Director’s Cut

Veteran screenwriter Dan Gilroy ’81 talks about making his directorial debut last year with the Oscar-nominated Nightcrawler.

Behind the Scenes

You might want to pay attention next time credits roll: A number of alums work in the trenches of the television/movie business, and that’s where they get their due. There would be no Hollywood…

Drama King

A look back at the singular, turbulent life of twice-expelled Walter Wanger (rhymes with “danger”), class of 1915, who became one of Hollywood’s most prolific, if not law-abiding, producers.

Voices in the Wilderness

Austin Beutner ’82 • Mahmud Johnson ’13 • Cynde McInnis ’94 • David Brion Davis ’50 • Katherine Cespedes ’10 • Joseph Marcheso ’96

Deaths

John Edwin Gilbert ’34 • Dec. 6, 2013 Henry Meade Doremus II ’37 • Nov. 9, 2014 Chellis Fay French ’37 • Nov. 25, 2014 Robert Condit Harvey ’38 • March 9, 2014 William Henry Parkhill ’39 …

Earth Mother

Acclaimed author Louise Erdrich ’76 writes complicated stories that illuminate issues confronting Native Americans and society at large. Now she’s speaking out to save the planet.

Free Beer

What would drive a small army of fraternity brothers to embark on a frigid midwinter expedition—in the middle of the night—to a derailed train north of campus?

D’Souza’s America

Following his felony conviction, conservative firebrand Dinesh D’Souza ’83 has been humbled—a little—by his new life under guard in a San Diego halfway house. But silenced?