Working with new program housing rules, two fraternities has had to alter their previous policies. Not allowing women to live in its house has forced Psi Upsilon (Psi U) off campus while Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) has actively recruited females, and been granted on-campus status. Program house consideration is especially important next year as the number of students granted off-campus housing has decreased.
About 30 students met in the Butt C lounge on Saturday for six and a half hours to discuss their own experiences with race and prejudice. The workshop was sponsored by the United Student Labor Coalition (USLAC) which brought in Ewuare Osayande, a member of the activist group POWER, to lecture and lead exercises designed to explore the students' conceptions of race relations and their experiences with the idea of white privilege.
A ceremony in the Memorial Chapel Wednesday was an early observance of the Holocaust Rembrance, officially on May 5. The ceremony including a visual display, an a capella performance and a lecture by Holocaust survivor Henny Rosenbaum Markiewicz Simon. Simon, wearing a blue-green suit with a yellow Jude button on her lapel, spoke about her experiences in Germany from 1933 to 1945, including her time in a concentration camp and her liberation from the camp.
On Monday, the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies (FEAS) hosted a Japanese tea ceremony led by Stephen A. Morrell. A landscape architect specializing in Japanese-style gardens, Morrell has done several study tours to Japan and is a practitioner of Zen Buddhism and the tea ceremony. He explained the history of tea ceremony and presented formal tea to one guest recipient.
To provide resources for higher education to prison inmates, students of WesPREP collaborated with a prison education program in New York to submit a proposal to the foundation of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. this semester. They requested a $500,000 dollar grant that, if chosen, will institute a college-accredited learning program in a Connecticut prison.
As students wander in and out of the WSA office everyday to collect their program funds, a stable presence welcomes them—Sadie the dog, Bob the cat, and Cari Macdermott, the WSA administrator. When the year ends, however, Macdermott will pack up her things (pets included), and begin her retired life after 28 years as the WSA administrator.
Upon hearing of his grand plans (managing a baseball team, owning an island, and starting an insurance corporation), it was made clear that whatever Dan Reif '06 may lack in extracurricular activities, he makes up for in foresight. He also elucidated on his baseball-playing career that was cut painfully short, and his current entertainment value as masochistic undertaker of "challenges."
At the end of last semester, Wesleyan students demonstrated both the most stunning amount of activism in recent years in terms of sheer numbers, and also the most useless. By yelling and accusing and little else, students clearly made their demands known but didn't go any further. We've written about this here before, and said before we were disappointed.
Individuals should be held responsible for their online writings, but technology hasn't developed enough for true accountability. A Web site is not a credible source. There are simply too many questions left regarding the true origins of the text. There is no way that a Weblog, or blog, can be used as a confession or as a piece of primary evidence in a criminal case of any kind.
Forgive the terrible pun. Last week I was bombarded with Anglophilia, and one characteristic of British life is media headlines rife with terrible plays on words. I checked out Saturday, the latest novel by the British writer Ian McEwan, and held it close to my breast for several days, until I was forced to retire it at the end of a bus ride to a track meet in Waterville, Maine.
The ties between feminism and civil rights activism run deep, even at Wesleyan where social unrest and the campaign for racial justice in the 1960s created a climate of change and a politics of affirmative action that helped bring women to campus in the 1970s. I mention this connection because nothing about the composition or the content of the recent, much-discussed panel, "Feminism at Wesleyan: 1970 to the Present," reflected the extent to which the fight for gender equity has been part of a larger, shared struggle for civil rights, equal opportunity, and social justice.
There are corollaries to the view that providing shuttle service to the bars encourages binge drinking. One used by the Christian right is that providing condoms at colleges and schools encourages sex. Both claims are ridiculous and have flawed notions of cause and effect. Providing free shuttle service is a preventative measure for an existing problem—and represents a pragmatic and mature response to the issue.
Let me remind you that you are a freshman, and it is immediately obvious from your WesSpeaks that your freshmen status has made you completely naïve to what has been an ongoing argument in the Wesleyan community for quite sometime. Let me enlighten you: Students always will drink, many to excess, many quite regularly. No administrative policy will affect this. Ever.
I am writing this in reference to a flier for your concert last Saturday night, which depicted two little girls, one giving the middle finger, and stated that a reason to come to your concert was "because this little girl has cancer." Although this flier was presumably supposed to be a joke, as someone whose mother died of cancer, whose father had cancer, and who has many close friends who have had family members or friends who have also died of, or are living with, cancer, I found it very offensive.
Instead of forfeiting unused points to Wesleyan's trillion-dollar coffers, order a whole host of electronics and quality consumer merchandise through catalogs provided at Weshop. Many of our campus concerns revolve around "me" centered social issues, and most will agree that this "secret" sure beats buying out the campus grocery store's canned goods department, only to donate it all to charity.
We want to thank the Dean's office, the WSA and the student body for supporting the New York Times Readership Program. A few weeks ago, the Dean's office decided to continue allocating money for the program. It is funded equally by the WSA and the Dean's office, and in order to continue providing papers, the Dean's funding was indispensable.
