Mission Matters
Art
Digital War
Assistant Professor of Art Ryan Reynolds explores what it means to see—versus to truly understand.
"We live in a time when we see things that we don’t really experience,” says Ryan Reynolds—even though, through the media, “we have a sense that we are informed of truth or reality.” That sense of watching (or not) conflict half a world away informs Digital War, one of Reynolds’ recent series. The painting here shows the aftermath of the bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2010. But the digital transmission has been fragmented and, on the receiving end, put together in a way that’s broken, incomplete.
Go further: See more images from the series and read more of what Reynolds has to say about it.
Winter 2012
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Features
My fight, my faith
As secretary of defense in an age of budget austerity, Leon Panetta '60, J.D. '63 has to make sure the Pentagon doesn't break the bank and that the nation doesn't break faith with the men and women who serve.
Bronco Battalion
What does it mean for a Jesuit university to be home to the Reserve Officers' Training Corps? Seventy-five years after ROTC came to Santa Clara—and 150 years after officers were first trained on campus—a few answers are clear.
Mission Matters
Going global
A $2 million grant creates a year-long fellowship program—with students taking part in a global network of socially conscious businesses.
Bribes, bombs, and outright lies
Legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow comes to campus—and shows that ethical issues raised in the Trial of the Century remain as vexing today as they did when spittoons lined the courthouse floor.
Alumni Arts
Let me lay it on you
Hot Tuna is back with their first studio recording in 20 years.
