Wesleyan University Magazine

2008 Issue 2June 20, 2008April 28, 2014

Sustainability Grows Roots

BY TOM CHRISTOPHER | PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANNE MARCOTTY BILL NELLIGAN is assessing Wesleyan’s prospects for 2008, strategizing with the intensity of a Belichick. In 2007, says Nelligan (the university’s director of environmental health, safety, and sustainability), Wesleyan came in sixth among the NESCAC…

2008 Issue 2June 20, 2008April 28, 2014

Working the Blank Canvas

The blank canvas is an object of wistful romance, of hopes and dreams. It waits for color, texture, context—for talent—to transform it into something that has beauty and meaning. People see the finished painting and make…

2008 Issue 2June 20, 2008March 24, 2014

Comic Makeover

BY BRIAN SCHWARTZ | PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL BURKHART THE SECURITY guards who work for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart are brawny men, imposing and menacingly bald. In the daytime, before hopefuls for that evening’s studio a…

2008 Issue 1February 2, 2008March 23, 2015

BETWEEN THE LINES: Witnessing Evil Up Close

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2008 Issue 1February 2, 2008March 23, 2015

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2008 Issue 1January 29, 2008September 29, 2014

LETTER HOME

Reflections on Leaving Kenya by Nate Baumgart ’06 The cars are supposed to arrive around ten to take us to the plantation airstrip. A private plane has been chartered to Kisumu and then to Dar Es Salaam. Thus far, …

2008 Issue 1January 29, 2008September 29, 2014

Politics ’08 and Foreign Policy

Wesleyan foreign policy expert Douglas Foyle says that national debate about foreign policy follows the headlines, which is a troubling aspect of our political system. By David Pesci Douglas C. Foyle is the Douglas J…

2008 Issue 1January 29, 2008September 29, 2014

SCHOLAR ATHLETE: Stop That Puck!

Mike Palladino ’09 can stop a hockey puck before most of us can blink our eyes. As goalie, he led the NESCAC in save percentage (.920) last year, earning him a ranking of eighth nationally in Division III. For his accomp…

2008 Issue 1January 29, 2008September 29, 2014

Red and Black (and Blue)

Chris Wink ’83, readying for his 25th Reunion, still recalls the panic and pressure of his senior year, when he was wondering how he could peddle his American studies major, a four-year concentration in pop culture and a…

2008 Issue 1January 20, 2008May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: TIME FOR A BREAK!

When you spend your life in a university community, the academic calendar can seem as inevitable as the change of seasons in New England. The new year starts in September, close to Labor Day. Frosh show up early for orie…