On September 8, the undergraduate community kicked off the academic year with what is hoped to be a new Lewis & Clark tradition: Pio Fair. This year’s event, themed as a beach party, included a barbecue, a pep rally, music, and a pool party. Also wrapped into the event was the annual Activities Fair, in which more than 100 campus clubs, organizations, and departments shared opportunities for involvement.

“In 1992, I was in sixth grade, living a normal life in Afghanistan with my family,” remembers Mahmood Khan, a first-year student at Lewis & Clark. “But suddenly, everything changed when war erupted in Afghanistan.” The country had fallen into a period of warlordism after the withdrawal of Soviet forces.

President Tom Hochstettler wowed audiences with his ability to speak in rhyming couplets during the theatre department’s fall production of Tartuffe, 17th-century comedy by the French dramatist Molière. Stepan Simek, assistant professor of theatre and the play’s director, scripted the lines for the president’s cameo appearance. 

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Peter Cookson can walk into a school and instantly tell you its personality. “You can tell a lot about a place just by how it looks and the energy of the students and teachers,” says Cookson, dean of Lewis & Clark’s Graduate School of Education and Counseling.