Editors' Notes

 

Laura Adamczyk, 2003, is a Creative Writing and Spanish double major from Wilmington, IL: “To perceive the distance between the divine and the human, it is enough to compare these crude wavering symbols which my fallible hand scrawls on the cover of a book, with the organic letters inside: punctual, delicate, perfectly black, inimitably symmetrical.”—Jorge Luis Borges.

 

Laurel Anderson, 2003, is a Studio Art and Secondary Education double major from Rockford, IL: “Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”—Picasso.

 

Cynthia Barounis, 2003, is an English Literature major from Niles, IL. 

 

Amber Bradshaw, 2002, is a Theater major from Atlanta, GA. “In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in Watermelon Sugar”—Richard Brautigan.

 

Tina Browder, 2003, is a Studio Art major from Berwyn, IL.  “Revolution is the harmony of form and color, and everything exists and moves under a single law: life.  Nobody is apart from anybody else.  Nobody struggles by him or herself.  All is all and also one.  Pain and anguish and pleasure and death are only a process for existing...”—Frida Kahlo

 

Megan Clair, 2004, is a Biology and Music double major from Ottawa, IL: “True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.”—Albert Einstein.

 

Ross Kelly, 2003, is a Creative Writing major from Olathe, KS.

 

Ruth Evans Lane, 2004, is an English Literature major and French minor from Prairie Village, KS. 

 

Claire Leeds, 2003, is a Creative Writing major and Gender and Women’s Studies minor from Monroe, WI.

 

Joseph Mohan, 2003, is an Art History major and Photography minor from Grinnell, IA: “I'm putting ladies on layaway. I'm making very sexy installments.”—Har Mar Superstar

 

Cindy Pacyk, 2004, is a Studio Art and Secondary Education double major from Prospect Heights, IL. 

 

Carin Perilloux, 2003, is a Psychology and Computer Science double major from Naperville, IL. 

 

Stephen Pihlaja, 2003, is a Creative Writing major from Gurnee, IL.