Features – Page 24 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2003 Issue 3May 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Embedded

THE BROAD OUTCOME OF THE WAR IN IRAQ may not be known for years, but in one aspect the results are already clear. The long-standing antagonism between the military and media over war coverage is dramatically changed. The Pentagon's experiment with attaching an unprecedented 775 reporters to military…

2003 Issue 3May 4, 2003May 5, 2014

View From One Year Out

GRADUATING FROM WESLEYAN MADE JIMIN LEE NERVOUS.A few days before Commencement 2002, she sat on a chair in front of Klekolo World Coffee near Main Street. The afternoon was sunny and warm, Middletown teenagers lounged in…

2003 Issue 3May 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Made From Scratch

AS THE CROWD TRICKLES IN TO A TRENDY MANHATTAN NIGHT CLUB, Jahi Sundance Lake '01, one of New York's hottest young deejays, lugs two steel crates and a satchel stuffed with LPs up the stairs to the loft where he'll perfo…

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

Harrah’s Full House

GARY LOVEMAN '82 WAS HAVING DINNER on the mezzanine level of Harrah's showcase casino, the Rio in Las Vegas, but unlike the hundreds of people gathered below him at card tables or slot machines, he wasn't having fun. He'…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

After the Bubble Burst…

AS EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF SOFTWARE FOR SUN MICROSYSTEMS, Jonathan Schwartz '87 would like to simplify modern life without sacrificing the conveniences of technology. He'd like to use his cell phone to get a Coke at …

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 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Smoke Signals

ALDOUS HUXLEY AND GEORGE BURNS HAD AT LEAST ONE THING IN COMMON: Both believed a good cigar is essential to happiness. Huxley said a cigar is "much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear."…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Who Owns The Past?

KARIN HALVORSEN '97 HAS NO TROUBLE REMEMBERING AN AFTER-DINNER DEBATE she witnessed as an undergraduate on a dig in Morgantina, Sicily, co-sponsored by Wesleyan and the University of Virginia. The archaeologists around t…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Biology’s New Data Mavens

PEOPLE ARE DATA. That's the mantra for a new breed of biologists who use computers to sort through vast databases comprising billions of bits of information about genes. They are searching for patterns that reveal why o…