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March 25, 2005
Milestones
GeoTalk
Mount Holyoke was well represented at the fortieth annual
meeting of the Northeastern Section of the Geological Society of
America held March 14–16 in Saratoga Springs, New York. Mark
McMenamin, professor of geology and chair of earth and environment,
and geology major Emily Pratt ’06 presented their research
to 700 conference attendees. McMenamin's talk was titled “Microbial
Influence and Environmental Convergence in Marine and Lacustrine
Depositional Settings.” Pratt’s talk was titled “Interpretation
of Short Core Lamination Stratigraphy of Lake Linné, Svalbard,
Norway.”
Honorable Mention
Constitutional rights expert Chris Pyle, professor
of politics, can be found in the pages of Robert O’Harrow Jr.’s
new book, No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance
Society (Free Press, 2005). O’Harrow, an award-winning Washington
Post reporter, presents an unnerving account of the marriage of the
private and public sectors to create a security-industrial complex.
He recounts Pyle’s stint as a constitutional law teacher at
the Army’s intelligence school in the late sixties and his
subsequent whistle-blowing on the Army’s spy operations and
surveillance of civilian political activity. |
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