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A university campus is a remarkable place. It is a place of learning, scholarship, collegiality, inventiveness, and creation of knowledge that moves civilization forward. These coexist side by side with egotism, pettiness, petulance and personal rivalries. At the time I am speaking of, many a university was run by a scholar lacking experience or training to administer it, yet the institution continued to exist and function from day to day and from one year to the next, turning out graduates and publications at the steady rhythm of a metronome ceaselessly marking time. These two faces of a...

When developing the plot for a novel, Rick Harper remembered Karen Johnson from his graduate student days. She was a graduate student two or three years his junior taking different classes from his, and moving with a different crowd; a former graduate school buddy of his remembered that she married Jeff Smith. Karen's olive-toned skin, short wheat-colored hair, and green eyes were tailor made for the character that he built around this image, but Karen was no more than a static memory without a personality. A snapshot and nothing more To identify the character with the image, Rick called...