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Editor’s Note

Category 2018 Issue 3Posted on December 4, 2018December 7, 2018

What’s the Story on the Cover?

The Design & Ideas theme inspired the magazine staff to reconsider their own.   They say not to judge a book by its cover. Magazines are a different story. On the front of this issue, for instance, you might notice the faculty’s intense focus on you, the reader. That was a purp…
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Category 2018 Issue 3Posted on December 3, 2018May 21, 2019

Editor’s Note: Ideas on Design: Dualities

As this magazine has come together, I’ve realized that this issue has been all about dualities—holding in one’s mind two separate, sometimes contrasting things as part of a whole, while still moving forward. Since Sep…
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Category 2018 Issue 2Posted on September 7, 2018May 21, 2019

Editor’s Note: A Stethoscope, a Camera Lens, and a Batphone

This issue on journalism and media has felt more personal than most, particularly as we prepared for the retirement of editor Bill Holder ’75. While collecting stories of the journalists profiled in these pages, I’ve bee…
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EDITOR’S NOTE: MY FAREWELL COLUMN
Category 2018 Issue 1Posted on May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: MY FAREWELL COLUMN

Lately I’ve been exploring the devilish complexities of Medicare as I approach my 65th birthday and a time of change in …
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Category 2017 Issue 3Posted on December 12, 2017December 12, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: WHY DID WESLEYAN ABANDON COEDUCATION IN 1909?

[caption id="attachment_749" align="alignright" width="200"] William Holder ’75, editor[/caption] I thought I knew the answer, and in my mind this odd twist in the history of a progressive institution arose from antag…
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Category 2017 Issue 2Posted on August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Illusory Bubble

I often hear students refer to the “Wesleyan bubble,” a term meant to suggest that life on campus is somehow apart from the world. In some respects, it is—by design. The opportunity to take a course with no app…
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Category 2017 Issue 1Posted on April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

Editor’s Note: Expanding Our Vision

When I was a young teenager, I devoured science fiction. I figured that by the turn of the 21st century we would have a colony on Mars, or at least the moon, so science fiction seemed like tomorrow’s news today. My re…
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Category 2016 Issue 3Posted on December 1, 2016December 13, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: CHOICES IN FOOD AND IN LIFE

We’ve become familiar with celebrity chefs, but a celebrity rancher? As the subject of feature articles in publications ranging from The New Yorker to Modern Farmer, Anya Fernald ’98 is getting noticed for her …
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Category 2016 ISSUE 1Posted on April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: WHAT OUR READERS SAY

[caption id="attachment_749" align="alignleft" width="200"] William Holder ’75, editor.[/caption] I was a young reporter for the Middletown Press when it moved from its hole-in-the-wall location on the north end of Ma…
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Category 2015 Issue 3Posted on December 7, 2015

EDITOR’S NOTE: THE LONG VIEW

Universities often take the long view. The physical structure of the campus endures over generations and lifetimes, faculty carry out research programs that stretch over decades, and the impact of administrative initiati…
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