Helping Working Elephants Return to the Wild

Online ExclusivesAugust 9, 2019

Helping Working Elephants Return to the Wild

Rebecca Winkler ’16 initially wrote about her experience with Mahouts Elephant Foundation, a UK nonprofit and Thai foundation focused on returning captive working elephants to the forest and protectin…

2019 Issue 2August 9, 2019August 12, 2019

A Graphic Novel that Captivates

“The best graphic novels suggest rather than decree. They allow readers to search for truth in what is shown and said, b…

2019 Issue 1July 2, 2019August 9, 2019

Alarming Bias in Predictive Policing

Rashida Richardson ’08, director of policy research at the AI Now Institute at New York University, examines the underly…

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019May 31, 2019

A Brief Representative History of African American Studies at Wesleyan

By Jocelyn Maeyama ’22, with assistance from Jesse Nasta ’07, visiting assistant professor of African American Studies. …

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019

Poetry Corner: “DEVOTION (REFLECTION)” by Mark McCloughan ’10

DEVOTION (REFLECTION) when contemplating the word devotion and its scalloped edges, the seaside-at-sunset- pink it of…

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019

Letter to the Editor: Remembering Wesleyan’s 10th Mountain Division of World War II

Dear Editor: When WWII brought the Enlisted Reserve Corps (ERC) to Wesleyan, many of us joined at our administrators’ urging us to stay in college. In a short time, a program by the Navy took precedence and we ERC were …

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019May 31, 2019

Historical Row: Butterfield’s Bygone College of Quantitative Studies, by University Archivist Amanda Nelson

[caption id="attachment_13161" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] From 1963: Attending a College of Quantitative Studies tutorial group (L-R), Director of Projects Robert Singleton; Thornton Page, Hon.’ 59; and Robe…

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019May 20, 2019

Giving Done Right: Effective Data For Philanthropy

Philip Buchanan ’92, the president the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), has some tips on what to look for in an …

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019May 20, 2019

A Line in the Sand, by John F. Ross ’81

Turning a phrase well is often celebrated in our culture, as is the ability of a painter to capture an expression or a f…

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019May 20, 2019

Game On!

Winning Winter [caption id="attachment_13153" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Austin Hutcherson ’21[/caption] Austin Hutcherson ’21 (men’s basketball) earned First Team All-NESCAC honors this season and Tim Sesta…