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2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013March 7, 2014

MARRIAGE IN THE MOVIES

[caption id="attachment_593" align="alignleft" width="300"] I Do and I Don't by Jeanine Basinger.[/caption] Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies Jeanine Basinger has just published I Do and I Don’t (Alfred A. Knopf), a meticulously researched and highly engaging history of marriage in the movi…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013March 7, 2014

COMMITTED TO MEMORY

[caption id="attachment_575" align="alignleft" width="300"] Professor John Seamon, right, with students in his Memory La…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013March 7, 2014

FAR FROM HOME

[caption id="attachment_587" align="alignleft" width="300"] Nandita Vijayaraghavan ’13.Photo: John Van Vlack.[/caption] For most of her childhood, Nandita Vijayaraghavan ’13 grew up in the conservative Southern …

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013March 7, 2014

BEING THE CHANGE

[caption id="attachment_573" align="alignleft" width="300"] Musician Dar Williams ’89 composes songs and is part of community life in the small New York town where she lives with her family. In the fall 2012 semester, sh…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013February 26, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

[caption id="attachment_748" align="alignleft" width="205"] President Michael S. Roth '78.[/caption] At this year’s winter meeting of the Board of Trustees we officially announced the launch of our THIS IS WHY fundr…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013February 26, 2014

EDITOR’S NOTE: SHARE YOUR ‘THIS IS WHY’ STORY

[caption id="attachment_749" align="alignleft" width="200"] William Holder ’75, editor[/caption] We’ve departed from our usual approach to the cover of the magazine in this issue. The cover, which is devoted to Wesl…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 23, 2013

Hollywood Dramas, Wesleyan Film Studies, Newtown, and Guns

Your cover story in the last issue, “Direct Action,” fortuitously coincided with much of the post-Newtown tragedy and drama. Even more coincidental is the article’s subject, Jan Eliasberg ’74 and her laudable rise th…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 23, 2013

John Cage Remembered

It is hard to know whether the “Row” in the “Historical Row” feature in the latest Wesleyan magazine should rhyme with “owe” or “ow.” The students’ response to the 1955 concert presented by John Cage and David Tudor was …

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 23, 2013

Jeffrey Richards Anecdote

Thank you very much for the nice paragraph about my book Great Lengths in the latest Wesleyan magazine. I thought you might be interested to know that Great Lengths has won two national awards: the Theatre Library As…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 23, 2013

Kudos to Alex Magnin

I started to read the most recent Wesleyan and was struck by the short article written by Alex Magnin ’07. There is no mention on the page of what he is currently doing, which I think is a shame, since this is a bril…