Read Part I and Part II of Devoted to a Fault. You can download the entire text (without images) as one file here. The following was reported in late 2007 and early 2008. The 1868 Earthquake Alliance held its April 2008 meeting in an Oakland building undergoing a seismic retrofit. In the lobby, plywood and [...]
Matt Krupnick published an article about the fallout from the dean search at Berkeley’s journalism school in the Contra Costa Times yesterday (“UC Berkeley mum on why dean hire bailed out”). I think it’s worth a read, if only for the summing up that hasn’t appeared anywhere else–and he did a good job considering few [...]
John Peabody’s got an inside source who says: 1. There were tenure disagreements. And, 2. potential inaccuracies that are minor, if they exist at all, were in Lynch’s CV. John Peabody, don’t you remember the finger-wagging admonition not to traffic in rumor and scuttlebut? From our own interim dean, no less? Remember Day 1 of [...]
Wrote this on Tuesday: John Peabody has a nice rundown of the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s meeting on the surprise withdrawal of Dianne Lynch as incoming dean. She is, and will remain, dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. To recap: Lynch was the favorite candidate among the finalists [...]
This is week six and I have managed to lose 18 pounds. I’ve been weighing myself at the gym every two weeks–I only manage to get to the gym every two weeks. I had been 191 pounds for many months; now I’m at 173. Eighteen pounds. The point of this story is that if you [...]
For a long time, when people asked me where I go, or went, to college, my first response was “New Hampshire,” or even, “New England.” Then they would slowly zero in: which school, or which town, until: Dartmouth. I abandoned that initial answer too long after I had started getting the question. While I thought [...]
I’ve been telling people that Columbia made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. And I refused. Both are great schools, there’s no doubt about that. I would graduate satisfied with my experience at either place, I’m quite sure. But after some careful examination, my choice is Berkeley. It is, right now, the better school for [...]
Dear Reader, I am sorry that I have not posted here for weeks–weeks! It’s not been for lack of content or interest, but merely lack of time and energy. I have been trying to sort out the tangled decision about where to go in the next stage of life. I have made a handful of [...]
Yesterday was Robert Hass’s birthday. When I heard it was his birthday, I remembered all the unpublished material I have from my interview with the Berkeley professor and former U.S. Poet Laureate, which I dug up today. I interviewed Hass in early May of 2005. We talked for a little more than half an hour, [...]
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