Faces on Campus
By Sedem Şansal Demir (PSYC/II)
Name: Asst. Prof. Kory Spencer Sorrell (CCI)
What's your favorite triple?
a) Movie: "When We Were Kings"
b) Book: "The Better Angels of Our Nature" by Steven Pinker
c) Song: "Tangled Up in Blue" by Bob Dylan
Can you describe yourself in three words? "Restless, demanding, (frequently) bemused"
If you could be anyone from the past, who would that be? "Roberto Clemente"
Who is your favorite cartoon character? "Wile E. Coyote"
If you were a superhero, what super power(s) would you have? "Clairvoyance"
The place on campus where I feel happiest is.. "the classroom"
I have never... "forgotten the night/day I arrived at Bilkent (a wild ride...!)"
What would be your last message on earth? "Being a pragmatic idealist, a line from Oscar Wilde: 'Progress is the realization of Utopias'"
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Name: Asst. Prof. David E. Thornton (HIST)
What's your favorite triple?
a) Movie: "The Matrix"
b) Book: "Teach Yourself Swahili" by D. V. Perrott
c) Song: "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin
Can you describe yourself in three words? "Optimistic, reserved, overweight"
If you could be anyone from the past, who would that be? "Alfred the Great"
Who is your favorite cartoon character? "The Pink Panther"
If you were a superhero, what super power(s) would you have? "Spider powers!"
The place on campus where I feel happiest is... "Main Campus Library"
I have never... "smoked a cigarette"
What would be your last message on earth? "Never use a yellow felt-tip pen"
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Name:Assoc. Prof. Hüseyin Boyacı (PSYC)
What's your favorite triple?
a) Movie:"The Matrix"
b) Book: "The Castle" by F. Kafka
c) Song: "Echoes" by Pink Floyd
Can you describe yourself in three words? "Meticulous, unconventional, pensive"
If you could be anyone from the past, who would that be? "Carl Friedrich Gauss"
Who is your favorite cartoon character? "Homer Simpson"
If you were a superhero, what super power(s) would you have? "Seeing neurons functioning in the brain and being capable of manipulating their activation"
The place on campus where I feel happiest is... "Anywhere while discussing research with a colleague or student "
I have never... "liked confines"
What would be your last message on earth? "Science is the truest guide and mentor in the life of a human"