Wesleyan University Magazine

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 16, 2014

New England Champion

NESCAC Coach of the Year John Crooke reports: The New England Regional meet was the major highlight for both men’s and women’s teams in 2005. The women placed 7th in the toughest region in the country and the men placed 2nd to qualify as a team to the National Championships. The men ended up placin…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Q & A: Talking With Actress Halley Feiffer ’07

The multi-talented artist Halley Feiffer '07 has acted for several years. She has appeared in three critically acclaimed independent films, including Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale, in which she gives a lovely a…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Unprecedented Star Cluster

A 14-year study by Wesleyan researchers has revealed a phenomenon that may indicate the forming of new planets or perhaps even the existence of young planets orbiting young sun-like stars more than 1,600 light years away…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Men’s Soccer Takes NESCAC Title

NESCAC Coach of the Year Geoffrey Wheeler reports: Wesleyan captured its first ever New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championship in any sport when the men’s soccer team defeated Amherst an…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Largest Binge-eating Study Will Include Men

An internationally-recognized expert on eating disorders, Striegel-Moore says the four-year study will take place in Portland, Oregon, and will include male and female subjects between 18 and 50 years of age. The study i…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: WESLEYAN’S ANNIVERSARIES

Wesleyan turns 175 in 2006. The official celebration will begin at Reunion and Commencement 2006. Institutional birthdays often occur in 25-year intervals. A quick look at the history of Wesleyan's anniversary c…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Museum on College Row

THE BONANG, KOTO, AXATSE, AND TABLA--musical instruments that may be unknown to many people--are crammed along with hundreds of other equally intriguing items from the World Music collection in a locked storeroom small…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Main Street’s New Buzz

ON A BRIGHT EARLY-AUTUMN SATURDAY AFTERNOON, pedestrians fill the central block of Main Street, which has been closed to vehicles for "Middletown Dances." A dance team from Middletown High School teaches "Hand Jive" on a…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Valley of Extremes

IT ALL CAME DOWN TO THE WIND ON VENTIFACT RIDGE. The wind—thousands of years' worth of sand-filled storms and sustained breezes blowing in excess of 50 miles per hour—had carved dramatic features into the solid rocks an…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006April 25, 2014

Dance of the Genes

"One of the great lessons I've learned from Liz [Lerman] in the three years we've worked together is the importance of 'rattling around in somone else's universe,'" writes Center for the Arts director Pamela Tatge '84 in…