Do-it-yourself scholars

No backing from the ivory tower. Plenty of grit.

Published in the Apr. 22, 2009, issue

It’s a bitterly cold January night in Harlem, but inside the Hue-Man Bookstore & Café on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, Jeff Perry ’68 is just getting warmed up. He’s been talking to a rapt audience for almost an hour about one of his greatest passions — the...Read more

Sex! Mayhem! Students gone awry!

Christian Gauss’ forgotten diary illuminates campus life at a tumultuous time

Published in the Apr. 22, 2009, issue

Thirty years ago, Ernest Bartell ’27 wrote an angry letter to PAW denouncing the modern University as “a moral morass — wide-open sex, drug and alcohol abuse, stealing, the Honor Code a shambles.” Everything had been rosier in his day. But George Chaikin ’31...Read more