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Fresno Resident Graduates From Harvard With a 4.0 GPA, Now Works at Blockbuster
Brittney Lane is only the sixth person in the last 30 years to graduate from Harvard with a perfect 4.0, and now, she works at Blockbuster Video. Ah, the power of an Ivy League education!
Awesome! Alumni Musicians: Red Wire Black Wire
By JeanDesiree (09/01/2008 12:08 AM) Tags: rock, bands, music, wesleyan musicians, red wire black wire
Red Wire Black Wire.
Check out the band on Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/redwireblackwire
What's Cookin' with Alum Talia Barrett '08?
By JeanDesiree (08/31/2008 11:57 PM) Tags: talia barret, philadelphia, cooking, kids, cooking classes, chef
Answer: Let's just say it's gettin' hot in Talia's kitchen these days. A recent alum who majored in Sociology, Talia Barret '08 is doing what a good many of us weird Wesleyan kids do upon graduating: Toss the degree in the drawer, dream up a bold, new plan, and get cookin'!
Talia is in dogged
... MORE »Alums Start Community Space in Brooklyn
By JeanDesiree (08/31/2008 11:55 PM) Tags: brooklyn, surreal estate, alumni, wesleyan, artist, community space
From the alums who brought NYC the Freegan Fashion Show comes Surreal Estate, a new community space planned for 15 Thames Street in Brooklyn, NY. The project includes several recent alums of Wesleyan.
Check out their Myspace page:
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... MORE »Alums in Upcoming NYC Art Parade
By JeanDesiree (08/31/2008 11:50 PM) Tags: deitch, nyc, art parade, projects, soho, parade jean pockrus
Deitch Projects, a major gallery space and arts promoter in NYC, is sponsoring its 4th Annual Art Parade on September 6th. The parade procession begins at 4 pm in Soho. Matti Valades '08 and I applied to do a float for the parade this year and our crew of current students and alums have been working o
... MORE »Student-Organized English as a Second Language Program!
By JeanDesiree (08/31/2008 11:46 PM) Tags: english, esl, wesleyan, student organized, programs, english as a second language
Did you know that Wesleyan has a student-organized English as a Second Language program that pairs student-tutors with Wesleyan's workers?
Check out the information available on the group's website (needs some updating, but it's really cool to learn more about the recent hist
... MORE »AIDtoCHILDREN.com is a dual-purpose site for building an English vocabulary and raising money for under privileged children in the most impoverished places around the world.
Check it out at http://www.aidtochildren.com
Awesome! Musicians! BELLY BOAT!
By JeanDesiree (08/31/2008 11:41 PM) Tags: wesleyan, silvie margotdeutsch, music, belly boat, accordion
Belly Boat is comprised of Silvie Margot-Deutsch '09 and her best friend who plays the accordion and goes to some other school that is not Wesleyan and so must be ignored. Just kidding, her very marvelous name is Zoe Ruth Cusmus Latta and she's really neat from what I remember. Only met her a couple time
... MORE »Awesome! Wesleyan Musicians: Max, Ben, Jacob
By JeanDesiree (08/31/2008 11:32 PM) Tags: ben seretan, max horwich, music, jacob milstein, wesleyan
Their summer tour was made up of three solo performers including Max Horwich '08, Ben Seretan '10, and Jacob Milstein '09. Max told me in an email earlier this summer that each performed their "own material, sometimes alone and sometimes supported by the other two."
Check out the three tour mates' Myspace pages for more:
Center for Social Justice to Open at Wesleyan!
By JeanDesiree (08/31/2008 11:18 PM) Tags: campus center, wesleyan, davenport, center for social justice
Wesleyan has finally found a good use for the huge, abandoned building in the center of campus, home to the previous campus center before that monstrosity Usdan came along last year. The Davenport Campus Center is slated to become Wesleyan's new Center for Social Justice. Last semester an
... MORE »Green Street Arts Center in Middletown
By JeanDesiree (08/31/2008 10:53 PM) Tags: green street arts center, middletown, arts, wesleyan, workstudy
The newly established Green Street Arts Center in Middletown's North End neighborhood began as a community project of Wesleyan University and has taken on a life of its own in the rapidly changing area. Many Wesleyan students volunteer and have work-study positions at Green Street. It's a becomi
... MORE »Alum Reaches Out in a Public Letter
By JeanDesiree (08/31/2008 10:43 PM) Tags: india, austin purnell, rugby, murderball
Austin Purnell '08 recently sent out the following letter in an effort to raise support and funds for an amazing service and documentary film project his is working on along with current students in India. In order to best promote his cause, I thought it appropriate to post his heartfelt letter
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