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Brilliant and resilient
Hope is the thing with feathers, Emily Dickinson wrote. And there, the opening image of the spring magazine, captured by the lens of Susan Middleton '70, behold: What feathers!
Spring 2011
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Investigating the sacred and profane
Writer Robert Bieselin talks with William Rewak, S.J., about his new collection of poetry, The Right Taxi.
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How to avoid a bonfire of the humanities
Tech writer Michael S. Malone '75, MBA '77 takes a look at why the high tech industry needs more humanities majors.
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Odes to Omaha
Essayist and critic Sven Birkerts reviews the new story collection by Ron Hansen M.A. '95. Hansen will read from his book on Nov. 20 in Corte Madera.
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A valedictorian of Olympic proportions
Kelly Crowley ’99 medaled twice in cycling at the 2012 Paralympics—and won gold in Athens in swimming in ’04 and was valedictorian of SCU.
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Bobby Seale: The story of a Black Panther then and now
Stories and a Q&A session with the 1960s civil rights activist and founding member of the Black Panther Party
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Faith in the press?
As news organizations consolidate, the picture of the world presented to readers becomes less nuanced—especially at the intersection of politics and religion.
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Hispanics, religion, and the elections
The editor of a major Spanish-language outlet in the Bay Area on the possibly election-deciding impact of the Hispanic vote in 2012.
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Engineering with a Mission
The engineering work being done today was the stuff of imagination when the School of Engineering started a century ago. Where do we go from here?
Fall 2012
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We, robots
Adventures with the Robotics Systems Laboratory by land, sea, and sky. And in orbit.
Fall 2012
Spring/Summer 2013
Table of contents
Features
Walk Across California
An epic journey whereby one foot is put in front of the other to discover, up close and personal, who and what and where is the Golden State.
Miller's Tale
To tell the story of Bob Miller ’67 is to tell the coming-of-age tale of Las Vegas itself. And it’s the chronicle of a man who served a decade as governor of Nevada. Quite a journey for the son of an illegal bookie from Chicago.
Blood. Sweat. Tears. Repeat.
Nina Acosta '82 was a tough enough cop to pass the test for the LAPD’s SWAT team. Then she learned the hard way about gender discrimination. So how did she do on Survivor?
Mission Matters
When justice is kidnapped
The 2013 Alexander Law Prize honors Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese civil-rights activist and attorney who protested government abuses—including excessive enforcement of the one-child policy—then escaped house arrest to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
Double trouble
Growing up tennis with Kelly Lamble ’13 and John Lamble ’13. And Bronco teams that are a force to be reckoned with nationally.
Keep the door open
For teaching and advising and a ministry that’s blessed this place for 48 years—paying tribute to Charles Phipps, S.J.

