Wesleyan University Magazine

2004 Issue 3September 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Politics @ Grassroots

WHEN HOWARD DEAN‘S CAMPAIGN FLAMED OUT, John Kerry's deputy fundraising director called Jonah Sachs '97. "Now are you ready to work with us?" she asked. Sachs and his 13-person firm, Free Range Graphics, had helped establish the potency of the Internet in political campaigning while producing Inter…

2004 Issue 3September 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Washington’s Idea Industry

LEN BURMAN '75 IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. If this news catches you by surprise, you can be forgiven. Burman announced his candidacy on Public Radio International's Marketplace show, where he also unv…

2004 Issue 2July 6, 2004October 6, 2014

How to Be a Good Wesleyan Alumnus/a

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2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 7, 2014

A Renaissance Murder Mystery

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…

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Premium in Workplace

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 …

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Kanem Johnson ’04

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…

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004April 4, 2014

Q & A: The World’s Fittest Man

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…

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Butterfield At 100: Romance on the Way to Wesleyan

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…

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Murder Will Out

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…

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Healing Torture’s Wounds

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…