Wesleyan University Magazine

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 16, 2014

Leveraging Faculty Work

Peter Gottschalk can’t give students in his introductory religion class tickets for a flight to India to observe interactions between Hindus and Muslims, but they have the next best thing. Gottschalk, associate professor of religion, has assembled a Web site that enables his students to tak…

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 16, 2014

Jim Dresser ’63 Named as Board Chair

The Board of Trustees has elected James van B. Dresser ’63 as its new chair, succeeding Alan Dachs ’70, who concluded eight years of service as chair this summer. Dresser retired eight years ago as senior vice p…

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 16, 2014

Student View

[Editor’s Note: After the devastation of the tsunami in Indonesia, the Freeman Foundation, which sponsors the Freeman Asian Scholars Program at Wesleyan, challenged both students and alumni from the area to recommend an …

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 16, 2014

No Need For Quiet

If students wonder why they should go to the library when so much is on the Web, University Librarian Barbara Jones has an answer. If Wesleyan's librarian sees her vision fulfilled, the quiet hush of the referen…

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: CAME HELL AND HIGH WATER

More than 65 years ago, on September 21, 1938, Alma Mater and Mother Nature struggled for dominance. Alma Mater was battered and bruised, but not destroyed. The headline in a special issue of the Hartford Courant summed …

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 2, 2014

Born to Fly

BY ERIC GERSHON ’98 | PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL BURKHART LET‘S SAY YOU WANT TO TRAVEL FROM CAPE COD TO CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Cod has no international airport, so you've got to get to one--most likely Boston's Logan. F…

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 2, 2014

Murder in the Cathedral

In the prologue to his novel The Go-Between, British author L. P. Hartley writes: "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." For 20 years Jeff Rider, a noted scholar of French and medieval studies…

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 2, 2014

Deep Diver

ELLEN PRAGER '84 FIRST SAW HYDROLAB, an undersea research habitat, on a field trip while she was spending a semester at the West Indies Laboratory in St. Croix. Intrigued, she bicycled over the hilly roads of St. Croix t…

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 2, 2014

Here by Choice

ON A BREEZY SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN OCTOBER about three dozen high school students and parents attended a workshop, sponsored by Wesleyan's Office of Admission, at Marymount School in Manhattan, a Catholic school for girls l…

2005 Issue 4December 6, 2005October 6, 2014

LETTER HOME: A Letter Home From Thailand

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