Inside Westlands Gate

Fire on the Mountain
Katherine Lewandowski ’03 plans to teach high school English after leaving Sarah Lawrence. First, though, she’s going to spend another summer fighting forest fires.  Lewandowski spotted a newspaper ad for firefighters after returning last spring from her junior year in France... | full story

My Girl's From Titsworth
Now the whole world knows “The Titsworth Song.” Or at least a snippet of it. On September 25 six members of the student a cappella singing group Res Miranda appeared on the ABC daytime TV talk show, “The View,” honoring co-host/birthday girl Barbara Walters with one of the verses of the old SLC standard... | full story

Roots of Terror
“States can define ‘terrorism’ however they want, collapsing groups that have genuine grievances against the government in with groups like Al Qaeda,” said political science faculty member Ray Seidelman during the six-part fall discussion series, “The United States, Iraq, and the World: Perspectives on the ‘War on Terrorism,” that he helped organize... | full story

Searching/Discovering
In his new book, In Search of America, anchorman Peter Jennings examines how the principles of the Founding Fathers play out in contemporary American life. The book considers how cultures, conflicts, and communities in the United States reflect and reinterpret the seminal ideas that frame our nation... | full story

Ilchman Award Honors Archivist Owen
Patti Owen ’51, a Sarah Lawrence employee for 50 years and the person most responsible for modernizing the College Archives, received the 2002 Alice Stone Ilchman Award at the all-College faculty-staff meeting in Reisinger Hall on September 10... | full story

Farewell, McMasters
McMasters, a small house bought by the College in 1969 and which served as a student residence through the 2001-02 academic year, was razed on December 17 to prepare for the construction of the Monika A. and Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Visual Arts Center... | full story

Remembering September 11
It was a mild late-summer morning, much like the year before. Some 100 students, faculty and staff came together at the flagpole near Westlands for a moment of silence at 8:46 — the time the first plane struck the World Trade Center... | full story

What They Said
What Marion Nestle, Philp Glass, Babette Mangolte, and Deborah Meier said at Sarah Lawrence last semester... | full story