Ya gotta have art. From a recent press release from the School of the Art Institute: “In his sculptural installation, Stephen Schofield transforms cloth membranes into crystallized mattresses by soaking them in boiling syrup and inflating them using vacuum cleaners whose air flow has been reversed.”
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Women not welcome here. Sandra Namath tells Jane Easter Bahls about her labor-law class at the University of New Mexico School of Law (Student Lawyer, September): “The professor would ask a question. I’d raise my hand and say ‘x.’ He’d move around the room to Jack, who would say basically ‘x,’ and the professor would say, ‘Great, Jack!’” Namath had twelve years’ experience as a labor professional, and her male classmates often approached her with questions after class. But in class? Forget it. “There was a game with my male classmates. They’d repeat whatever I said and get praised for it. We’d laugh, but you could cry.” According to 1992 and 1996 studies, this problem is not limited to backwater schools. Says University of Chicago law professor Mary Becker, “The response of law schools with problems in this area is putting their heads in the sand. Nobody at my law school has said one thing to me.”
I’m not fat, because I was even fatter before. Stephen Rynkiewicz on Trib publisher Jack Fuller’s book News Values: “One of Fuller’s more intriguing arguments is that corporate ownership is no worse than the old-style press baronies. He claims Col. Robert McCormick took profit margins as high as 30 percent in the Roaring ’20s and never less than 10 percent during the Depression, compared with the 1980s high-water mark of 25 percent for the Tribune Co” (Chicago Journalist, July/August).
