Affirmative Reaction A letter from the Editor From the President Service & Advocacy Complex Truth Telling A letter from the President The Big Issue Politics & Law Strait Talk Across Rough Waters A student-run program gets young people from China and Taiwan talking.
