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When one day in the fall of 1977, Mike L. Reiss ’81, Al E. Jean ’81, and some friends got bored stuffing envelopes for the Graduate School of Education, they started writing jokes on the letters before sealing them. They expected their antics would go unnoticed, but administrators discovered a batch of vandalized mail, and summoned Jean, Reiss, and company before the Administrative Board. The threat of suspension loomed, but they ultimately escaped unpunished...
...Fern E. Reiss ’85, CEO of PublishingGame.com and Expertizing.com, said she would not recommend that professors self-publish because they would not be vetted in the same way than if they had worked with a trade publisher or more preferably, an academic publisher...
...Reiss, who is a former Crimson news editor, said self-publishing success could be used as leverage...
With self-publishing, Reiss said that academics lose what she called “the cachet factor,” which comes with traditional forms for publishing. “It depends on whether cachet or cash means more to you,” she said...
...ORIENTALIST TOM REISS Madonna didn't invent self-reinvention. Born in 1905, Lev Nussimbaum fled the political violence of his native Azerbaijan for the swanky salons of proto-fascist Europe. There he became a swinging socialite and best-selling author using a totally made-up identity, that of a romantic Muslim prince named Essad Bey, a creature of curvy daggers and Moorish sighs. Commingling East and West, art and politics, and featuring countless cameos by the great and powerful, Nussimbaum's unlikely life (lives?) reads like a secret history of the 20th century...