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Wesleyan University is a highly-selective liberal arts college in Middletown, CT. Founded by Methodists in 1831, the university was all-male until 1872, when it began admitting a limited number of female students. However, some male alumni believed coeducation diminished the school's stature, and in 1911, pressured the university to end the experiment. Wesleyan did not become fully coeducational again until 1970....
Wesleyan University is a highly-selective liberal arts college in Middletown, CT. Founded by Methodists in 1831, the university was all-male until 1872, when it began admitting a limited number of female students. However, some male alumni believed coeducation diminished the school's stature, and in 1911, pressured the university to end the experiment. Wesleyan did not become fully coeducational again until 1970. The university has a long tradition of progressive activism and a reputation for embracing diversity, dating back to the abolitionist movement in the 1840s. During the 1960s, Wesleyan began actively to recruit students of color and many faculty members and students were civil rights activists. In recent years, Wesleyan pioneered gender-neutral housing and made national headlines for its naked dormitory (which, it turned out, was more rumor than reality). For years, its robust brand of political activism took the form of statements scrawled in chalk on sidewalks around campus. Then in 2002, former President Douglas Bennet provoked an uproar by banning chalking. In late 2006, a group of students launched a drive to preserve the university's quirky character called "Keep Wesleyan Weird.'' However, the university's anything-goes ethos can't conceal the fact that it is an intellectually rigorous school, one that accepts less than 30 percent of those who apply. The university has a strong science program, a renowned film studies department and world-class music and theater programs. Since the summer of 2007, Wesleyan has been led by Michael Roth, a former student who graduated in 1978. Other prominent alumni include Joss Whedon, creator of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer,'' New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, film director Michael Bay ("Armegeddon," "Transformers"), author Sebastian Junger ("The Perfect Storm") and John Hickenlooper, Jr., mayor of Denver. Wesleyan admits students without regard to their financial situation; 40 percent of its 2,900 students currently receive grant aid. Annual tuition and fees at Wesleyan totaled about $47,000 for the 2007-08 academic year, according to the university's website. Wesleyan's endowment, about $710 million in 2007, lags behind those of its peer institutions, Amherst and Williams. Together, the three elite liberal arts colleges are known as the "Little Three.''
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Brother James Kelly, president of Mount Saint Joseph High School
Brother James Kelly, president of Mount Saint Joseph High School for the last decade, died of prostate cancer early Saturday at his order's residence in Irvington. He was 64.
In a letter he wrote to students and parents in October, he quoted the...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Charles Street, Colleges and Universities, Robert Bolt, Family
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Lemony Snicket reborn!
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For Pitcairn's family, a journey from happiness to grief
Gwen Pitcairn drove slowly through the cemetery in Tequesta, the small Florida village where she raised her three children. She stopped in front of her son Stephen's grave.
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Frederick W. Glassberg, community developer
Frederick W. Glassberg, a one-time Rouse Co. executive who became a prominent real estate and community developer in Howard County, died Sept. 15 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Columbia of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 77. A native of...Tags: Constitutional Issues, Howard County, Real Estate, United Way , Clarksville
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Edward Standish "Brad" Bradford Jr., Boys' Latin headmaster
Baltimore Sun reporterEdward Standish "Brad" Bradford Jr., a career educator who had been headmaster of Boys' Latin School during the early 1980s, died Thursday from complications after surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 83. The son of a businessman and a...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, College Sports, Colleges and Universities, University of Connecticut, Towson University
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James Dowling 'Jay' Cherry Jr.
James Dowling "Jay" Cherry Jr., a former associate professor and chairman of the department of speech at the old Mount St. Agnes College who also gave one-man performances of historic Unitarians, died Aug. 24 of congestive heart failure at Timothy House...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Teaching and Learning, Towson University, Towson, Fells Point
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Pfefferkorn-de Messieres wed
Candace M. Pfefferkorn and Michel E. de Messieres Joan and Louis Pfefferkorn Jr., of West Friendship, announce the marriage of their daughter, Candace Marie Pfefferkorn, to Michel Escande de Messières, son of Susan and the late Olivier de Messières, of...Tags: Marriage, Schools, Catonsville, Colleges and Universities, Applied Physics
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College news for Columbia residents
The following students, both of Columbia, earned a degree in May from Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y.: Adam Yozwiak earned a Bachelor of Science in engineering; and Olumayowa Dayo earned a Bachelor of Science in human ecology. Marian Creasy, of...Tags: Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Virginia), Schools, High Schools, Colleges and Universities, Science
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Liz Lerman to leave dance troupe in July
This summer, MacArthur Award-winning choreographer Liz Lerman will leave the Takoma Park, Maryland troupe she founded in 1976 to pursue solo projects in dancing and writing.
The company, now called the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, will revert to its...Tags: Takoma Park (Montgomery, Maryland), Dance, Colleges and Universities, Harvard University, Maryland
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Alumni Report: Roland Park's Cathy Nolan
Cathy Nolan earned a white blazer as a three-sport athlete at Roland Park in 1976. She still has the blazer, but she said in a phone interview this week that she took away much more than the jacket when she graduated.
Nolan has been principal - a "pretty...Tags: Lacrosse, Health and Safety at School, High School Sports
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Interview with Jack Greenberg and Gilbert Holmes
Jack Greenberg was 27 years old when he helped argue the Brown vs. Board of Education cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He succeeded Thurgood Marshall as head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he worked for more than 30 years. He is a professor of...Tags: Columbia University, Judges, University of Michigan, Civil Rights, Racism
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Fanatical, yes, but not insane
Terrorists who kill themselves for their cause are murderous and often misguided - but almost never crazy. The discipline and preparation required for such an act renders the mentally unstable poor candidates, according to psychologists and others who...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, Armed Forces, Terrorism, Colleges and Universities, Bombings
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