Just one year ago, the future of 88.1 FM WESU was uncertain. Since then, the station has reorganized its board of directors, integrated National Public Radio (NPR) programming without completely abandoning its "Free Form" roots, and hired a full-time General Manager. This week, the station’s notable turnaround is exemplified by its first ever on-air pledge drive.
Students met with University trustees November 11 in a forum designed to encourage open and transparent dialogue. The meeting resulted in a thorough discussion of several issues proposed by students that board members responded to directly. A lengthy portion of the meeting centered on the establishment of an Endowment Advisory Committee (EAC).
On Monday, Nov. 21, Sergeant Andrew Sapp, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), spoke at the Zilkha Gallery about his experiences in the military and in Iraq. While serving in Iraq, he became disaffected with the conduct and justness of the war and felt compelled to speak out.
Last Thursday, University members, Middletown citizens, and representatives from the Oasis Wellness Center held a vigil to commemorate World AIDS Day. The vigil's attendees first gathered in Olin's lobby to listen to speeches that ranged from discussions of the AIDS cause, personal accounts of illness, and poetry of HIV positive Middletown residents.
According to Paul Chill '78, law school is commonly cited as an ideal follow-up to a liberal arts education because it accommodates so many academic concentrations. Chill, associate dean of academic affairs and professor at UConn Law, made this case in the Butterfield C Lounge last Thursday during a discussion entitled, "How to Prep, Survive and Excel in Law School."
To understand the wonder that is Eric Wdowiak, you should understand that I've seen him naked. As the star of Jordan Schulkin '06's senior thesis film, for which I am the assistant director, Eric's been through a lot: doused in fake blood and pus, stuck with acupuncture needles and glass shards, and forced to wear a man-thong for a sex scene.
That was probably the most impolite request for an apology I have ever read in my life. To accuse Wesleyan of systematic disdain for the Middletown community is committing exactly the same act of which you are accusing us! You systematically categorize us the same way you accuse us of systematically categorizing you.
One of the finest institutions created in the United States is the pick-up basketball game. For one hundred and fifty years "pick-up ball" has offered men and women of all ages, races and religions a venue to lay their differences aside and enjoy a common game. Unfortunately, the opportunity to partake in this national, urban pastime has been denied to me and the thirty-some other regular players due to the start of the indoor javelin season.
Firstly let us introduce a revolutionary concept with delicious consequences. We assume you must all be familiar with the myriad benefits of foods on sticks. But you may not have known that those fine people at Morningstar Farms finally figured out a way to make Meatless corn dogs!
Argus, Sept. 30, 2005: "’I enjoyed Professor Potter’s discussion of the power of the conservative movement in pressuring Reagan to implement legislation,’ said Namrata Kotwani ’06. ’It showed how scary conservatives are.’" The student was alluding to your lecture, "The Sexual Counterrevolution: Women, Children and the Crime of Pornography," in which you referred to persistent calls on President Reagan by Christian conservatives to have pornography criminalized.
This message is for Elissa Gross, Jason Harris, and all others who suggested in Wespeaks or in WSA emails that more lighting be added to the Observatory Circle. How do you think East Asian studies would feel if a device were installed in the Language Lab that generated a loud, piercing, high-pitched noise at all times?
The beginning of the season for men's basketball has gone as expected. It is a team full of young talent, and has looked spectacular at times and lowly at others. Through the completion of three early season tournaments, it finds itself 4-4 and improving steadily. The Cards started their season in the Courtyard by Marriott Tip-Off Tournament.
Injuries and growing pains encompassed an improving men's wrestling team this past weekend at the R.I.T. Invitational in Rochester, N.Y. The Cardinals finished the day with only nine points and a disappointing 17th place finish in a field of 18 teams.
The men's and women's track and field team kicked off its first of four home meets this weekend with some excellent early season performances. While most of the distance squad was resting on Saturday after their dominant cross-country season, the sprinters had been training all fall and were ready to race.
The men's hockey team is off to a promising start for a young team looking to improve from last season's poor record. After opening the season with losses to Amherst and Hamilton in overtime, the Cardinals hosted and defeated nationally ranked Trinity College in the opening round of the Spurrier tournament 6-3.
It’s cold out. Like, real cold. For those of you Frosh from Florida gearing up for your first New England winter, a few words of advice.
