Wesleyan University Magazine

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Playing Politics

YOU MIGHT THINK THAT BRADLEY WHITFORD ’81, award-winning actor on NBC’s The West Wing, could take a lunch break that lasted as long as he wanted. But his beeper goes off and immediately he’s due back on the set, despite the half-eaten tuna sandwich in front of him at the WB commissary (a linen-napk…

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Celluloid’s Successor

AS AN ARTIST WORKING ON THE EXPERIMENTAL EDGE OF HIS MEDIUM, Paul Kaiser '78 challenges people. His medium—computer-generated "virtual film"—is hot in cinema (think Toy Story or Spider-Man), but his work is as far from t…

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: THE SINGING COLLEGE

Long before our time, Wesleyan was sometimes known as "The Singing College." This sobriquet reflected the many musical pastimes of Wesleyan students, from the Speirachordeon Band of the late 1830s, to the informal colleg…

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

A Reptile Rendition

“May we borrow your triceratops?” When Yale’s Peabody Museum mounted a dinosaur exhibit for school children during winter vacation, an official called Erik Dawe ’02 with that question. The math and physics major…

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

E.B. Nye Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, Gilbert Burford Dies at Age 91

M. Gilbert Burford ’32, E.B. Nye Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, died Feb. 7 at age 91. He devoted virtually his entire career to Wesleyan. After obtaining his doctoral degree from Princeton in 1935, he taught …

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Trustees Also Approve Film Studies Project, Tuition Will Rise by 5.5 percent

The cost of attending Wesleyan in ’02–’03 will rise by $1,880, to $35,930, an increase of 5.5 percent. Student charges were set at a meeting of the Board of Trustees on March 2. Of the $35,930 cost of attending…

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Renowned Sculptor John Risley Dies

John H. Risley, professor of art emeritus, died Feb. 19 in Colchester, Conn. Born in 1919 in Waterville, Maine, Professor Risley modestly referred to himself as a Yankee tinker. He was, of course, much more: an artist wh…

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Super Bowl Victor

Let the teenyboppers drool over New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his dimpled chin. At a certain point in life, you don’t dream about being his date. You look at a 24-year-old like Brady and think: What a gr…

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Q & A: Jerusalem Through the Windows

Q: You first went to Jerusalem with the Jewish Studies Program at Wesleyan. What drew you back to live there? Adina Hoffman: My husband, Peter Cole, and I were living in San Francisco in the early ’90s and decid…

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Raising Sites: The Growth of Online News

CAROLINE LITTLE '81 BROKE THE RULES. The rules, for example, that say a woman starting a high-powered career would be crazy to get married and have children at the outset, never mind deciding to work part time. But that'…