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2008:
May 09, 2008
Exhibit At Wesleyan Views Climate Change Through Art
Hartford Courant
Features 'Feet to the Fire' and Barry Chernoff, Robert Schumann Professor of Environmental Studies
"It seemed an odd way for the trio of college students to show off their freshly-inked tattoos: posed dramatically on chairs and ensconced like museum exhibits in a display case."
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May 08, 2008
Broad climate fight best, not just gas cuts
Reuters News
Quotes Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics
"An assault on climate change on many fronts makes good economic sense but will be money badly spent if the world focuses exclusively on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, a study said on Thursday."
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May 08, 2008
Wesleyan Festival Holds Our Eco-Feet To The Fire
The Hartford Courant
'Feet to the Fire' featured
"Wesleyan University's Center for the Performing Arts hosts a Feet to the Fire Festival Saturday. The family-friendly 'Eco-Arts' festival explores the impact of climate change through the lens of multiple disciplines, specifically with performance art and scientific research."
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May 07, 2008
The Long Commute
WNPR - Where We Live
Interview with Christiaan Hogendorn, assistant professor of economics
"Stuck in traffic on 95? Packed Like a sardine into a train? It?s the life of the Connecticut Commuter."
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May 04, 2008
Shakespeare's Words Resonate With 'Thugs'
The Hartford Courant
Op-ed by Ronald Jenkins, professor of theater
"'He's a thug,' said the boy's teacher, nodding toward a lanky teenager who had just finished performing a 17th-century monologue from 'The Tempest.'"
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May 04, 2008
Wesleyan students start investment fun
Boston Globe
"A growing number of college students are pushing for a voice in how colleges invest - and spend - their endowments. Now, Wesleyan University students have taken matters into their own hands, creating what appears to be the country's first investment fund run by a college student government."
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May 02, 2008
Arvada Center tackling audience freefall
Denver Post
Jessica Posner '09 directs theater premier
"The Arvada Center's newly announced 2008-09 season of blockbusters is a proactive response to free-falling attendance and soaring costs at the state's second-largest theater company."
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Apr 27, 2008
Wesleyan Students Pioneer Endowment Fund
Hartford Courant
"The Wesleyan Student Assembly has created an endowment to eliminate a fee, reducing the cost of attending the elite - and increasingly pricey - liberal arts university."
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Apr 25, 2008
The Impact of the Olympics in China
WNPR - Where We Live
Interview with Vera Schwarcz, Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies
"The controversy surrounding the Beijing Games is threatening to overshadow the world's biggest sporting event slated to begin in early August."
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Apr 24, 2008
A new generation rises to leadership
The Roanoke Times (Hartford Courant)
Op-ed by Mary Alice Haddad, assistant professor of government and East Asian studies
"Why now?
Why is it this year, 2008, that we have the first serious black contender for president?"
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Apr 21, 2008
Weekends Spent Scraping Pelts
Hartford Business Journal
Features Michael Roth, president
"Michael Roth's father was a furrier, a maker of fur coats. And on weekends during high school, Roth worked with him, doing "whatever the lowest level employee would do," said Roth, now the president of Wesleyan University."
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Apr 21, 2008
As More Take a Year Off, Colleges Often Don't Mind the Gap
Washington Post
Quotes Gregory Pyke, senior associate dean of admission
"After working long and hard to win acceptance to Cornell University this fall, D.C. high school senior Isabela Guimaraes thought she could finally take a breath. Then she decided to enjoy an entire year of them."
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Apr 20, 2008
'The Sixties Unplugged': Opinions inescapable
San Francisco Chronicle
Book review by Michael Roth, president
"Gerard J. DeGroot tells readers that his history of the 1960s, unlike others published in the past decades, is "unplugged." By this he means his story won't be distorted by amplification or enhancements."
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Apr 20, 2008
Film Noir Great Samuel Fuller Book's Theme
Hartford Courant
Features book by Lisa Dombrowski, associate professor of film studies
"When Lisa Dombrowski was an undergraduate at Wesleyan University in 1992, she took a class in film noir and arranged a screening of the Samuel Fuller classic 'Shock Corridor.'"
