Editor’s Note: On Changemakers Leading the Charge

2022 Spring IssueJuly 11, 2022October 25, 2022

Editor’s Note: On Changemakers Leading the Charge

“Young women were not admitted into many colleges and universities, athletic scholarships for women were rare, and math and science was a realm reserved for boys. . . . Girls could become teachers and nurses, but not doctors or principals; women rarely were awarded tenure and even more rarely appoin…

2022 Spring IssueJuly 11, 2022

Letters to the Editor: Remembering Christina Crosby

Dear Editor, The Class of ’86 recently celebrated our 35th year reunion. That means I have been reading the printed copy of the magazine cover to cover for 36 years! I grab my glasses and open to the Class Notes, in t…

2022 Spring IssueJuly 11, 2022

Letter to the Editor: The Film Center’s Early Years

“Lights Up On The Future of Filmmaking,” from the 2021–2022 Winter Issue reminded me of the first years of film at Wesleyan, before there was a Film Center and there was only one lecturer, Jeanine Basinger, and a few eag…

2021-2022 Winter IssueJanuary 18, 2022January 18, 2022

President’s Letter: Thinking Beyond the Pandemic

I write this column as we approach the last week of fall semester classes. What a term it has been! We arrived in Middletown in late summer as the Delta variant was surging in different parts of the country, and although…

2021-2022 Winter IssueJanuary 18, 2022October 25, 2022

Editor’s Note: The Value of Community

I have a confession to make: I missed Arrival Day this year. It’s always notable because of what it represents: new faces, new hope, a new start. This year, however, was more poignant than ever, as it wasn’t just fres…

2021-2022 Winter IssueJanuary 18, 2022

Letter to the Editor: Experimenting with Computers and Art in the ’70s

It was with personal bemused interest and irony that I read the article Embracing Unpredictability in your latest issue. Because this was not the first time that someone at Wesleyan endeavored to apply computer code…

2021-2022 Winter IssueJanuary 18, 2022

Letter to the Editor: Professor Christina Crosby’s Lasting Legacy

I read with both admiration and sadness Wesleyan magazine’s article on the life and recent death of Professor Christina Crosby, A Hard Life, Well Lived. For reasons I’ll explain, I had no idea she was at the school despi…

2021-2022 Winter IssueJanuary 18, 2022

Letter to the Editor: Moments of Inspiration

My family has broad roots at Wesleyan. My brother Brad was a Wesleyan athlete in the ’70s, I earned my MALS at Wesleyan when Wesleyan professors still elevated the landscape of that program, my youngest son graduat…

2021 Issue 1May 15, 2021January 17, 2022

President’s Letter: Intellectual Diversity Empowers Discernment in Students

It’s been a hard time for the partisans of progress. We’ve just seen how suddenly things we value about modern life—accomplishments of Progress with a capital “P”—can be swept away. It might just be a wet food market, a …

2021 Issue 1May 15, 2021May 28, 2021

Letter to the Editor: A Wesleyan Gay Romance

“Freshman year I was rooming in the basement floor and Dan Waters was on the ground floor of our Foss Hill dormitory. We met, became close friends, grew inseparable, fell deeply in love and have been together ever since.…