A Secret Sacrifice

2005 Issue 3September 20, 2005May 2, 2014

A Secret Sacrifice

TUESDAY, NOV. 3, 1981 CIA HEADQUARTERS, LANGLEY, VIRGINIA As David Forden '52 displayed his ID badge to the guards at the entrance gate to CIA headquarters, he was preoccupied by the growing unrest in Poland. Over breakfast he had seen the day's Washington Post story reporting that union organizer…

2005 Issue 3September 20, 2005May 2, 2014

Calculated Risks

ALAN DACHS '70, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE SAN FRANCISO-BASED INVESTMENT COMPANY FREMONT GROUP, recently concluded 14 years of service on Wesleyan's Board of Trustees, eight of those as chair. He played…

2005 Issue 2June 20, 2005May 2, 2014

Star Treatment

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY EDWARD MORAN was toying with the idea of taking a webcam with him to the Kitt Peak National Observatory so sophomores in his Introduction to Astronomical Techniques class could get a clos…

2005 Issue 2June 20, 2005May 2, 2014

Forensic DNA: The Telltale Art

By LARRY GETLEN SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE, a 14-year-old cousin you never met, who lives halfway across the country, steals a candy bar from a newsstand. He is given community service and released, and the incident will be…

2005 Issue 2June 20, 2005May 2, 2014

The Comeback Drug

VISITORS LOOKING FOR THE HEADQUARTERS OF IMCLONE would do well to keep the address in hand because the exterior of an aging building in lower Manhattan's SoHo area does not reveal its corporate resident. This low profile…

2005 Issue 2June 20, 2005May 2, 2014

The Next Global Plague

THE DEATH IN SEPTEMBER 2004 OF AN 11-YEAR-OLD THAI GIRL never would have made international news if her mother and her aunt had not become ill, too. Only when the older women were diagnosed with the feared avian flu did …

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 2, 2014

Inside Stories

BY CAROLYN BATTISTA AS SOON AS SHE BEGAN TEACHING AT A WOMEN‘S PRISON, Dale Griffith '92 began encouraging her students to write. "I'd learned experientially that writing heals, that it can be a way of making sense of w…

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 2, 2014

School of Dreams

WESLEYAN‘S CENTER FOR THE ARTS DIRECTOR PAMELA TATGE ’84 and I are sitting in the Tibetan restaurant on Main Street near O'Rourke's, sharing a late lunch—bowls of steaming noodles—and a conversation about the new Green S…

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 2, 2014

The Challenge of Access

WESLEYAN‘S CAMPAIGN SAILED PAST THE $250-MILLION GOAL IN OCTOBER, and when the books closed at year's end on a historic and celebratory $281 million, the university had raised more than four times the amount of the last …

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 2, 2014

Projecting the Future

AFTER THE LIGHTS GO DOWN, the MGM lion roars on the movie screen. The names Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, and Debbie Reynolds appear one by one, superimposed on three open black umbrellas. Then the umbrellas turn around t…