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2017 Issue 3December 12, 2017December 12, 2018

JAZZ MUSICIAN SOREY MA’11 WINS MACARTHUR FELLOWSHIP

Tyshawn Sorey MA ’11, who joined Wesleyan’s faculty this fall as assistant professor of music, has been awarded a fellowship—better known as a “genius” grant—from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthu…

2017 Issue 3December 12, 2017December 12, 2018

SPOTLIGHT ON ALUMNI: TALA GIVES CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE, BY JIM H. SMITH

No one has ever questioned Jenipher’s work ethic. For decades, the 65-year-old Kenyan woman has operated a food stall in the central business district of downtown Nairobi. It has given her the wherewithal to support a fa…

2017 Issue 3December 12, 2017December 12, 2018

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

Across America, groups are enclosing themselves in bubbles that protect them from competing points of view, even from disturbing information. This has always happened to some extent; it’s easier to be with people who sha…

2017 Issue 3December 12, 2017December 12, 2018

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: OPENING THE DOOR(S) TO HIGHER EDUCATION

Students walk past them and through them during their years on campus. So how well do you know these iconic Wesleyan building entryways? For more information about each building, visit bit.ly/2mQfSd0. …

2017 Issue 3December 12, 2017December 12, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: WHY DID WESLEYAN ABANDON COEDUCATION IN 1909?

[caption id="attachment_749" align="alignright" width="200"] William Holder ’75, editor[/caption] I thought I knew the answer, and in my mind this odd twist in the history of a progressive institution arose from antag…

2017 Issue 3December 12, 2017December 12, 2018

GOING UNDERGROUND: C-CERT EXPLORES CLOSED BUTTERFIELD BASEMENT & TUNNEL SYSTEM BY OLIVIA DRAKE

On Oct. 17, Wesleyan’s Campus Community Emergency Response Team (C-CERT) toured the basement level, or “tunnels” of th…

2017 Issue 1October 2, 2017December 12, 2018

Q&A WITH J.R. RHODES ’90: OFFERING MUSICAL PRESENCE WITH HER NEW ALBUM, “I AM”

With the newest album by J.R. Rhodes ’90 titled “I Am”—a sentence both as simple and complex as existence—the message is…

2017 Issue 2September 6, 2017December 12, 2018

MEET OUR ELEPHANTS, BY REBECCA WINKLER ’16

Rebecca Winkler '16 writes about her experience working with the Mahouts Elephant Foundation in the latest issue of Wesl…

2017 Issue 2September 6, 2017December 12, 2018

BOOK EXCERPT: ENEMY OF THE GOOD, BY MATTHEW PALMER ’88

From Enemy of the Good, by Matthew Palmer, published on May 23, 2017, by Putnam, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Gr…

2017 Issue 2September 5, 2017December 12, 2018

BOOK EXCERPT: THE RULES DO NOT APPLY, BY ARIEL LEVY ’96

An excerpt from The Rules Do Not Apply, by Ariel Levy, published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and di…