Editor’s Note: The Special Power of Global Experiences

2019 Issue 3December 3, 2019December 3, 2019

Editor’s Note: The Special Power of Global Experiences

On a recent trip to Greece, and at the recommendation of Wesleyan professor (and Grecian native) Tsampikos Kottos, my wife and I decided to hike Samaria Gorge in southern Crete. While travel is often noted for helping people find themselves, visiting Samaria had the opposite effect. The gorge begi…

2019 Issue 3December 3, 2019

Letters to the Editor: Bruce Corwin ’62, Andrew Berends ’94, and Stars in Our Midst

Dear Editors, On reading the otherwise very informative set of articles celebrating Jeanine Basinger and the Wesleyan film program, I was sorry to find that the important early contributions to the program made by Bruce…

2019 Issue 3December 3, 2019

President’s Letter: “Borders Don’t Confine an Inquisitive Mind, a Compassionate Heart, and a Courageous Spirit!”

When I arrived as a student here in 1975, I had never ventured far from the United States. My mind-opening studies in European cultural history soon took me to France, where later I would live for some years. When I retu…

2019 Issue 2September 17, 2019

President’s Letter

Whatever you study in college, you should be prepared to talk about what you’ve learned with people who haven’t studied your subject. In a world in which so many are locked into small silos of understanding, it’s a great…

2019 Issue 2September 17, 2019

Letters to the Editor: Dr. Martin Luther King Hon. ’64; Quantitative Leaders; Class of ’45: 10th Mountain Division

Wesleyan’s Dr. Martin Luther King Hon. ’64 Dear Sir: An article in Issue 1, 2019, on African American Studies at Wesleyan was very interesting and informative. I was very surprised that the authors neglected to…

2019 Issue 2September 17, 2019

“I’ve Got My Gal”

I came to Wesleyan expressly to study with Jeanine Basinger. Many of us did. Film was our religion and initially we loved it with the reckless idiocy of first lust; it overwhelmed us, obsessed us. Jeanine remade lust in…

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019May 20, 2019

President’s Letter: Data Analytics in the Context of Liberal Learning

Many liberal arts colleges have come under extraordinary duress in recent years, and many universities (when not just focused on specialized research) seem to have abandoned broad, contextual learning in favor of vocatio…

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019May 20, 2019

Editor’s Note: Difficult Problems and Creative Solutions

Despite growing up in Connecticut, most of what I knew about Wesleyan as an adolescent was that a very bright friend of mine—Nick Encalada-Malinowski ’04—chose it from many other impressive collegiate options. Aside fro…

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019

Letter to the Editor: Remembering Wesleyan’s 10th Mountain Division of World War II

Dear Editor: When WWII brought the Enlisted Reserve Corps (ERC) to Wesleyan, many of us joined at our administrators’ urging us to stay in college. In a short time, a program by the Navy took precedence and we ERC were …

2018 Issue 3December 6, 2018December 7, 2018

President’s Letter: Interdisciplinary Education

IDEAS is now a minor, and I suspect before too long it will take its place among the interdisciplinary majors offered at the university. I can hardly wait to see what faculty and students make of this addition to our edu…