Short Features – Page 25 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

OTHER WORLDS

BY ERIC BUTTERMAN A U.S. Navy man, a customs inspector, even a cabbie—that’s a bio we can buy. But an acclaimed sci-fi novelist who didn’t publish his first book until after he had turned 50? Now that definitely sounds like a work of science fiction. Yet this is the life of 81-year-old Jack Mc…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

TRUE BELIEVER: KEEPING THE CAMERAS ROLLING

Guiding religious scholar Reza Aslan through his “spiritual adventure series,” two alumni practice what they learned as film majors. A new CNN original series, Believer with Reza Aslan, employs the talents of two …

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

LETTER HOME: VISITING SWAZILAND WITH STEVE KALLAUGHER ’73 AND YOUNG HEROES FOUNDATION

By Steve Machuga, director of administrative systems, Wesleyan Information Technology Services LED BY STEVE KALLAUGHER ’73, we’ve just arrived by van at the Mlindazwe Orphan Care Point—a two-room, cinder-block bui…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

EVERY PORTRAIT TELLS A STORY

When computer-analyst-by-day-artist-by-night Julia L. Kay ’83 invited fellow artists to draw each other via an online portrait drawing group, she had no idea how many, if any, would respond. Seven years later, almost 1,0…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

BIG CHALLENGES FOR NON PROFITS

Students in the class Nonprofits and Social Change heard from nonprofit executives about the challenges of scaling up to meet pressing social needs. WHEN A COUPLE OF GUYS brandishing baseball bats showed up …

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

SYLVIA RYERSON ’09: RADIO FOR THE INCARCERATED

Restorative Radio offers longform audio pieces that broadcast the sounds and voices of home to those behind prison walls. “By design, prisons are the most censored institutions in the country. Letters are screened…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

PRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT AT SAN QUENTIN

“The crisis of criminal justice we are facing is a problem of dehumanization,” says Jody Lewen ’86, co-founder and executive direct of the project. Education, she says, transforms the lives of those incarcerated—but she …

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

Study Abroad Student Photo Contest

The Center for Global Studies invited students studying abroad to use photography to reflect on their experiences. Wesleyan students, staff, and faculty voted for their favorite images, and winners were announced in Febr…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

TELLING TIME IN ANTIQUITY

Colleagues across campus collaborate with Professor of Classical Studies Christopher Parslow to unravel the mystery of a small piece of silver plated bronze, shaped like a prosciutto, that had been buried by the erup…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

The Prodigal Cannon

The Douglas Cannon has been part of Wesleyan’s history for 150 years—yet generations of students have come and gone without laying eyes on the peripatetic cannon. To celebrate its anniversary, herewith is a short pri…