Letters – Wesleyan University Magazine

2024 Fall IssueOctober 28, 2024October 28, 2024

From the President: Pluralism Over Sectarianism

Like many universities in the United States, at Wesleyan preparing students for lives of engaged citizenship is a core part of our mission. This was true back in the 1960s, when students worked with faculty to assist those disenfranchised because of their identities or economic class. More rece…

2024 Fall IssueOctober 28, 2024October 28, 2024

From the Editor: Finding Common Ground

Here we go again. Four years ago, we welcomed the Class of 2024 to campus under pandemic quarantine protocols, regular testing, and hybrid classes while also preparing for a hotly contested presidential election tha…

2024 Summer IssueJuly 9, 2024July 9, 2024

From the President: Practicing Freedom Better

In the previous issue of Wesleyan magazine, I emphasized higher education’s critical role in defending democracy. In these days of social polarization and hyper-partisanship, some see campus life as a retreat f…

2024 Summer IssueJuly 9, 2024July 9, 2024

From the Editor: Inflection Points

Time is a funny thing, as many of us experienced during Wesleyan’s 2024 Reunion & Commencement celebration. In the same three-day span we saw the newest graduates proudly celebrating the start of a new chapte…

2024 Spring IssueMarch 2, 2024March 5, 2024

From the President: Doing Our Part to Shore Up Democracy

There is a clear and present danger to American democracy and to American higher education: populist authoritarianism. This is no secret, and yet many in higher education would prefer not to talk about it. Instead, we f…

2024 Spring IssueMarch 2, 2024March 2, 2024

From the Editor: Dreaming Big

As I sit down to write this, we have just celebrated the turn of another year. Welcome 2024! Of course, with the new year comes the requisite looks back on the year past along with resolutions and goals for the year ahe…

2023 Fall IssueNovember 7, 2023December 20, 2023

From the President: This Is Wesleyan

I always look forward to Homecoming Family Weekend at Wesleyan. Interesting seminars to stimulate the mind, music and dance to get the bodies moving, and plenty of athletics action in which we see Cardinal pride. The pu…

2023 Fall IssueNovember 7, 2023November 8, 2023

From the Editor: This Is Not a Magazine

For those of you who have been following Wesleyan on social media or who have been paying attention to the various missives from campus touting the launch of “Something BIG,” the suspense finally came to an end during H…

2023 Fall IssueNovember 7, 2023November 8, 2023

Letter to the Editor: On Richard Slotkin

Dear Editor, I recently participated in a Wesleyan symposium marking the 50th anniversary of Richard Slotkin’s landmark book, Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860. Rich, the…

2023 Fall IssueNovember 7, 2023November 10, 2023

Letter to the Editor: ASL in the ’90s

To the Editor, My name is Alek (Friedman) Lev ’97, and I’m responding to “Signs of the Times” by Himeka Curiel. It’s wonderful to learn about the ASL classes to be taught by Assistant Professor of the Practice in Americ…