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Bears in the belfry Whether the sound of Campanile chimes brings to mind memories of rushing to 8 a.m. classes or lazy Sunday afternoons "studying" on campus, you may want to check out "All Hail Blue and Gold," a new recording of Berkeley's bells, produced by Cal's music department and the Berkeley Historical Society (available for $20 to BHS, P.O. Box 1190, Berkeley 94701). In fact, the CD is virtually the only recording of our beloved bells--a 78-rpm record produced during World War II is now so rare that even the Campanile's own library does not own a copy. But capturing the tintinnabulations was no easy feat. Extraneous noise from traffic and visitors required that some tunes be recorded as many as 19 times over the course of a year. University carillonist Jeff Davis, who plays 12 of the 28 tunes on the disc, is now compiling another recording of the carillon as a concert. Let's hope we won't have to wait another 50 years to hear it. Bells are ringing "When the NCAA ruled that Cal could not play in a bowl game this season, I told my wife it was like her saying I couldn't talk to Julia Roberts on the phone for a year," says Jeffrey Warren '70. "Now that Cal is ranked 23rd, my wife is screening all my calls." --quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle on September 17  Belles lettres Globetrotting girl reporter Marguerite Higgins '41 was a European correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune during World War II and later transferred to Asia, where she successfully persuaded General Douglas MacArthur to repeal the military's ban on women at the front line. Her dispatches on the Korean conflict won her a popular following, and in 1951 she was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Now, as one of four "Women in Journalism" honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a new commemorative stamp, she'll travel the world again. For whom the Bellman tolls... Before the Bears kicked off their surprising season, football was already causing a brouhaha at Berkeley. In his study, "It's Fourth Down and What Does the Bellman Equation Say?," conducted for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cal economics professor David Romer concludes that football coaches are far too wimpy when it comes to going for it on fourth down--statistically speaking, he says, aggressive conversion attempts would likely result in one more win in three out of four seasons. Coaches, so far, remain unconvinced. -Linda Schmidt |
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