Chicago
Journal
On the quads
Sean Campbell, AB’02, became
the U of C’s 37th Rhodes
Scholar in December. Currently
an Urban Fellow with the New York City Economic Development
Corporation, the Brooklyn native plans to study economic
and social history at Oxford; he’s particularly interested
in combating poverty and homelessness. Last spring he won
the College’s Barnard prize for an American history
thesis, writing on U.S. efforts to help Latin American poor....
Second-year Igor
Serebryany made headlines for wanting “to
help the hacking community”—the
reason, he told federal investigators, that he allegedly
stole hundreds of digital documents from satellite-TV provider
DirecTV and posted them to three pirate Web sites. Serebryany
was arrested in Los Angeles January 3 under the 1996
Economic Espionage Act and could face ten years in prison
and a $250,000 fine. He obtained the documents, which describe
new technology to control DirecTV access, while working
for a document-preparation company that was imaging papers
for a DirecTV civil lawsuit....
First-year geophysical-sciences concentrator
Steve Brusatte from Ottawa, Illinois, has written Stately
Fossils (Fossil News), a book chronicling state fossils,
dinosaurs, and fossil stones and gems. The aspiring paleontologist,
who is “working with Paul Sereno
on a few things,” began reading Fossil News
magazine as a high-school freshman, and by his junior year
he was contributing a monthly series on state fossils. It
was so popular that his editor suggested Brusatte write
a book, which he finished early his senior year. Thirty-four
states have official fossils, Illinois’s being the
“strange, worm-like” tully monster. For more
information visit www.fossilnews.com/books/statefossil.html....
The General Studies in the Humanities
concentration expanded winter quarter into Interdisciplinary
Studies in the Humanities (ISHum) and now offers
two options—one in various humanities fields and the
other in theater and the performing arts. David Bevington,
ISHum chair, says the new name “sounds more professional,
more serious, more focused.” Next fall Germanic-studies
associate professor David Levin will cochair ISHum, directing
the theater option.
— Amy Braverman
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