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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 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, and Hebrew so he could read scriptures in their original language.   In t…
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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 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…
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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 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…
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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Charting A Rough Course

MID-JUNE, 2004: IT‘S 7:30 A.M. On the second floor of a brick school building in Harlem, Marc Waxman '94 stands in the corridor, counting the laptops that students returned to the cart after a morning enrichment program.…
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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2004May 2, 2014

A Jazz Talent Emerges

IT‘S 7:35 P.M. ON A WEDNESDAY EVENING IN SEPTEMBER, five minutes past the scheduled start time for a concert with jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton '86 and her band. Organizers at Quinnipiac University near New Haven are hurr…
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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Change is Brewing in Denver

BY TORI PEGLAR '96 DENVER MAYOR JOHN HICKENLOOPER '74 pumps gas into a shiny black Ford Excursion while a dozen newspaper photographers and TV cameramen swarm around him. A passerby could mistake him for a movie star, e…
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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2004May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: POLITICS AS USUAL: THE ORIGINS OF STUDENT POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS

Wesleyan students' long tradition of social activism is well known and well documented. From the missionary zeal of the earliest students to the more recent "Justice for Janitors" movement (to name just two of the many, …
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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 6, 2004October 6, 2014

Keeping the Community Connected

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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 6, 2004March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 6, 2004March 23, 2015

PICK OF THE SYLLABUS: Noah’s Flood: Myth vs. Reality

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