Hip-hop artist Cee-Lo, Deerhoof and the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra will perform at Spring Fling on Andrus Field Wednesday, May 4. "It’s the biggest student event all year, so it’s generally a pretty good crowd," said Social Committee [SC] president Alex Escamilla ’05, responsible for bringing the groups to campus. "We usually get 1500 to 2000 people to come."
Pocketing an egg seemed natural to Booth Haley ’05 when he discovered it on a recent canoe trip. Paddling along the flooded Connecticut River on April 7 he and a friend, Andrew Holbein ’06, hopped out to climb a derelict railroad bridge and found a full nest there. What he did not realize was that his intended lunch was the egg of a peregrine falcon, a rare species that receives protection under Connecticut state law.
Mayor of Stamford and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Dan Malloy spoke at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house as a part of the Beta Lecture Series Wednesday night. Malloy spoke candidly to the audience of twenty students about his career as a politician and how his public life has affected his private life.
Global reproductive health and the rights of women were addressed by Vicky Markham of the Center for Environmental Protection, Annette Souder of the Sierra Club and Heather Anderson of Planned Parenthood in a Monday lecture. The event was part of the speakers’ tour of Connecticut colleges and was cosponsored by EON and Planned Parenthood of Connecticut.
Despite Middletown’s 23% Italian population, there is a surprising absence of first-class Italian food. Although Fiore II neither captures the harmonic simplicity of the best basic Italian cuisine nor does it take a particularly innovative approach in its interpretation of Italian cuisine, it remains far more satisfying and edible than most of its local competitors.
The New Britain Rock Cats (Double A farm team of the Minnesota Twins) have three stadium personalities—Rocky, Blooper, and Lucky. Rocky is a big gray rock cat (?) in a Rock Cats uniform. Blooper is a fat green walrus (?) in a t-shirt. Lucky is their stringy blonde emcee—a poor man’s Ryan Seacrest. They run wild in the stands, hugging kids, signing caps, and high-fiving.
When Booth Haley ’05 and Andrew Holbein ’06 were arrested on April 4 for stealing a peregrine falcon egg from a nest, it’s clear to everyone they weren’t "trafficking" an endangered species, as the charges against them claim. Haley himself is the first to admit, however, that what he did was stupid. Not federal-charges stupid, but stupid all the same.
On Oct. 16, 1978, the College of Cardinals selected a young, relatively unknown, Polish priest to lead the Roman Catholic Church. The decision to elevate Karol Wojtyla to the papacy came as a surprise to many, and the pontiff spent some time developing a relationship with the church’s faithful. John Paul II’s successor is a somewhat different story. German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was elected Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, is well known to the world’s Catholics.
"I’ve been clutching my uterus at precisely 12:34 every day and night for the past few days. Okay, I’m not literally pregnant; I’m just pregnant with the idea of being pregnant. Maybe all these babies running through my head slipped on my cerebral cortex and slid into my womb, because that’s the only explanation of why my mental baby obsession has caused me physical uterine pain."
It may be an abuse of my power to respond to a wespeak as it is being printed, but I believe it is important to give my side of the story regarding the WSA Coordinating Committee's wespeak, "Letter to the Argus from WSA." First, I owe the WSA an apology. We have an arrangement to publish their agenda on Fridays and their minutes on Tuesdays, and sometimes those items aren't printed.
As the Coordinating Committee of the WSA, one of our main responsibilities is to facilitate communication between the Assembly and the campus. This year, the WSA has made a concerted effort to consistently share our meeting agendas and minutes summaries each week in the Argus. This information, however, is printed in small type, is difficult to locate, and sometimes is not even published.
As one of the student organizers of the Hitchens/Parenti debate, I would like to thank the editorial board of the Argus for the kind remarks they printed in last Tuesday's issue. However, in explaining the philosophical underpinnings that drove Christopher Hitchens' arguments, they were quick to note that he "is far from a neoconservative." Such a statement is categorically false.
On Monday night I hopped on my burnt orange-esque Trek "Mountain Track" at my remote and desolate house that is situated in the barren wasteland of campus life that is euphemistically referred to as "across Washington Street." I am a self-described Cancer, as well as biking enthusiast, which serves me well to help cut down on the fifteen minute walk to the science tower where I have most of my classes.
While campaigning, WSA presidential hopefuls should address the concerns of all students, not just a select few. I walked into MoCon today to have someone for the WSA Presidental Candidate accost me, asking me if I would like "Shuttles services to bars." I had to do all I could to stop myself from bursting out in laughter.
