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2008 Issue 2June 20, 2008May 16, 2014

176th COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY

President Michael S. Roth electrified an audience of trustees, faculty, students, and senior administrators less than 72 hours before Commencement with the news that Senator Barack Obama would substitute as speaker for the ailing Senator Edward Kennedy. His announcement set off not only “A …

2008 Issue 2June 20, 2008May 16, 2014

ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME

Helping to usher in the use of the forward pass in football, C. Everett Bacon ’13 (1890–1989) was twice named an All-American in the sport (1910 and 1912). He was one of only two players not from an Ivy League institutio…

2008 Issue 2June 20, 2008May 16, 2014

THE PORTALS OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW

St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City was the site and inspiration for the world premiere on May 14 of The Portals of Saint Bartholomew, an innovative new spatial composition by Professor of Music Neely Bruce. The au…

2008 Issue 2June 20, 2008May 16, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

My first year as president of Wesleyan has been fascinating, exhilarating, and challenging. Coming back to Connecticut after more than 20 years in California has been delightful, and I’ve often had the paradoxical feelin…

2008 Issue 2June 20, 2008April 28, 2014

Seven Deadly Sins

BY TOM MATLACK ’86 AS I SIT DOWN WITH MATTHEW WEINER ’87 in his office at Los Angeles Center Studios, he proudly shows me a tray on display that was a wedding gift to his parents. This tray became a key prop on his Gold…

2008 Issue 2June 20, 2008April 28, 2014

Sustainability Grows Roots

BY TOM CHRISTOPHER | PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANNE MARCOTTY BILL NELLIGAN is assessing Wesleyan’s prospects for 2008, strategizing with the intensity of a Belichick. In 2007, says Nelligan (the university’s director of environmen…

2008 Issue 2June 20, 2008March 24, 2014

Comic Makeover

BY BRIAN SCHWARTZ | PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL BURKHART THE SECURITY guards who work for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart are brawny men, imposing and menacingly bald. In the daytime, before hopefuls for that evening’s studio a…

2008 Issue 1February 2, 2008March 23, 2015

BETWEEN THE LINES: Witnessing Evil Up Close

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2008 Issue 1February 2, 2008March 23, 2015

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2008 Issue 1January 29, 2008September 29, 2014

LETTER HOME

Reflections on Leaving Kenya by Nate Baumgart ’06 The cars are supposed to arrive around ten to take us to the plantation airstrip. A private plane has been chartered to Kisumu and then to Dar Es Salaam. Thus far, …