Word: wesleyanism
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...live under a cloud of censure." Sommers cites studies showing that boys come to school less prepared than girls, do less homework and get suspended more often. "For males, there's no social currency in being a straight-A student," says Clifford Thornton, associate dean of admissions at Wesleyan University. Although the latest figures show that college graduates earn, on average, almost double the wages of those with no college, "there's a sense among many boys that it's sissy to go to college," says sociologist and author Michael Kimmel. "The thinking is, 'I can get a job without...
Willis, 52, is an African-American professor of Buddhism at Wesleyan University. At her home in Middletown, Conn., she points to a snapshot of the 1981 encounter, noting that only after a decade of meditation was she able to examine her blackness. She adds, "I became able to deal with the deep wounds of race because of Buddhist practice...
...live under a cloud of censure." Sommers cites studies showing that boys come to school less prepared than girls, do less homework and get suspended more often. "For males, there's no social currency in being a straight-A student," says Clifford Thornton, associate dean of admissions at Wesleyan University. Although the latest figures show that college graduates earn, on average, almost double the wages of those with no college, "there's a sense among many boys that it's sissy to go to college," says sociologist and author Michael Kimmel. "The thinking is, 'I can get a job without...
...best age to be running your own company, when you have the stamina," says O'Shea, who usually works 13 hours a day. "Maybe when I'm 40 I'll get a chance to rest." A native of the New Jersey suburbs who majored in social studies at Wesleyan University, he was inspired by his father, a florist who "worked seven days a week until I was 15." This is O'Shea's first gig as a businessman; he still speaks like the cautious, probing technology journalist he once was. Maybe that's the key to winning investors: talk softly...
Andrea Rosario, a Wesleyan graduate who teaches in the Boston area, urged women to "cover lightning beams with fists and look for tomorrow" in her poem of female unity...