Wesleyan University Magazine

2004 Issue 1January 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Stephen Daniel ’82, Gift Honors Former Board Chair

Stephen S. Daniel ’82 has made a $1-million gift to the Wesleyan Campaign in honor of his father, D. Ronald Daniel ’52, former chair of Wesleyan’s Board of Trustees. In recognition of this gift, Wesleyan will name the dining room on the top floor of the new University Center for Ron Daniel …

2004 Issue 1January 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Ethics in the New World Order

Participants in this year's Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns discussed an issue cited by Kofi Annan as posing a fundamental challenge to the principles underlying world security. An ethical issue that underpins…

2004 Issue 1January 20, 2004May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: OLIN LIBRARY TURNS 75

Olin Library, dedicated in 1928, has reached the ripe old age of 75. Built by the well-known New York firm of McKim, Mead, and White, and based on original plans by architect Henry Bacon, Olin was constructed during a pe…

2004 Issue 1January 20, 2004May 2, 2014

The Mysterious Art of Teaching

BY ALEXANDER CHEE '89 I GRADUATED FROM WESLEYAN IN 1989 as an English major with a B+ average and returned in the fall of 2002 as a visiting writer after the publication of my first novel. Being here again has been a st…

2004 Issue 1January 20, 2004May 2, 2014

New Ideas Infuse the Curriculum

BARRY CHERNOFF CAN BE A HARD GUY TO REACH when classes are not in session. His work as an environmental scientist bent on saving ecosystems from destruction takes him to remote areas of South America where he is more lik…

2004 Issue 1January 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Common Song for An Uncommon Film

ON A JUNE EVENING IN 2002, ethnomusicologist Tim Eriksen M.A. '93 got a call that changed his life. He and his wife, fellow ethnomusicologist Mirjana (Minja) Lausevic Ph.D. '98, were living in Minneapolis. She was a pro…

2004 Issue 1January 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Uproar Over Act of Conscience

EVEN AFTER ALL THE REHEARSAL AND PREPARATION, Ari Silver-Isenstadt '90 still didn't know what he would actually do that morning in the operating room when he faced the ethical dilemma he'd been dreading. Certainly, he n…

2003 Issue 4December 6, 2003October 6, 2014