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2003 Issue 2March 30, 2003March 23, 2015

AUTHOR ESSAY: Tales of Rhinestone Cowgirls

In Rodeo Queens and the American Dream (Public Affairs/Perseus Books, 2002), Joan Burbick ’76 chronicles the lives of white and Native American women who worked in professional rodeos in the Pacific Northwest from the 1930s to the 1990s. She talks about what she learned from listening to their stori…

2003 Issue 2March 30, 2003March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

Our roundup of noteworthy publications by Wesleyan alumni, faculty members, and parents. AMANDA DAVIS ’93 Wonder When You’ll Miss Me (HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2003) In this heartbreaking coming-of-age debut nove…

2003 Issue 2March 30, 2003September 30, 2014

The Friend Is More Important Than the Ask

The phone rings and it’s a classmate–maybe a close friend or maybe someone you barely knew who was in your philosophy class–asking you to contribute to the Wesleyan Annual Fund. Sometimes this happens when you are in th…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Q & A: One of Hollywood’s Top Agents

In Hollywood today, the most powerful talent agency is CAA and the most powerful person at CAA is Rick Nicita. (Rick would modestly duck that statement. He once said, “Agents don’t have power in themselves. Their power i…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

World Music’s 40th Anniversary

Nonesuch Records plans to release 92 CDs of world music during the next two years (including some by Wesleyan artists), but when Wesleyan began its World Music Program 40 years ago, non-Western music was a virtually unto…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Concern Over Violations

A university task force appointed by President Bennet is recommending the adoption of new measures to reinvigorate the Honor Code, which the report says has “been dying a slow death due to neglect for a number of years.”…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

What Dot Bomb?

ON AN AVERAGE WEEK you might find Allan Baer '76 noodling out a proposal in his rural Chelsea, Vt., office, pitching his ideas for telecommunications "beyond the grid" to White House bureaucrats, or out in the field anyw…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Marco Polo: A Photographer’s Journey

MICHAEL YAMASHITA '71 STARTED TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS WHILE "SEARCHING FOR HIS ROOTS" on a trip to Japan after graduating from Wesleyan. What began as a hobby transformed into an ongoing career that combines his two passions …

2003 Issue 1January 30, 2003September 30, 2014

How to Meet Great People

Dear Fellow Alumni, What I want to say is: Get involved in your local alumni activities. You’ll meet great people and it’s a way to stay involved with our university, contribute our talents, keep Wesleyan in the forefro…

2003 Issue 1January 30, 2003March 23, 2015

PICK OF THE SYLLABUS: Embers

Andrew Szegedy–Maszak, Professor of Classical Studies, selects Embers by Sandor Marai If one looks only at the outlines of its plot and setting, Embers, by Hungarian writer Sandor Marai, seems to be just another old–fas…