Current Events
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Make a resolution for a sustainable 2013
The director of SCU's Office of Sustainability suggests five resolutions you can make to help the planet.
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What does ‘do not track’ even mean?
Internet ethics expert Irina Raicu considers why not all tracking is equal and why context is crucial.
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Mixed Messages
Jesuit School of Theology dean Thomas J. Massaro, S.J., discusses the controversial relationship between money and politics—in Germany as well as in the United States.
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'Patent trolls' file majority of U.S. patent lawsuits
SCU law professor Colleen Chien says individuals and companies that do not themselves make anything are bringing the majority of U.S. patent lawsuits.
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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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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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Case not closed
The 2012 Alexander Law Prize recognizes the work by human rights attorney Almudena Bernabeau to bring to justice those responsible for the killing of the Jesuits in El Salvador.
Fall 2012
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'Silent Spring' echo still eloquent
Historian Nancy Unger takes a new look at the book that launched the modern environmental movement.
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.
