There are many ways to affect the life and the history of a city. Some are accompanied by acclaim; some are less noticed but no less significant.

Last year Anil Gollahalli, '00, was named Vice President of the University of Oklahoma (OU) and General Counsel to the OU Board of Regents.

As Justice Brandeis once wrote, "It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and...