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“There is a line in here that no one can draw — who’s going to get the serious side effects, who’s going to commit hara-kiri, and who’s going to get really aggressive and punch someone out?”

Don Catlin ’65M (MD), director of UCLA’s Olympic Analytical Laboratory, in the Los Angeles Times, talking about the growing use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs by recreational and nonprofessional athletes. Catlin announced this winter that he is retiring as director of the Olympic lab, which he founded as a professor at UCLA’s medical school to do drug testing for the 1984 Olympics.

Security Technologist Schneier ’84 Cited for Influential Analyses

Bruce Schneier ’84, a highly regarded expert on computer and technology security, is having a notable spring. In March, he received a 2007 Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. One of three honorees, Schneier was recognized for his influential analyses and commentary on network as well as national security. Schneier, who is a regular contributor to Wired magazine, also was named one of “The 50 Most Important People on the Web” by PC World magazine in March. Coming in at number 31, Schneier “offers the most lucid (and most profoundly influential) musings on computer security you’re likely to find online or off,” the magazine noted.

New York Bar Association Honors Kaplan ’66

Lewis Kaplan ’66, a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, received the Stanley H. Fuld Award this winter from the New York State Bar Association’s Commercial and Federal Litigation Section. The annual award recognizes outstanding contributions to commercial law and litigation. Kaplan, who joined the bench in 1994, is a judicial fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, judicial liaison to the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law, and a member of the American Law Institute.

Eastman Graduate Is Recognized for Teaching

Baritone Jeffery Norris ’84E (MM) has been recognized by a prominent National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts program to honor outstanding high school arts teachers. Norris, who has taught for more than 20 years at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, has been named a 2007 Coca-Cola Company/NFAA Distinguished Teacher in the Arts. The selection is based on nominations by high school students who have taken part in the foundation’s national awards program. Each student in the program is asked to name two teachers who have been important influences in their education.

Aman ’67 Named Suffolk University Law School Dean

Alfred (Fred) C. Aman Jr. ’67, a former law dean at Indiana University at Bloomington, and an internationally known scholar and director of the Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study, takes over as dean of Suffolk University Law School this July. Aman, the Roscoe C. O’Byrne Professor of Law at Indiana, served as dean there from 1991 to 2002. He was a member of the Cornell Law School faculty from 1977 to 1991.