Editor -In-Chief Alissa Krimsky Co-Editor Michael Janensch Advisory Board Samantha Chaitkin Sarah Colmaire Taryn Donovan Ethan Mitchell Erica Rolufs Technical/Design Mike Sugarbaker Matt Donham Editorial Board Gabe Anderson Jan Andrews Giavanna Borradori Heesok Chang William Hoynes Mary L. Jeanneney Michael Joyce Susan Kuretsky Kathy Kurosman Dave Lavinsky Karen Murray Tracie Potochnik Alexa Scott-Flaherty Leslie Thomas Kappa Waugh

Lucretia's Window Mission Statement: To establish an intellectual forum for the ideas generated by Vassar students, setting a backdrop for reaction and discussion. To provide a cohesive thread through the variety of disciplines in this community, reflecting the virtues of a liberal arts education. To encourage connections between faculty and students, students and students, English majors and Physics majors, Art professors and Sociology students, etc. To appreciate excellent student work and the potential this community holds.   Editorial Policy Lucretia's Window asks that professors recommend exceptional student course work for submission to the journal. An editorial board comprised of students representing a range of disciplines reads through the work selecting for variety, accessibility, and finally merit. We believe that because the work has been submitted by the professor as the most deserving in the course, that all of our submissions deserve public recognition. Because we aim to reflect back to the campus a spectrum of the academic interests within our community, we choose a variety of representative works for each issue. Eventually, we would like to concentrate each issue around a theme to make explicit the connections between disciplines we seek within a liberal arts education. Because the journal is new to the community, we did not receive the range of works we would have liked. Consequently, only a small sampling of Vassar's departments are represented in this introductory issue.   What's In a Name? Lucretia's Window refers to the Cornaro stained glass window in the reference room of the Thompson Memorial Library. Located at the nexus of student research on the Vassar campus, the window features Lady Elena Lucretia Cornaro-Piscopia, the first woman granted a doctorate by the University of Padua in 1678. The lights in the tracery framing Lucretia represent the range of disciplines that characterized education in her day. Although the face of education has changed dramatically since the seventeenth century, the variety of interests satisfied by a liberal arts education such as Vassar's continues. We see in Lucretia's window a metaphor for what this journal sees in the community, as well as the sight education provides onto the world.