Why shouldn't WSA reps advocate for a variety of issues? In your wespeak, you complain that you heard a candidate push for shuttle services to bars. You made it seem like this is ALL the candidate pushed for, which can't be true. What else did this candidate stand for? And, if there are a variety of other planks in his/her platform, what's so bad about one of them being shuttles to bars?
Pesticides (this includes insecticides, herbicides and fungicides - all used on lawns and turf) are linked to cancers, neurological disease, fertility problems and asthma. They are banned in Scandinavian countries and many parts of Canada. It is perfectly possible to have beautiful lawns without dangerous chemicals.
The Stone twins, Adam ’05 and Todd ’05, presented their third and final annual comedy show to a packed Crowell this Sunday. While in past years the show was predominantly a mix of stand-up routines and Todd’s tender operatic singing, the duo branched out this year to slam-poetry, interpretive dance, and even bullfighting.
Artist and teacher Brett Cook-Dizney stated the obvious at a gallery talk Tuesday after showing a photograph of two fiberglass cows on a Brooklyn street corner. The pair were a part of 2000’s "CowParade New York," a work of public installation art in which hundreds of painted cows were placed around the city’s five boroughs. Cook-Dizney showed the cows as an example of what he tries to avoid in his own art.
It would be natural to assume that you had little in common with the divine beings of Sophiline Cheam Shapiro’s acclaimed dance "Seasons of Migration" performed Friday in the CFA Theater. Your footsteps aren’t accented with percussion, you aren’t gilded in golden shimmer, and you aren’t straight out of Cambodian mythology.
The wonderful thing about Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is that, as a play, it makes very little sense. Three separate plotlines interweave chaotically (or so it seems), and the finale is a ridiculously bad play-within-a-play. But chaos is the point here, and the result is a great deal of revelry, and this chaos and revelry was reinterpreted last weekend in the '92 under the direction of Chris Krovatin '07.
On Wednesday evening, Pulitzer Prize winning writer Anna Quindlen spoke on everything from Harry Potter to the lack of women on the Op-Ed newspaper pages. Quindlen is one of those rare writers who produces successful works in both non-fiction and fiction. Besides working as a regular columnist for Newsweek and the New York Times, Quindlen has also written various best-selling books, such as "One True Thing" and "Black and Blue."
The end is near. Oh, it is so damn near. And when I stop to think about it, the truth is: it's been a nice run. My freshman year I began training as a projectionist for the Film Series. I thought it would be cool, I figured I wouldn't have to pay to watch movies. In fact, someone would pay me. Coolest job in the world. I started going to a couple shows, watching older kids project in the science center and in the cinema.
"Historias Minimas" (Intimate Stories), a road film by Carlos Sorin, is a key film in the New Argentine Cinema that has emerged in the past five years. Obviously influenced by Italian neo-realism, this film tells us the story of three individuals -all played by non-professional actors- from a small, impoverished town called Fitz Roy who journey across the plains of La Patagonia to get to San Julian, the nearest city, where the possibility of hope, love, and fame still remains.
With only two days to go before the NESCAC tournament and momentum certainly not on their side, Wesleyan's men's tennis team turned it around, knocking off the Springfield College Pride in 7-0 rout on Wednesday. With the NESCAC tournament underway, the Cardinals have finally found their strokes, or so they hope. After an inconsistent series of three wins and three losses, Wesleyan spent their final week in up and down fashion as well.
The women’s tennis team wrapped up its spring season by blanking Springfield College 9-0 for the third straight Cardinal victory. The triumph ran Wesleyan’s spring record to a gaudy 5-1, a stunning reversal from the fall campaign. Victoria Santoro ’07 and Susannah Ragab ’06 took home 6-0, 6-0 victories in the second and third seeds.
Wesleyan's baseball team fell to the Springfield Pride 5-1 on Tuesday. The Cardinals were hoping to continue fine-tuning their game, finding balance in their lineup, and stepping up defensively in Springfield before starting the second-half of NESCAC league play. Freshman Ben Brooks made his second start of the season, and through the first four innings, Brooks only allowed three runs
After losing to Amherst Saturday, the Cardinals returned home in the hopes of ending their two-game losing streak against the Tufts Jumbos. But despite another great game in net from Kate Jones '06, the Birds succumbed 11-8. The early goings looked promising as Becky Meredith '06 hammered home a sharp pass from Cortney Tetrault '07 less than three minutes in to put the Cards on top.