By Adam D. Chandler. I was 28 years old when I came out as a gay man. People wonder how I managed to stay in the closet so long, but on a practical level, it wasn’t that hard. Rarely was someone rude enough to ask. More...

By Ulrich Rosenhagen. A week after the terrorist attacks in Paris, students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison held a candlelight vigil to mourn and commemorate the victims of that attack and others elsewhere. More than 100 Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, and religiously unaffiliated students, after some moments of silence, began to comment on what had happened the week before. Despite their religious differences, there was a common thread in the short speeches that night. Every student rejected revenge and divisiveness and made a plea for the peaceful coexistence of people of all faiths. As they spoke, students acknowledged their religious differences and appealed to their common humanity. More...

By Lise Saffran. Programs that send American students to developing countries for practical service in the health sciences and medicine are proliferating, both under the auspices of universities and in connection with commercial organizations such as Projects Abroad, which advertises among its offerings, "Exciting opportunities at Ho Leprosy Village, Ghana." Examples abound of students or volunteers "practicing" medicine beyond the limits of their own training or good sense in underresourced communities. More...