Wesleyan University Magazine

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 16, 2014

Miss U.S. Virgin Islands

“My mother has called me ‘Miss Universe’ since I was 2,” admits Tricia Homer ’04 with a laugh. She is now just one contest away from the possibility of making this title her own, worldwide. In November, Homer was crowned Miss U.S. Virgin Islands, eligible to compete for the Miss Universe title at a …

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 16, 2014

Shasha Seminar

Melting glaciers and disappearing polar ice are two tangible signs of a virtually undisputed phenomenon—the earth is warming. Yet scientists cannot give policy makers the certainty they seek about how much warming, when,…

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: KEEPING SECRETS

Whether your tastes run to bestsellers such as The Da Vinci Code and The Rule of Four or you prefer the New York Times' coverage of the Presidential inauguration, you probably have been reading recently about secret soci…

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 2, 2014

Inside Stories

BY CAROLYN BATTISTA AS SOON AS SHE BEGAN TEACHING AT A WOMEN‘S PRISON, Dale Griffith '92 began encouraging her students to write. "I'd learned experientially that writing heals, that it can be a way of making sense of w…

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 2, 2014

School of Dreams

WESLEYAN‘S CENTER FOR THE ARTS DIRECTOR PAMELA TATGE ’84 and I are sitting in the Tibetan restaurant on Main Street near O'Rourke's, sharing a late lunch—bowls of steaming noodles—and a conversation about the new Green S…

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 2, 2014

The Challenge of Access

WESLEYAN‘S CAMPAIGN SAILED PAST THE $250-MILLION GOAL IN OCTOBER, and when the books closed at year's end on a historic and celebratory $281 million, the university had raised more than four times the amount of the last …

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 2, 2014

Projecting the Future

AFTER THE LIGHTS GO DOWN, the MGM lion roars on the movie screen. The names Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, and Debbie Reynolds appear one by one, superimposed on three open black umbrellas. Then the umbrellas turn around t…

2004 Issue 4December 20, 2004April 4, 2014

Q & A: Japan’s Search for a Secure Future

Professor of Government Peter Rutland, back from a year in Japan, discusses that country's outdated security arrangement with the United States and why both sides need to change. Japan and the United States are …

2004 Issue 4December 20, 2004May 7, 2014

A Photographer’s View

The trip across Japan last summer visiting ancient shrines actually began in Wyoming in the early 1970s. That’s when a high school student named William Johnston came across a book called Essays in Zen Buddhism. …

2004 Issue 4December 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Outreach to Public Schools

In 1979 a group of Connecticut citizens concerned about math education got together on the Wesleyan campus. Their worries ranged from declining student performance in math to the small number of women choosing math-relat…