This issue sports the editor’s all-time favorite cover that accompanies a story about Father Owen Mullen, who serves as spiritual advisor to the football, basketball, baseball and lacrosse teams. Also find a feature story that delves into the lives of a variety of campus community members, including Lt. Cmdr. Lavencion Starks, head of the Naval Medical Center San Diego’s E.R.; Fran Townsend, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism; outgoing College of Arts and Sciences Dean Patrick Drinan, innovator Marcos Fernandes and social diarist Margo Schwab.