Editors' page

Hello, and welcome to a new issue of Towerview magazine. Mike Corey, the magazine’s editor, was not able to contribute to this issue for personal reasons. As current co-editors, Whitney Robinson and I have ventured into new territory for the publication, both in design and editorial content.

With this issue, we have introduced a theme that we hope resonates with you, too: Generation Y. As an Asian-American at Duke, Sarah Kwak confronts the term “multiculturalism” as a term too cliché to accurately describe our generation. Sarah Ball turns to Clinical and Psychological Services director Jim Clack for an analysis. And having just returned from a major rite of passage, Andrew Gerst retraces his steps through Europe on his own quest for identity.

In 32 pages we cannot hope to capture an entire generation’s spirit. However, we do hope that the following articles might encourage our readers to reflect on who we are and the forces that define us at this moment. As always, we welcome your feedback.

                                                                                            Molly Nicholson

Visualizing the look and feel of Generation Y on paper has been both a daunting and rewarding assignment. To categorize our generation as representative of just one thing, one idea or one look is contrary to what we stand for: the process of constantly remaking our images, for better or worse, in the name of change and progress.

I hope that you will all find this issue of Towerview eye-catching, and that in some way, you will connect to one of the iconic words that make up the American flag on the cover, to one of the icons in Emily Rotberg’s captivating photo essay of some of Duke’s students’ role models, or to one of the images of our generation’s life provided by our writers and photographers. Most of all, I hope that together with our features the images make you think about the concept of a generation in flux.

For now though, as a card-carrying member of Generation Y myself, it’s time for me to move on, and see what’s in store for the next issue.