Readers’ forum: Herman ’79 on show tunes

BROADWAY BABIES
by Michele Herman ’79 
I imagine that at most family dinner tables you get a mumbled thank you when you pass the salt.  I’m proud to report that at ours, the recipient is more likely to hold the salt shaker aloft and intone the words of the vengeful Sweeney Todd when he picked up his [...]

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Readers’ forum: Bader ’67 on FYE

From Lorraine Rorke Bader ’67: 
I just read Scope Monthly, and I was pleased to see the summer reading and viewing for the incoming freshmen [see the story, "Multimedia homework"].  I admire the deep thought and courage that went into the decision to choose a DVD and related reading. The plan to follow up on this introduction throughout the [...]

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Readers’ forum open

Got gripes?  Ideas?  Questions?  Comments about the ScopeMonthly e-newsletter and about Scope magazine are always welcome.  So are essays, reports, images, or other communications you’d like to share with the Scope readership.
Scope magazine can only carry a few letters each issue, so here’s where we’ll post a wide range of reader responses or contributions that [...]

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Thricely

Thricely?  Is that even a word?  No matter:  it’s what Scope Quarterly has become — Scope thricely.
This year’s spring issue appears in alumni mailboxes in late April.  But this summer we won’t be printing, and we’ll omit the summer edition every year into the foreseeable future.  We’re sorry to have less frequent contact with our [...]

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Sing a song of Darwin

         
 

 
Readers of the winter ‘09 Scope Q article about the Phi Beta Kappa lecture on Darwin’s influence in popular culture might be curious to hear one of the comic songs that was played at that lecture.  Many of hese songs are geopolitically incorrect (not to mention disturbingly racist) for our time, but they were considered [...]

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Racing, Saratoga style

When Scope writer Barbara Melville saddled up for a ride on the National Racing Museum’s simulator, photographer Charlie Samuels took stills to accompany the magazine article.  Then they switched:  Charlie took a ride and Barbara video’d him.  Here’s his nearly jockey’s-eye view of the simulator experience — hang on tight:

If this [...]

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Virtual vivisection?

Virtual vivisection? Not really. Roy Meyers is no mad scientist, but he is mad about the value of IT in teaching lab sciences.
Many years ago Skidmore biologist Roy Meyers wanted to make a virtual human-physiology model more user-friendly for his students (see Skidmore’s upcoming fall ’08 Scope Quarterly), so he enlisted the help of Leo Geoffrion, [...]

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More about the Skidmore “Mounties”

Deborah D’Angelo and Richard Pelzer, Skidmore’s own “Mounties,” are on-call officers who work with the college’s Campus Safety office. Their equine partners, Killian and Kodiak, belong to the officers, who manage their board, training, and care. (See a related Scope story here.) Here are some fun facts about them:
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STYLE NOTES: Both horses wear vintage World [...]

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Viewer’s choice: Personal picks of the Molecules artworks

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Winter dance concert brightens chilly weekend

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