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	<title>The Wesleyan Connection &#187; Olivia Bartlett Drake</title>
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		<title>Wesleyan Theater Department Presents The Skriker Nov. 19-22</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wesleyan Theater Department presents Caryl Churchill&#8217;s The Skriker Nov. 19, 20, 21 and 22 in the Center for the Arts Theater.
The play is directed by Bob Bresnick, visiting assistant professor in theater with costume designs and puppet designs by Leslie Weinberg, artist in residence in theater.
Churchill describes the title character in The Skriker as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents, Alumni Celebrate Homecoming/Family Weekend with Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 5,000 parents, alumni and friends came to campus Nov. 6-8 to celebrate Homecoming/Family Weekend. This year&#8217;s theme was &#8220;Come Home!&#8221; Event photos are posted on the HCFW website.
&#8220;Every year, I hear from alumni, parents and students that Homecoming/Family Weekend gets better and better,&#8221; says Gemma Fontanella Ebstein, associate vice president for external relations. &#8220;We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valentino &#8217;10 Teaches High-Potential, Low-Income Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For 12 weeks last summer, Lauren Valentino &#8217;10 taught underprivileged rising 9th graders how to speak French and read Hamlet – all while most of her students were still learning English as a second language.
Valentino was in Denver, Colo, working with residents who had recently moved to the U.S. from Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Kenya, Mexico [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wesleyan Launches New Homepage, Community Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wesleyan has launched its new online look with a completely redesigned homepage.
The new, image-rich homepage, http://www.wesleyan.edu/, offers rotating photographs of campus life, university factoids and departmental highlights that change when the page is reloaded. The most noticeable change to the new homepage is the open layout that emphasizes information, facilitates navigation, and refocuses content for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Class of 2012 Triumphs in WesWars</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/class-of-2010-triumphs-in-weswars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WesWars, an inter-class, campus-wide competition, was held Oct. 30 on Andrus Field.  Modeled after older class competitions and “cannon scraps,” which were popular in the mid 1800’s, WesWars is composed of field games and trivia questions.  The students participated in games such as tug-o-war, the human pyramid, disc toss, the loudest scream, three-legged-race and a roll down Foss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alejandro Honored for Contribution to the Arts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pedro Alejandro, associate professor of dance, is a recipient of the C. Newton Shenck III Award for a &#8220;lifetime achievement in and contribution to the arts.&#8221;
Alejandro received the award from the Arts Council of Greater New Haven board of directors. He was mentioned in a Nov. 9 article in The Hartford Courant.
Alejandro was featured in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farm Tours, Fun, Food at 2009 Pumpkin Fest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wesleyan&#8217;s Long Lane Farm Club and the Environmental Studies Program hosted the sixth annual Pumpkin Festival Oct. 31 at the farm on Long Lane. The event was open to the Wesleyan and local community. Activities included food, baked goods, live music, Farmer&#8217;s Market vendors, pumpkin sales and painting, face painting, t-shirt designing and tours of the organic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exhibit Portrays Tension Between Material Body, Academic Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Photos by Cora Lautze &#8216;11)

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		<title>Zipcar Offers Students Transportation Alternative</title>
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		<title>Blakemore &#8217;65 Speaks on Psychologies of Global Warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
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