Wesleyan University Magazine

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 what happens to you," she says. She never imagined all that would follow. She ne…

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Professor of Government Peter Rutland, back from a year in Japan, discusses that country's outdated security arrangement with the United States and why both sides need to change.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

2004 Issue 4December 20, 2004May 7, 2014

New Chair Honors Henry Wriston ’11

Henry Wriston ’11 was born in Laramie before Wyoming became a state. His mother had come west in a wagon train and survived a deadly clash with Indians. His father was a circuit preacher who taught himself Greek, Latin, …

2004 Issue 4December 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Tibetan Monks At Work

Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in Southern India spent Sept. 8?11 on campus creating a mandala, or sand painting, in the lobby of Olin Library. A constant stream of visitors from on campus and off stop…

2004 Issue 4December 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Clues to Health in “Smartweeds”

Sonia Sultan, a slim and dark-haired biologist, kicks off her sandals and begins to water one of the bushy green Polygonum plants growing in Wesleyan's research greenhouse. She intends to compare it to its relatives grow…