WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE
Summer 2004

FEATURES

Global Perspectives

As different as our world's landscapes, nations, cultures and languages are, nearly all of them have this in common: student representatives at Wichita State.

The Legacy of Brown v. BOE

Fifty years ago on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kan., that segregated public schools were unconstitutional. At the time of the high court's decision, I was a 4-year-old African-American kid from a working-class family in Wichita.

Dangerous Minds

Since the 1980s, criminal investigators at the state, local and federal levels have used criminal profiling as a tool to narrow the range of suspects in a given crime. The work often takes investigators into one of the darkest places imaginable — the criminal mind.

The Persistence of Vision

For five decades and counting, artist Bruce Conner fs '53 has been exploring some of our world's most soaring contraries: the sacred and the profane, good and evil, light and shadow, white and black.