2008 Issue 3 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2008 Issue 3September 29, 2008September 29, 2014

LETTER HOME: Vertical Birth in Royal Ayacucho

Chris Goy ’09 is used to finding opportunities for himself. A graduate of a public high school in Albuquerque with the highest SAT scores in the state, Goy chose to attend Wesleyan, although few of his friends left the Southwest. Also fluent in American Sign Language, he is the hearing son of two de…

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2008 Issue 3September 29, 2008September 29, 2014

The Summer Experience Grant: Internship Plunges Student into Health Policy

Chris Goy ’09 is used to finding opportunities for himself. A graduate of a public high school in Albuquerque with the highest SAT scores in the state, Goy chose to attend Wesleyan, although few of his friends left the S…

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2008 Issue 3September 29, 2008September 29, 2014

Conversations: Credit Crisis Poses Challenges for IMF

John Lipsky ’68 of the International Monetary Fund discusses the changing role of this key organization. By William L. Holder ’75 The Number Two official of the International Monetary Fund, First Deputy Managing Direct…

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2008 Issue 3September 20, 2008May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND WESLEYAN FREEDOM RIDERS

Most Wesleyan alumni are well aware of the visits of Martin Luther King Jr. to Wesleyan in the 1960s. Clearly the most famous and charismatic Civil Rights Movement figure, Martin Luther King profoundly affected the Wesle…

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2008 Issue 3September 20, 2008May 16, 2014

FILM STUDIES

Two associate professors of film studies, Lisa Dombrowski ’92 and Scott Higgins, have published groundbreaking books that are sure to be useful in American film classes. Lisa Dombrowski’s If You Die, I’ll Kill Y…

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2008 Issue 3September 20, 2008May 16, 2014

DARCY DENNET ’92 PRODUCES SHOW

When police raided property owned by former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and discovered traumatized pit bulls used for illegal dogfighting, the nation witnessed a dismal spectacle. Now, through the work of Da…

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2008 Issue 3September 20, 2008May 16, 2014

NEW MUSIC

Last fall, Ben Goldwasser ’05 and Andrew Vanwyngarden ’05, who form the electro-rock music duo named MGMT, released their new CD, Oracular Spectacular on Columbia Records, and since then, their legion of fans continues t…

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2008 Issue 3September 20, 2008May 16, 2014

HUMANITIES

Wesleyan’s Center for the Humanities, one of the oldest humanities institutes in the United States, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with a focus on the ways “the human” has been figured over the past half-centu…

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2008 Issue 3September 20, 2008May 16, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

As the students arrive for the beginning of the fall term, the campus is filled with energy and anticipation. I very much enjoyed meeting the newcomers and their families while they found their dorm assignments and quick…

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2008 Issue 3September 20, 2008April 28, 2014

Stuck at the Bottom

As the labor reporter for the New York Times, Steven Greenhouse ’73, P’08, has an unimpeded view of workplace hell throughout the United States. More and more Americans are descending into this realm, and not just high s…

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