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Category 2001 Issue 1Posted on January 4, 2001May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: “THE GOOD OF THE WORLD”

Wesleyan students’ deep involvement in the service of the Middletown community dates back to the earliest years of the university. The seeds of student service are rooted in Willbur Fisk’s Sept. 21, 1831, inaugural address, “The Science of Education.” Fisk, a noted educational reformer and prominent…
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Category 2001 Issue 1Posted on January 4, 2001May 5, 2014

Field Hockey Wins ECAC Again

For the second year in a row, Wesleyan field hockey won the Eastern College Athletic Conference, New England Division III tournament. Carlin Aloe ’01, named tournament MVP, scored the winning goal with 5:08 remaining in …
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Category 2001 Issue 1Posted on January 4, 2001May 5, 2014

Volleyball Claims ECAC Title

A best–ever 27–11 record and an Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III North championship were two of the achievements of the women’s volleyball team during the 2000 season. It was the team’s second stra…
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Category 2001 Issue 1Posted on January 4, 2001May 5, 2014

John Sease Dies at Age 80

John W. Sease, the E.B. Nye Professor of Chemistry emeritus, died Nov. 12 at his home in Portland, Conn., just days after celebrating his 80th birthday.   Former Wesleyan President Victor Butterfield appointed him…
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Category 2001 Issue 1Posted on January 4, 2001May 5, 2014

Time Magazine: Willis, “A Spiritual Innovator”

Professor of Religion Jan Willis’s forthcoming memoir, Dreaming Me: An African American Woman’s Spiritual Journey, is creating a buzz even before it hits the bookstores this spring. In its Dec. 11 issue, Time magazine na…
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Category 2001 Issue 1Posted on January 4, 2001May 5, 2014

Reed Creates Moynihan Portrait

When Congress passed a bill to rename the federal courthouse at Foley Square in Lower Manhattan the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse, the senator asked Wesleyan Professor of English and American Studies J…
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Category 2001 Issue 1Posted on January 4, 2001May 5, 2014

Veteran V.P. and Treasurer Taylor Joins Colonial Williamsburg

Robert Taylor, Wesleyan’s longtime vice president and treasurer, left the university in late January to become the senior vice president for finance and administration at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsb…
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Category 2001 Issue 1Posted on January 4, 2001May 5, 2014

Q & A: The Thrill of the Chase

Not only did Scott Wiper ’92 write and direct this film, but he also stars in it, as Boomer, the young ex–cop and subject of the manhunt.   It has a stellar cast: Andre Braugher, Joe Pantoliano, Lou Diamond Philli…
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Category 2001 Issue 1Posted on January 4, 2001May 5, 2014

Elvis Rings from South College

It’s a late New England autumn noon along the Connecticut River, and from the steeple of an old brownstone building on a grassy hillside the bells begin to chime out the lilting, distinctive notes of...an Elvis Presley s…
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