Doing Her “Science-Writerly Best” on Taboo Topics

2006 Issue 4December 30, 2006September 30, 2014

Doing Her “Science-Writerly Best” on Taboo Topics

“After the publication of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, I became the go-to gal for all things cadaver,” author Mary Roach ’81 confessed to those who flocked to her WESeminar at Homecoming/Family Weekend. “People conclude that I must always have been obsessed with dead bodies–although …

2006 Issue 4December 30, 2006September 30, 2014

SCHOLAR ATHLETE

Ellen Davis ’07 is setting a remarkable pace through Wesleyan. This 2005 All-American from Marshall, N.C., made her fourth trip to the NCAAs in cross-country after winning the 2006 New England Division III title. She fin…

2006 Issue 4December 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Engaged With The World

Many scientists have long believed that a treasure trove of information about global warming is locked in leaf fossils that are millions of years old. Dana Royer, assistant professor of earth and environmental science, h…

2006 Issue 4December 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Think Twice About Tuna

What could be better than a healthful diet with more fish and less meat? Studies last spring by a Wesleyan undergraduate suggest that eating lots of fish might not be so desirable, after all. Asia Neupane ’09, a…

2006 Issue 4December 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Digital Artistry

Now that photography has gone digital, do we take pictures or make them? Photographer Jonathan Lipkin ’91 posed that question when he visited campus in October as a guest of the Center for the Humanities. Lipkin…

2006 Issue 4December 20, 2006May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: KEEPING WESLEYAN HISTORY ALIVE

When Olin Library opened in 1928, one of its innovations was the “Wesleyan Room.” As its name suggests, the Wesleyan Room housed the university’s fledgling archives. Located on the west side of the library’s second floor…

2006 Issue 4December 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Breaking the Grip of Poverty

IN THEY DAYS AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA, many were shocked by the depth of poverty in New Orleans. To others who were already fighting its effects in America’s inner cities, the unfolding story of failed aid held few surpri…

2006 Issue 4December 20, 2006May 2, 2014

A Better Vibe

BY LARRY GETLEN | PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL BURKHART IN BEAT THIS: A HIP-HOP HISTORY, a 1984 BBC documentary about the seminal days of hip-hop, rap pioneer DJ Kool Herc talks about the South Bronx house parties where he helpe…

2006 Issue 4December 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Dawn of the Diamond Age

BY TOM NUGENT | PHOTOGRAPHY BY HILARY SCHWAB RUSSELL HEMLEY ’77 OFTEN RIDES TO WORK ON A BATTERED 15-SPEED FUJI BIKE that he picked up at a yard sale for $25, and he keeps a conga drum from his days at Wesleyan in his o…

2006 Issue 4December 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Clash of Identities

ON AUGUST 19,1991, IN CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN AT 8:20 P.M., the police escorted the motorcade of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Schneerson (a Jewish religious leader) down President Street, heading west across Utica Aven…