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Apr 20, 2008
Ed Begley acts on his eco-beliefs
USA Today
Quotes Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics
"Ed Begley Jr. leads what seems an enviable life."
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Apr 11, 2008
Wesleyan prez speaks at Chamber breakfast
Middletown Press
Features Michael S. Roth, president
"A creative education such as one from Wesleyan University leads to innovations, said University President Michael Roth at the Middlesex Chamber of Commerce member breakfast meeting Friday."
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Apr 10, 2008
The Case of the Half-Blood Bug
ScienceNOW
Quotes Frederick Cohan, professor of biology
"It's a good thing Darwin studied finches instead of bacteria. The ubiquitous microbes have such a messy family tree--with various types of sexual reproduction and genes jumping between distantly related bacteria--that the very concept of a microbial species is in doubt."
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Apr 07, 2008
As recession looms, Fed critiques and conspiracy theories bloom
Star-Ledger (NJ)
Quotes Richard Grossman, professor of economics
"In case you didn't know, the nation is barreling toward disaster."
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Apr 03, 2008
A Modern Government
The Nation
Written by student essay finalist, Max Rose '08
"The world from which FDR's New Deal was borne is no more. No longer can individuals expect that American industry will bequeath them steady employment and a gateway to the consumer middle class."
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Apr 02, 2008
From Embryo to Earth
NPR - Where We Live
Features William Herbst, John Monroe Van Vleck Professor of Astronomy
"Astronomers have been watching the beginnings of an earth-like planet near a distant star. So, what can this tell us about our own beginnings?"
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Mar 29, 2008
Grocers' contract unsure
Baltimore Sun
Quotes Jonathan Cutler, associate professor of sociology
"Giant Food and Safeway supermarket chains and the union representing 23,000 store workers remained deeply divided on key issues yesterday as they approached a weekend deadline for a new labor contract, raising the threat of the first grocery strike here in more than three decades."
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Mar 28, 2008
Chavez v. Exxon: Who Will Prevail?
Energy Tribune
Written by Francisco Rodriguez, assistant professor of economics and Latin American studies
"Last month, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela threatened to cut off oil supplies to the United States. This was in response to news that Exxon Mobil had obtained court orders in the U.K., the U.S., and the Netherlands to freeze $12.3 billion of assets owned by PDVSA, Venezuela's state-owned oil company."
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Mar 28, 2008
Clinton and Obama Can't Count On Iraq to Win the White House
US News & World Report
Quotes Douglas Foyle, associate professor of government
"It was not all that long ago when it looked as if Iraq was going to dominate the 2008 presidential campaign, a situation that seemed to make just about any Democratic nominee a shoo-in."
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Mar 27, 2008
Basinger's students make their mark
Variety
Features Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, Chair of Film Studies
"Jeanine Basinger's name may never appear in lights, but to many Hollywood insiders, she's a star in her own right."
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Mar 27, 2008
Film center fulfills Basinger's mission
Variety
Features Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, Chair of Film Studies
"This summer, Wesleyan U. will dedicate the $10 million Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies, the culmination of a two-phase, seven-year mission to give the university's film department its own identity and its own home."
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Mar 27, 2008
Directors leave archives to Wesleyan
Variety
Features Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, Chair of Film Studies
"Founded by Jeanine Basinger in 1985, the Wesleyan Cinema Archives have emerged as one of the finest collections held by any small university."
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Mar 27, 2008
Investors Affecting Climate Change
NPR
Interview includes Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics
"Connecticut has joined a group of 'institutional investors' from the US and Europe to propose a 'climate change action plan' at the United Nations."
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Mar 27, 2008
Students and peers praise Basinger
Variety
Features Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, Chair of Film Studies
"ALEXANDER PAYNE, director ('Sideways'):
'I was a big fan of Jeanine's Anthony Mann book long before I met her. She is one of the five or 10 people who know more about film than anyone on earth. You can ask her anything about film; she's seen everything and knows everything. And besides, she's the sexiest woman over 70 I've ever met."
