Article: A Nobel Prize for Creativity
Found in: The Los Angeles Time
Published: Monday, October 10, 2005

I found this article interesting because it takes an investigative look inside academia. Journalists do not usually delve into the world of Nobel Prizes so I found the topic of this article very unique. This article talks about how universities lay claim to professors and researchers that win Nobel Prizes even though they may only have studied there, taught there for a short period of time, or came in passing. The article includes many rhetorical questions, a writing style that makes the article simplistic yet mind-opening to the length universities will go to associate themselves with prestige and honour. The article also includes a history of the Nobel Prizes, providing context to readers so they have better understanding of the topic. The main purpose of this article though is to ask the reader to determine for themselves exactly why and how a university can link themselves to a recipient of a Nobel Prize. Should it be if the recipient did their undergraduate or graduate studies there? Or perhaps if the recipient conducted research there? Or does it have to be if the recipient completed their award winning, groundbreaking research at the university? This article forces the reader to acknowledge that universities may draw undeserved fame to themselves with these distinctions, and thus forces the reader to question the legitimacy of such titles.