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…
Crowning glory
Category: St. Norbert College Publications
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!
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…
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,…
Great chemistry
Attended class in Intermediate Organic Chemistry today. Amazingly, I almost understood almost everything – as promised in advance by the guest presenter, Michael Foley ’84. Foley, of Harvard’s Broad Institute, is a compelling speaker, and he is at once all about…
Why blogger?
Nicole and I have a lofty statement about the purpose of this editor’s blog in our strategic plan, but I think what it boils down to is that our magazine needs what all magazines need: a way to initiate conversation…
St. Norbert at large
Now everybody has returned from Spring Break, it’s becoming evident that, even though classes stopped for a week, our students haven’t exactly been slacking. It was Todd Danen (Alumni Relations) who pointed this out to me this morning after Common…
