2012 Issue 2 – Page 2 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Taming Investment Risk

By Michael Santoli ’92Photography by John Van Vlack WESLEYAN HAS AT LEAST THREE ENDOWMENTS, if the word “endowment” is taken to mean any store of collected wealth that can be used to benefit the university over the long term. The first and oldest endowment is its culture—academic and social—ever e…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Test Questions

By Lauren RubensteinPhotography by John Van Vlack SINCE THE ENACTMENT of the landmark No Child Left Behind Act a decade ago, “accountability” has been the buzzword in our nation’s education policy. Schools are held acco…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

LETTER HOME: Facing Reality in Afghanistan by Alexander Footman ’09

“She says you can film in her house,” Wida told me. The director of the Shor Bazaar center of the Afghanistan Women Council [sic], Wida had found a student, Nouria, willing to be interviewed in her home for my documen…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

JUST PUBLISHED | 2012 ISSUE 2 Eve Abrams ’93 and Shannon Brinkman Preservation Hall • LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2011 Since the early 1960s, Preservation Hall in New Orleans’ French Quarter has served as a sanc…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

CONVERSATIONS: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Triumphs at Sundance and Cannes

Each year at the Sundance Film Festival held in January in Park City, Utah, one or two presentations become talked about as the films to see. This year, the standout screening at the festival in the U.S. dramatic film ca…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

SCHOLAR ATHLETE: Shasha Brown ’13

Shasha Brown ’13 has led men’s bas- ketball in scoring and assists for three straight seasons. He is now the high- est scoring player through his junior year in Wesleyan history with 1,333 points. He needs only 360 point…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: BUTCH LIMBACH AND THE ART LABORATORY

Who remembers Foss House? And what about the Art Lab? Appropriately located on Foss Hill, Foss House was once the home of Archibald Foss, Class of 1852, professor of Latin and Hebrew and brother of Wesleyan President Cyr…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012March 7, 2014

Students Volunteer for Prison Program

Wesleyan’s innovative Center for Prison Education (Wesleyan, issue #1, 2012) is providing an education not only for inmates but also for Wesleyan students who are serving the program with stimulating internships, an oppo…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012March 7, 2014

Occupying Wall Street: An Ethnography

What follows is an abridged excerpt of a final paper by Hailey Sowden ’15 for Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. Assistant Professor Gillian Goslinga notes that Hailey researched the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012March 7, 2014

DLA Piper Establishes Amy Schulman Fund for Women and Gender

DLA Piper, one of the world’s largest law firms, has given Wesleyan $500,000 to establish the Amy Schulman Fund for Women and Gender, which will support work in this field at Wesleyan’s Center for the Humanities. Schulm…