Editor's
Notes
Drumroll, please.
The
venue was HotHouse, the jazz, world music, and performing arts space around the
corner from the Chicago Hilton and Towers, where the American Sociological Association
was holding its annual meetings. The late-summer night was young, and the evening's
star was a drummer-being honored for 25 years at his day job as an editor with
the University of Chicago Press. In that quarter century Douglas Mitchell, AB'65,
has, by Press director Paula Duffy's count, shepherded 750 titles into print.
His range is as phenomenal as the numbers: classics, biography, law, political
science, literature, philosophy, history, sociology, gay studies, and about "200
other titles that defy categorization."
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Letters
"
so
one-sided it falls off my bookshelf."
Teaching
the right audience
Generation
gaffe
Judicial agenda
Getting
the number right
Adjective,
approach err
Callous multiculturalism?
Before
Berwanger
Troubling
allegations
Defending
Western Civilization
Striking
the wrong note
Meyer remembered
Breakaway
strategies
Address correction
Drinking
vs. alcoholism
Department
of corrections
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From the
President
The force of argument
President
Don M. Randel considers issues of free speech and intellectual community.
Rambunctious
debate. We take our right to it as an article of faith on this campus, and we
think that, among other things, it sets us apart-for the better-from other institutions.
But the world's troubles in the past year have compelled us, once again, to reflect
on what we are prepared to tolerate, if not encourage, under the heading of rambunctious
debate. Are there limits? If so, how would we define and enforce them?
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Chicagophile
Oprah
will not be missed
by Jessica Abel, AB'91
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