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Mar 21, 2008
Shame About That
Book Forum
Review written by Michael S. Roth, president
"Post-Freudian thought, especially in the United States, can be divided between those writers (often clinicians) who turn the master's work toward a theory of accommodation of the world and those (often in the humanities) who turn his work toward a critique of the world."
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Mar 20, 2008
Public Tuning Out
The Hartford Courant
Quotes Richard Slotkin, professor of American studies
"U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy was deep into the first hour of a town hall forum in Avon on Tuesday night before he fielded his first question about Iraq."
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Mar 14, 2008
Heights Before Broadway
New York Times
Interview with Lin-Manuel Miranda '02
"To be perfectly clear, Lin-Manuel Miranda did not grow up in Washington Heights, the physical and spiritual setting of his musical "In the Heights," which opened on Broadway this week."
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Mar 13, 2008
What a Star's Orbiting Disk Is Made Of
New York Times
Features William Herbst, John Monroe Van Vleck Professor of Astronomy
"Back in 2002, astronomers from Wesleyan University concluded that a star brightening and waning in an unusual 48-day rhythm was dipping in and out of stuff swirling around the star in a so-called protoplanetary disk."
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Mar 08, 2008
Wesleyan Students Collect Books To Aid Local School
The Hartford Courant
"They already spend 24 hours a week at Macdonough Elementary School, helping grade-schoolers decipher the mysteries of grammar and syntax."
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Mar 01, 2008
Propaganda, not policy
The Economist
Quotes Francisco Rodriguez, assistant professor of economics
"FOR most of her life, Ana Silva was illiterate, even though she completed primary school. Then she joined Mision Robinson, a literacy programme organised by Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez."
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Feb 28, 2008
Andrew Bridge's life against the odds
Los Angeles Times
Features Andrew Bridge '84
"'Please, don't hurt her.
Don't argue with them. You told me this would happen.
Leave her alone.'
This is what 7-year-old Andrew Bridge thought as the police took him from his mentally ill mother on a Saturday afternoon on the streets of Los Angeles."
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Feb 27, 2008
Noting when plants bloom documents warming
San Francisco Chronicle
Quotes Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics
"You may be one of those gardeners who note the first flowering dates every spring, maybe on a spreadsheet. Or you may just have a vague feeling that your plants are leafing out and blooming a little earlier each year. In either case, Project BudBurst would like to hear from you."
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Feb 22, 2008
Black hole defends its heavyweight title
New Scientist Space
Quotes Roy Kilgard, assistant astronomer, astronomy department
"The heaviest black hole formed from the collapse of a single star weighs as much as 33 Suns - double the previous record, new measurements confirm."
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Feb 20, 2008
Oscar contenders operate in moral gray zone
USA Today
Quotes Lisa Dombrowski, associate professor of film studies
"Heroes are old hat. Villains are too easy."
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Feb 13, 2008
'In The Heights' hits the spotlight, vowing to end 'Capeman' curse
New York Daily News
Features Lin-Manuel Miranda '02
"The 'In the Heights' sign is already up on the Richard Rodgers Theater on W. 46th St. just off Times Square, clearly visible to the masses passing by every day."
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Feb 12, 2008
Back In Order: O'Rourke's Reopens To Some Very Happy Diners 18 Months After Fire
Hartford Courant
"Like many Wesleyan University students before him, senior Alex Levy capped a library all-nighter with a meal at O'Rourke's Diner early Monday, a momentous day in the landmark restaurant's 67-year history."
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Feb 08, 2008
Year of the brats
Boston Globe
Features Andrew VanWyngarden '05 and Ben Goldwasser '05
"As freshmen at Wesleyan University, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser first bonded over a perverse dream: Writing what they considered bad songs - on purpose, no less - and then performing them on campus with the intention of alienating as many people as possible."
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Feb 08, 2008
He Gave Southwest Its Wings
CNN Money
Features Herb Kelleher '53
"Legend has it that the idea for Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV) was hatched on a cocktail napkin."
