December 13, 1999 Making the News Literature's Tyrus Miller was quoted extensively in a story in the Chronicle of Higher Education on how teachers are broadening the canon of modernist writers they use in the classroom. The quotes were drawn from Miller's book, Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (UC Press, 1999). Planetary scientist Erik Asphaug was quoted in stories about asteroids and planet formation that ran in the Dallas Morning News and other newspapers. Asphaug wrote a commentary accompanying a research article in the journal Nature, and his colorful language was widely quoted. (The asteroid Mathilde, Asphaug wrote, "looks as though some deity has taken large bites from a cosmic potato.") When French lecturer Miriam Ellis was awarded the rare honor of knighthood from the French government, the news was picked up by local television and newspapers. Covering the story were KSBW-Channel 8, KION-Channel 46; the Watsonville Register-Pajaronian, and the Santa Cruz County Sentinel. Ellis received the award, the Palmes Académique, in recognition of her outstanding work in promoting French arts and culture. Psychology lecturer Don Saposnek was quoted in a recent Washington Post article on divorce mediation, discussing the value of utilizing the principles of aikido in conflict resolution and the issues involved in the regulation of mediation nationally.