Bob Sipchen Bob Sipchen writes the Times weekly "School Me" column and oversees the "School Me!" blog. Among many writing and editing positions at the Times, he served as editor of the Sunday Opinion section, later renamed Current, he created, launched and edited the Times Outdoors section, and served as senior editor at the Times Sunday Magazine. As Associate Editor of the Editorial Pages Sipchen won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize and the Sigma Delta Chi award for editorial writing (with Alex Raksin) for a series of editorials about people with mental illness and addictions living on America's sidewalks and in its alleys. As a staff writer he shared in the Times 1992 Pulitzer Prize for its team coverage of the Los Angeles riots. In 1995-1996 Sipchen ranged the country covering the presidential campaign and in 1997 he loaded his wife and three children into a 27-foot motor home and traveled 22,000 miles through 46 states writing a series of twice-a-week columns colleagues still refer to as "The Sipchen Family Summer Vacation Scam." In addition to his work at the Times, Sipchen freelances for such publications as Playboy, National Geographic Traveler and Men's Journal. The New York Times Book Review called Sipchen's Baby Insane and the Buddha (Doubleday, 1992, Bantam 1993) "first rate," adding, "Mr. Sipchen's supple, muscular prose gives the book the sweep and narrative pacing of a novel." An adjunct professor at Occidental College since 1997, Sipchen teaches news writing in the fall and narrative non-fiction in the spring. He is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara and 2006 recipient of the university's Distinguished Alumni Award.