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Santa Clara University Scholar Commons Santa Clara Magazine SCU Publications Spring 2018 Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 59 Number 1, Spring 2018 Santa Clara University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/sc_mag Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, Business Commons, Education Commons, Engineering Commons, Law Commons, Life Sciences Commons, Medicine and Health Sciences Commons, Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Santa Clara University, "Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 59 Number 1, Spring 2018" (2018). Santa Clara Magazine. 33. https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/sc_mag/33 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the SCU Publications at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Santa Clara Magazine by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Santa Clara Magazine A global effort based at Nobel origins: Hersh Grief, loss, and Poet Dana Gioia on SCU to restore trust in Shefrin and behavioral recovery in the wake true crime and a journalism. Page 22 economics. Page 28 of disaster. Page 32 cowboy ballad. Page 50 TRUST 09/08/17 BRACING FOR IRMA: The hurricane barreled through the Turks and Caicos Islands en route to Florida. It was one of several major hurricanes in the Atlantic last season—along with Harvey, Maria, and Jose. Why was the season so destructive? Climate change was likely a factor. Though scientists are careful to avoid pointing to one event and saying, “See? We told you so!” notes Iris Stewart-Frey, an associate professor of environmental studies and sciences whose research focuses on water cycles. “But the physics of climate change are pretty well known, and this is consistent with what we know,” she says. One office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration acknowledges: “An- thropogenic warming by the end of the 21st century will likely cause tropical cyclones globally to be more intense on average.” Get generation-specific, and a recent poll shows three fourths of Mil- lennials believe that steps should be taken to slow or stop climate change. Wired Magazine founder John Battelle puts the concern of people in their twenties and thirties in more stark terms: “Climate change is to Millennials what mutually-assured destruction was for Boomers: An existential threat.” EPA / TONY AVELAR PHOTO BY NOAA NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE, DATA, AND INFORMATION SERVICE (NESDIS) TABLE OF CONTENTS SPRING 2018, VOLUME 59 NUMBER 1 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR STEVEN BOYD SAUM STAFF Editor magazine.scu.edu Steven Boyd Saum Literary Editor DIGITAL EXCLUSIVES Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 With a Capital T Associate Editor Matt Morgan Timely features, videos, slideshows, Contributors American values, grace on ice, why ’TIS NOT TROUBLE we’re talking, my friends, but Trust. The good stuff: assured Charles Barry the Reformation still matters, the gift reliance on character, ability, strength, truth. It holds together the fabric of so- Monique Beeler Sam Chivers of water, more basketball, and farm- ciety, fosters social and economic prosperity, nurtures flexible and sustainable Christine Cole Alicia K. Gonzales ’09 ing 2.0. Here’s some of the latest. organizations and nations and systems, and is the veritable coin of the realm. Lorenzo Gritti Something that must be earned, might be betrayed in ways great or trifling. Kyle Hilton Chris Ho And once breached, hard to mend. Don Jedlovec “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none,” counsels the mothering Countess in Steven Krause Grace Ogihara ’16 All’s Well That Ends Well. Not bad advice for the day-to-day. Cody Pickens So put the word trust into action: Who will show themselves worthy of trust David Plunkert Sam Scott ’96 in the accumulation of daily decisions or small disturbances? Or when hurri- James Tensuan Tina Vossugh cane or earthquake strikes or a nightmare wildfire comes roaring over the ridge? Thomas Webb Or this: If word comes—as it did for me once years ago, on a brilliant late Interns spring day, when I was teaching with the Peace Corps at a university in western Gabrielle Deutsch ’18 Perla Luna ’19 Ukraine—that there had been an accident at the nuclear power plant nearby. Lindsey Mandell ’18 Local officials denied anything was amiss. But this was the land of Chernobyl; Giannina Ong ’18 who would trust the powers-that-be to come clean when atomic disaster Design Cuttriss & Hambleton threatened? Instead, citizens had their own radiation detectors; those read Design Consultant STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY An above normal. Kids were kept indoors at school. Panic in the city of a quarter Pentagram Austin update from President Michael E. million was palpable. You couldn’t buy a train ticket out of town to save your Engh, S.J.