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2002 Issue 4September 4, 2002May 5, 2014

What’s Eating Us?

"A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK EATING DISORDERS are based in vanity," says Professor of Psychology Ruth Striegel-Moore. "Bulimia is ‘the stupid thing vain women do.' But they're really disorders of identity." That crucial insight lay well in her future when Striegel-Moore, as an undergraduate, accompanied …

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Playing Politics

YOU MIGHT THINK THAT BRADLEY WHITFORD ’81, award-winning actor on NBC’s The West Wing, could take a lunch break that lasted as long as he wanted. But his beeper goes off and immediately he’s due back on the set, despite…

2002 Issue 1January 4, 2002February 13, 2020

New York Recovers

SEPTEMBER 11 WAS A DAY OFF FOR NICK MALTER '87, a New York City firefighter assigned to ladder company 113 in Brooklyn. He and his wife, Jill, were listening to the police scanner after the World Trade Center was attacke…

2001 Issue 3October 4, 2001May 5, 2014

Stages of Our Lives

KARL SCHEIBE ARGUES THAT WE NEED A NEW PSYCHOLOGY useful in our daily lives. The language of the theater best illuminates this study of ourselves, he says, offering us the possibility of transformation. I remember my fi…

2001 Issue 2July 4, 2001May 5, 2014

Musician Heal Thyself

The afternoon sun slants into the West End Avenue apartment, bringing out warmth in the parquet floors, the mellow gold of hardwood cabinets. On top of the piano, the pencil–written score of David Leisner’s newest chambe…

2001 Issue 1January 4, 2001May 5, 2014

Field Hockey Wins ECAC Again

For the second year in a row, Wesleyan field hockey won the Eastern College Athletic Conference, New England Division III tournament. Carlin Aloe ’01, named tournament MVP, scored the winning goal with 5:08 remaining in …