Wesleyan University Magazine

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011September 23, 2014

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

It might seem like Wesleyan students are happiest in groups—talking, thinking, planning, creating, and going-out-and-doing. The Wesleyan Student Assembly lists more than 300 different clubs and activities, based on service, activism, athletic, artistic and cul- tural interests. With approximately 2,…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011September 23, 2014

LETTER HOME: Reflections on Life After Wesleyan by Emily Aruna Teitsworth ’03

My horse saw them out of the corner of his eye and shied at the sheets of paper fluttering in the wind. I jumped to the ground and dislodged a stack of yellowing birth certificates from the spines of a cholla cactus: thr…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

JUST PUBLISHED | 2011 ISSUE 2 Amy Baltzell ’87 Living in the Sweet Spot: Preparing for Performance in Sport and Life • FITNESS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 2011 This inspiring guide to preparing for life’s major perfo…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011September 23, 2014

Conversations: MICHAEL LYNTON

Michael Lynton, chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment, visited Wesleyan in the spring to talk to students interested in working in the film and television industry at a luncheon arranged by …

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011September 23, 2014

SCHOLAR ATHLETE: Julian Sonnenfeld ’11

Scholar Athlete JULIAN SONNENFELD ’11 Julian Sonnenfeld ’11 ended his four years on the Wesleyan baseball team with a .377 batting average, 122 RBI, and a .625 slugging percentage, supported by his 17 career homers. He…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 28, 2014

In Texas, Some Bands Know Foss Hill On Sight

By Jake Nussbaum ’10 It’s mid-March and I’m standing in the front row of The Phoenix, a swanky dance club on Colorado Street in downtown Austin. The house is packed and we’re all waiting for Das Racist, the New York-bas…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 28, 2014

The School That Rocks

By Eric Gershon ’98 When Teddy Gage ’05 saw Wesleyan classmate Andrew VanWyngarden’s face staring back at him in 2008 from an ad on the side of a New York City bus, he decided it was time to dig out the videos. Gage had…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Back to the Photographic Future?

By Tom Nugent Want to craft a stunning work of photo-art, then frame it and send it off to friends around the world—all in the space of a few minutes and without ever using a traditional camera? Allan Hoffman ’84 can s…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Alzheimer’s: Progress Toward Elusive Cure

By Peter Saalfield ’06 As a young neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in the early 1960s, Don Price ’56 often encountered elderly patients who were losing their memories. Typically the mental lapses were trivi…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Unfathomable Waste

By Jan Ellen Spiegel It wasn’t as if Jonathan Bloom ’99 had dreamed of being a food waste expert. “Whenever anyone calls me a food waste expert, I just laugh. How can you hear that and not?” he asks. “I often say I nev…