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	<title>The Wesleyan Connection &#187; Campus News</title>
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		<title>Parents, Alumni Celebrate Homecoming/Family Weekend with Students</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/parents-alumni-celebrate-homecomingfamily-weekend-with-students/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/valentino-10-teaches-high-potential-low-income-students/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/wesleyan-launches-new-homepage-community-blog/</link>
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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>5 Questions with…Ethan Kleinberg</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/5-questions-with%e2%80%a6ethan-kleinberg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pesci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the College of Letters (COL) celebrates its 50th anniversary, we asked Ethan Kleinberg, associate professor of history and letters, director of the COL, about his life in two departments, his views on interdisciplinary teaching, how this impacts his own scholarship, and the future of the COL.
Q. How did you end up with a joint [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College of Social Studies Celebrates 50 years at Wesleyan</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/the-college-of-social-studies-marks-50-years-at-wesleyan/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/the-college-of-social-studies-marks-50-years-at-wesleyan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Corrina Kerr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From its beginnings in 1959, Wesleyan’s College of Social Studies (CSS) has grown into a well-respected program and is celebrating its 50th year in 2009. The multidisciplinary program allows students to explore the subjects of government, history, economics and philosophy concurrently. Many attended lectures and celebrations for CSS during Homecoming/Family Weekend last weekend.
The first event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carter &#8217;88 Speaks on &#8216;Green the Ghetto&#8217; at Dwight Greene Symposium</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/04/carter-88-speaks-on-green-the-ghetto-at-dwight-greene-symposium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Majora Carter ’88 delivered the keynote address titled &#8220;Green the Ghetto and How Much It Won’t Cost Us&#8221; during the 17th Annual Dwight L. Greene Symposium Nov. 7 in Memorial Chapel.
Carter is the founder of Sustainable South Bronx and River Heroes, host of Eco-Heroes on Sundance Channel and The Promised Land on National Public Radio.
Carter founded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blakemore &#8217;65 Speaks on Psychologies of Global Warming</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/10/27/blakemore-65-speaks-on-psychologies-of-global-warming/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/10/27/blakemore-65-speaks-on-psychologies-of-global-warming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four weeks before the nations meet in Copenhagen to try to avert the catastrophes that global warming may bring, ABC News Correspondent William Blakemore &#8217;65 will identify many surprising psychological factors at play as people in all walks of life deal with the latest &#8220;hard news&#8221; on climate.
Blakemore will speak on &#8220;The Many Psychologies of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freshwater Resources Topic of Where On Earth Are We Going Symposium</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/10/27/freshwater-resources-topic-of-where-on-earth-are-we-going-symposium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the last 50 years, humans have degraded rivers and lakes through excessive water abstraction, pollution and by over-harvesting aquatic organisms. River flow has been impeded by dams, and floodplains have been converted for agriculture and urban areas.
The human population has doubled to nearly 7 billion and, per capita water availability has declined on all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Questions with&#8230;Mary Alice Haddad</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/10/27/5-questions-with-mary-alice-haddad/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/10/27/5-questions-with-mary-alice-haddad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pesci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The candidate for issue’s &#8220;5 Questions with&#8230;&#8221; is Mary Alice Haddad, assistant professor of government, assistant professor of East Asian studies. She provides some insight into the recent, dramatic change in the Japanese government.
Q: What are your primary areas of study and research?
MAH: My primary area of research has been on civil society and democracy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nussenbaum &#8217;12 Takes the Hot Seat on Millionaire</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/10/27/nussenbaum-12-takes-the-hot-seat-on-millionaire/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/10/27/nussenbaum-12-takes-the-hot-seat-on-millionaire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under beaming spotlights and surrounded by video cameras and an audience holding their breath in anticipation, Max Nussenbaum ’12 pondered a single question: &#8220;What is the one-word title of the 2009 book whose subtitle is &#8220;A History of the Propitious Esculent&#8220;?
A. Nitrogen, B. Penicillin, C. Potato or D. Gold.
&#8220;Obviously I have no idea … I [...]]]></description>
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