Wesleyan University Magazine

One of history's famous unsolved whodunits is the Pazzi conspiracy, in which an attempt to overthrow the Medici family, rulers of Florence, led to a brutal and brazen murder. For 500 years rumors have circulated about wh…

Beauty Lies in the Eye of Your Employer Beauty is most certainly in the eye of the beholder, but according to new research by Wesleyan economist Tanya Rosenblat and Harvard’s Markus Mobius, beauty is also in the eye of …

Kanem Johnson ’04 is a lanky, 6-foot-4 basketball player from an inner-city high school in New Haven who listened to his mother.   While he dreamed of stardom at a Division I school, she insisted that he keep acad…

Decker dropped out of college and moved to New Orleans, where he alternated between binge drinking and fattening himself on burgers, fries, and pizza. One morning he woke early with a throbbing headache, having hardly sl…

BY ED "ACE" KNAPP '43 AS A FRESHMAN FROM BROOKLYN IN 1952, Paul Schwaber watched Victor Butterfield, the 48-year-old president of Wesleyan, lob a football to a student on the North College lawn. Someone remarked that Vi…

THE 7 A.M. MONDAY MORNING PHONE CALLdidn't surprise attorney Bill Devereaux '75. He often gave his home number to clients as a trial approached. But it wasn't one of his clients on the other end of the line. It was Todd…

CYNTHIA WILLARD '88 REMEMBERS THE EXACT MOMENT she decided to become a physician. She was walking down a red-dirt path between her dormitory and a mission hospital in rural Liberia. Flanked by large green reeds, she stop…

THE SOLUTION TO PERHAPS THE GREATEST MYSTERY of ancient Greece depended on a chance meeting near the remains of a Roman villa in Portugal in 1995. True, things got clearer as an unsuspecting woman became giddy in a tool…

In Wesleyan's first years, when most students boarded in town or lived in the Old Boarding Hall or the Dormitory (now known as North College), food was simple and plain. Many students were of relatively modest means, and…