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2004 Issue 3September 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Q & A: The Legacy of Brown vs Board of Ed

Two alumni who are deeply engaged in the ongoing struggle for civil rights and social justice reflect on the legacy of this historic legal decision. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education. The court …

2004 Issue 3September 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Local/Regional Issues Are Key

Professor of Government Martha Crenshaw is not satisfied with easy answers to the question, Why do terrorists attack the United States? Pat explanations have centered on anti-Americanism and the hatred terrorist…

2004 Issue 3September 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Unsympathetic Portrayals

Next time you stumble across one of those witty political cartoons in the newspaper, pay close attention to it. Chances are, says Peter Gottschalk, assistant professor of religion, you will see depictions of Muslims that…

2004 Issue 3September 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Last Lion To Be Finished

William Manchester, one of America’s most noted writers and historians, died June 1 at his home in Middletown, Conn., less than two weeks after his publisher announced that an agreement had been reached to help him finis…

2004 Issue 3September 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Dreams Unrealized

IT WAS LUNCHTIME, and a barefoot Esther Ipeche, 13, trudged home down a dirt road to her family's tin shack in Naivasha, Kenya. She was ferrying her youngest brother, 3-year-old Patrick, on her back while her two other b…

2004 Issue 2July 6, 2004October 6, 2014

How to Be a Good Wesleyan Alumnus/a

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2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 7, 2014

A Renaissance Murder Mystery

One of history's famous unsolved whodunits is the Pazzi conspiracy, in which an attempt to overthrow the Medici family, rulers of Florence, led to a brutal and brazen murder. For 500 years rumors have circulated about wh…

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Premium in Workplace

Beauty Lies in the Eye of Your Employer Beauty is most certainly in the eye of the beholder, but according to new research by Wesleyan economist Tanya Rosenblat and Harvard’s Markus Mobius, beauty is also in the eye of …

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Kanem Johnson ’04

Kanem Johnson ’04 is a lanky, 6-foot-4 basketball player from an inner-city high school in New Haven who listened to his mother. While he dreamed of stardom at a Division I school, she insisted that he keep acad…

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004April 4, 2014

Q & A: The World’s Fittest Man

Decker dropped out of college and moved to New Orleans, where he alternated between binge drinking and fattening himself on burgers, fries, and pizza. One morning he woke early with a throbbing headache, having hardly sl…