For Adam Martinez '05, farming is more than just digging, mulching and planting. It can also be a political statement. "People can be empowered by growing their own food," Martinez said. "Opening your fridge is a political act."
To adjust for a rise in overall costs, Campus Dining Services raised the student dining fee by three percent this year, to $1,676 per semester. According to Tim Reiss, senior food service director for Campus Dining Services, prices are consistently raised at the beginning of each year.
The fall WSA elections began on Monday morning and will remain open for voting until Friday. A total of 34 students are running for WSA positions; 21 of them are competing for nine frosh positions and 13 are competing for seven at-large seats.
The number of students who reside in off-campus housing will be drastically reduced next year, according to Assistant Director of ResLife Rich DeCapua. Currently, around 200 students live off-campus. Next year, the University hopes to reduce this number to somewhere around 20, or "a handful," DeCapua said.
William Irwin, author of "The Matrix and Philosophy," discussed Friday night why the "Matrix" trilogy should be considered more than just Hollywood entertainment. According to Irwin, the films raise important philosophical issues that parallel the real world.
This year Public Safety decided to rehire the Middletown Police Department (MPD) as a way of reinforcing safety on campus on weekends. According to Maryann Wiggin, Director of Public Safety, police patrols were first hired in September of 2003, in reaction to an overwhelming number of laptop thefts at the time.
Hundreds of people walk down the streets of Middletown without any inclination of the medical history that was made in the very buildings they pass. Trying to remedy that fact, the Middlesex County Historical Society, located on 151 Main St., gave a walking tour of medical history in Middletown Monday night.
Although Aramark contends that its items are priced fairly given market prices, a small-scale study conducted by the Argus has found that prices at Weshop are in most cases above both local grocery stores and convenience stores.
Next year, the University will force all students, except in a handful of extraordinary circumstances, to live on-campus. This change represents another step toward the University's Master Plan, which will require all students to live in a few large, characterless, University-built dorms.
Life is full of changes. Changes are full of new challenges. And when my grandmother makes crepes, they're usually full of ricotta cheese. But my grandmother doesn't really know what a crepe is. Thankfully, she still knows what a chocolate chip cookie is. All of this is important because it was with a box of my grandmother's cookies that I began the next step in my life: apartment living.
On Saturday night, I was out dancing at Beta and hanging out with my friends. I saw a male acquaintance on the dance floor, and went over to give him a hug. As soon as he saw me approaching, he took a swig of beer, held it in his mouth with his cheeks puffed out, and spat it all over my face. Then he and a male onlooker laughed at me. Later that evening, seeing that I was still visibly upset by the incident, he walked closer to me and yelled, "Nora, just get over it."
The WSA election this week includes an important vote to approve an updated version of our constitution. The Wesleyan Student Assembly reviewed the constitution this past spring in order to ensure its consistency with the functions of the WSA and the needs of the student body.
Dear Mr. Bakun [in response to a Sept. 17 letter to the editor, "Republican Representation?" by Adam Bakun '98], Currently, the Wesleyan Republicans are not registered with the Wesleyan Student Assembly, indicating that there is no official active Republican contingency on campus at this time. Perhaps on such a polarized leftist campus, the group could not find enough support among the student body to reinstate itself for the 2004-2005 school year. Wesleyan's Democrats are far more vocal and active, having an overwhelming presence.
Dear Summerfields Late Night, While I really appreciate the new management's updates to the late-night menu, I really don't like having to pay 50 cents for a cup of water or $1.79 for a medium soda, especially when drinks were free last year.
1) Rage, Goddess! Sing my rage as I scream from the bottom of my lungs for Nietzsch Factor! Contradictions abound in life: Yo soy uncompetitive vis à vis le sportif, but inside, my pride seethes over lack of forward progress. O! How quickly doth frustration simmer to laconic apathy! So now I skip practice all the time (aka left and right: flick and backhand tosses: the hammer, too).
This year, Wesleyan has been named the "hottest for diversity" by Newsweek, a top school for females by CosmoGIRL! and the number nine liberal arts college in the country by U.S. News and World Report. Instead of championing these distinctions, however, President of the University Douglas Bennet recently wrote an op-ed in New York Newsday criticizing the rankings.
Welcome to the first article of Davison House Call, a new column that will run the first and third Tuesday every month. The column is sponsored by the Health Center, Office of Behavioral Health for Students and WesWell and the Office of Health Education. All three offices are now conveniently located in the same building at the Davison Health Center at 327 High St.
Motivated students adorned in shorts and tank tops, armed with portable music, have taken sunny afternoons by storm. Wesleyan joggers have hit the streets, hills and paths at what appears to be an increased rate this semester.
The remnants of Hurricane Ivan swept through New England Saturday, leaving the women's field hockey team waiting for Sunday to face off with league rival Trinity.
On a blustery Sunday, the women's soccer team faced the Bantams of Trinity. Despite taking a 2-0 halftime lead, the Cards gave it back in the second half and eventually fell 3-2 in overtime, dropping the squad to a record of 1-3 (0-2 NESCAC).
The Wesleyan Cross Country teams kicked off the season with some huge victories at the NYU Invitational on Saturday, as the Men claimed the top spot, and the Women finished third.
A cold but rowdy crowd gathered at North Field last Sunday to welcome their boys home and finally watch the men's soccer team kick up their own turf. The weather was chilly but the Cardinals were hot, defeating the Trinity Bantams 1-0 and earning their first NESCAC victory.
Sometimes you learn more from a loss than a win. Women's tennis has a pair of matches to learn from after a tough weekend on the courts. Amherst, NCAA runner-up last year, dominated the Cardinals en route to a lopsided 9-0 victory. Wesleyan, losers 9-0 in 2003 as well, continue to look at their Little Three rivals with envy in their eyes and upset on their minds, but that will have to wait.