2014 Issue 3 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014December 10, 2014

MILLER ’75, TATGE ’84 LAUNCH CURATORIAL PRACTICE M.A.

[caption id="attachment_5287" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Lower Manhattan Cultural Council president Sam Miller ’75[/caption] After three years and 30 students as a pilot certificate program, …

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014January 8, 2015

SCHOLAR ATHLETE DONNIE CIMINO ’15

[caption id="attachment_5272" align="aligncenter" width="1500"] Donnie Cimino '15. Photo: John Van Vlack.[/caption] A…

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014

NINE THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT TITLE IX

[caption id="attachment_5267" align="alignleft" width="2254"] Debbie Colucci was recently hired as Wesleyan’s equity com…

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

William Firshein, Daniel Ayres Professor of Biology, Emeritus The Infectious Microbe (Oxford University Press, 2014)…

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014March 23, 2015

NONFICTION, FICTION AND POETRY

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2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014

FROM THE VAULT

[caption id="attachment_5304" align="alignleft" width="2100"] Édouard Manet (French, 1832 - 1883). Guerre Civile, scène …

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014December 10, 2014

BETWEEN THE LINES: MEDITATING ON THE NATURE OF COURAGE

In Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed (St. Martin’s Press, 2014), John F. …

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014

[caption id="attachment_748" align="alignleft" width="300"] President Michael S. Roth '78.[/caption] My book Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters has received a gratifying amount of interest since its …

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014March 3, 2015

FREEDOM RIDERS RECALL: LIFE-CHANGING EVENTS FROM THE SUMMER OF ’64

By Jim H. Smith In the middle of June 1964, a year almost to the day after the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers in Mississippi, several hundred college students from all over the northern United States desce…

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014

FALL WEEKENDS: LEGACIES CELEBRATE FAMILY WEEKEND; WESLEYAN’S “NO. 1 FAN” REMEMBERED AT HOMECOMING

[caption id="attachment_5365" align="alignleft" width="2250"] On Sept. 27, alumni and their children joined in for the a…