2013 Issue 1

EDITOR’S NOTE

Share Your ‘This Is Why’ Story • Bill Holder

LETTERS

John Cage Remembered • Jeffrey Richards Anecdote • Hollywood Dramas, Wesleyan Film Studies, Newtown, and Guns • Disappointed in Policy Change • Kudos to Alex Magnin

UPFRONT

President’s Letter • Michael S. Roth ’78

Shapiro ’74, Silverberg ’76 Gift Builds on Creative Writing Center • Cynthia Rockwell

Fries ’85 Gives $2 Million to Support Cinema Archives Endowment Fund • Cynthia Rockwell

Scholarship, Tenacity, and Brilliance: Remember Paul Schaffel ’12 • Clare Rogan

Wesleyan Creates New College of Film and the Moving Image • Cynthia Rockwell

BYO [Water] Bottle: Campus Environmental Initiative • Cynthia Rockwell

HISTORICAL ROW: NORTH COLLEGE FIRE • Leith Johnson

Scholar Athlete • Cynthia Rockwell

Szegedy-Maszak Delivers West Coast WESeminars • Cynthia Rockwell

Reunion in Jogjakarta • Cynthia Rockwell

Fat Studies and Thin Privledge • Cynthia Rockwell

“Commitment, Humor, and Passion”: Obama Recalls Alex Okrent ’05• Cynthia Rockwell

CONVERSATIONS: AN ACTOR FINDS THE PERFECT PART• David Low

JUST PUBLISHED

NONFICTION • David Low

FICTION AND POETRY • David Low

FEATURES

MARRIAGE IN THE MOVIES • David Low

COMMITTED TO MEMORY • Lauren Rubenstein

FAR FROM HOME • Lauren Rubenstein

BEING THE CHANGE • Cynthia Rockwell