L&C Magazine | Winter 2011

Lewis & Clark is leading the way to improve how history is taught in rural Oregon—and beyond.

Alumni and current students celebrate the eclectic and sometimes edgy voice of campus radio.

Betsy Amster, the wife of Barry Glassner, says she has always been a book person. “My mother used to read to my sister and me every night around the kitchen table,” she says. “That experience turned me into a child who took out six books from the library at a time.” Read more.

Barry Glassner, a noted cultural commentator, is Lewis & Clark’s 24th president.

The second time Stuart Kaplan was “kidnapped” by KLC DJs, a group of students drove up to the door of his house and strongly suggested he get into their car. He wound up joining the merry pranksters on a road trip to Eugene for his first and only Grateful Dead concert. “Sure, I went,” the mild-mannered communication professor says now, laughing at the memory of the late-’80s adventure. “I had a lot of fun.”

Young alumni pursue answers to diverse scientific questions as 2010 National Science Foundation Fellows.