Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

The other essays in the issue discuss Bob's impact on Swedish sociology and on justice/policy research.

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In my essay I wrote about how Bob's interest in "trouble" shaped my research and teaching career and sparked a recent project on the sociology of "fun"

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Long summer Spokane days are great. Glad you enjoyed with some fry bread!

Spokane is Washington's second biggest city with a rich urban history. Huge waterfalls in downtown park. Close to nature, hiking, skiing. Distinct neighborhood cultures. Relatively affordable housing. Food/beer/coffee/music scene gets better every year.

Gonzaga is in Spokane, WA. Basketball made us a name brand and we do love our men's and women's teams. But we also have an excellent reputation as a teaching university. Lots of creative and passionate teacher/scholars working together in a mission driven context.

My deepest learning came in an apprenticeship relationship rather than a faceless trial where I competed for points in an educational machine. I'd rather figure out how to scale humanistic mentorship relationships than lean back on a point economy as a stand-in for real learning.

But I balked at his use of "grade inflation" as an indicator of a watered down education. Using a system that differentiates between 89.4% and 90.3% turns the classroom into a point economy. And incentivizes gamesmanship rather than learning.

I just finished re-reading Telander's Heaven is a Playground. And we're a long way away from Rodney making calls selling middling Brooklyn playground ballers to JuCos in middle America.