Lauren RubensteinAugust 30, 20131min
Gina Athena Ulysse, associate professor of anthropology, associate professor of African American studies, wrote a new piece for The Huffington Post, titled, "Arlene Torres or Why Anthropology Still Matters (Part II)." The article features Arlene Torres, a Hunter College professor and leading expert in urban anthropology. She recently was awarded a grant by the National Parks Service to conduct an ethnographic study of community formations in Paterson, N.J., where over 50 different ethnic groups reside. Torres notes, "parks will need to understand the new ethnic groups that become their neighbors so that they may establish collaborative relationships across linguistic and cultural…

Olivia DrakeAugust 28, 201310min
Watch this video of Arrival Day: [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://youtu.be/RoY0k4kisv8[/youtube] (Story by Olivia Drake and Cynthia Rockwell) After touring 12 colleges and universities, Hannah Wolfe Eisner '17 stopped looking after visiting Wesleyan. "I fell in love with Wesleyan on a campus tour," Eisner said. "Wesleyan students are passionate, but they also love to share their passions with each other and interact and share ideas with one another, and that's the educational philosophy that I was looking for in a school." On Aug. 28, Eisner, who hails from New York City, moved a car-load of belongings into her new home-away-from-home at the…

Olivia DrakeAugust 28, 20134min
Fifty years ago, political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) published Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, a work she completed while she was a Fellow at Wesleyan’s Center for Advanced Studies (now the Center for the Humanities). On Sept. 26-28, Wesleyan will host a conference to honor this achievement and reflect on the reverberating repercussions of Arendt's work, a trial report that asks important and abiding questions about personal responsibility under dictatorship, the moral judgment of evil, the juridical prosecution of genocidal crimes of an international nature, and, more broadly, the historical conditions that shape our understanding of the Holocaust. The…

Kate CarlisleAugust 28, 20132min
It’s not small-town Texas, it’s not high school, and the organizers aren’t expecting any drama except for the kind that usually plays out on the gridiron; still, let’s call it Saturday Night Lights. The first night football game in the history of NESCAC will be played on Andrus Field on Sept. 21. Wesleyan will host Tufts in the season’s opening contest at 6 p.m., with an experienced Cardinal squad facing a Jumbos contingent of returning starters and some strong recruits. “It’s only fitting that the first night game be played on the oldest college football field in the country,” said…

Lauren RubensteinAugust 28, 20134min
In September, Wesleyan President Michael Roth will be a speaker at the Social Good Summit, to be held at the 92 Street Y in New York, Sept. 22-24. Fifty-five of today’s global leaders in new media, technology, nonprofits, international affairs and numerous other areas will explore “the power of innovative thinking and technology to solve our greatest challenges.” The summit will be live streamed at new.livestream.com/mashable. It will also be shown in the Usdan University Center video lounge, for those on campus. At the conference, Roth will formally introduce a new massive open online course (MOOC) on the Coursera platform…

Olivia DrakeAugust 28, 20132min
Chair of the Russian Language and Literature Department Priscilla Meyer and her daughter, Rachel Trousdale, an associate professor at Agnes Scott College, co-authored a paper. The paper, “Vladimir Nabokov and Virginia Woolf,” will appear in the coming issue of Comparative Literature Studies. A Penn State Press publication, Comparative Literature Studies “publishes comparative articles in literature and culture, critical theory, and cultural and literary relations within and beyond the Western tradition.” Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-born novelist, most known for his book, Lolita (1955). He also founded Wellesley College's Russian Department and was a distinguished entomologist. In July, Meyer and Trousdale presented two sections of…

Bill FisherAugust 28, 20131min
In this video, travel writer, editor, and radio host Pauline Frommer '88 talks about growing up in the travel industry, and reveals how her Wesleyan education changed her mind about her career. Frommer majored in intellectual history at Wesleyan. "I thought I was going to be a theater major, and then I started taking a lot of history and philosophy classes and they blew my mind." Watch this video and many more on the Video @ Wesleyan website. [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://youtu.be/5i0KNtIZFcA[/youtube]

Lauren RubensteinAugust 28, 20131min
Gina Athena Ulysse, associate professor of anthropology, associate professor of African America studies, wrote an article, "Presumed Innocent: On Bill Traylor's Verve," which appeared on the website Anthropology Now. Ulysse reflects on an exhibit at the American Folk Art Museum by Bill Traylor, a former slave who began drawing at the age of 85, and produced his entire body of work in three years.

David LowAugust 28, 20133min
Liz Garcia ’99 is the director, screenwriter, and co-producer of The Lifeguard (Focus World and Screen Media), in which a young woman (Kristen Bell, Veronica Mars) nearing 30 quits her Associated Press reporting job in New York and returns to her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and has an affair with a troubled teenager (David Lambert), the son of a co-worker. The film’s also stars Mamie Gummer, Martin Starr, Alex Shaffer, Adam LeFevre and Joshua Harto, who also is a co-producer (and Garcia’s husband). The Lifeguard premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last January and…

Olivia DrakeAugust 28, 20134min
Anya Morgan is a member of the Class of 2014. Q: Anya, happy senior year to you! What are you majoring in, and why did you decide on these majors? A: Thank you! I'm majoring in English and French. I think I always knew I was going to be an English major, since my mom is an English teacher and raised me on books – it's in my blood. I've also got some serious French Canadian roots on both sides of my family, so I'm able to practice speaking French with my grandparents. I guess both majors were predetermined! Q:…

Olivia DrakeAugust 28, 20132min
On Aug. 25, Wesleyan welcomed 92 international students to campus. Of these, 71 are foreign nationals and 21 are U.S. citizens living abroad. International students represent about 13 percent of the entire Class of 2017. Students come from more than 50 countries around the world including Portugal, Macedonia, Singapore, Jamaica, Bosnia, Brazil, Germany, Ireland, Argentina, Spain, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Thailand, Nepal, Iran, Kuwait, Mongolia and others. International Student Orientation began Aug. 25 when orientation leaders helped move the new students into their residence halls. International students received a campus tour, a welcome dinner, shopping trips and multiple educational programs sessions that…