Making Room for Woven Voices
Earlier this week, a friend and fellow undergraduate at the university asked me over text message, “Why do they call the journal the Ivory Tower?” His question echoes ones that we, the staff of Ivory Tower, hear regularly from our student peers. “Don’t you think that comes off a bit exclusive?” “Is the name supposed to be ironic?” 2015 Ivory Tower cover Such concerns are not unfounded. I do not know why, at the magazine’s conception, this particular name…