Letters

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 …

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…

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…

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…

  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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …