Editor’s Note: Before and After

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. There I was, a cis-gendered male, hearing firsthand from my classmates about s…

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…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: MY FAREWELL COLUMN

Lately I’ve been exploring the devilish complexities of Medicare as I approach my 65th birthday and a time of change in …

2017 Issue 3December 12, 2017December 12, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: WHY DID WESLEYAN ABANDON COEDUCATION IN 1909?

[caption id="attachment_749" align="alignright" width="200"] William Holder ’75, editor[/caption] I thought I knew the answer, and in my mind this odd twist in the history of a progressive institution arose from antag…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Illusory Bubble

I often hear students refer to the “Wesleyan bubble,” a term meant to suggest that life on campus is somehow apart from the world. In some respects, it is—by design. The opportunity to take a course with no app…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

Editor’s Note: Expanding Our Vision

When I was a young teenager, I devoured science fiction. I figured that by the turn of the 21st century we would have a colony on Mars, or at least the moon, so science fiction seemed like tomorrow’s news today. My re…