It’s summer on the Gonzaga University campus and I have a meeting with Dan Garrity, assistant professor of broadcast studies. The sun beams down on campus, rendered ghost-town-like this time of the year except for the many camps for young cheerleaders and athletes. As I wind toward the Broadcast and Journalism Center, students are gone, continuing their education with summer internships, exploring mountains and rivers, spending time at home or expanding their human family and global engagement through Gonzaga’s many summer study abroad programs. Cue Professor Garrity.

In recognition of Gonzaga’s quasquicentennial celebration (125th anniversary), which was launched at this year’s commencement ceremonies May 12-13, @Gonzaga continues its monthly series counting back to its founding year, 1887. This series began in September 2010 when we looked back six years to the 2004-05 academic year. Each subsequent monthly story looked back another six years. In this issue, we travel back in time to view highlights of and around the 1896-97 academic year.

The sun was out and romance was in the air at Gonzaga University on Friday, April 27. That’s when junior Jake Kelly dropped to one knee to propose to Ashley, his girlfriend of seven years, also a junior. Ashley said “yes!” Slideshow by Rajah Bose.

Nearly three months ago, I found myself walking among mountains of incredible height and through villages unknown to tourists in the mythical region of India where the Himalaya Mountains shoot out of the earth to peaks so spectacular they leave you breathless.

PITTSBURGH – Gonzaga University’s Bulldogs held a light practice and fielded media questions today on the eve of their second-round NCAA Basketball Tournament battle vs. University of West Virginia that tips off at 4:20 p.m. Pacific Time (7:20 p.m. EDT) Thursday in the CONSOL Energy Center.