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		<title>Wesleyan Theater Department Presents The Skriker Nov. 19-22</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/18/wesleyan-theater-department-presents-the-skriker-nov-20-22/</link>
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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>Meyer Wins Book Award from Academic Society</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/16/meyer-wins-book-award-from-academic-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pesci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Priscilla Meyer, professor of Russian language and literature, was awarded the University of Southern California Book Prize by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) during their annual conference. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia in the field of literary and cultural [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/parents-alumni-celebrate-homecomingfamily-weekend-with-students/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/wesleyan-launches-new-homepage-community-blog/#comments</comments>
		<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>Wetherhead &#8217;98 Shines in Off-Broadway Musical</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/wetherhead-98-shines-in-off-broadway-musical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Low</dc:creator>
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Kate Wetherhead ’98 currently stars in the off-Broadway musical Ordinary Days with a score by Adam Gwon and directed by Mark Bruni. The show deals the lives and troubles of four young people living in New York City. In a positive review in The New York Times, Charles Isherwood says the show “captures with stinging [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/class-of-2010-triumphs-in-weswars/#comments</comments>
		<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>Book Traces Friendship Between Math Teacher Joffray &#8217;50 and Student</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/book-traces-friendship-between-math-teacher-joffray-50-and-student/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/book-traces-friendship-between-math-teacher-joffray-50-and-student/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Low</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Calculus of Friendship (Princeton University Press), Cornell University professor Steven Strogatz chronicles the moving story of the friendship he developed with his former high school math teacher, Don Joffray ’50, over 30 years through the exchange of letters between them. For a long time, their friendship revolved almost entirely on a shared love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alejandro Honored for Contribution to the Arts</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/alejandro-honored-for-contribution-to-the-arts/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/alejandro-honored-for-contribution-to-the-arts/#comments</comments>
		<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>5 Questions with…Ethan Kleinberg</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/5-questions-with%e2%80%a6ethan-kleinberg/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/5-questions-with%e2%80%a6ethan-kleinberg/#comments</comments>
		<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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