Parents and loss
The March 19 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle featured an article
about anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and how her life has changed since
her son was killed in Iraq. "When a child dies before a parent, it
throws all of our assumptions about the world into chaos," said Brian
de Vries, professor of gerontology. "Our children are our own 'immortality
projects,' our legacies, our way to make the world better. When some people
are robbed of that, they desperately look for another way to better the
world."
Better in batches?
Group dating is "a great thing for younger kids in particular," said
Deborah Tolman, director of the Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality,
in a March 21 Detroit News article on youth and dating. "It helps
you learn what guys and girls are like," she said. "It diminishes
the mystery, enhances the human qualities."
Native bees snub vineyards
Gretchen LeBuhn, assistant professor of biology, suggested that the unavailability
of indigenous food plants could be one reason fewer species of native
bees are pollinating Northern California vineyards. In a March 21 San
Francisco Chronicle article, she said, "What I see isn't necessarily
a change in sheer abundance of pollinators in vineyards, but a change
in composition." She stated that it "could be that the tilling
in the vineyards is disrupting their nests ... many native bees are
ground nesters. Cultivation could be causing them problems."
Acquisition accolades
The San Francisco Business Times named SFSU's purchase of the Stonestown
Apartments its 2005 residential real estate deal of the year in its
March 24-30 issue. "The Stonestown deal was driven by SFSU's need
for more on-campus housing and significantly grows its campus to 134
acres from 106, a coup for the smallest campus in the state's 23-university
system," wrote the Business Times. In addition, SFSU's lease with
the Westfield Centre that will provide a new home for the University's
Downtown Center and MBA programs was a finalist for San Francisco office
lease of the year.
Taking the fall
Eric Solomon, professor of English, discussed baseball history, the 2006
Major League Baseball season and the Barry Bond and steroids issue
on the April 4 edition of KQED Forum, hosted by Michael Krasny, professor
of English. In speaking on baseball's response to the steroids issue,
Solomon said: "Somebody takes the fall generally in cases likes
this and you can be very sure it's not going to be an owner. And it's
not going to be a general manager or probably a manager so that leaves
the little people. And I consider all players to little people. Even
Barry Bonds is a little person."
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