I'm writing to the group who posted a sign saying that people should come to their concert because the little girl in their photograph has cancer- Since there is no indication of the reality of the statement, I would just like to tell you that I was personally very hurt by the enormous lack of sensitivity it displayed.
I haven't seen any of these movies. But my teacher says I can use my imagination. Sometimes I finger-paint dragons even though I've never seen one. If I had a dragon I would name him Wilbert!
Fuck! Shit! Fuck! I cannot even believe it's the end of the year. Since this is the last issue, we could say whatever we want without consequences of any kind (except for guilty consciences, which luckily we do not possess). But we're wasting this golden opportunity on nice things. Nice things about the seniors. Ugh. So lame.
Or as I like to call it, "The Brat Pack's Summer Vacation." It's a no-holds-barred week of drunken orgies and irrational crushes— a lot like orientation week, only without the pervading sense of awkwardness. This is the time we've spent four years waiting for. Here are some tips for how to get the most out of the BEST WEEK EVER!
I will admit that for the most part, graduation makes me sad. I am probably going to do jobs for money, which I have never done before, and I will also probably have to start talking like a grown-up and having good posture and stuff. All these things are sad. But one thing is un-sad. Let me tell you. After graduation, all the lesbians are going to change back. And it is going to be awesome.
You can achieve anything you put your mind to, even if it is a dream that seems impossible like making a 15-minute digital film in just 9 months, or writing the better of two screenplays.
This is an actual anonymous wespeak the Argus got last week. They're not allowed to print those. And neither are we. But hey, what the hell. Since last semester, I'd started to get the feeling that pretty much every joke in every issue of the Ampersand pertained to Judaism and its stereotypes. Lo and behold, out comes this week's edition, which isn't uniquely Passover-related, in that every issue before it has been the same.
Goodbye, Wesleyan. I’m off to find a job and an apartment. I go now proudly to enter the workforce and live on my own and be a grown-up and suchlike. But worry not, my darlings! I’m not graduating, and perhaps I never shall! (Don’t tell my dad that.) That’s right, I’m Taking Some Time Off. (Insert collective gasp.) Forth I go into the cruel, cold world, prepared to finagle gainful employ and inexpensively housing with nothing but my labor, my good looks, and my roguish charm.
With mere moments left at Wesleyan, I feel it's only right that I express all the feelings I have kept bottled up for so long. These are excerpts from letters that I wrote, but was always too scared to send. I hope you can accept the heartfelt words that are long overdue.
The following is more or less how, back in September, I imagined my first dinner with my family would transpire upon returning home from my freshman year at Wesleyan University.
The men's lacrosse team put together solid efforts in two straight contests to win their fifth and then sixth straight games in weekend victories over Colby and Tufts. The Cardinals traveled to Maine on Friday night to close out the regular season with a Saturday afternoon match up against the Mules, and came away with a 12-6 win in a relaxed game that never saw the Cards without a lead or control.
As a senior at Wesleyan in 1996, Jed Hoyer sent his resume to all 30 professional baseball teams, hoping to fulfill his lifelong goal of working in a major league front office. When no offers came, he moved in other directions, spending time as an admissions officer at both Kenyon and his alma mater before finally settling in Boston in 2001 with a job at a consulting firm. But Hoyer's dream of a job in baseball never died.
The Old Methodist Rugby Football Club finished their final two matches of season 1-1, defeating Connecticut College at home on April 23 but falling on the road to Trinity Saturday. In their final home match, the club dominated the Camels of Connecticut College 17-0, refusing to allow any points from the opposition. In soggy conditions at the Long Lane Field, the team jumped out to an early lead as Dave "Sexy" Delcourt '05 ran the ball in for a score.
Last week, the Wesleyan golf team competed against Williams and Amherst at the annual Little Three Competition, held this year at Williams College. Facing stiff competition from two of the best teams in the conference, the Cards finished third out of the three teams to wrap up their second to last competition of the year.
Last week, the Wesleyan golf team competed against Williams and Amherst at the annual Little Three Competition, held this year at Williams College. Facing stiff competition from two of the best teams in the conference, the Cards finished third out of the three teams to wrap up their second to last competition of the year.
The Wesleyan men's baseball team came alive at home over the weekend, sweeping a three-game set from the Hamilton Continentals. With the offense running smoothly and Wesleyan pitchers all throwing complete games, the Cardinals looked ready to compete with the best teams in the NESCAC.
On a rainy North Field, the women's lacrosse team lost an overtime heartbreaker 14-13 to Williams Saturday, continuing a streak of losses against the Ephs that stretches back to 1983. Finishing at 7-7, the Cards drew Bowdoin in the opening round of the NESCAC Tournament the next day. In Brunswick, they were unable to maintain consistent momentum and were mauled 13-6 in a season-ending loss.
BEST WOMEN’S TEAM Women's Lacrosse BEST MEN’S TEAM Men's Lacrosse BEST FEMALE ROOKIE Becca Feiden '08, Softball BEST MALE ROOKIE Grayson Connors '08, Men's Lacrosse BEST FEMALE ATHLETE Becca Vogel '05, Women's Lacrosse BEST MALE ATHLETE Jason Vitko '05, Baseball