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Class Notes – December 2011

Details, details – all the details of our wide-ranging Forever Buffs.
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Correction

Correction: On page 39 in the print Coloradan, we accidentally transposed CU’s Homecoming and Family Weekend dates. Homecoming is Oct. 22 and Family Weekend is Oct. 1. Learn more here.
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The Six Minute Marathon: A Guide to Life as a Lawyer

The director of the CU Law School’s experiential law program and adjunct law professor, Andy Hartman writes a humorous and practical guide for law students and junior lawyers as they transition from law school to practice. The Six Minute Marathon gives specific stories from Hartman’s experience as a partner with several major law firms.
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The Diviner’s Tale

In The Diviner’s Tale, Bradford Morrow (Engl’74) writes a gripping and haunting tale of a struggling single mother of twin boys by the name of Cassandra. While walking in a forest, a gifted dowser finds herself staring at the hanged body of a young girl.
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The Ringer

In The Ringer, Jenny Shank (MEngl’00) writes a captivating novel of heart-warming characters we can relate to. After a police officer in Denver raids a wrong address and mistakenly shoots and kills a Mexican immigrant, both his family and the family of the killed are affected in devastating ways.
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My Life in Vaudeville: The Autobiography of Ed Lowry

(Southern Illinois University Press, 2011; 256 pages) ISBN: 9780809330164–Amazon In My Life in Vaudeville, CU English professor Paul Levitt (Phil’57, MA’60) edited Ed Lowry’s account of his exciting life in the entertainment industry as an actor, musician and comedian. The book offers several unique insights into the vaudeville lifestyle during its decline in the 1920s and 1930s including the relationship
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Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior

(Academic Press, 2011; 496 pages) ISBN: 9780123725813–Amazon Michael Breed, a CU professor of EPO Biology, co-edited The Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, a compilation addressing the physiological foundations of behavior. The book examines a wide range of topics including social behavior, foraging behavior, mating, behavior in domestic animals, parenting and learning.  The book also has a large section devoted to the
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Losing Twice

In Losing Twice, CU law professor Emily Calhoun examines the actions of Supreme Court justices toward losing parties in constitutional rights disputes. She explores the unwarranted harm that many justices inflict on those who lose disputes despite the obligation of justices to avoid harming those whose arguments are rejected.
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The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It)

In co-writing The Failure of Environmental Education, Daniel Blumstein (EPOBio’86) highlights the problems of environmental education and offers a new vision for the future.
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The Iowa Precinct Caucuses: The Making of a Media Event

In the third edition of The Iowa Precinct Caucuses: The Making of a Media Event, Hugh Winebrenner (PhDPolSci’73) and Dennis Goldford give the history of the state’s precinct caucuses since a radical political status change in 1972.
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