—and an appreciation ADVISORY BOARD life. When the story made the international press a couple days later—a brief for how the SCU community is blurb—it was clear that the reporter had simply phoned an official in the capi- President Michael Engh, S.J. committed to hosting a conversation tal who said (surprise!), “We’re getting all these calls from panicked farmers Vice President for across any line that divides us. out west asking if it’s OK to open the window. Nothing is wrong!” University Relations One valuable lesson it offered me was how journalism might fail us— James Lyons especially if it forgets the responsibility to hold people in power accountable. Assistant Vice President for Alumni Relations And now, years later, here in the United States, trust in journalism is near an Kathy Kale ’86 all-time low. How to earn that back? So glad you asked. The Trust Project, a Elizabeth Fernandez ’79 global effort based at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, has staked out Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 DEPARTMENTS FEATURES Dorian Llywelyn, S.J. one way: creating a set of clear standards that news stories must adhere to if Michael S. Malone ’75, they want your trust. And these standards begin the answer, with proof, to the MBA ’77 Paul Soukup, S.J. 4 LETTERS 22 Trust Me question: Why should I believe you? After decades of declining trust in journalism, here’s some good news. Because there comes a time we might be told in soothing tones: “Trust in me.” 6 MISSION MATTERS Introducing the Trust Project. By Steven Boyd Saum and Deborah Lohse. (See, for example, The Jungle Book, snake named Kaa, trying to lure the boy Mow- Where and what Santa Clara Magazine Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk gli into its coils.) And when you hear those words, perhaps via a Disney film, is it (ISSN 0891-5822) ©2018 is published by 7 EXCLAMATION in the honeyed voice of Scarlett Johansson or, from half a century ago, avuncular Santa Clara University, CHANGE AND REDEEM In a video Sterling Holloway? He also gave voice to Winnie the Pooh. But here’s the thing: 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 9 PARAGRAPH 28 Nobel Beginnings tribute to Martin Luther King Jr., Aldo Everybody knows—even if you haven’t read the first book of the Bible—that you 95053; 408-551-1840. It appears four times Santa Clara Professor Hersh Shefrin, fellow economist Richard Thaler, and Billingslea reads from an address can’t trust the snake. per year: in March, June, September, and 10 QUOTATION the beginning of the fight to have behavioral economics taken seriously. There by MLK, and he and W. Kamau Bell, December. Business was yelling involved. By Deborah Lohse. Illustrations by Paul Blow FRANCISCO BERGER/SAN NOAH BY PARK COFFEY IN SCROGGINS JEANNETTE OF PHOTO COVER the Frank Sinatra Artist-in-Residence, and editorial offices: University Marketing and 12 AND discuss its lessons 50 years after his Communications, Loyola Hall, 500 El Camino Real, assassination. Santa Clara, CA 95053. 15 AT Periodical postage paid 32 Aftermath of Disaster at Santa Clara, CA, and When fire or flood, wind or tremor strikes, what do you make of what’s been at additional mailing IMAGES RAEDLE/GETTY JOE BY PHOTO CONTENTS CHRONICLE/POLARIS. offices. Send address 18 COPYRIGHT lost? How do you help others put their lives back together? Stories from the changes to: Santa Clara Magazine, 500 Wine Country Fires, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and earthquakes in Mexico. 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The venerable off- views of the editor or A cowboy ballad, courtesy of the California Poet Laureate. By Dana Gioia campus haunt known to generations official University policy. of SCU grads is being reborn as a Printed on FSC-certified 72 LAST PAGE paper. ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID PLUNKERT, WHO RECENTLY WAS HONORED WITH THE COVER OF THE YEAR BY THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE EDITORS.