2007 Issue 2

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So you want to write a best-seller thriller and you want some tips. You might take a look at Coma. If you are not among the 100 million or so readers who have purchased books by Dr. Robin Cook ’62, then, briefly, Coma …

Results in 100 Days As I start to write this letter, I’m sitting in a small room in the town of Rashad in Sudan, which lies west of the Nuba Mountains and borders the region of Darfur. I’m wearing a headscarf over my …

Katherine Rhode was an art student at Sonoma State University north of San Francisco when she took an introductory astronomy course to fulfill a general education requirement. As her artistic vision made the leap to appr…

Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, a co–lead author of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report (IPCC) views global warming with an economist’s eye.    DAVID PESCI: For any s…

 From the Civil War to Vietnam and beyond, Wesleyan students and alumni have been called upon—by conscience, patriotic fervor, conscription, or some combination thereof —to enlist and fight. The causes and the military t…

  W. Wistar Comfort (1967–2006) Edward Burr Van Vleck Professor of Mathematics   Martha Crenshaw (1974–2007) Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor in Global Issues and Democratic Thought   C. Stewart Gillm…

I would urge each of you graduates of the class of 2007 to find ways to also serve. I don’t mean necessarily joining the Marines, to fight in Iraq or in the next war or two. I mean, no matter what you decide to do with y…

As he did during all four of Martin Luther King’s visits to Wesleyan, Professor John Maguire opened his house at 44 Home Avenue for people to meet the Reverend. Between phone calls, the Reverend Dr. King sat and talked w…