We knew our website redesign would give us a new place to tell stories, but as we’ve developed the new site it’s been interesting to explore how readily we can use it as an extension of our existing publications. Wherever…
Category: Editing & Writing
Convocation dreamin’
Most of the students who appear in the magazine are in their junior or senior years. By this stage in their college career they’ve found their feet, declared a major, figured out their research interests, got to know their professors,…
More on these and other topics
A few brief updates on some earlier posts: If you enjoyed reading about my encounters with Caravaggio in Crowning Glory, you can now see our student photographer’s process for yourselves. This video documenting the making of the “Crowning with Thorns”…
Introducing the team
Welcome to Grace Schmitt ’13, who has joined our student intern team this summer. Grace jumped in feet first: She arrived as we were simultaneously laying out our Summer 2012 issue and beginning the writing work for our redesigned website.…
OK, I have questions
After a week spent moving the summer issue of the magazine to print and the July edition of @St. Norbert to its editor, while also helping our team find the personable and unified voice we intend for our new website…
Mississippi learning
Some stories stick in your mind long after their publication date. You hope they may have had a similar impact on a handful of readers, too. All the same, you don’t expect them to end up as pieces in an…
Cutting edge
Our friend Tony Walter (and a 1969 alum of St. Norbert) published his final column in yesterday’s Green Bay Press-Gazette. Summing up his 45-year career with great perspective, he keeps it real with this perfect anecdote: “Speaking to a second-grade…
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…
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…
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…
