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| Amber Settle | Associate Professor | |
I am a former member of the University of Chicago Outdoor Adventure Club and a current member of the DePaul University Outdoor Adventure Club. I especially love rock climbing, and I can often be found at local climbing gyms, including Hidden Peak at the Lakeshore Academy. When I have more time, I climb outdoors at Devil's Lake State Park in Wisconsin or Red River Gorge State Park in Kentucky. I'm a vegetarian and have been a subscriber to the Lyric Opera of Chicago since 1996. My primary television interest is science fiction including shows like Stargate Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica. My favorite creatures are my cats, Joon and Charlie, and my favorite DePaul suburban campus is Rolling Meadows. My brother is an Associate Professor in environmental economics at the University of Tulsa. My mother donates blood in my honor, and in December 2002 she was awarded a certificate for giving 46 pints of blood. My daughter Erin is a continual source of amazement for me.
- They don't make good area rugs, so killing one's partner is a bad thing.
L.C.
- I would never date a computer scientist.
- There is no knowledge; there is only the informed use of words.
M.S.
- It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin, The Origin of the Species
- There is a certain contradiction in the logic of those who write patriotic textbooks. On the one hand, they describe a country without repression, without real conflict. On the other hand, they obviously believe that we need to lie to students to instill in them love of country. But if the country is so wonderful, why must we lie?
James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
- But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
