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Category 2012 Issue 2Posted on June 15, 2012March 7, 2014

Occupying Wall Street: An Ethnography

What follows is an abridged excerpt of a final paper by Hailey Sowden ’15 for Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. Assistant Professor Gillian Goslinga notes that Hailey researched the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement in New York’s Zucotti Park and “ended up writing a stellar ethnography of a nas…
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Category 2012 Issue 2Posted on June 15, 2012March 7, 2014

DLA Piper Establishes Amy Schulman Fund for Women and Gender

DLA Piper, one of the world’s largest law firms, has given Wesleyan $500,000 to establish the Amy Schulman Fund for Women and Gender, which will support work in this field at Wesleyan’s Center for the Humanities. Schulm…
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Category 2012 Issue 2Posted on June 15, 2012March 7, 2014

Wesleyan Winter Sports Season 2011–2012

The 2011–12 Wesleyan winter sports season gave rise to some outstanding performances. While Shasha Brown ’13 was ripping it up on the basketball court for the record-setting men’s squad (see page 13), Nik Tasiopoulos ’14…
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Category 2012 Issue 2Posted on June 15, 2012March 7, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

Over the last few years there has been a marked increase in attention given to college affordability. As the cost of higher education (both public and private) has continued to climb, and as the prospects for economic gr…
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Category 2012 Issue 1Posted on January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Center for Prison Education

BY JIM SMITH Russell Perkins ’09 was a high school student in Evanston, Illinois when the Anthony Porter case changed Illinois law. It changed Perkins’ life, as well. Convicted, in the 1980s, of murdering two Chicago t…
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Category 2012 Issue 1Posted on January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Permaculture Takes Root in the WestCo Courtyard

TO WILD WES, ‘LANDSCAPE’ MEANS ‘NATURAL’ BY YAEL CHANOFF ’11 From the top of Foss Hill, the view of Wesleyan is a picture of New England college charm. But in the green expanses of lawn, where most see tradition and cla…
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Category 2012 Issue 1Posted on January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Kail ’99 Directs Broadway Basketball Play and Interviews Stage Directors

Thomas Kail ’99 will direct Eric Simonson’s Magic/ Bird, a Broadway play based on the relationship between basketball superstars Larry Bird and Earvin “Magic” Johnson, due to open on March 21. The work is produced by Fra…
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Category 2012 Issue 1Posted on January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

‘Amazing Stories’ of Social Entrepreneurs

“I realized there was a need—that young people were seeking advice and guidance on how to launch a career in changemaking—but they weren’t finding what they needed,” says Lara Galinsky ’96.“Yet, here I was, sit- ting on …
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Category 2012 Issue 1Posted on January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

The fall semester is already behind us, and this year’s seniors are hearing the question, “What will you be doing after graduation?” Some have an answer—graduate school, travel opportunities, a career-track position. …
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Category 2012 Issue 1Posted on January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

LETTER HOME: Camp Counselor in Morocco by Sherry Sybertz ’10

Dear Friends and Family, “Hello from summer camp! I miss you all! The beach is my favorite part of the day...” How many letters have I written like that? And why am I still writing these words, as a college graduate? N…
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