On March 24, 1980, in San Salvador, Archbishop Oscar Amulfo Romero was assassinated while saying mass. The next day in Chicago, Mundelein College professor and playwright Nick Patricca read about it. It was the first he’d heard of Romero. And the news did something to him. “In the lower left-hand corner of the newspaper was […]
Author Archives: S.L. Wisenberg
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Why Are We in Honduras?
Should the Illinois National Guard be training in Central America? Should Illinois voters have anything to say about it?
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Sorority Rush
As long as I was masquerading, I figured, I might as well do the one thing I’d never had the guts or desire to do as a real undergraduate. So three months before my 30th birthday, I went through sorority rush at Northwestern.