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...story wasn't dead. Not yet. FM's associate editors and a team of all-star writers rushed in with Professor Scrut Version Four, working title "Doing Professor things with Professors." The idea: shop with the shopping professor, cook with the cooking professor, bowl with the bowling professor; whatever. Thanks to six friendly faculty members, the story came back to life--with some creative twists--giving this week's issue its whopping ten-page Scrutiny (starting page...
...What else does this professor enjoy doing on the weekends? A big clue comes in the form of his Web page, www.geocities.com/SoHo/6816, the home of his band, the Redundant Steaks. The group, which Vaux formed with three other classmates in his undergrad days at the University of Chicago, has produced four major projects to date. "Columbian Inventions" (a collection of songs in honor/protest of Columbus Day), "Buster Crabbe" (celebrating the life of the actor who played Tarzan, Superman, and other macho characters in early movies), "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: The Twelve-Tone Rock Opera," "Liquid Dwarf, Rusty Dwarf" (an album...
...professor sees a difference between sexy and manly. An inherently sexy man is boyish, cute, even (God forbid) effete. "A manly man is not sexy. He can be attractive to women only by virtue of his manliness rather than his sexiness," he says. Think John Wayne, not Marcello Mastroianni...
...aggressive, competitive, loyal, stoical. "It is harder for women to be manly," he said, slipping on the hot mittens and taking out the cupcakes. "The whole idea of bullfighting, for example, is ridiculous manliness. A woman would never do that." The archetypal "manly" woman is Margaret Thatcher, according to Professor Mansfield. "[She] is an outstanding example: the iron lady. And yet she was quite feminine, I was told, with her husband. Even when she was Prime Minister, she was a bit coquettish...
ASSOCIATE Professor Bert Vaux, best known on campus as professor of Linguistics 80, "Dialects of English," teaches teaches phonology and field methods. But his real interest, he says, is endangered languages, such as Abxaz, Tigrinya, and Homshetsma, some of which are spoken by only one tribe or even one person and are in danger of dying out. But even with all of the classes he teaches, he says his work with endangered languages has to be done on the side, cautioning, "Once you choose a profession, you'll probably have to confine what you enjoy to the weekends...