Highlights of the Quarterly, Winter 2004
Field house of the mind
Colleges across the nation are examining and adapting the way they deliver library services, and many are consolidating library, technology and academic support activities into a single facility--a field house of the mind. Wheaton's library is our largest interdisciplinary academic service unit. How must it change to keep pace with curriculum and technology? (more)
Ailey at Wheaton
In the first weeklong residency of the Evelyn Danzig Haas '39 Visiting Artists Program, the renowned Alvin Ailey II dance company left Wheaton students and regional arts enthusiasts breathless--literally and figuratively--as they taught master classes, choreographed a piece for the Wheaton Dance Company, and performed on campus in late September. The artistic gifts they left behind will endure for years. (more)
Hurts so good
Wheaton's Dance Company discusses the promise and the pain of working one-on-one with world-class dancers.
The Mrozowski method
A professor follows her dream and changes the way Wheaton aproaches dance.
Letter from Oxford
Miles Sweet '01, a first-generation college student and chemistry major from Fairfield, Maine, became Wheaton's first Rhodes Scholar three years ago. Today he is nearing completion of a Ph.D. at Oxford University in England. In early fall, he spoke with Quarterly editor Jayne M. Iafrate about the ways this opportunity has changed his life. (more)
