Despite his artificial knee, Tom Wilkinson ’59 joins with nearly 25 players age 70 or older who gather once a week to play hockey at a Laurel, Maryland, rink. Wilkinson, a former assistant managing editor at the Washington Post, wrote about the Gerihatricks for the Post last March. “I remember that first day on the bench,” said Sarah Brooks, one of two female players. “Everyone was talking about their PSA scores. I thought it was some sort of rating system in hockey that I didn’t know about.”

David Levy ’71 “is one of the more unusual characters thinking about education and technology,” according to the March 24 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. A professor in the University of Washington’s Information School, Levy teaches “Information and Contemplation,” a class he starts by leading his students in a few minutes of meditation. The Chronicle said that as digital tools took hold, the former researcher at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center with a long-standing interest in meditation, asked: “How could people live balanced lives in the middle of these technologies?”

Marking one of the first times a television show and a video game were developed simultaneously, Defiance premiered on the Syfy channel in April, a week after the Defiance video game was released. Together, they “are promising experiments,” reported The New York Times, adding that it’s unclear how the television show would affect the plotting of the game. “I’m not so sure that gamers want to affect the narrative of a TV series,” said Mark Stern ’85, president for original content at Syfy. “They want to see the worlds cross over. But I think you’re watching a TV show for a very different reason than you’re playing a video game. You want to be told a story.”

The Valley News contacted former women’s basketball captain Krista Perry ’06 in early May to get her thoughts after NBA player Jason Collins revealed that he is gay. Perry, who came out during her sophomore summer, said sexuality is “not much of an issue in women’s athletics. We were really just waiting to see who would be the first [on the men’s side].” Now that a male professional athlete has acknowledged he’s gay, “I hope people will look at this and say, ‘Well, he didn’t fall apart after he came out. Maybe it’s okay for me,’ ” Perry said.

The “impact of the Burning Man experience has been so profound that a culture has formed around it,” according to the website for the weeklong event in Nevada. After attending the gathering of more than 48,000 people in the Black Rock Desert six years ago, Maggie Kim ’99, Angie Kim ’99 and Mandalyn Begay ’97 were inspired by the culture to enroll in San Francisco’s Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and start a clothing company. The San Francisco Chronicle noted in a March article that the trio’s West Oakland, California-based company, Oda, recently came out with its fourth line. “We wanted to make art, art that was accessible, that was useful in some way. And so we started making clothes,” said Begay.

No one knows who has been correcting the grammatical and punctuation errors on signs in the Pratt Institute’s sculpture garden in Brooklyn, New York. But Jeff Deck ’02 and Benjamin Herson ’02, authors of The Great Typo Hunt, have been cleared, according to a May op-ed in The New York Times. “We no longer practice or condone typo corrections without permission,” said Deck. “Typo hunting must be done in the light, not in the shadow; speaking honestly with people who have made typos can yield far more valuable results in the long run.”

Helping people in his native Mexico escape the cycle of poverty is the goal of Fernando Orta ’08. Armed with degrees in economics and engineering, he founded in Mexico City the financial services company Podemos Progresar, which means, “We can move forward.” Orta wants to move beyond microfinancing “by establishing an economic and social center for the most marginalized classes,” classmate Maura Pennington ’08 wrote in Forbes in March. “Microcredit is not just about giving people money,” said Orta. “It’s about giving people a chance to pursue opportunities.”

It was an eventful spring for former Dartmouth Senior Fellow Lilian Mehrel ’09. In April she was awarded a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship to support an M.F.A. in film at NYU, and her short film, Wipe Out, played at the Take Two Film Festival in New York City. Her latest short, A Crack, premiered in May.