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...Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago. He soon learned that a degree in his field was almost worthless in the marketplace. History departments have not been flourishing of late, and the only job he could find was a part-time assistant professorship at Minnesota's Carleton College. Annual pay: $6,000. "I wanted to stay in teaching," he recalls, "but I had an antipathy toward starving." Today Hertzberg runs his own hardware store in Queens, N.Y., and makes almost three times as much as the average assistant professor...
...suggests, the fascination is in the hunt, in the search for solutions. Problem: a small tribe in New Guinea, the Fore, was threatened with extinction. For unknown reasons, most of its women were being attacked by a nerve disease that began in giggles and ended in death. Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek, an American epidemiologist, arrived in 1957 and investigated. He gave the victims every medicine on the shelves. He checked the water in the streams, the soil, even the ashes in the cooking fires. Finally, after months of inquiry, he discovered that when someone died, the Fore buried the corpse...
That approach, known as "writing across the curriculum," was first pioneered at Minnesota's Carleton College. It has been applied since 1977 by more than 60 faculty members at Beaver College, in Glenside, Pa. There, students practice writing in history, psychology (as they observe and describe the "Mama Rat" experiment in the lab), even mathematics classes, where they write word problems. So far, 400 schools and colleges have asked Beaver for details of the program. Observes Beaver Professor Elaine Maimon, 35: "In freshman composition, English teachers used to teach their favorite works of literature. We were not respecting...
...adult life in Cambridge, Stanley's new environment also came as something of a shock. Northfield boasts a population of 12,000, a far cry from the megalopolis of Boston. "I like big cities and I loved Boston," he says, adding that the movies, restaruants and art museums in Carleton are "nothing to write home about." Like most transplanted city dwellers, however, Stanley appreciates the advantages of small-town living. "You can go away and leave the door unlocked," he explains. "The air is just staggering." But, he's quick to add, "too much peace...
...Carleton's intellectual climate, although different from Harvard's, has offered Stanley a chance to make his own decisions, and use the people-to-people skills he possesses. "Although this isn't a publishing faculty," Stanley explains, "it is a learned faculty. I am learning about all the things you ever dream about," he says. If Stanley uses Carleton for what it's worth, his new-found home is also profiting. "The level of conversations here has improved on all levels," says President Edwards, due in part to Stanley's fresh influx of ideas. Although Stanley admits he misses being...