E-Ingenuity
I realized your Napster article ["Steal This Download!"
September] hit the nail on the head, even before I read the first sentence.
Napster truly is "revolutionizing music distribution." To be
able to download music with a few clicks of a button-and have an instant
collection, ranging from Ella Fitzgerald to Ozzy Osbourne-proves technology
moves in the blink of an eye, and digital communication is moving right
along with it.
On the debate about what's right and wrong about
Napster: Rules evolve around change. That's why I commend Shawn Fanning
for adding this new off-ramp to the superhighway. He took the initiative
and made others jump. So let's hurry up and make those rules-I'm ready
to hitch a ride.
Now, I'm just waiting for the Husky football team
to take the same initiative.
Mark Milligan, BPH'95
Medford, Massachusetts
Family Ties
I was surprised and delighted to see a photograph
of my mother, Lois Sullivan, in Huskiana [September]. I recall the Faculty Wives' Club teas and
fashion shows (I was a model), and her great cakes and decorations.
My mother eventually became club president. My
father, John E. Sullivan, moved up to assistant dean of business. In 1958,
I was one of the few women to graduate from the evening business school.
My brother, John E. Sullivan Jr., graduated from University College in
1974. And my husband, Paul, MBA'59, taught for years in the evening graduate
business school. So you hit upon an old NU family.
Jane Sullivan Norton, B'58
Springfield, New Jersey
Space Talk
Three points re history professor Clay McShane's
complaints [Letters,
May] about my column "NU's Space Program" [Talk of the Gown,
March].
He claims his department is insulted by the term
"research-unintensive." That reference was clear in context,
which compared departments with and without laboratories, and their differing
need for space.
Professor Gerald Herman told me he had a (third)
office in Churchill Hall.
And about those two office battles Professor McShane
doubts took place: Professor Herman described one; I witnessed the other.
Names were withheld to protect the petty.
Bill Kirtz
Holmes Hall
Kirtz, an associate professor of journalism,
wrote the Sean Jones profile that appears in this issue.
We welcome your letters and reserve the right to edit them for space
and clarity. Send them to: Letters to the Editor, Northeastern University
Magazine, 360 Huntington Avenue, 598CP, Boston, MA 02115. Fax: 617-373-5430.
Click here to e-mail letters now.