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Special-interest housing is a section of a residence hall dedicated for students with a common interest. “At its best, it means students are actively engaging with others in growing together, supporting each other, and discovering themselves,” says Dean of Students Terry Martinez.

“We’re not only trying to establish an LGBTQ history of Â鶹¹ú²úAV College, but we want to put this history, and these people who lived it, within a larger context of LGBTQ history in the United States,” says the project’s originator, Professor Joyce Barry.

Equality, loss, neglect, legacy. These are just some of the unabashedly vulnerable topics Heidi Wong ’20 addresses in her latest collection of poetry and paintings, The Blue Velvet Dress Says I Told You So, published by 777.

If you know Roz Chast’s cartoons, you know Roz Chast. You know she’s funny. And perceptive. What you might not know from her cartoons: Chast’s two years at Kirkland College in the early 1970s were a formative blur that she considers an important transition toward her life as an artist.

For Taylor Adams ’11, it really is about the journey and not the destination. “It” for Adams came on May 23 when he conquered Mount Everest and joined an elite club of climbers with Type 1 diabetes who have summited Earth’s tallest mountain. 

Ralph Nichols ’40 recounts his D-Day experience with focused detail and the conviction that it’s important for people to hear about World War II.