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2007 Issue 4December 20, 2007May 16, 2014

NEW SCHOLARSHIPS RECOGNIZE MILITARY SERVICE

Two Wesleyan alumni each have made substantial gifts to create need-based scholarships for former servicemen and servicewomen for four years of full-time baccalaureate study. These new gifts, reported in a page-one USA Today story, will fund as many as 10 scholarships at any given time. One of the …

2007 Issue 4December 20, 2007May 16, 2014

JENKINS’ DRAGON VISITS NYC MUSEUM

For the past three years, Ron Jenkins has shared his office with a 10-footlong Balinese barong, a mythical dragon. But recently, his fire-breathing friend has found a temporary home inside the American Museum of Natural …

2007 Issue 4December 20, 2007May 16, 2014

THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS

I am grateful for the introduction by my friend and my teacher, Carl Schorske. Carl has always exemplified what is best about Wesleyan’s commitment to engaged teaching and learning. He has inspired generations of student…

2007 Issue 4December 20, 2007May 16, 2014

IMPROVISATIONAL DANCE

Cheryl Cutler stands in the middle of the polished dance floor, her tiny presence radiating energy. “Strrrrretch,” she instructs us, from so deep down in her center she’s almost growling. I drop my hands to my t…

2007 Issue 4December 20, 2007May 16, 2014

PRESIDENT ROTH ANNOUNCES AID INITIATIVE AT INAUGURATION

The pageantry of President Michael Roth’s inauguration was the backdrop for his announcement Nov. 2 that Wesleyan will lower loan levels beginning with next year’s entering class and eliminate loans for most students wit…

2007 Issue 4December 20, 2007April 28, 2014

Indies in the Crosshairs?

INDEPENDENTLY-OWNED BOOKSTORES USED TO BE A FREQUENT SIGHT IN CITIES AND SUBURBS. They were funky places, each with its own personality and variety of books. But early in the 1990s, eerily identical “big box” superstores…

2007 Issue 4December 20, 2007April 28, 2014

Something Old, Something New

A focus of the campus master plan adopted in 2003 came to fruition this fall with the opening of the Suzanne Lemberg Usdan University Center and the renovated Fayerweather building. Now, with more than 150,000 dining tra…

2007 Issue 4December 15, 2007March 23, 2015