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Publishers and Editors

Wesleyan graduates are prolific authors, as the books section of this magazine attests, but they are also very active as publishers and editors.   Johnny Temple ’89, for example, runs an award-winning, independent publishing company, Akashic Books, based in Brooklyn. Temple had already found …
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Glass Pavilion

College Row has looked pretty much the same for generations. A quick glance at the area between Memorial Chapel and ’92 Theater, however, reveals that change is coming, most visibly through the construction of an all-wea…
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Global Conflict

Hanna Ingber ’03, a major in the College of Social Studies, reports on Wesleyan’s first Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns, which focused on “Cultural Roots of Global Conflict.”   Attending the Shasha Seminar on gl…
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Smoke Signals

ALDOUS HUXLEY AND GEORGE BURNS HAD AT LEAST ONE THING IN COMMON: Both believed a good cigar is essential to happiness. Huxley said a cigar is "much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear."…
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Who Owns The Past?

KARIN HALVORSEN '97 HAS NO TROUBLE REMEMBERING AN AFTER-DINNER DEBATE she witnessed as an undergraduate on a dig in Morgantina, Sicily, co-sponsored by Wesleyan and the University of Virginia. The archaeologists around t…
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Out Of This World

MARTHA GILMORE IS GOING TO MARS. Again. In fact, this time she's not only responsible for helping pick a landing site, she'll be doing some of the driving on the red planet, too. Gilmore, an assistant professor of earth…
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Category 2002 Issue 4Posted on

JUST PUBLISHED

Our roundup of noteworthy publications by Wesleyan alumni, faculty members, and parents. MICHAEL LOBEL ’90 Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art (Yale University Press, 2002) In this richly …
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