Wesleyan University Magazine

2007 Issue 4December 20, 2007May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: INAUGURATING A WESLEYAN PRESIDENT

Few academic ceremonies are more steeped in tradition than the inauguration of a new university president. Naturally, Wesleyan’s 16 inaugurations have varied in detail, but certain key elements recur: an academic procession, music, greetings from key constituencies, the presence of special guests, a…

2007 Issue 4December 20, 2007April 28, 2014

Indies in the Crosshairs?

INDEPENDENTLY-OWNED BOOKSTORES USED TO BE A FREQUENT SIGHT IN CITIES AND SUBURBS. They were funky places, each with its own personality and variety of books. But early in the 1990s, eerily identical “big box” superstores…

2007 Issue 4December 20, 2007April 28, 2014

Something Old, Something New

A focus of the campus master plan adopted in 2003 came to fruition this fall with the opening of the Suzanne Lemberg Usdan University Center and the renovated Fayerweather building. Now, with more than 150,000 dining tra…

2007 Issue 4December 20, 2007April 28, 2014

A Brighter Stage For Science

ASK ANY SCIENTIST ON CAMPUS HOW THE SCIENCES AT WESLEYAN STACK UP AGAINST OTHER LIBERAL ARTS INSTITUTIONS, and you will hear an exclamation that our peers aren’t even in the same league. A lot of data exists to support …

2007 Issue 4December 15, 2007March 23, 2015

BACKSTORY: Just Go Forward

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2007 Issue 4December 2, 2007March 23, 2015

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2007 Issue 3October 2, 2007March 23, 2015

BACKSTORY: Fight for Freedom

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2007 Issue 3October 2, 2007March 23, 2015

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2007 Issue 3September 30, 2007September 30, 2014

Recalling “The Day the Clowns Cried”

July 6, 1944, the day of the Hartford circus fire, has been dubbed “The Day the Clowns Cried.” The blaze, which claimed the lives of 169 people, mostly women and children, and its aftermath was the subject of We Can’t Re…

2007 Issue 3September 29, 2007September 29, 2014

A Trip to Africa with Nicholas Kristof

The rebel soldiers and their big guns become silent when Nakunda speaks. Even the cows in the nearby fields stop mooing. He is motioning to me, with insistence: “Have another piece of chicken.” Moments earlier, Nakunda a…