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…
