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2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014February 26, 2014

FORTY YEARS WITH THE WESLEYAN PEP BAND BY STEW GILLMOR

[caption id="attachment_1797" align="alignleft" width="384"] Stew Gilmor plays sousaphone with the Wesleyan Pep Band during Wesleyan's win over Colby College on October 5th. Photo: Stew Gilmor plays sousaphone with the Wesleyan Pep Band during Wesleyan's win over Colby College on October 5th. Photo:…

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014February 26, 2014

LITTLE THREE CHAMPS

[caption id="attachment_1795" align="alignleft" width="360"] Little Three Champs. Photo: John Van Vlack.[/caption] Wesl…

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014March 23, 2015

NONFICTION, FICTION AND POETRY

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2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014February 26, 2014

EDITOR’S NOTE: DREAM BELIEVERS

On our way to a vacation in Vermont last summer, we took a detour near Middlebury to visit Sivan Cotel ’05, then chief operating officer and chief almost-everything-else at WhistlePig Farm, which produces aged rye whiske…

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014February 26, 2014

FELLOWSHIPS FOR PEREL-SLATER ’11

[caption id="attachment_1792" align="alignleft" width="300"] Max Perel-Slater '11[/caption] Max Perel-Slater ’11 has won an Advancing Leaders Fellowship from World Learning for the Tanzania-based project, The Maji Safi …

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014

MELLON GRANT TO SUPPORT CREATIVE CAMPUS, INSTITUTE FOR CURATORIAL PRACTICE

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts a $750,000 grant to support the Creative Campus Initiative and the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP)—another major grant for th…

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014

CFA RECIEVES DORIS DUKE FOUNDATION’S GRANT AWARD FOR ADAPTABILITY

Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts is the recipient of a $400,000 grant recognizing the CFA as an innovator and leader among arts organizations. The unsolicited gift from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is one of five—…

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014

BETWEEN THE LINES: CITY PLANNER AS AGENT OF CHANGE

Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press), the fascinatin…

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014March 6, 2014

NEWS LITERACY PROJECT LAUNCHES ONLINE CURRICULUM

[caption id="attachment_2038" align="alignleft" width="504"] The News Literacy Program sponsored a program at George Washington University in November on “America’s Changing Role in the World and How the Press Covers It,…

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014

LETTERS

REMEMBERING FRANKLIN REEVE As an underclassman at Wesleyan, I experienced mostly terror. Every day, I was afraid I wouldn’t measure up—who really knows to what standard. Something fabricated in my head, something exotic…