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Feb 06, 2008
One Writer's Brooklyn: Chronicles of Crime, Boombox Abuse and Divorce
New York Times
Feature on Gabriel Cohen '82
"An Italian woman tends her garden in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, and worries about her neighbor, an increasingly sullen black teenager, all the while arguing with her bigoted mother."
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Feb 04, 2008
Anti-Muslim prejudice makes no one safer
The Enquirer
Quotes Peter Gottschalk, associate professor of religion
"Islamophobia looks like this: Maher Arar, a Syrian-born software engineer living in Canada, tried to catch a connecting flight home to Ottawa in 2002, but was detained in New York City."
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Jan 20, 2008
A Different Kind Of Runway
The Hartford Courant
Film by Isabel Vega '98 at Sundance
"It starts with a post-Thanksgiving phone call to congratulate you on having your film accepted by the Sundance Film Festival. Then the dreaming really begins. For three filmmakers with Connecticut ties, the festival marks a milestone and ratchets up the expectations."
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Jan 20, 2008
Pregnancy films like 'Juno' skip message, go for the humor
USA Today
Quotes Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies
"'I'm staying pregnant,' Ellen Page announces with an air of defiance as the 16-year-old title character in Juno, the current sleeper hit. Then, in often humorous episodes, audiences follow Juno through her plight - telling her parents, finding an adoptive couple, going to high school pregnant and enduring the ups and downs of her relationship with the baby's father."
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Jan 15, 2008
Big Push Against Warming
Hartford Courant
Wesleyan to participate in Focus the Nation event
"Students in Missouri will truck in 15 tons of coal. Wesleyan will serve a 'sustainable' dinner, while kids at the Laureate Elementary School in San Luis Obispo, Calif., are using worms to compost the remains of their lunches."
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Jan 13, 2008
The Haunting Of Jennifer Boylan: Wesleyan Grad Revives Ghosts Of Childhood
Hartford Courant
Jennifer Finney Boylan '80 book reviewed
"'I'm Looking Through You' can be read as a meditation on the permeability of boundaries - between the present and the past, between male and female, between families and individuals."
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Jan 11, 2008
Tierney Sutton stumbles on happiness
Toronto Star
Interview with Tierney Sutton '86
"Grammy-nominated vocalist feeling good about emotional disc 'On the Other Side.'
She doesn't get to Toronto very often, but Tierney Sutton's making the most of this visit."
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Jan 09, 2008
Nation's history is embedded in portrait of a famous writer
Boston Globe
Written by Patricia R. Hill, professor of history and American studies
"In the midst of the Civil War, the Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon of Yale quipped that the country was inhabited by 'saints, sinners and Beechers.'"
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Jan 08, 2008
Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy
Voice of America
Features Peter Gottschalk, associate professor of religion, & Gabriel Greenberg '04
"In their new book, Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy, coauthors Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg explore a largely unexamined phenomenon - the 'deeply ingrained anxiety' some Westerners, and especially Americans, experience when considering Islam and Muslim cultures."
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Jan 06, 2008
Cartoon Villains
New York Times
Peter Gottschalk, associate professor of religion and Gabriel Greenberg '04 book reviewed
"Is there such a thing as Islamophobia?"
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Jan 06, 2008
Climate Change Catches On, Slowly, As Issue
Hartford Courant
Quotes Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics
"Former Vice President Al Gore could never quite turn his passion for global climate change into an effective campaign issue - at least not while he was running."
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Jan 03, 2008
Ambitious, Ambiguous Debut
The Hartford Courant
Features Andrew VanWyngarden '05 and Ben Goldwasser '05
"The band's first performance should have been a sign. While they were students at Wesleyan University, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser debuted as MGMT at a dorm party in 2002 with a set that consisted solely of them playing the theme to 'Ghostbusters,' over and over."
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Jan 02, 2008
Youth is served in awards competitions
Los Angeles Times
Quotes Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies
"Ah, to be young and in love on-screen. Or young and in grief, in guilt, in the family way, in search of life's meaning. Basically, it's the young part that counts. A preponderance of actors and actresses under the age of 25 have stood out this year at the cineplexes and in the awards races thus far."
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