A: Bobby was unusual enough. I went through a time trying Bob or Robert, but my real given name is Bobby. Daddy gave me a Chinese name; Bobby was the closest American equivalent.
A: Robert Bolt’s play, A Man of All Seasons.
A: I have eight - Casablanca, It’s a Wonderful Life, Twelve O’Clock High, High Noon, Chariots of Fire, Man of All Seasons, Forrest Gump and Mr. Holland’s Opus.
A: John Kennedy went there; it’s as simple as that. If someone had asked me about Yale and Princeton, my question to them would have been, “What are Yale and Princeton?” After I received the scholarship offer from Harvard, Mamma went around Chinatown saying, “Bobby is thinking of going to Harvard.” The inevitable response was, “It’s too bad he’s not going to Cal.” She became so concerned that she went to the Chinatown elders and asked, “Is Harvard any good?” They told her if I got the money maybe I should go, but that it was too bad I was not going to Cal.
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1) The Apostle Paul. I would like to ask him about his feelings toward women.
2) William Shakespeare. We don’t know very much about him, and there’s a good chance that in life he would seem unremarkable.
3) Moe Berg. There’s a great mystery behind him. He was a frontline spy and a backup baseball catcher.
4) St. Catherine of Sienna. She was once riding in a cart that pitched her into the mud. When she got up, she shook her fist at Heaven and said, “God, if you treat your friends this way, its no wonder you don’t have very many.”
5) Anne Frank. Her death was the waste of a deeply realized young life.
A: A number of things. I went to college thinking I would major in pre-med. That didn't work out. I graduated with a degree in English and at that point, I could have gone to law school or graduate school in English. In terms of practicality, I made a dumb decision. I went to graduate school in English because I received a fellowship. Law school meant I would have had to take out student loans. But once I went to graduate school in English, the idea of being a scholar and being able to perpetuate the legacy of education that was given to me became very important.
A: I’m trying to accumulate all of the Topps cards from 1951 to the present. I have a substantial set from 1953 on, but I still need 1951 and 1952. If I had to choose a single favorite I would choose my 1954 Bowman Ted Williams. In 1954, Topps signed a deal with Williams stipulating he would be the first and last cards in the set. It was an exclusive contract. When Bowman came out with a ‘54 Williams, Topps sued and Bowman withdrew it from the market, so it is one of the rarest cards from the 1950’s.
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1) I would like to see Butler numbered among the top 10 best master’s comprehensive universities in the United States.
2) I would like to see us complete a series of buildings that go beyond what we have done today with performing arts and student life. We have to address needs in the sciences and enlarge the library.
3) I would like to see Butler regarded as a pre-eminent institutional servant of Indianapolis. People use the term ‘Butler bubble’ in both positive and negative ways: positive in that Butler is protective and caring; negative in a sense of the Butler bubble keeping the real world at arm’s length. That’s a sense of bubble I would like to dissipate.
A: I find that our students are fundamentally interested in others. Butler students understand that you don’t live for yourself alone; you live for others. The word “nice” is overused, but our students really are nice in all the positive connotations of that word.
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