Lander’s Forge

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In Praise of WCC

            My first encounter with WCC was in August of my eleventh year while moving my second-eldest sister to Lander for her freshman year. WCC had an administrative building—what is now the Susanka home—the Holy Rosary Classrooms, Boeseke Hall and the Church itself, and the Kellogg apartments. My family and I stayed in what was…

University Life and the Act of a University

I have lived very near and worked on a University campus for four years. Taken together with my undergraduate years, this means that eight of the last ten years of my life have consisted of the pattern of life of higher education. I wanted to muse here on the full effects of that kind of…

Say the Right Thing

Do you all remember the first time we heard this or that professor—I would bet Baxter or Bolin for the majority of us—Say the Right Thing? Some philosophical, poetic, or theological point which made you sit up and give a wide-eyed “Wow”? Do you remember twittering about it in the hall afterwards or repeating the…

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