Correcting the RecordWinter 2016 / Issue II / CXIIILast year, new developments roused our country’s crisis of conscience vis-a-vis the trial and execution of Ethel Rosenberg. Michael Meeropol ’64 (nee Rosenberg) and brother Robert, orphaned in 1953 by the execution of their parents, Julius and Ethel, served up a New York Times op-ed column in August. “Exonerate our mother, Ethel Rosenberg,” they wrote, addressing President Obama. Their plea was published a month after original grand-jury testimony was unsealed that reaffirmed perjury by the prosecution’s star witness, Ethel’s younger brother, David Greenglass.
The Poetry of Pen and InkWinter 2016 / Issue II / CXIII“You have to learn not to gesticulate when holding a fountain pen,” cautions Tomoko Sakomura, associate professor of art history, who once ruined a colleague’s shirt with splattered ink. However, many Swarthmoreans consider the occasional stain a small price to pay for the beauty and power this writing implement bestows.
#ValSmith15Winter 2016 / Issue II / CXIIIDespite the rain, Valerie Smith’s smile shone during her inauguration as Swarthmore’s 15th president.