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Michael S. Roth became Wesleyan University’s 16th president on July 1, 2007.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2008
Although we are not quite through the first week of classes, it feels as though the Wesleyan campus is already in full swing. Over the weekend my daughter Sophie and I watched men’s basketball, women’s hockey, a large track meet and some swimming competitions. I heard the parties from a distance in the early morning [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 21st, 2008
This past week Wesleyan held a dinner in New York to celebrate the creation of the Zilkha Chair in the College of Social Studies. Professor Donald Moon, who has been inspiring students in Government and CSS for decades, will hold the chair. Don is a political theorist who has had a particular focus on community [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 11th, 2008
Wesleyan has been a key part of the political education of students for generations. We embraced diversity and affirmative action long before the words “political correctness” became a slogan to defend bad habits. When I meet alumni who graduated in the late 1960s and early 1970s, there are still residues of the conflicts that raged [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2008
Many students, parents and alumni have sent in their sympathies to the Wesleyan community and to the family of Chase Parr ‘10, who was killed late last month in a car accident that also claimed the lives of her parents. Some of Chase’s friends will be working with the Dean of the College staff to [...]