Sections

  • Story time

    Story time

    Stories: complex plots unfolding around questions of who we are, where we're from, and where we're going, all of which makes us ask, and then what happened?

    Winter 2013

  • Letters

    Letters

    Readers write in about John J. Montgomery, the Boys of '50, the SCU film program, and with praise for the magazine.

    Winter 2013

  • To track or not to track—that is the question

    To track or not to track—that is the question

    Or is it? An Internet ethics expert on why the answer isn’t so simple.

    Winter 2013

  • Record pass

    Record pass

    Kevin Foster ’13 became the all-time leading scorer in SCU men’s basketball history in November.

    Winter 2013

  • Brilliant and resilient

    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

  • From the Mission to Mars

    From the Mission to Mars

    Start with a question you’ve heard a million times: Why? And the stories start to spin out from there, perhaps of fitting together plastic blocks as a boy, which is part of the answer: Here’s why I became an engineer. 

    Fall 2012
     

  • Letters

    Letters

    Readers write in about Dr. Victor Vari, the de Saisset Museum, women who've made a difference, and a family with five generations of Broncos.

    Fall 2012

  • Dream harder

    Dream harder

    What idea do you expect to see—or would you like to see—built to scale as we begin the second century of engineering at Santa Clara?

    Fall 2012

  • A clear and thorough teacher

    A clear and thorough teacher

    Farewell, William Donnelly, S.J. '49, MST '64: The longtime faculty member, alumnus, and past administrator passed away on Oct. 26.

    Fall 2012

  • Imagine you are here:

    Imagine you are here:

    It could be something small, or something gigantic, but art of any form is capable of piercing through our daily distractions to give insight or pleasure.

    Summer 2012

Winter 2013

Table of contents

Features

To catch a thief

A young mathematician at SCU has helped equip police in Santa Cruz and L.A. with an algorithm that predicts where crimes might happen next. Is this the future of policing?

How to avoid a bonfire of the humanities

A veteran chronicler of Silicon Valley looks at why the high-tech industry needs—and wants—folks who know how to tell a story.

The play’s the thing

Kurds, Arabs, countrymen: Shakespeare Iraq brings the Bard to Ashland like you’ve never heard him.

Mission Matters

Heart of the matter

A statue that’s gazed on the Mission Gardens for 130 years gets a much-needed restoration. As layers of paint are peeled away, stories of the past emerge.

All work and all play

They make Erik Hurtado ’13 WCC player of the year and the No. 5 pick in pro soccer’s draft.

Got MOOC?

There’s global interest in a Massive Open Online Course in business ethics.