t h e F e a t u r e s

Commencement 2007 by Suzanne Johnson
Jazz and NBC's Brian Williams highlight send-off for graduates

The Wearing of the Green by Suzanne Johnson
Campus land stays in touch with its roots as it pulls through crisis.

Skin Deep? by Nick Marinello
Body image lies in the surgically improved eye of the beholder.

Whatever Happened to Daddy's Girl? by Mary Ann Travis
Freudian psychoanalysts push lipstick on 1950s teens.

Ask Why by Fran Simon
Sean Berkowitz tells the truth and exposes lies in Enron trial.

New Orleans by Nick Marinello
Time and place sychronize.

On the cover, upper left: The venerable metasequoia lives on at Tulane.

Inside front cover, lower left: Live Oak is embedded with logos of the hundreds of universities that took in Tulane students during the fall '05 Katrina exile. The textile art by Gina Phillips, G '97, hangs in a dining room of the new Lavin-Bernick Center.

Photos by Paula Burch-Celentano.