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Week of 12 December 2003· Vol. VII, No. 14
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Critic Brunstein's papers a dramatic addition to the Gotlieb Center

This 1983 photograph of American Repertory Theatre founding director Robert Brustein and actress Meryl Streep is on display as part of the Brustein exhibition on the main floor of Mugar Memorial Library. Also featured is correspondence with Streep, who was one of Brustein's students at Yale in the 1970s. Photo by Richard M. Feldman

By David J. Craig
Theatergoers perusing the new Robert Brustein exhibition at Mugar Memorial Library may spot in a letter from novelist Philip Roth the inspiration for a memorable scene in Brustein's play Nobody Dies on Friday, where a man sits on his grown son's lap during a conversation.

CAS student selected as 2004 Rhodes Scholar

Aram Chobanian (right), president ad interim, and Provost Dennis Berkey (left) congratulate Rick Malins (CAS'04) on winning a 2004 Rhodes Scholarship. Malins, a senior majoring in chemistry and neuroscience, will begin graduate studies at Oxford University next October, focusing on neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky

By Tim Stoddard
While most undergraduates were cramming for midterms before Thanksgiving, Rick Malins was in San Francisco weathering a different kind of stress.

Mock mediation team wins second straight national title

Cheryl Clayton (CAS'05), Mysti Kofford (COM'04, CAS'04), and Jonathan DeFaver (UNI'06) (front row, from left) placed first in last month's National Mock Mediation Tournament in Chicago. Also pictured is BU team member Victoria Poulton (CAS'05) (back row, from left), Edward Stern, CAS assistant dean for the pre-law program and team coach, Susan Sloane, a LAW lecturer and team coach, and team member Dan Neumann (CAS'05). Photo by Vernon Doucette

By David J. Craig
After listening for nearly two hours in a stuffy conference room to opposing arguments in a wrongful death lawsuit, mediator Mysti Kofford struggled to keep her patience.

SMG Sophmore juggles books and biz

Ben Cathers (SMG'06) Photo by Kalman Zabarsky

By Brian Fitzgerald
Ben Cathers was the CEO of a dot-com when he was 12 years old. At 17, he hosted a popular teen radio show.

 

Hockey stick furniture turns rink trash into cash for LAW student

Dan Ronan (COM'99, LAW'05) Photo by Kalman Zabarsky

By Brian Fitzgerald
It's been four years since Dan Ronan last played for the BU hockey team, but the former assistant captain still can deftly handle a hockey stick — in his woodworking shop.

 
Moveable flakes: a B & G truck stocks up on the results of Mother Nature's delivery of a whopper prewinter show
Moveable flakes: a B & G truck stocks up on the results of Mother Nature's delivery of a whopper prewinter show
 
The installation of Robert Brustein as a fellow of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center was the headline event on Monday, December 8, but there was a second act -- the unveiling of a bronze bust of President Emeritus John Silber by noted sculptor Marc Mellon (right), who has done busts of President George H. W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush. The bust is a gift to the University from Ohio businessman and philanthropist Bruce Douglas, who has known Silber for nearly two decades. Thanking Gotlieb and Brustein for including the unveiling in the program, Silber said, “It was generous of Bob to let me tie this wagon to his star.” Photo by Fred Sway
The installation of Robert Brustein as a fellow of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center was the headline event on Monday, December 8, but there was a second act — the unveiling of a bronze bust of President Emeritus John Silber by noted sculptor Marc Mellon (right)
 
David Ferry, a visiting lecturer in the Creative Writing Program, gives voice to his work at the Annual Faculty Reading on Monday, December 8. The award-winning poet and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences received great recognition for his 1999 Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations. He has also won, among others, the Teasdale Prize for Poetry, the Ingram Merrill Award, and the William Arrowsmith Translation Prize from Agni magazine. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky
David Ferry, a visiting lecturer in the Creative Writing Program, gives voice to his work at the Annual Faculty Reading on Monday, December 8.
 
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The Boston University 2003 United Way campaign is drawing to a close, but it's not too late to enter the grand prize drawing to win round-trip tickets for two to any destination in the continental United States
       

12 December 2003
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