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2004 Issue 4

Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2004April 4, 2014

Q & A: Japan’s Search for a Secure Future

Professor of Government Peter Rutland, back from a year in Japan, discusses that country's outdated security arrangement with the United States and why both sides need to change.   Japan and the United States are locked into a security relationship spawned by the Cold War that is no longer in…
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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2004May 7, 2014

A Photographer’s View

The trip across Japan last summer visiting ancient shrines actually began in Wyoming in the early 1970s. That’s when a high school student named William Johnston came across a book called Essays in Zen Buddhism.   …
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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Outreach to Public Schools

In 1979 a group of Connecticut citizens concerned about math education got together on the Wesleyan campus. Their worries ranged from declining student performance in math to the small number of women choosing math-relat…
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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2004May 7, 2014

New Chair Honors Henry Wriston ’11

Henry Wriston ’11 was born in Laramie before Wyoming became a state. His mother had come west in a wagon train and survived a deadly clash with Indians. His father was a circuit preacher who taught himself Greek, Latin, …
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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Tibetan Monks At Work

Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in Southern India spent Sept. 8?11 on campus creating a mandala, or sand painting, in the lobby of Olin Library. A constant stream of visitors from on campus and off stop…
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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Clues to Health in “Smartweeds”

Sonia Sultan, a slim and dark-haired biologist, kicks off her sandals and begins to water one of the bushy green Polygonum plants growing in Wesleyan's research greenhouse. She intends to compare it to its relatives grow…
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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Charting A Rough Course

MID-JUNE, 2004: IT‘S 7:30 A.M. On the second floor of a brick school building in Harlem, Marc Waxman '94 stands in the corridor, counting the laptops that students returned to the cart after a morning enrichment program.…
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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2004May 2, 2014

A Jazz Talent Emerges

IT‘S 7:35 P.M. ON A WEDNESDAY EVENING IN SEPTEMBER, five minutes past the scheduled start time for a concert with jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton '86 and her band. Organizers at Quinnipiac University near New Haven are hurr…
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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Change is Brewing in Denver

BY TORI PEGLAR '96 DENVER MAYOR JOHN HICKENLOOPER '74 pumps gas into a shiny black Ford Excursion while a dozen newspaper photographers and TV cameramen swarm around him. A passerby could mistake him for a movie star, e…
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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2004May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: POLITICS AS USUAL: THE ORIGINS OF STUDENT POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS

Wesleyan students' long tradition of social activism is well known and well documented. From the missionary zeal of the earliest students to the more recent "Justice for Janitors" movement (to name just two of the many, …
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