Our New Year’s greeting to our readers traditionally takes the form of a reflection from one member of the campus community. It’s always interesting to see the tack they take, and the form they choose varies from year to year,…
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Of a Retiring Nature
Favorite alumni note in our upcoming issue: 1974 Richard Rech is newly retired and living in The Villages, Fla. He says, “It’s like Disneyland for adults.” Not too much, not too little: The story’s all there. And so real! We love…
A for Abbot, C for College
Our popular Ask the Abbot feature garners lots of questions and occasionally prompts its own answers, too, with rich material that augments the fictional Abbot’s own responses. In last month’s @St. Norbert, Jerome Moscinski ’63 asked the Abbot why St.…
As Assigned
This artefact from the history of a young writer is just one of many delightful surprises that has shown up in our office since I first connected with Breanna Mekuly ’09 earlier this summer. Breanna’s name first cropped up when I asked the…
Neary There
I’m at Collegium, the annual colloquy on faith and intellectual life found by Tom Landy of College of the Holy Cross. This year, University of Portland is hosting this extraordinary seminar/retreat for faculty from Catholic colleges – and what a…
Life Is a Lot Like Editing
With every Commencement, we bid farewell to our senior intern. We are going to miss Amy Mrotek ’16! We’re going to miss her skills, her creativity, her ever-willing presence in the office. Most of all, though, we will miss her wonderful…
Big Picture Thinking
It’s no small thing … . A year ago, we got a little bit bigger. After 15 years as a 32-pager, the magazine was able to add four pages to its count. We wanted to use this additional space to respond to the two things readers tell…
A Few Choice Words …
… from our new issue: lepidopterous Love this one! We have a bit of fun with the “in” phrases we use to set up our list of online exclusives, and “In matters lepidopterous” was the brilliant touch from Jill that introduced a video about the Moth…
Lightness of Being
I spend almost all of my time with the interns’ prose reining them in; emphasizing the spare and economic techniques of straight newswriting; eliminating the flowery, ruling out the editorial voice. So it’s a beautiful thing, in the week’s student newspaper, to…
Out of the Strong Comes Forth Sweetness
I don’t know that I’ve encountered a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize before today, and I wouldn’t have expected it to be about the food, in any case. But Victor Ochen has been on campus, and here’s what Corey posted on…
