CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
Students being chiseled? How did we escape this horror during our college career? It's as one of our critics has pointed out: we have feet of clay. That's why we never cracked up or lost our marble(s). From Colorado College's 1922 yearbook.
Memories -- the thrill of making your first clay homunculus, and then the anxiety of examination day, when the teacher handed out the pins and expected a miracle. From Swarthmore's 1974 yearbook. See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
Arman's "L’Heure de Tous" sculpture at the Saint Lazare train station has created temporal anomalies not only in Paris but all across Europe and even parts of Turkey. Though we are proponents of art in general, we must formally denounce this particular sculpture for its recklessness with the fabric of spacetime. Photos by Juanedc and Vincent Aguerre.