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...short stories of Tim Winton's The Turning (Picador; 317 pages). In this trailer park of a collection, characters move from the suburbs to the coast and back again, serial sea-changers in a state of transcontinental drift. There's caravan dweller Raelene, beaten senseless by her craypot-lugger husband, who looks for God between the bruises (The Turning). And teen tomboy Agnes, who spends her evenings wading the shallows for catfish after her drunken father is laid off from the local meatworks (Cockleshell). But most of all there's policeman's son Vic, who helps his mother clean rich...
Panel member Phyllis M. Lugger '76, professor of astronomy at Indiana University, recalled life in the Yard for a female science concentrator as a series of "road-blocks...
...Yard, specifically in the are of science and [more] specifically in the physical sciences, the number of women was very low," Lugger said. "What I found was that women tended to work together against the feeling of being outnumbered...
...Lugger will offer advice to undergraduate women in the sciences regarding what she sees as the "leaky pipeline" that drains women academics in the science fields before they reach positions of power...
...between such random diversions as studying Serbo-Croatian and founding a record company to preserve the music of early New Orleans jazzmen. Inevitably, as the son of the late syndicated columnist Heywood Broun, he became a sportswriter "with a crust of adjectives as thick as barnacles on a pearling lugger."* Then, at 30, bored with the "non-Aristotelian inevitability of August doubleheaders," he decided to take a fling at acting. "I brought to the stage," he recalls, "a keen sense of Thackeray, Dickens and Trollope-and none of Stanislavski...