The doors of Leffe Abbey, in Belgium, have a way of cropping up in our publications. This particular image made a fine header to our New Year’s edition of @St. Norbert, out yesterday. Dave Wegge (Political Science) wrote about the…
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Food for Thought
Prediction: The top reader takeaways from our new issue will be two notes on food. 1) Gum as important study aid: “If you chew a certain flavor while you study for a test, then chew the same flavor during the…
JFK, at Home at SNC
Of all the images hung around campus, I think this one is my favorite. The young presidential candidate, the young(ish) college president. John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dennis Burke, O.Praem., ’26, outside Boyle in 1959. JFK looks so comfortable…
Smart Question
I’m sorry to say I’ve never met Miles Lamensky ’14, but he is the subject of the “big picture” feature in our forthcoming issue this time around so you can understand why I feel like I’ve spent a lot of…
Readers Everywhere You Look
We generate two new mailing lists – U.S. and Foreign – for every issue and it’s always cool to see how far we will travel. It’s the little tiny places that intrigue me the most. We have readers in the…
In a Class of Their Own
There are a number of reasons I do what I do for a living, and one of them is that, generally speaking, I get on better with the written word better than the spoken one. This is by way of…
Letter Perfect
We have prints from the Saint John’s Bible on display in the Baer and, to complement these contemporary hand-illuminated folios, some of our own medieval texts are on show next door in the Permanent Collection Gallery. These pages must be…
Love Is All You Need
Here at St. Norbert we’re all about the 2,000 year-old conversation between faith and reason that constitutes the Catholic intellectual tradition. This week’s seminar on the topic focused on “Four Loves,” as identified by C.S. Lewis at least. Here…
Poem for Cassandra
It’s just pure joy that we have poets among our college community and that, sometimes, we get to publish their words. This week, the dedication of the new Cassandra Voss Center on campus was the occasion for a new poem,…
Things I Found Out This Week
I feel I live my working life pretty much chained to my desk but, any time I venture out on campus, it’s dangerous – you invariably come back with a story. Among things I found out this week: Two of…
