Head Women's Crew Coach Beth Emery and her crew team pick up litter along the Connecticut River shoreline during their off season.   Posted 05/04/06 Q: Most of us know little about crew except that very strong people move amazingly fast in tandem in a thin boat and look like water spiders dancing on the surface. Would you mind briefly defining the sport? A: Rowing can be done competitively or recreationally. Most of the rowing taking place out of Wesleyan's Macomber Boathouse is done with collegiate competition in mind. We race in eights and fours. In “eights” there are eight…

Stanford Forrester, coordinator of the Freeman Asian / Asian American Initiative, displays photographs and haiku in the Asian / Asian American House.   daylight . . . no one notices the firefly Haiku by Stanford Forrester   Posted 05/04/06 Since he was 12, Stanford Forrester had a strong interest in Asian culture. Growing up in New York, watching “Kung Fu” on TV, taking karate and judo lessons, and studying Asian philosophy were his fondest pastimes. For the last four years, Forrester has been the coordinator of the Freeman Asian / Asian American Initiative, a position that has allowed his interest…

Posted 05/01/06 Careers@Wesleyan, a new online career opportunity site, will replace the paper based employment process at Wesleyan.   The Human Resources Department began using Careers@Wesleyan April 19 to help automate the employment process.   Careers@Wesleyan provides online access to applicant information from any computer with an internet connection. The service will provide such enhancements as online review of the requisition approval process, capability to ask job specific prescreening questions to assist in developing a pool of qualified candidates, and online storage of applicant files to support a paperless process.   Job applicants will be able to view each position…

Steven Jacaruso, art director, designs the look and feel for Wesleyan magazine.   Posted 04/17/06 Q: When did you come to Wesleyan?A: I was hired in July 1998 as the assistant art director. Later on I became the associate director, and then the art director in 2000 for the Office of University Communications.Q: How did you become interested in graphic design?A: When I was a kid, I was always into drawing and I was intrigued by logos and full-page movie ads in the New York Times. I’ve always had my eye on the visual aspect of things. Back then, graphic…

Greg Pyke, senior dean of admission, stands outside the Office of Admission.   Posted 04/17/06 Every year, the Office of Admission begins with a prospective student pool of over 30,000 and mails information to another 88,000 based on PSAT and ACT scores and grades. Of these, about 7,000 apply, and after review, this number is whittled down to less than 2,000. Of this amount, ultimately, 720 of the applicants will become Wesleyan’s newest freshman class. As a senior associate dean of admission, Greg Pyke reviews hundreds of these applications, and he meets almost as many potential applicants each year. He’s…

Jen Shea, head softball coach, assistant field hockey coach, teaches swimming as an adjunct professor of athletics.   Posted 04/17/06 Q: At what age did you first pick up a bat and ball, and where was this?A: I grew up in Hatfield, Massachusetts. Hatfield is a small town of 3,500 people with a strong athletic tradition. When I was in elementary school, the high school’s varsity softball team won back-to-back state titles and that is when I really became interested in the sport. I started off playing T-ball when I was in first grade and then graduated to slow-pitch softball when…