2003 Issue 4

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She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan ’80 (Broadway Books, 2003) is the true story of a man who becomes a woman. Since early childhood, James Finney Boylan felt he was living in the wrong body,…

 There is something strangely familiar about the string of numbers and letters on the wall at Neon Deli in Middletown. A similar string is posted in O’Rourke’s Diner. And at the Destinta Theater. And all over the Wesleya…

It has become a ritual at businesses and colleges across the world: get rid of computers that have become obsolete in just two or three years—and replace them with new machines.   But would the purging be done so …

In the early part of the 20th century, many Wesleyan alumni traveled to China as part of a movement to introduce Western-style education to the East. Their influence, and the influence of other Western educators and miss…

SINCE HER EARLY YEARS GROWING UP IN SUBURBS OF CLEVELAND, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies Renee Romano has been a keen observer of racial relations in this country—and in her own daily life. T…

IN 1876 WESLEYAN ACQUIRED ITS FIRST LAWN MOWER. The front of North College, formerly a meadow, became a well-trimmed lawn with mature, beautiful trees. From a small collection of brownstone buildings, the campus would ev…