To help students to see more keenly, to critique more carefully, to answer provocative questions, to create visual solutions to complex problems. Because this is fun and fun is good.

• Symmetrical layout and a symmetrical life are boring.

• The color yellow doesn’t always suggest sunshine.

• Sometimes less really is more, with the exception of chocolate and perhaps sex.

• There is no such thing as mass culture.

• Journalism is a means of storytelling, but not the only means.

• Communication is inherently visual.

• Seeing should not always be believing.

• My opinions are subject to change without notice but my beliefs are not.

• My favorite gift was a box of 96 Crayolas with a sharpener attached.

• The First Amendment deserves to be first.