UpFront – Page 13 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 14, 2013

Fries ’85 Gives $2 Million to Support Cinema Archives Endowment Fund

Mike Fries ’85, president and chief executive officer of Liberty Global, has made a gift of $2 million in support of the Wesleyan Cinema Archives Endowment Fund. His gift was celebrated in February at Wesleyan’s annual gala event for film studies, held at Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 29, 2013

Scholarship, Tenacity, and Brilliance: Remember Paul Schaffel ’12

[caption id="attachment_795" align="alignleft" width="300"] Paul Schaffel ’12. Photo: Bridget Read ’12.[/caption] Paul …

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 22, 2013

Wesleyan Creates New College of Film and the Moving Image

[caption id="attachment_798" align="alignleft" width="300"] Center for Film Studies. Photo: Olivia Drake.[/caption] Wes…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 25, 2013

BYO [Water] Bottle: Campus Environmental Initiative

Thanks to a student-driven initiative, environmentally harmful plastic bottles of water are disappearing from the We…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 25, 2013

Szegedy-Maszak Delivers West Coast WESeminars

[caption id="attachment_810" align="alignleft" width="300"] Andy Szegedy-Maszak, Professor of Classical Studies.Phot…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 14, 2013

Reunion in Jogjakarta

Two ethnomusicology graduates, Wayne Forrest ’74, MA ’77, and Ed Van Ness ’69, MA ’81, still share their love for world music when they meet up years later. Forrest recounts the story: Undergraduate students of …

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 25, 2013

“Commitment, Humor, and Passion”: Obama Recalls Alex Okrent ’05

[caption id="attachment_813" align="alignleft" width="300"] Alex Okrent ’05 was memorialized in The New York Times …

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013February 26, 2014

CONVERSATIONS: AN ACTOR FINDS THE PERFECT PART

[caption id="attachment_797" align="alignleft" width="300"] Ari Brand ’06 plays the title role in My Name Is Asher Lev.P…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013February 26, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: NORTH COLLEGE FIRE

During the night of March 1, 1906, North College went up in flames. “No more will the sound of the paddle reverberate through the halls of Old N.C.,” wrote freshman Eric McCoy North, class of 1909, to his mother thr…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 22, 2013

Scholar Athlete

[caption id="attachment_802" align="alignleft" width="300"] Midfielder Rory O’Neill ’13. Photo: John Van Vlack.[/cap…