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Flashback Friday: How high can they go?

Friday, Oct. 22, 2010

In a time devoid of iPods and Facebook, denizens of the ninth floor of Swig Hall celebrated their Prefect’s (a Jesuit living in the student dorms) birthday in June of 1970 by stacking nine beds together.

Nine beds, nine floors high

The king on his throne: An alumnus sits atop the ninth bunk bed.

Here is another Santa Clara snapshot from 1960 that we've run in the mag recently.

Do you have any fun memories of your time at the Mission Campus? Do share.

Liz Carney '11, editorial intern, Santa Clara Magazine

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Flashback Friday: Grand Reunion...and Panetta in the house

Friday, Oct. 8, 2010

Santa Clara grads from across the years are gathering on campus this weekend, including a number of folks from the Class of ’60.

One big event on Friday night: the launch of the President's Speaker Series with Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta ’60, J.D. ’63.

(That's his law school graduation pic on the left.)

Topic of the day: maintaining national security amid the threat of nuclear weapons, cyber-attacks, etc., while still abiding by the Constitution and upholding American values.

Look for a lively Q&A.

In his undergrad stint at Santa Clara, Panetta studied political science and helped found the Italian club.

Can you find him in the group shot?

(Click image to zoom.)

Thank you, SCU Archives and The Redwood for the archival snaps.

Liz Carney '11, editorial intern, Santa Clara Magazine

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Begin the begin

Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010

And so here we are: launching The Santa Clara Mag Blog, the latest online incarnation of the ever-expanding online universe (okay, corner of the galaxy) that is Santa Clara Magazine, telling the Santa Clara story for 30 years and counting.

Always on a mission to surprise and delight and inform and offer a new way of seeing. How?

Cover the particularly well-suited-to-blog bits that are part of the breadth that makes up Santa Clara University—in terms of ideas and events that are shaping our world, and engaging in the big conversations society is having—or should be having.

With its home at California’s oldest university—which is also in the heart of Silicon Valley—SCM is firmly rooted in its Jesuit and Catholic heritage.

With a commitment to strengthening the bonds of community and to helping alumni and friends connect with the life of the University, SCM is a magazine of the mind and the heart and the spirit, a place for compelling stories.

Okay, but what’s the idea here? The lovely print mag only arrives once a quarter (spring/summer/winter/fall) and can cover only so much.

We like to pack a lot in there but we also like to show off gorgeous photography and make the pages inviting with stories that have room to breathe.

We also like sharing news sooner rather than later about some stories that come our way.

Plus, we happen to know there’s a treasure trove of archival material at SCU that our readers would love to sink their teeth into. (Please don’t gnaw too hard on your computer screen, though.)

Here on the blog you’ll hear from a few different voices, catch glimpses of the future and the past and of what we’re working on now for that award-winning print magazine.

Post your comments or questions and fight the good fight for civil discourse as the odometer turns from 10 to 11 on the 21st century. Follow us here or on Twitter or on Facebook or whatever hip new social media platform comes swaggering onto the ’Net in the months ahead.

But why now? Today’s a very special day at SCU.

The University celebrates the Mass of the Holy Spirit, a tradition that goes back to the first Jesuit school in Messina, Italy, in 1548.

The liturgy is one of hope and thanks. With a recognition of those who have come before and dreams of what may be, this seems like a very good place to start.

Steven Boyd Saum

Editor, Santa Clara Magazine

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