In July 1962, President J. Richard Palmer so eloquently included this statement as the first line of The Morningside Review’s initial introduction. He continued with “the cross-currents of opinion should flow freely and mix openly …At Morningside there has risen a need to put into print, in a convenient place, these important ideas that have been expressed and aired on our campus.” Thus, The Morningside Review began.
What Palmer noted as “cross-currents of opinion” most definitely did not fade, and they certainly did not reconcile their differences. No, presently these cross-currents are larger than ever. Lasting merely five years, The Morningside Review’s potential has become more relevant today than ever before.
After that, though, Morningside’s review became lost. The publication withered away to nothing, once again. If one were to search deep enough, to ask the right questions of the right people, or to express a piqued interest in Morningside history, they may find the review within the archives.
The Morningside Review was originally born in 1962 by Palmer, Ph. D., Howard Levant, Ph. D., Walter W. Benjamin, Ph. D., Allen K. Jackson, Ph. D., James M. Miller, Jr,. Ph. D., and Joseph N. Uemura, Ph. D., exclusively professor and alumni run. In 2020, The Morningside Review was reestablished by Marianna Pizzini, Ally Hecht, Benjamin Hieb, Kailyn Robert, Leslie Werden, Ph. D., Stephen Coyne, Ph. D., and a faculty advisory board consisting of Jessica Pleuss, Ph. D., Timothy Sesterhenn, Ph. D., and Erin Edlund. In 2021, The Morningside Review was changed to a class setting and is now published by Professor David Elder’s Editing and Publishing class, with the students in his class taking on editorial roles.
This year, the tradition continues with the help of the 2023 Editing and Publishing class.
Morningside students are the voice of the university, and their scholarly work has been displayed in regional, national, and international conferences, television shows, and has been awarded awards across the board. The Morningside Review is our acknowledgement of student effort, intelligence, and ability.
The Morningside Review openly publishes undergraduate research within the Morningside community. We hope to re-engage our many cross-currents, opinions, and researched ideas with one key change: We aim to include our students in the publication process.
Let it stand here and now, forever displayed on this website: The Morningside Review.