2008 Issue 1

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Reflections on Leaving Kenya by Nate Baumgart ’06 The cars are supposed to arrive around ten to take us to the plantation airstrip. A private plane has been chartered to Kisumu and then to Dar Es Salaam. Thus far, …

Wesleyan foreign policy expert Douglas Foyle says that national debate about foreign policy follows the headlines, which is a troubling aspect of our political system. By David Pesci Douglas C. Foyle is the Douglas J…

Mike Palladino ’09 can stop a hockey puck before most of us can blink our eyes. As goalie, he led the NESCAC in save percentage (.920) last year, earning him a ranking of eighth nationally in Division III. For his accomp…

Chris Wink ’83, readying for his 25th Reunion, still recalls the panic and pressure of his senior year, when he was wondering how he could peddle his American studies major, a four-year concentration in pop culture and a…

When you spend your life in a university community, the academic calendar can seem as inevitable as the change of seasons in New England. The new year starts in September, close to Labor Day. Frosh show up early for orie…

Under the leadership of Herb Kelleher ’53, Southwest Airlines became one of the great achievement stories of American business, but success wasn’t always assured.   In 1978, Southwest was poised to make its first …

The colorful apartment has four rooms: a living room, bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen. Medications are stored in the bathroom’s medicine cabinet. A clock hangs above the television in the living room. A Post-it reminder n…

It takes a classics scholar to tell pet-loving Americans why Aristotle and his contemporaries would have said, “Your dog doesn’t love you.”   This could be upsetting news to Americans who grew up watching Disney’s…