Editor’s Note: The Value of Community

2021-2022 Winter IssueJanuary 18, 2022January 20, 2022

Editor’s Note: The Value of Community

I have a confession to make: I missed Arrival Day this year. It’s always notable because of what it represents: new faces, new hope, a new start. This year, however, was more poignant than ever, as it wasn’t just fresh-faced (and masked) new first-years and their parents stepping foot on campus f…

2021 Issue 1May 15, 2021May 28, 2021

Editor’s Note: Pushing for Progress

Cartoon by Jason Adam Katzenstein ’13 It’s springtime in Connecticut. A few days ago students enjoyed 70-degree weath…

2020-2021 Winter IssueFebruary 6, 2021

Editor’s Note: Learning Curves

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…

2020 Issue 2September 24, 2020

Editor’s Note: Cultivating Equity

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…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 7, 2020

Editor’s Note: Before and After

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…

2019 Issue 3December 3, 2019December 3, 2019

Editor’s Note: The Special Power of Global Experiences

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 …

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019May 20, 2019

Editor’s Note: Difficult Problems and Creative Solutions

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…

2018 Issue 3December 4, 2018December 7, 2018

What’s the Story on the Cover?

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, …

2018 Issue 3December 3, 2018May 21, 2019

Editor’s Note: Ideas on Design: Dualities

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…

2018 Issue 2September 7, 2018May 21, 2019

Editor’s Note: A Stethoscope, a Camera Lens, and a Batphone

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…