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…
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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…
Little Details, Big Deal
We did a couple of things differently in our summer issue, and I’d say the chances are high you haven’t spotted ’em yet! 1) It’s our habit to run a class year after the name each time we mention a…
In-triguing Enough
When we redesigned our print-issue Table of Contents page we found we needed an unobtrusive way of differentiating the various online extras listed. Headlines were too much, so instead we devised a bolded lead-in phrase (there’s probably a term for it) to…
Two Minutes with June’s @St. Norbert
Got just two minutes to spend with our June news update? Why not: Raise a cheer for the men’s golf team, who took home their first-ever conference championship. Note the fact that 61 percent of our graduating class already had…
