Wesleyan University Magazine

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009May 16, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

Wesleyan alumni know our proud history of engaging with the world, but it is always nice to have one’s self–perception acknowledged by other institutions. During the break between semesters, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching selected Wesleyan for inclusion in the 2008 Community…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Colorado SURPRISE

BY LYNDSEY LAYTON ’86 After a key Senate vote in early February on the economic stimulus package, Michael Bennet ’87 stepped into the cloakroom off the Senate floor, took out his cell phone, and dialed his father. Doug…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Ten Photos That Shook the World

The little girl in the center of the photograph is naked. From the news account, we know that she has torn off her own clothes, desperate to escape the flesh–burning napalm. She runs toward the viewer, holding her arms o…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Almost Human

BY KAREN GUZMAN | PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL BURKHART AND STEVEN JACARUSO The era of Hollywood’s fevered imagination has finally arrived. The computers are taking over. Machines, robots, artificial intelligence agents, whateve…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Wesleyan Wit and Wisdom

Fred R. Shapiro, Editor, The Yale Book of Quotations The personality of a school can be an elusive target. Wesleyan has a strong tradition of producing scientists, yet literature and the arts may be the most dominant ar…

2008 Issue 4December 29, 2008September 29, 2014

Are We Even Yet?

Imagine parents trying to make ends meet to send their daughter to an expensive college. Imagine that they make every conceivable sacrifice to get their precious child a piece of the American dream. Imagine this all too …

2008 Issue 4December 29, 2008September 29, 2014

CONVERSATIONS: The Anti-Intellectual Presidency

Elvin Lim, assistant professor of government, studies how U.S. presidents speak. He’s not impressed. By Corrina Balash Kerr Assistant Professor of Government Elvin Lim is the author of The Anti-intellectual Presidency:…

2008 Issue 4December 20, 2008May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: THE ONCE AND FUTURE PRESIDENT

One small aspect of Barack Obama’s rise to the White House is actually not groundbreaking: he is far from the first future president to find his way to Wesleyan. Middletown has played host to four sitting presidents and …

2008 Issue 4December 20, 2008May 16, 2014

ARCHITECTURE

The designers were presented with a considerable architectural challenge. Create a structure to fit a unique site —a former cranberry bog covered in three feet of water—on a modest budget, make it durable and use sustain…

2008 Issue 4December 20, 2008April 16, 2014

COMMISSIONED ART

Professor of Art Jeffrey Schiff was pleased to learn that people are touching his sculpture for good luck on their way into the Connecticut State Courthouse in New Britain. Although he didn’t foresee its use as …