Wesleyan University Magazine

2003 Issue 3May 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Made From Scratch

AS THE CROWD TRICKLES IN TO A TRENDY MANHATTAN NIGHT CLUB, Jahi Sundance Lake '01, one of New York's hottest young deejays, lugs two steel crates and a satchel stuffed with LPs up the stairs to the loft where he'll perform for the next two hours. These 170 records—a small part of his 7,000-album co…

2003 Issue 2March 30, 2003March 23, 2015

PICK OF THE SYLLABUS: A World Made New

Stephen Angle, Associate Professor of Philosophy, selects A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Mary Ann Glendon Thriller, biography, learned analysis, and polemic—A World …

2003 Issue 2March 30, 2003March 23, 2015

AUTHOR ESSAY: Tales of Rhinestone Cowgirls

In Rodeo Queens and the American Dream (Public Affairs/Perseus Books, 2002), Joan Burbick ’76 chronicles the lives of white and Native American women who worked in professional rodeos in the Pacific Northwest from the 19…

2003 Issue 2March 30, 2003March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

Our roundup of noteworthy publications by Wesleyan alumni, faculty members, and parents. AMANDA DAVIS ’93 Wonder When You’ll Miss Me (HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2003) In this heartbreaking coming-of-age debut nove…

2003 Issue 2March 30, 2003September 30, 2014

The Friend Is More Important Than the Ask

The phone rings and it’s a classmate–maybe a close friend or maybe someone you barely knew who was in your philosophy class–asking you to contribute to the Wesleyan Annual Fund. Sometimes this happens when you are in th…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Q & A: One of Hollywood’s Top Agents

In Hollywood today, the most powerful talent agency is CAA and the most powerful person at CAA is Rick Nicita. (Rick would modestly duck that statement. He once said, “Agents don’t have power in themselves. Their power i…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Cool Scoop on a Hot Student Enterpreneuer

When considering a new business opportunity, most entrepreneurs think about location, client base, access to supplies, demographics, and marketing. But Adam Lachman ’03 was thinking only about the taste of ice cream. &n…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

World Music’s 40th Anniversary

Nonesuch Records plans to release 92 CDs of world music during the next two years (including some by Wesleyan artists), but when Wesleyan began its World Music Program 40 years ago, non-Western music was a virtually unto…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Julia Glass Breaks Rules

As an avid reader of fiction by new authors, I was intrigued by the title of Julia Glass’s debut novel, Three Junes, when I first saw it displayed in the local bookstore last summer. I assumed it might be about three wom…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: SUMMER SCHOOL CLOSED DUE TO SNOW

This summer, the Graduate Liberal Studies Program celebrates its 50th anniversary. The first program of its kind, it opened in the summer of 1953 as the Graduate Summer School for Teachers (GSS). Despite the later additi…