Contents for May 22-June 11, 1998

• Eight honorary degrees will be awarded Commencement Day, the culmination of a weekend that includes President Gee's inauguration speech. You'll be seeing a lot of University symbols on campus this weekend. Read up on some of them, then take a look at the depth and breadth of scholarship reflected in this year's crop of Ph.D. dissertations.

• What's on the horizon for graduating seniors? For one, it's travel. Another is heading to Peru to write a book. A third is opening an ice cream store in Ireland. But "nobody's going into this or that for life," according to Career Planning Services. "Essentially they are continuing the exploration that they started here at Brown."

• Peter Monti offers a sobering reason for why he studies teens' use of alcohol and cigarettes. In 1994, three friends of his teen-age children died from alcohol-related events. Monti had spent nearly two decades studying adult drug and alcohol abuse. But the tragedies led him to also look into what research said about adolescents and addictions.
• Long before the NCAA took official notice of women's athletics, Arlene Gorton was at work as director of athletics at Pembroke and later as associate director at Brown. In her 37-year career at Brown, she has witnessed the birth of big-time women's sports. She offers some comments before retiring next month.