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According to council President Beth A. Stewart '00, the council has been quietly but purposefully working on issues from securing "fro-yo in the 'Berg" to making cable--at least in the House junior common rooms--a possibility for next semester.... But for all its hard work on these somewhat yawnable student life issues, the council has been conspicuously silent on matters rising higher than television, food and transportation...
...takes places on a single midsummer's day in 1947, when some fishermen smell a new iceberg, "musty yet at the same time pure, like the air in a vault that has gone undisturbed for centuries." Stranded just offshore an Irish Catholic settlement in Newfoundland, the fishermen imagine the berg as a schooner, a basilica, an image of the Virgin Mary, Star of the Sea. As the rest or the town awakens, the drunken lighthouse keeper believe it to be a ship come to rescue him from his delusional exile. A teenage girl believes it as an omen...
Professor of Molecular and Cellular BiologyHoward C. Berg, who was then at Caltech, sparkedMeister's interest in the biologicalsciences--specifically in the subject of bacterialmotion...
Meister said Berg inspired him to change hisfield of graduate studies from physics to theinvestigation of how bacteria swim...
Still, during Sukkoth, the students don't seem dysfunctional. Berg has put them up for a spiritual slumber party. Laughter rings out, and the smell of pea soup and fresh-baked challah bread emanates from the kitchen. Says Erickson: "Kabbalah is like the spiritual refrigerator. If you're hungry...