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2001 Issue 1January 30, 2001March 23, 2015

AUTHOR ESSAY: What Women Really Think About Abortion

The Abortion Myth was first published in Australia (Allen & Unwin, 1998) where I’ve been living for the last eleven years. However, the kernel of the book was formed in the country of my birth, the United States. Aged fourteen, I remember accompanying my mother to the office of a local senate c…

2001 Issue 1January 30, 2001March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

Our roundup of noteworthy publications by Wesleyan alumni, faculty members, and parents. DANA SACHS ’84 The House on Dream Street (Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, 2000) Journalist and teacher Dana Sachs first visited…

2001 Issue 1January 30, 2001September 30, 2014

Making Your Voice and Your Vote Count

Dear Fellow Alumni: Each year Wesleyan alumni have the opportunity to participate in an election, and each alumnus/a has the opportunity to make a difference. Just as every vote counted in the presidential election, you…

2001 Issue 1January 24, 2001May 5, 2014

Everything Old Is New Again

Frequently overheard: “Where has the time gone?” The once gawky frosh of a generation ago who remember showing their folks around campus on a bright fall Homecoming weekend—“as if it were yesterday”—are now the parents. …

2001 Issue 1January 4, 2001May 5, 2014

Volleyball Claims ECAC Title

A best–ever 27–11 record and an Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III North championship were two of the achievements of the women’s volleyball team during the 2000 season. It was the team’s second stra…

2001 Issue 1January 4, 2001May 5, 2014

John Sease Dies at Age 80

John W. Sease, the E.B. Nye Professor of Chemistry emeritus, died Nov. 12 at his home in Portland, Conn., just days after celebrating his 80th birthday. Former Wesleyan President Victor Butterfield appointed him…

2001 Issue 1January 4, 2001May 5, 2014

Time Magazine: Willis, “A Spiritual Innovator”

Professor of Religion Jan Willis’s forthcoming memoir, Dreaming Me: An African American Woman’s Spiritual Journey, is creating a buzz even before it hits the bookstores this spring. In its Dec. 11 issue, Time magazine na…

2001 Issue 1January 4, 2001May 5, 2014

Veteran V.P. and Treasurer Taylor Joins Colonial Williamsburg

Robert Taylor, Wesleyan’s longtime vice president and treasurer, left the university in late January to become the senior vice president for finance and administration at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsb…

2001 Issue 1January 4, 2001May 5, 2014

Q & A: The Thrill of the Chase

Not only did Scott Wiper ’92 write and direct this film, but he also stars in it, as Boomer, the young ex–cop and subject of the manhunt. It has a stellar cast: Andre Braugher, Joe Pantoliano, Lou Diamond Philli…

2001 Issue 1January 4, 2001May 5, 2014

Moving Replay of a Grim History

THREE YOUNG WESLEYAN STUDENT ACTORS IN JEANS AND SNEAKERS STOOK STOCK–STILL on the Center for the Arts Theater stage, as renowned Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol instructed them how to face a firing squad. “Though I’ve …