Julie Friedman (Misson & Student Affairs) is the official blogger of our seminar group as we tour Norbertine abbeys in Central Europe. Her photos of the group from the college are marvelous, and she captures some of the sense of…
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Crowning glory
The man at the information desk had told me the room housing the Caravaggios was closed today, so when I stepped into Salon Five the shock of recognition was all the more intense. It is just four weeks since I…
I slept like a bishop
The book of daily meditations thoughtfully provided in my room at Leffe Abbey opens at today’s date and Matthew 7:7. I knocked, and the door was opened to me. And what a door it is! Instead of the guest-house cell…
Eight weeks in
Well, we gave ourselves eight weeks and, throughout March and April, intern Nicole Jagielski ‘12 and I have challenged ourselves to get this blog up and running. Nicole took the lead and, in this guest post, she reflects on the…
May 2012 @ a glance
Out this morning, the May edition of @St. Norbert. In this issue: Main Hall’s cupola hoopla; Bud Selig; and the track and field team’s first home meet since the Carter administration. Enjoy!
A fine regard
Happily curled up tonight with a short stack of Portland magazines, kindly shared by our contributor Tony Staley, who is an alum of the university. This Holy Cross foundation’s magazine is as sweet, quirky and literate as its editor, Brian…
Twenty minutes with Spring 2012
Just got 20 minutes? Time for a cup of coffee and a first page-through the Spring 2012 issue of St. Norbert College Magazine! In 20 minutes you can: Read what happens when a physics professor applies his discipline’s skills to…
March, booked
Bookending the month with a few notes on things read, noted, seen, heard. READ “Six Pixels of Separation” with one of our division’s ad hoc reading groups. Two years after publication, it is amazing how current some of the material…
Two minutes with April’s @St. Norbert
Just time for a quick break with the April 2012 @St. Norbert? In two minutes you can: Scan our front page – a national title, a $1.2 million gift, our music students at Carnegie Hall; Check in on this month’s Ask…
Our man in Panama
Anindo Choudhury (Biology) is on sabbatical this year, but still took a group of St. Norbert student scientists to Panama over Spring Break. Anindo’s way with words and deep commitment to enriching the educational experience result in e-mails like this one,…
