Your chance to meet Grantland writer Michael Weinreb
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These guys are all the same. They get up on their high horse and spray schlitt around. Then when they get called out on their boushwa, they slink off into the tall grass. Pretty wormy I'd say. But why am I not surprised?
Oh, then he's part of the culture problem and therefore criticized himself in that article.
Yes.
LINK: This American Life transcript
Part of the transcript:
Sarah Koenig
This is Nancy Weinreb. She's lived here for more than 30 years, worked in the university library. Her husband is a professor of organic chemistry, and she knows all the higher-ups involved in this thing. Maybe not well, but just socially, or knows people who knows them. The Spaniers, the Curleys, the Schultzes, She knows Mrs. Schultz...
I met Nancy Weinreb through her son, Michael Weinreb. Michael is a sportswriter. He wrote a book all about football in the 1980s, a large chunk of which is about Penn State, actually. And he's a columnist for this new online magazine called Grantland. He's been writing great columns since the story erupted two weeks ago. At least half a dozen people told me about them. They're circulating like crazy here. Because he's a local, and he's just as disoriented as we are.
Thanks. I'm a chemist and never met Prof. Weinreb at PSU, but met him when I was a graduate student at Illinois and he visited to give a lecture. Nice guy. He's a well known researcher in organic chemistry circles, known for the "Weinreb Amide", among other things.
The Chemistry Dept. at PSU is very productive. Stephen Benkovic is another PSU chemist who is quite well known. I'm sure there are others. I knew some older ones, now retired, who were renown in their areas of specialization.
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