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HIGHLIGHTS: "Gone when we got there" / Dept. of distinctions / Hail and Farewell

GONE WHEN WE GOT THERE: February's Harper's Magazine reprinted Checked Out OK," a poem composed entirely of Amherst police reports arranged by CORWIN ERICSON '90, '00G. The poem isn't among the online selections of Jubilat, the campus-based journal in which it first appeared, but we found it in April at www.poems.com/checkeri.htm. (The same Harper’s included what the Campus Chronicle called “a Swiftian send-up of for-profit education” by Professor Nick Bromell, a subject in this UMass.) DEPARTMENT OF DISTINCTIONS: Senior Helena Horak, a double major in biochemistry and biology and double minor in chemistry and anthropology, is one of 20 U.S. students in the top tier of USA Today’s All-USA College Academic Team. . . . Computer science at UMass is sixth in the nation in the field of artificial intelligence, 25th overall, in new grad school rankings from U.S. News & World Report. . . .In a poignant overlap, U.S. News also placed UMass sports programs in the nation’s top 20, almost simultaneously with the announcement here that seven teams must be scrapped for financial reasons. HAIL AND FAREWELL: Two prominent elders of the UMass tribe died this winter. Associate provost Barbara Burn, a world leader in international education profiled in our Winter 1994 issue, died unexpectedly at her Leverett home in February. She was 76. When she arrived in 1968, reported the Campus Chronicle in March, fewer than 100 UMass students studied abroad. Today the number exceeds 1,000 yearly, and over 2,000 foreign scholars come here. . . . Carl Allen ’14 of Westbor-ough, profiled as a 105-year-old in our Spring 1998 issue, died in his sleep at 108 last December. “After giving up golf in his 90s because he could no longer see his ball land,” the Chronicle reported, “he continued to work out at a gym, and after age 100, he learned to use a computer and began actively corresponding by e-mail.”

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HIGHLIGHTS: "Gone when we got there" / Dept. of distinctions / Hail and Farewell

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