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Chris Goy ’09 is used to finding opportunities for himself. A graduate of a public high school in Albuquerque with the highest SAT scores in the state, Goy chose to attend Wesleyan, although few of his friends left the S…

Chris Goy ’09 is used to finding opportunities for himself. A graduate of a public high school in Albuquerque with the highest SAT scores in the state, Goy chose to attend Wesleyan, although few of his friends left the S…

Most Wesleyan alumni are well aware of the visits of Martin Luther King Jr. to Wesleyan in the 1960s. Clearly the most famous and charismatic Civil Rights Movement figure, Martin Luther King profoundly affected the Wesle…

Two associate professors of film studies, Lisa Dombrowski ’92 and Scott Higgins, have published groundbreaking books that are sure to be useful in American film classes.   Lisa Dombrowski’s If You Die, I’ll Kill Y…

When police raided property owned by former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and discovered traumatized pit bulls used for illegal dogfighting, the nation witnessed a dismal spectacle. Now, through the work of Da…

Last fall, Ben Goldwasser ’05 and Andrew Vanwyngarden ’05, who form the electro-rock music duo named MGMT, released their new CD, Oracular Spectacular on Columbia Records, and since then, their legion of fans continues t…

Wesleyan’s Center for the Humanities, one of the oldest humanities institutes in the United States, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with a focus on the ways “the human” has been figured over the past half-centu…

As the students arrive for the beginning of the fall term, the campus is filled with energy and anticipation. I very much enjoyed meeting the newcomers and their families while they found their dorm assignments and quick…

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