The Matador community always has travel on the mind, of course, but as we gear up for our big San Francisco bash on August 16, we’re thinking more than ever about how and why travel are important as all proceeds from the party will fund trips abroad for inner-city students.
It seems appropriate, then, that I just received an alumni newsletter highlighting the work of sociology professor, Dr. Mike McQuaide, with whom I traveled on two occasions as his student: once through the marginalized communities of Atlanta with his social problems course, and once through the marginalized geography of Texas as part of a desert geology course.