Wesleyan University Magazine

2008 Issue 3September 20, 2008May 16, 2014

FILM STUDIES

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 You: The Films of Samuel Fuller (Wesleyan University Press, 2008) is the first sc…

2008 Issue 3September 20, 2008May 16, 2014

DARCY DENNET ’92 PRODUCES SHOW

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…

2008 Issue 3September 20, 2008May 16, 2014

NEW MUSIC

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…

2008 Issue 3September 20, 2008May 16, 2014

HUMANITIES

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…

2008 Issue 3September 20, 2008May 16, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

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…

2008 Issue 3September 20, 2008April 28, 2014

Stuck at the Bottom

As the labor reporter for the New York Times, Steven Greenhouse ’73, P’08, has an unimpeded view of workplace hell throughout the United States. More and more Americans are descending into this realm, and not just high s…

2008 Issue 3September 20, 2008April 28, 2014

The Watchers

One afternoon late last year, unbeknownst to museum guests, Wendy Richmond ’75 stood in the darkened gallery at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego that contained her recent exhibition, Public Privacy: Wendy Ric…

2008 Issue 3September 20, 2008April 28, 2014

X Marks the Sport

“WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, every kid played on a team,” says Chris Stiepock ’87, former varsity basketball captain at Wesleyan and now vice president and general manager of ESPN’s Global X Games franchise. “Last year, more…

2008 Issue 3September 20, 2008April 28, 2014

Lavender and Ministers

Interest in athletics grew slowly at American colleges and universities, waxing in a particular sport and then waning. In the 19th century, struggling athletes at Wesleyan slogged through a field that often resembled a m…

2008 Issue 3September 2, 2008March 23, 2015

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