March/April 2009
Cover Story
Thousands gather on campus to watch and celebrate the inauguration of one of our own, President Barack Obama ’83.
By Ethan Rouen ’04J
Features
Michele M. Moody-Adams, vice provost for undergraduate education, professor of philosophy and Director/Hutchinson Professor of Ethics and Public Life at Cornell, has been named to succeed Austin Quigley as the 15th Dean of the College.
In the second part of a wide-ranging interview, Dean Austin Quigley picks up the story with the tumultuous week in 1997 in which he was fired and promptly rehired, and speaks personally about the events of 9-11 and a position he describes as a mission rather than a job.
By Alex Sachare ’71
The NAACP’s newest, and youngest, president speaks about how his upbringing shaped his need to effect social change and his plans for the 100-year-old organization.
By Amy Perkel Madsen ’89