Wesleyan University Magazine

2003 Issue 4August 4, 2003May 7, 2014

A Supercomputing Wulf in PC Clothing

It has become a ritual at businesses and colleges across the world: get rid of computers that have become obsolete in just two or three years—and replace them with new machines. But would the purging be done so often if the system administrators knew that these so-called obsolete machines c…

2003 Issue 4August 4, 2003May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: WEST MEETS EAST, WESLEYAN AND THE CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH

In the early part of the 20th century, many Wesleyan alumni traveled to China as part of a movement to introduce Western-style education to the East. Their influence, and the influence of other Western educators and miss…

2003 Issue 4August 4, 2003May 2, 2014

A Fading Taboo?

SINCE HER EARLY YEARS GROWING UP IN SUBURBS OF CLEVELAND, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies Renee Romano has been a keen observer of racial relations in this country—and in her own daily life. T…

2003 Issue 4August 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Wesleyan’s Building Boom

IN 1876 WESLEYAN ACQUIRED ITS FIRST LAWN MOWER. The front of North College, formerly a meadow, became a well-trimmed lawn with mature, beautiful trees. From a small collection of brownstone buildings, the campus would ev…

2003 Issue 4August 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Preventing Fatal Medical Errors

WHEN SUZANNE DELBANCO '89 WAS 14 YEARS OLD, her cousin Debbie went into a hospital to have a broken nose fixed. An undetected genetic condition predisposed Debbie to react to general anesthesia with a dangerous and susta…

2003 Issue 3May 4, 2003May 7, 2014

New History Journal

Wesleyan undergraduates interested in history can’t wait to get published. So they have created a scholarly journal, Historical Narratives, which was published by Lightning Source at the end of spring semester. …

2003 Issue 3May 4, 2003May 7, 2014

Three Are Alumni-Elected, New Trustees Join Board

The Board of Trustees will be welcoming seven new members at its next meeting. The new alumni-elected trustees, serving three-year terms, are: Ethan Bronner ’76, assistant editorial page editor of The New York T…

2003 Issue 3May 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Q & A: Assessing the Campaign Impact

The Wesleyan Campaign is about to embark on its final year with $210 million in gifts and pledges raised toward the $250-million goal. Barbara-Jan Wilson, vice president for university relations, says the campaign has tr…

2003 Issue 3May 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Student Voice

I started writing for the Wesleyan Argus about a year ago. Now I am a syndicated columnist. Well, one paper in Massachusetts has agreed to pay me $12 a week, but I’m ecstatic. Who knows where this will lead, but here’s…

2003 Issue 3May 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Star Power

When Roger Cohen ’03 first looked at the images, he thought there must be some mistake. The dates had to be wrong, or perhaps the images had been mislabeled. But after rechecking the data, the realization of what he was …