Cover Story: Conversations with a tide pool Willis Hewatt's 1930s examination of a swath of Monterey Bay has become a significant baseline study that tells us we are changing our planet in dangerous ways.
Recollections of Ol' South
German pancakes in the wee hours drew the crowds. One favorite waitress provided the entertainment.
The Oxygen of Terrorism
Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan, told a campus crowd in April that democracy is the West's best defense against terrorism.
Alma Matters
A new dean for communications ... a fired-up Latin American Arts Festival ... honors students pick a favorite teacher ... a new musical is staged ... faculty move into Tucker Technology Center.
Letters
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Academe
Psychology professor Tim Barth takes a look at the unexplained in his parapsychology course.
Memīries Sweet
Unwanted guests munching the shrubbery in 1915 elicits an editorial call for 300 trees for our then-prairie campus.
Riff Ram
A new basketball coach ... golfers bring home conference championships ... women's tennis coach Roland Ingram calls it quits ... women's basketball end season in Top 25
AlumNews
Curtis King '74 MA revived the Academy of Black Arts and Letters.
Class Notes
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Notables
Brad Horn '98;Susan Nash Gilpin '73; Kurt Thomas '95; Joseph Henry "T-Bone" Burnett; Ellen Young Swain '70; Judy Tkac-Sager '63.
Back Cover
Night of Champions gets the football team in shape.
Purspectives
Jaime Walker '02 assures us she is a good driver.