Each year, on a Friday evening in early August, members of the Wesleyan and Middletown communities line Foss Hill or another Middletown slope with blankets and picnic baskets. They’ve come to watch yo…
This fall, Wesleyan students found themselves embroiled in a debate that touched on issues of race, oppression, and freedom of speech, and which generated significant national attention.
Fierce at times, the debate al…
Universities often take the long view. The physical structure of the campus endures over generations and lifetimes, faculty carry out research programs that stretch over decades, and the impact of administrative initiati…
You published an interview with David Potts ’60 about his most recent book on the history of the college (Wesleyan, 2015, #1). Although the book covers the 1960s, I find only a vague reference to the university’s partici…
Although brought up in Arlington, Va., and educated at Wesleyan, I’ve lived in North Carolina for the past 45 years and counting, the last 25 in Greensboro. In retirement I’ve taken to doing some writing and involving my…