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November 17,1998
A "Marvel" of an individual
Budding literary careers often
start out small. The career of
philosophy major Alexander
Danner    '98    began
II when he won two Will-
I iams prizes for writing
34  from the English de-
31 partment. It moved on
•fl to Marvel Comics, and
CM has branched into the
!U  publishing business.
(U     Last summer, Danner
[9  interned with Marvel in
jfl  New York City. The com-
dH  pany, which filed bank-
I  ruptcy two years ago,
I had just cut 30 percent
I of its work force. Danner
I got to work on the plots
I of some books, including
I Electro and the Incred-
^* ible Hulk, and several
Star Trek-based comics
that have faded away.
Along with his fiancee,
Brandy Straus, a student at
Keene State College in New
Hampshire, Danner also co-
founded the literary magazine
Shades of December, which can
be found around Lehigh and beyond. He met Strauss on the
staff of his high school literary
magazine, and according to
Danner, they joked about starting a literary magazine.
The magazine, which re-
•blishcd its fourth issue, welcomes submissions of
poetry, prose, short stories and
short scripts. Submissions have
come from as far as Canada.
Danner also scours the Internet
for pieces.
"If we see something we like,
we contact the author and ask
if we can use it."
A major component of the
magazine is humor, Danner
said, such as the title of the
magazine's advice column, "Ask
Papa Smurf." In December, a
bonus humor issue of the magazine will be published.
Danner's website
(www.Lehigh.EDU/ ~acd2),
gives information about the
magazine, including subscriptions, staff and ordering.
Starting a literary magazine
is not easy, but Danner got financial help from the office of
the dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences, which partially
funds his run of 300 issues.
Danner's own writing has
earned him two Williams prizes,
one for poetry in 1996, the other
for drama this year. In addition,
he has 100 written pages of an
"epic fantasy" for an independent study with Rosemarie
Arbur, professor of English.
-Jeff Bachman
Alex Danner '98 (right) examines potential manuscripts for his literary magazine, Shades of December,
with a little help from his
friends at Marvel Comics.
A Perfect 10!
Ken While
Deron Braswell (86) outreaches a Bucknell defender during Saturday's 49-7 win. With
its 10th victory, unbeaten Lehigh clinched its third-ever berth in the NCAA Division I-
AA football playoffs, with the other two coming in 1979 and 1980. Georgia Southern,
the only other I-AA team with a perfect record, also has a 10-0 mark.
EPI helps ACS
ring in millennium
The Emulsion Polymers Institute (EPI), which designed the
reactor that made the first
products manufactured in space 15
years ago, will receive a special award
on Friday, Nov. 20,
from the American
Chemical Societv '
(ACS).
Edel Wasserinan,
science adviser to
DuPont Co. Inc. and
president-elect of
ACS, will present the
Global Salute Award
to EPI at 7:45 p.m.in
the Wood Dining
Room of Iacocca Hall
on Lehigh's Mountaintop Campus.
The ceremony is
the first in a series of awards
presentations ACS is sponsoring to promote achievementss
in polymer and plastics chemistry as part of its turn-of-t he-
millennium, world-widi
ebration of chemistry.
After the awards ceremony,
EPI director Mohamed S. El-
Aasser will describe how he
and two colleagues, John
Vanderhoff and Fortunato
Micale, professors of chemistry, designed a reactor to .synthesize polystyrene latex in
zero gravity and sent their
unit aloft on the Challenger
STS-6 in April 1983.
During his speech, "Polymer Chemistry on the Space
Shuttle: Micron-Sized Polymer Particles as the First
Products Made in Space," El-
Aasser will show a prototype
of the polymer reactor that
was sent into space and photographs of the mono-dispersed latexes, a type of measuring unit, that the reactor
manufactured.
Wasserman is scheduled to
speak earlier, at 4:15 p.m., in
Room E301 of Iacocca Hall on
"Polymers and Basic Research
in the Chemical Industry." Using polymer research and development as an example,
Wasserman will describe how
industry turns creative chemistry into commercialized
technologies. His lecture will
be telecast live by the Lehigh
Educational Satellite Network (LESN) to its industrial
partners.
Wasserman, a polymer
chemist who was educated at
Harvard, has held research
and management positions at
Allied Corp., Bell Laboratories and DuPont.
The Lehigh Valley Local
Section of the ACS will host a
dinner for area chemists and
chemical engineers at 6:30
p.m. in the' Wood Dining
Room.
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