IN THIS ISSUE

Americans in Paris
At the University’s Center in Paris, undergrads learn to see the world with different eyes.
Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93
Talking to your parents about improv
Susie Allen, AB’09, offers a guide for comedy-inclined UChicago alumni.
Susie Allen, AB’09

PLUS ...

Ibidem: Jean Louis Vigier, mayor of Paris, is welcomed to the University of Chicago by senior Carol Saposnik, 1958

“Do go out of your way to make French friends. It might be difficult, but it’s worth it.”—Student tip from the Autumn 2014 program handbook for European Civilization in English at the Center in Paris

Medium
- Books: The romance laureate of Pittsburgh
  Just don’t call Gwyn Cready’s (AB’83, MBA’86) books “bodice rippers.”
  
  Games: Opening gambit
  Chess expert Eric Schiller, AB’76, AM’84, PhD’91, has a few suggestions.
  
  Outliers: Across enemy lines
  For author and Soviet spy Martha Dodd, EX’30, both of her careers began in Nazi Germany.
  
  UChicago style: Core training
  Mathematician Lauren (Murphy) Siegel, AB’88, adds natural bodybuilding to her routine.
  
  Vox discipulorum: The professors’ bookshelf
  The ultimate reading list: Professors share the books that influenced them most.
Short
- Administrivia
  Towers of power
- Alumni essay
  
  The accidental entrepreneur
- From the editor
  
  We’ll always have Paris
- Top eight
  Dead languages
  
  UChicago creatures
  Taking wing
Et cetera
- Poem by Tyehimba Jess, AB’91
  leadbelly v. lomax at the modern language association conference, 1934
  
  Recipe
  Bodybuilder’s breakfast
- Seen and heard
  The Class of 2018 and their families

The University of Chicago Magazine has been published continuously since 1907; here are the features from the Jan–Feb/15 issue:

Into the breach
A law professor offers an inside look at his experience on a presidential panel reviewing how the government protects national security and preserves civil liberties.

Onward and upward
With a string of headline gifts since its public launch, the UChicago Campaign is gathering momentum.

A political education
At the University in the 1960s, Bernie Sanders, AB’64, set out on a path that led to the Senate, and an unlikely place at the center.

Rolling the dice
Chicago Booth clinical professor of entrepreneurship Waverly Deutsch brings theatrical and gaming influences to her teaching.

Heal thyself
The president of the American College of Cardiology advocates a plant-based diet as part of shifting heart disease treatment from “event” to “prevent” focused.