Small World through Marquette II

I received an e-mail from my friends Paul & Helen Silder about Marc Schauer. We guys all lived on the same floor of McCormick (Paul, Marc, John, Brian [Slats] that Tony Keys guy I mentioned in an earlier entry, Doug, and me). He and Paul were roommates at Tower the following year. Then he weaseled his way out of his housing contract the next semester to move into John’s apartment. He dropped out of Marquette and I never really followed up on the guy. Personally, we didn’t get along. I felt he was a spoiled, rich brat from the Hinsdale area (very wealthy part soutwest of Chicago) who lacked even less discipline than me to attend his classes. He didn’t have a high opinion of me neither. He probably thought I was a small-minded, bourgeouis racist like Paul and Slats (we aren’t, we just had to work and borrow for what we had because our parents couldn’t just cut a check for our tuition on admission day). He didn’t show at the Silder wedding and Marc had fallen off my radar once he dropped out of Marquette in the Summer of 1988. 
 
One thing I could always give Marc credit for was his smoothness with women. Despite the obvious acne scars, he had a charm, wit and confidence with them. He also did pick on women who less attractive and had low self-esteem like John, so we were envious. I was probably my usual pious, killjoy self then. (I didn’t believe in hurting other people’s feelings if it could avoided. Sex with precautions was fine.) 
 
From these pictures (links courtesy of the Silders), he’s still a smooth operator since he’s hooked up with actress Laura Linney. Yes, the woman who played Jim Carrey’s TV-show wife in The Truman Show. 
 
The first one just lists his name in the photo but you see only the back of his head. Schauer isn’t an uncommon last name. 
 
But the second one clinches that it’s him with Laura Linney because it’s a front view and the same evening of the Oscars in 2005. 
 
Maybe I should’ve dropped out of Marquette after my freshman year as my mom suggested.