¢ Joseph Tash, a KU Medical Center researcher and expert on male fertility, is quoted in a New York Times Father’s Day article on sperm. The story is titled, “Sperm – Sleek Fast and Focused: The Cells that Make Dad Dad.”_We are fast approaching Father’s Day, the festive occasion on which we plague Dad with yet another necktie or collect phone call and just generally strive to remind the big guy of the central verity of paternity – that it’s a lot more fun to become a father than to be one. “I won’t lie to you,” said the great Homer Simpson. “Fatherhood isn’t easy like motherhood.”__Yet in our insistence that men are more than elaborately engineered gamete vectors, we neglect the marvels of their elaborately engineered gametes. As the scientists who study male germ cells will readily attest, sperm are some of the most extraordinary cells of the body, a triumph of efficient packaging, sleek design and superspecialization._¢ Sally Mason, who recently was turned down as president of Purdue University, is a finalist to be president at the University of Iowa, the Iowa City Press-Citizen reports. Mason, currently Purdue’s provost, was a longtime KU faculty member and administrator.