Deady Hall

Here is the oldest building on the University of Oregon campus, I believe. I have 2 stories. First, as a grad student, my playwriting seminar was on the top floor here. Unfortunately the professor, my mentor, weighed 350+ and, in a building with no elevator, it took him some time to recover by the time he climbed the stairs. He learned to get there early.

Years later, as editor of Sweet Reason, I came to campus to interview the physicist Amit Goswami for a special I was doing on quantum theory (ahead of its time for a general audience journal). I found him in a small room in this building, a room filled with blackboards and mathematical equations. He was a resident theoretical physicist. I envied him.