2012 Issue 1 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Center for Prison Education

BY JIM SMITH Russell Perkins ’09 was a high school student in Evanston, Illinois when the Anthony Porter case changed Illinois law. It changed Perkins’ life, as well. Convicted, in the 1980s, of murdering two Chicago teenagers, Porter had been sentenced to death. Thanks to multiple appeals, howeve…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Permaculture Takes Root in the WestCo Courtyard

TO WILD WES, ‘LANDSCAPE’ MEANS ‘NATURAL’ BY YAEL CHANOFF ’11 From the top of Foss Hill, the view of Wesleyan is a picture of New England college charm. But in the green expanses of lawn, where most see tradition and cla…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Kail ’99 Directs Broadway Basketball Play and Interviews Stage Directors

Thomas Kail ’99 will direct Eric Simonson’s Magic/ Bird, a Broadway play based on the relationship between basketball superstars Larry Bird and Earvin “Magic” Johnson, due to open on March 21. The work is produced by Fra…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

‘Amazing Stories’ of Social Entrepreneurs

“I realized there was a need—that young people were seeking advice and guidance on how to launch a career in changemaking—but they weren’t finding what they needed,” says Lara Galinsky ’96.“Yet, here I was, sit- ting on …

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

The fall semester is already behind us, and this year’s seniors are hearing the question, “What will you be doing after graduation?” Some have an answer—graduate school, travel opportunities, a career-track position. …

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

LETTER HOME: Camp Counselor in Morocco by Sherry Sybertz ’10

Dear Friends and Family, “Hello from summer camp! I miss you all! The beach is my favorite part of the day...” How many letters have I written like that? And why am I still writing these words, as a college graduate? N…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

JUST PUBLISHED | 2012 ISSUE 1 Stacy Carlson '96 Among the Wonderful • STEERFORTH PRESS, 2011 In her first novel, Carlson brings to life 1840s New York City, a time when Phineas T. Barnum as a young man transforms a du…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

CONVERSATIONS: Peter Rutland

Peter Rutland has mentioned in the past that many Americans know little about the European Union (E.U.), and what they know may be based more on myth than fact. With a major debt crisis threatening the E.U. ́s very exist…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

SCHOLAR ATHLETE: Laura Kurash ’13

Laura Kurash ’13, team quad-captain for the 2011 Wesleyan women’s soccer season, was named first-team all-New England Division III by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). She received NESCAC honors…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Digital Wesleyan’s New York Network

IN THE SPRING of 1994, during my senior year at Wesleyan, I stopped by the computer labs at the Science Center once or twice a day, sat down at a station, and faced a monitor blinking with DOS commands. I’d peck a few ch…