Extra Credit  Extra Credit  Asst. Prof. Ekaterina Haskins
(Communication) won the Rhetoric Society of America's Charles
Kneupper Award, given for the year's best article in Rhetoric
Society Quarterly, for an essay comparing the rhetorical
approaches of Plato, Aristotle and Isocrates.  The scholar of
classical Greek rhetoric has now turned her eye to a seemingly
unorthodox subject: the postage stamp. Haskins is writing an
article on the commemorative rhetoric used in stamps,
specifically the US Postal Service's 1999 collectors' series
that chronicled, decade by decade, the popular culture of the
American Century, from the Wright Brothers to Seinfeld.  "I'm
looking at commemoration as a process that creates a certain
mythology for a culture," said Haskins. She sees in the Postal
Service's "Celebrate the Century" stamp series - in which
Cabbage Patch Kids share icon status with the fall of the Berlin
Wall - "the "public desire for history making...exploited to
serve commercial interests."  The stamps Haskins pre