From the Editor
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We walk
If you're going to walk across California, there are many ways other than incremental units to assess the distance, to imagine the journey.
Spring/Summer 2013
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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
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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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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
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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
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Therein lies a tale
From the beginnings of Bucky the Bronco to unlocking the secrets of the universe through dark matter.
Spring 2012
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Why we fight
Why we fight—the question is hard to answer. Perhaps it's important to address the issue more for the questions raised than the answers provided.
Winter 2012
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Fifty fifty
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, avers a Chinese proverb. In whose shoes are you walking and what are you carrying to sustain you?
Fall 2011
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.
