First in a new series of publications on the verbal and visual arts, this volume explores "Love" in cinema, literature, music and photography. Included are pre-release excerpts from Alicia Borinsky's "All Night Movie" and John Bricuth's "As Long As It's Big, " as well as "Striptease, " a new CD by composer Sylvia Meyer. Point of Contact Is an independent, nonprofit organization located on the Syracuse University campus. Point of Contact fosters opportunities for the exchange of ideas in the verbal and visua arts through its innovative and provocative publications containing creative...

The sports issue of Point of Contact features conversations, essays, and artwork by and about coach Jim Boeheim, writers Tim Green and Mary Karr, Chief Oren Lyons and Lacrosse coach Roy Simmons, Jr., film maker Owen Shapiro, and novelist and teacher Tom Friedmann. Pedro Cuperman writes in the introduction that the topics featured go beyond the commercialism and drug abuse in the sports industry. Incorporating everything from an essay on Quidditch and the obsession of English elite boarding schools with physical education to a conversation about Lacrosse between Chief Oren Lyons of the...