Wesleyan University Magazine

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 addition of evening courses during the fall and spring semesters, the program retained…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Concern Over Violations

A university task force appointed by President Bennet is recommending the adoption of new measures to reinvigorate the Honor Code, which the report says has “been dying a slow death due to neglect for a number of years.”…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

What Dot Bomb?

ON AN AVERAGE WEEK you might find Allan Baer '76 noodling out a proposal in his rural Chelsea, Vt., office, pitching his ideas for telecommunications "beyond the grid" to White House bureaucrats, or out in the field anyw…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Harrah’s Full House

GARY LOVEMAN '82 WAS HAVING DINNER on the mezzanine level of Harrah's showcase casino, the Rio in Las Vegas, but unlike the hundreds of people gathered below him at card tables or slot machines, he wasn't having fun. He'…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

After the Bubble Burst…

AS EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF SOFTWARE FOR SUN MICROSYSTEMS, Jonathan Schwartz '87 would like to simplify modern life without sacrificing the conveniences of technology. He'd like to use his cell phone to get a Coke at …

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Marco Polo: A Photographer’s Journey

MICHAEL YAMASHITA '71 STARTED TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS WHILE "SEARCHING FOR HIS ROOTS" on a trip to Japan after graduating from Wesleyan. What began as a hobby transformed into an ongoing career that combines his two passions …

2003 Issue 1January 30, 2003September 30, 2014

How to Meet Great People

Dear Fellow Alumni, What I want to say is: Get involved in your local alumni activities. You’ll meet great people and it’s a way to stay involved with our university, contribute our talents, keep Wesleyan in the forefro…

2003 Issue 1January 30, 2003March 23, 2015

PICK OF THE SYLLABUS: Embers

Andrew Szegedy–Maszak, Professor of Classical Studies, selects Embers by Sandor Marai If one looks only at the outlines of its plot and setting, Embers, by Hungarian writer Sandor Marai, seems to be just another old–fas…

2003 Issue 1January 30, 2003March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

Our roundup of noteworthy publications by Wesleyan alumni, faculty members, and parents. CARLO ROTELLA ’86 Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen and Other Characters from the Rust Belt (University of California Pr…

2003 Issue 1January 30, 2003March 23, 2015

AUTHOR ESSAY: Ellison Straight, No Chaser

The New York Times Book Review called Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius by Lawrence Jackson ’90 (John Wiley & Sons, 2002) a “rich, meticulous biography.” Jackson talks about writing the first book devoted to the ea…