Campus Architecture Retains the Legacy of Henry Bacon
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Makin’ Shapes F Holes Live and Kickin’ PAGE PAGE Myers and Weiner start blog 5 Student string players unite PAGE 5 New School blends genres 12 MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT VOLUME CLIII, ISSUE 21 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2013 Since 1868 Zwelling Lecture Report: Endowment Increases By 12 Percent By Sophie Zinser said that this year the strategic invest- Assistant News Editor ments that the University Investment Officers made provided returns for The University’s endowment the endowment. showed a 12 percent increase from “Our goal is to invest in the en- the last fiscal year, according to the dowment in a way that will continue recently published annual financial to provide for it,” Martin said. “We report. The report attributes this rise want to invest our endowment across to a decrease in spending and a record a number of different strategies that influx of donations. Additionally, the we think can generate high returns for report stated that the University’s en- the University over a long period of dowment now rests at $689 million, time.” a $72 million increase after this year’s While the numbers look positive spending. in that regard, it is important to note The University’s endowment how the endowment compares to that consists of gifts from alumni and of past years even earlier than last stakeholders. According to Chief year. Vice President for Finance and Investment Officer Anne Martin, an Administration John Meerts noted endowment gift is permanent capi- that the endowment is still lower than tal, meaning that the University must CHONG GU/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER invest it rather than spend it. Martin ENDOWMENT, page 3 The annual Jeremy Zwelling Lecture drew a large crowd to hear Bernard Avishai discuss the two-state solution. See page 3 for more. Campus Architecture Retains Let’s Party Hats! Hats! The Legacy of Henry Bacon Hats! To Rock BuHo By Meg de Recat noise,” Winnik said. By Gabe Rosenberg And, to an extent, it was: each build- According to Chair of Art Staff Writer The band was then quickly thrown Assistant Features Editor ing is a product of the time during and Art History Joseph Siry, into the Wesleyan music scene. Its first which and the architect by whom it Bacon was one of the preemi- This Friday, if you and your show on campus happened when a Walking around the University’s was constructed. nent neoclassical architects in the friends wander over to Buddhist House friend asked members on a Tuesday if campus, students rarely see a co- Nevertheless, within the United States. With his firm, he (BuHo) anytime between 10 and 11 they would play a show that Saturday. hesive group of buildings. They school’s architecture, order does ex- helped design the 1893 World’s p.m., you will most likely be accosted Crafting a song in only four days, they instead see a hodgepodge of mate- ist. A closer look into the origins, Fair Columbian Exposition in by loud, angry-sounding music ex- took the stage as Let’s Party Hats! Hats! rials and designs, an accumulation designs, and organization of certain Chicago, which included a dis- ploding from the house. If you’re lucky, Hats!, and a year later, having played of houses, halls, and dormitories buildings on campus reveals more play of neoclassical architecture the loud music that you’ll hear is that many more shows, they have become a that, since Wesleyan’s founding in than a decade of growth fueled by that influenced the design of pub- of Let’s Party Hats! Hats! Hats!, with well-known Wesleyan band. 1831, have slowly been added to the the creative contributions of a single lic buildings around the country. Adam Johnson ’14 on vocals and gui- “We had similar interests in terms University’s campus. man: Henry Bacon. Before then, in 1884, he tar, Sean Winnik ’14 on vocals, saxo- of what we wanted to make, but none The Center for the Arts looks Bacon was an architect for the studied architecture for a year at phone, and guitar, and Nate Repasz ’14 of us had really played music like this nothing like Exley Science Center, New York City firm of McKim, the University of Illinois before on vocals and drums. before,” Johnson said. “And so we despite having both been completed Mead, and White in 1906 when moving to Boston to study and The credit for getting these three didn’t know what we were going for, in the 1970s. Both of these appear Stephen Henry Olin, a Wesleyan work with his older brother, an musicians together to create Let’s Party so we just started crafting this song. alien after passing through College trustee and son of an earlier architect and archaeologist. Bacon Hats! Hats! Hats! goes to a natural di- We didn’t say, ‘Let’s make a hardcore Row. Contrasted with almost any University president, began looking won a two-year traveling scholar- saster: Hurricane Sandy in the fall of band.’ We sort of just made a band, other building on campus, a single for someone to design the fraternity ship in 1889 to go to Europe, 2012. and knowing that it [would be] very structure seems randomly plopped house for Phi Nu Theta, more com- “We all found ourselves in Music loud was just part of it.” down from another time and place. monly known as Eclectic. BACON, page 6 House, and it was too crazy to go out- side, so we decided to just make some CONCERT, page 11 Faculty Members, Former Chekhov’s “Seagull” Students Remember James Reid By Christina Norris graduating, he served in the navy be- wrote. “And he would say, ‘Yeah, Editor-in-Chief fore attending graduate school at the that’s good stuff. And did you know University of Washington. It was at the that [such and such],’ and proceed Professor of Mathematics, University of Washington that Reid to outline a completely new slant Emeritus James “Jim” Reid passed met Edward Burr Van Vleck Professor on the theorem, its proof and its away on Sunday, Oct. 27 at the age of of Mathematics, Emeritus Wistar meaning. Friends, that’s impossible. 83. An algebraist, Reid taught at the Comfort. Reid and Comfort later The Mean Value Theorem has been University for 44 years. worked together at Wesleyan. around since before the time of Reid taught classes ranging from “[Reid] was a gentleman,” Cauchy in the early 19th century, introductory-level courses for non- Comfort said. “He never lost his cool, it’s been taught literally hundreds mathematics majors to upper-level no matter how silly somebody was. I of thousands of times in universities calculus and algebra courses. Although don’t care if it was a student or a faculty around the world.” he retired in 2001 at the age of 70, he member.” Reid’s fresh take on mathemat- continued to teach one to two courses In an address delivered at Reid’s ics impressed Comfort. each spring. Reid taught as recently as service, Comfort admired his col- “Where the rest of us take last semester, and he had intended to league’s unique way of understanding the easy route, and our classroom teach in the spring of 2014. math. Comfort shared that address preparation on routine basic matters “He came back every year, just with The Argus. like Freshman Calculus consists of like Old Faithful,” said Chair of the “I would be talking to Jim infor- checking what other good expositors Mathematics and Computer Science mally and say something like ‘Well, I have done, Jim takes and finds time ANDREW RIBNER/FOOD EDITOR Department Wai Kiu Chan. gotta go, I’ve got to go over my notes to seek a fresh perspective, to use his Dan Froot ’16 plays Konstantin Treyplyov in “The Seagull,” As an undergraduate, Reid at- for tomorrow’s calculus lecture; it’s which will be performed in the CFA this weekend. See page 9. tended Fordham University. After the Mean Value Theorem,’” Comfort REID, page 2 www.wesleyanargus.com 2 THE WESLEYAN ARGUS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2013 The NEWS Wesleyan Argus Reid: University Commemorates established in 1868 Editors-in-Chief Lily Baggott Christina Norris Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus Continued from front page alized by him at all,” Wood said. “When to either of my majors.” how to behave, how to work here, how to Production Manager he was at Syracuse [in the 1960s], he had Muraco described one particular les- deal with the administration,” Chan said. Michelle Woodcock imagination to seek out newer, better ap- two African [-American] women PhD son of Reid’s on the pigeonhole principal. At the time Chan was hired, he was Executive Editors proaches,” he wrote. Students. I think they were the number He recalled that Reid’s enthusiasm and the only number theorist among math- Claire Bradach Throughout his career, Reid super- seven and number eight African-American lightheartedness was contagious. ematics faculty at the University. In 2001, Olivia Horton vised 14 PhD students. PhDs in mathematics in the country. They “He was laughing about [the lesson] Reid retired in order to allow the depart- Abbey Francis “Getting a PhD student is like rais- spoke of him in the warmest terms.” the entire time,” Muraco recalled. “I just ment to hire another number theorist. ing a kid,” Chan said. “The student comes Wood credits Reid’s reputation in remember sitting in the back of the room “Even though Jim’s an algebraist…he News Editors Miranda Katz in like a piece of blank paper, knowing part to his gentle style of teaching.