2006 Issue 3

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CABARET SHOW Singer/songwriter Karen Gross ’01 entertained a full house–including local Wesleyan alumni–with her cabaretstyle performance, Sex and the Single Singer, at the Tin Angel, a prestigious music venue in Philad…

Last year Wesleyan quarterback Zach Librizzi ’08 led NESCAC in total offensive yardage (averaging 195 yards a game) while pursuing a major in biology. When he’s not soaking up organic chemistry, his favorite course so fa…

Perspectives of an Independent Volunteer, Lindsay Clarke ’05 Dschang, Cameroon Where I live, I am a rare specimen: la blanche, ndege, white woman, depending on which language you speak. Most people in my community are …

Although the United States may go broke importing Chinese goods, our appetite for Chinese ideas does not extend much beyond acupuncture and Tai Chi. That’s unfortunate, says Associate Professor of Philosophy Steve Angle…

In the years since manual typewriters and whiteout gave way to laptops, one fact of the writing life has not changed. Writers still need to learn from each other the old-fashioned way: in the flesh, one on one.   …

This sage tidbit was uttered by Dartmouth President Ernest M. Hopkins during his speech at Wesleyan’s Centennial Celebration in October 1931. Hopkins was among the leaders of 38 colleges and universities who attended the…

BY CLARA SILVERSTEIN ’82 Alternately wielding a knife, a spoon, and a pair of stainless steel tongs, Michael Leviton ’88 spends most of his workdays in perpetual motion. As chef and owner of Lumiere restaurant in the B…

A MINIVAN TOUR OF NEIGHBORHOODS IN ST. BERNARD PARISH, immediately east of New Orleans, reveals the cruel mirage of recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Neighborhoods once occupied by middle-class homeowners are now the sit…