The Wesleyan Connection

"Student Bodies," an exhibit organized by the Center for Creative Research Student Task Force Group, interrogates how students are present on campus, both during their four years at Wesleyan and after they graduate. The student dancers portray a physical body and the body of work students produce while writing and reading for classes. The case inside the Usdan University Center is filled with old academic papers to explore the tension between each student's material body and the one they create through academic work. While moving, the students are thinking about how the physical body is included or left out of texts or readings, and how their physical bodies relate to the bodies that are written in texts. Pictured is Asa Horvitz '10.

The Center for Creative Research is a nationwide initiative that puts movement based artists in long-term residency situations on college campuses to explore how movement and scholarship can inform one another. The project was spearheaded by CCR intern Mark McCloughan '10 (pictured); Eiko Otake, a CCR fellow and visiting artist; and Liz Lerman, head of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.

John Meerts, vice president for finance and administration, thanks members of the Wesleyan Student Assembly for bringing the new Zipcar to campus. Zipcar is the world’s largest car-sharing service and provides students with a convenient, economical and environmentally-friendly alternative to having a car on campus.

WSA president Mike Pernick '10 speaks at the Zipcar launch. Zipcar allows students to use the vehicle for errands, entertainment, or road trips–without the cost and hassle of owning a car. All reservations include fuel, insurance, and roadside assistance.

Charlie Kurose '10 checks out one of the two Zipcars that will be used by Wesleyan students. To sign up for Zipcar use, students over the age of 18 need a valid driver's license and a credit card.

ABC News Correspondent William Blakemore '65 spoke to the Wesleyan community Nov. 3 in the Memorial Chapel. His talk was titled "The Many Psychologies of Global Warming."

Blakemore began focusing on the topic of global warming five years ago for ABC News. He gave examples displaying different psychologies, as well as manmade global warming’s place in history.

Karl Scheibe, director of the Susan B. and William K. Wasch Center for Retired Faculty, visiting faculty in psychology, also spoke at the Blakemore event. The event was sponsored by the Wasch Center for Retired Faculty, Department of Psychology, and the Robert Schumann Lecture Series in the Environmental Studies Program.

The event was attended by several Wesleyan faculty, staff and students, and members of the local community. (Photos by Stefan Weinberger '10)

As part of the Distinguished Writers Series at Wesleyan, poet Bernadette Mayer spoke and read prose Oct. 14. Mayer is the author of more than two dozen volumes of poetry, including Midwinter Day, Sonnets, The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, and Poetry State Forest. A former director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery and co-editor of the conceptual magazine 0 to 9, Mayer has been a key figure on the New York poetry scene for decades.

Mayer's visit was organized by Elizabeth Willis, the Shapiro-Silverberg Associate Professor of Creative Writing, associate professor of English.

Fiction writer John Brandon spoke on Oct. 21. Brandon is the author of the novel Arkansas and the forthcoming novel The Semester. He is currently the Grisham Writer-in-Residence at University of Mississippi.

Brandon's visit was organized by Deb Olin Unferth, assistant professor of English. (Photos by Jeffrey Katzin '10)

Aaron Peisner '12 and Garth Taylor '12 pose in a photo during the opening reception for Mike Disfarmer: Photographs in the Zilkha Gallery Oct. 9. Hailing from the small mountain town of Heber Springs, Arkansas, the photographer known as Mike Disfarmer captured the lives and emotions of rural Arkansans in starkly intimate portraits.

Aaron Peisner '12 and Garth Taylor '12 pose as rural Arkansans living between 1939 and 1945 in this portrait.

Cordelia Blanchard '12, Lindsay Keys '11, and Daria Lombroso '11 mimic Disfarmer's portraits by reflecting the mood at the height of the Great Depression. Disfarmer's photographs show the dramatic shifts during the war years, as well as the transformations of postwar prosperity.

Mary Lauran Hall '10 and Mark McCloughan '10 pose for their picture. All photos were e-mailed to students after the event. Accompanying photos taken by Disfarmer are included in the exhibit. The photographs in this exhibition were printed from the original glass plates, recovered in the 1970s from Disfarmer's studio.

Fisherman Andrew is the son of Trish Thompson, lab manager in the Biology Department. He was one of more than 50 children enrolled in Wesleyan’s preschool who walked in the annual Halloween Parade Oct. 30 on Wesleyan’s campus. The children stopped on the steps of North College and sang songs while the parent paparazzi took photos and videos.

Chocolate cupcake Tiana, 3, is the daughter of Amy MacQueen, assistant professor of molecular biology and biochemistry.

Lobster Sam Higgins, 1 1/2, is the son of Sally Ross and Scott Higgins, associate professor of film studies.

Pirate Samuel Sorkin is son of Carolyn Sorkin, director of the Office of International Studies.

Flower Geneva Wiliarty, 20 months, is the daughter of Kevin Wiliarty, academic computing manager for the Social Sciences, and Sarah Wiliarty, assistant professor of government, and tutor in the College of Social Studies.

Froggy Alan is the son of Yun Liu, coordinator of the Scientific Computing and Informatics Center.

Ladybug Aria and fireman Orr walk behind their father, Rabbi David Leipziger Teva, director of Religious and Spiritual Life and University Jewish Chaplain. At right, Catherine Crimmins Lechowicz walks in the parade with her twin boys Charlie (walking) and JP. (Photos by Olivia Bartlett Drake)

Ural Grant '13 was one of 28 Wesleyan students who participated in the Management Leadership Conference Oct. 23-26. During the conference's opening dinner and keynote address, students had the opportunity to network with alumni, student parents and Wesleyan faculty from a variety of industries and career fields. The MLC is designed for students who aspire to hold top management and leadership positions after graduation.

Michael Sciola, director of the Career Resource Center, spoke to students about program expectations and led a discussion on responsibility prior to the conference. The MLC program is a joint effort of the Career Resource Center, Career Advisory Council, and the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations.

ESPN.com Editor-in-Chief Robert King '84 delivered the keynote address during the conference Oct. 23 in Beckham Hall. King explained how he worked his way up from an editorial assistant at the Washington Post to becoming a cartoonist, reporter, graphic designer, sports editor and deputy managing editor for visuals at other newspapers. After 22-years in the newspaper business, King joined ESPN in 2004.

Erwin Dwi Saputra '11 listens to King's address.

Dick Miller, the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, Emeritus, spoke to students during the conference.

Nam Anh Ta '12 was one of the student participants.

Gregory Rolland '95 spoke to students about his role as an accountant with Moriaty & Primack, PC in Springfield, Mass.

Taylor Sander '12 mingles with parents and alumni during the dinner. MLC participants spent the following days with business leaders in Middletown and in New York City. (Photos by Olivia Bartlett Drake)