Editor’s Note

I returned to my office in South College recently to pick up a few things, having not been there since the University’s transition to remote working and learning environments last spring. It was like stepping into a time…

After her appointment in December, Nicole Stanton was slated to begin her official duties as Wesleyan’s 12th Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs on May 15, 2020. In honoring interim Provost and SVPAA R…

My senior year of college, I was assigned to read a book titled She’s Not There. It blew my mind. Even more than the book itself, which I tore through wide-eyed in a day or so, I remember the discussions it engendered…

On a recent trip to Greece, and at the recommendation of Wesleyan professor (and Grecian native) Tsampikos Kottos, my wife and I decided to hike Samaria Gorge in southern Crete. While travel is often noted for helping …

Despite growing up in Connecticut, most of what I knew about Wesleyan as an adolescent was that a very bright friend of mine—Nick Encalada-Malinowski ’04—chose it from many other impressive collegiate options. Aside fro…

The Design & Ideas theme inspired the magazine staff to reconsider their own.   They say not to judge a book by its cover. Magazines are a different story. On the front of this issue, for instance, …

As this magazine has come together, I’ve realized that this issue has been all about dualities—holding in one’s mind two separate, sometimes contrasting things as part of a whole, while still moving forward. Since Sep…

This issue on journalism and media has felt more personal than most, particularly as we prepared for the retirement of editor Bill Holder ’75. While collecting stories of the journalists profiled in these pages, I’ve bee…