The Fault of Prophecy

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 2, 2014

The Fault of Prophecy

THE SOLUTION TO PERHAPS THE GREATEST MYSTERY of ancient Greece depended on a chance meeting near the remains of a Roman villa in Portugal in 1995. True, things got clearer as an unsuspecting woman became giddy in a tool shed in Kentucky. Then again, there was the chemical analysis of rock samples a…

2004 Issue 1February 7, 2004February 13, 2020

Tortured by the Taliban

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2004 Issue 1January 20, 2004May 2, 2014

The Mysterious Art of Teaching

BY ALEXANDER CHEE '89 I GRADUATED FROM WESLEYAN IN 1989 as an English major with a B+ average and returned in the fall of 2002 as a visiting writer after the publication of my first novel. Being here again has been a st…

2004 Issue 1January 20, 2004May 2, 2014

New Ideas Infuse the Curriculum

BARRY CHERNOFF CAN BE A HARD GUY TO REACH when classes are not in session. His work as an environmental scientist bent on saving ecosystems from destruction takes him to remote areas of South America where he is more lik…

2004 Issue 1January 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Common Song for An Uncommon Film

ON A JUNE EVENING IN 2002, ethnomusicologist Tim Eriksen M.A. '93 got a call that changed his life. He and his wife, fellow ethnomusicologist Mirjana (Minja) Lausevic Ph.D. '98, were living in Minneapolis. She was a pro…

2004 Issue 1January 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Uproar Over Act of Conscience

EVEN AFTER ALL THE REHEARSAL AND PREPARATION, Ari Silver-Isenstadt '90 still didn't know what he would actually do that morning in the operating room when he faced the ethical dilemma he'd been dreading. Certainly, he n…

2003 Issue 4August 4, 2003May 2, 2014

A Fading Taboo?

SINCE HER EARLY YEARS GROWING UP IN SUBURBS OF CLEVELAND, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies Renee Romano has been a keen observer of racial relations in this country—and in her own daily life. T…

2003 Issue 4August 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Wesleyan’s Building Boom

IN 1876 WESLEYAN ACQUIRED ITS FIRST LAWN MOWER. The front of North College, formerly a meadow, became a well-trimmed lawn with mature, beautiful trees. From a small collection of brownstone buildings, the campus would ev…

2003 Issue 4August 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Preventing Fatal Medical Errors

WHEN SUZANNE DELBANCO '89 WAS 14 YEARS OLD, her cousin Debbie went into a hospital to have a broken nose fixed. An undetected genetic condition predisposed Debbie to react to general anesthesia with a dangerous and susta…

2003 Issue 3May 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Chasing the Widow-Maker

ALAN MILLER '76, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES,was searching for a story that would make readers put down their coffee. He wanted his words to change lives. He had won awards—though not yet the covete…