Word: sperber
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...then there are the ladies to impress. “Everyone is always cruising,” sums up Foster. Sperber readily admits why he started working out. “I started going to the gym after junior year because a girl wouldn’t date me.” While the need to stay in shape grows into a habit, Stillwell doesn’t hesitate to say that he still works out “to get dates...
When he moved into his suite just a short jog from Hemenway Gymnasium this past September, Evan J. Sperber ’07 chose to plaster the walls of his Canaday bedroom with dozens of pictures of Speedo-wearing, oiled-up body builders instead of putting up the typical bikini-clad Sports Illustrated models. “I don’t look at them sexually,” explains Sperber. “I look at them because they remind me that I don’t want to become a Harvard intellectual.” Sperber?...
...religious understanding. A Judaism and World Religions program at Valley Beth Shalom, a conservative synagogue in Sherman Oaks, Calif., drew 1,400 people to hear a speaker on Buddhism. "I hear people say, 'Isn't it wonderful how we're coming together as a nation?'" observes the Rev. Don Sperber, pastor of the 700-member Grace United Methodist Church in Denver. "I'm troubled when the most common song I hear sung today is God Bless America, and I keep saying, '...as well as the other nations.' I'm not opposed to patriotism, but I'm opposed to having...
Eventually Knight did go, fired in September after another incident in which he laid a hand on a student. The firing led to a near riot on campus, but Sperber was forced out long before then. "I see dead bodies," said a message on a website that named Sperber and other Knight critics. "I got a call at home from someone who said if I didn't shut my mouth, he was going to shut it for me," Sperber says. On campus one day, a student offered to rearrange his smile. "But the most disturbing thing was finding...
...Sperber took this semester off, and only after Knight's firing did he consider a return. "I felt silenced, and I missed teaching," he says. After 29 years at I.U., he'll teach two "stealth courses," as he calls them. Students won't know in advance that their teacher is the anti-Knight. "Murray's a good guy and a great teacher," says student Heather Dinich, 21, who welcomes his return...