Alan Rudy:  

After GL and BH, 4 years of soccer, radio, a progressive frat and a raft of political action left me with a BA in Biology I didn't know what to do with. After a 1400 mile bike trip in Scotland, working for Mondale Ferraro in South Jersey, I finally gained a job at Memorial Sloan-Kettering as a lab tech in a bone marrow transplant/childhood leukemia lab. I lived with friends in Millburn, commuted to NYC, played highly competitive Ultimate (making it to nationals once), drank beer and attended post-punk shows for three years before moving to Santa Cruz, CA, for grad school in environmental sociology. In Santa Cruz, in addition to continuing to play Ultimate and returning to free-form radio, I focused my work on the contested role of science and technology in political economy of agriculture and the overlapping worlds of environmental crises, labor struggles and community restructuring. I first saw my future wife playing third base against us - man, she has a cannon of an arm - in an IM softball game, then later we met on the Ultimate fields and in the Environmental Studies Library she ran. We've lived together since 1990. Diane lost her job during the BS that was the TQM restructurings the UC system went through during the post-Cold War recession and then took a job at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. I joined her in Massachusetts after 6 months of grant-funded archival research and interviews in CA, serving as a house husband while writing my dissertation. I coached varsity wrestling - fun! - and also freshman soccer - "interesting" - at Lawrence Academy in Groton for a year and after completing my PhD had temporary gigs at Keene State, back at UCSC, and for a year at Guilford College, in Greensboro, NC. Sadly, my mom passed away from her second bout with breast cancer around that time and didn't get to see me earn the...Expand for more