Along with the annual canonical cage match that pits Chanukah, Kwanzaa, and Christmas against one another in a veritable bout to the faithful finish, an additional holiday of epic ecclesiastical proportions has thrown its yarmulke/kitenge head wrap/Abercrombie knit cap with ear flaps into the godly gauntlet: I-Am-Furiously-Unequivocally-Crippled-due-to-Knuckleheaded-Educational-Decisions Day, established by the sophomores of Wesleyan University.
Kwanzaa is right around the corner, and you may be asking yourself "How do I celebrate Kwanzaa? It seems really hard. Also, I'm white." Well, don't you worry about it. Kwanzaa is not as hard as one may think. Here are a few quick tips on how you can have a truly kick-ass Kwanzaa. And I promise the rest of the white people won't look at you funny.
What up, pimp-hammers! Big Man gonna lay some knowledge on all y'all! Or, in other words, hi, how are you? I'd like to tell you about my semester away from Wesleyan. I worked at Guitar Center, which is a fun-loving, warm-hearted transnational music-retail corporation.
For me, the one enjoyable part of the holidays is the notion of a "Christmas Miracle--" but there are too many misconceptions shrouding the idea. Having your picture taken at a mall with an imitation Santa who gets his jollies by having pre-pubescent kids sit on his lap is most certainly not a miracle. It's just creepy.
To wake up on campus Thanksgiving morning was to wake up in a ghost town, a campus covered in a uniform snow broken only by the distinct footprints of a certain Public Safety officer's boot. Had Lagu Androga '07, an RA who remained on campus, been on duty, he would have pushed the total number of RAs on duty between all 156 High, 200 Church, and all of the Butterfields to 2.
The new gym is a fortress. After scanning your card about 4 times, submitting to both the retinal and fingerprint scan, you feel like you are entering some glorious, top-secret government workout facility. The gym aficionados are now aptly rewarded for their perseverance with high ceilings, spacious rooms, skylights, TVs, the glorious smell of industrial strength cleansers, and enough machines to make even the most reluctant gym-goer thrilled to work out.
The other day I had a job interview in a nearby town. I was reluctant to go because it felt like the first step toward compromising my life plan, which is to avoid a conventional career path by having as many odd adventures as I can. But after two months of driving around the country alone, and one month waiting tables at home, it seemed like the thing to do.
I don't ask for much when going out for pizza. But somehow Gianni’s pizzeria was unable to satisfy even my lowest expectations. With a gruff waiter and slow and jerky service, the food should be worth it all. But except for the stuffed bread, it just wasn't. Fortunately, there was fun music playing on the radio, which helped to liven the scene as our waiter forgot one of our orders, a large pizza.
Going into reading week last year, it seemed like 88.1 FM WESU might be nothing but static when we returned from winter break. What a difference a year makes as WESU's current on-air pledge drive shows. The drive aims to make the station self-sustaining, and is both a commendable achievement for the organization's restructuring and an admirable goal for the future of WESU.
(U-WIRE) LINCOLN, Neb. - Your neck hairs are standing up as your eyes dart from side to side scanning your surroundings. And that's during the daytime when the darkness is not adding yet another level of risk to your across-campus commutes.
I've never been one for nostalgia. At least not any more than the next guy. Granted, I like telling stories about past escapades from time to time, but that's not nostalgia, that's storytelling. And yes, I also occasionally exaggerate and outright lie. But nostalgia is much more than all that; nostalgia is a palpable longing for the past.
Barbara, thank you for your email notification. Could you explain to me how giving a donation to Wesleyan would benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina for which the legislation is named? Will Wesleyan be forwarding all donations given under the auspices of this legislation to a charity helping Katrina victims?
Dear ResLife, I’m a molecular biology major so I normally leave the writing to people who know what they’re doing. But, I’m really pissed off—enough that I don’t care about all the grammatical mistakes I’m making in this letter.
As exam period looms, the time we are relegated to seats in front of computer screens increases. This bind to machinery, to the indoors, to the internet has become characteristic of my winters. I become simultaneously repulsed and fascinated by the pervasiveness of this new age culture.
I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship.
There a few things in this world that I think of as soft. These include, but are not limited to: New Ro, Sirlin, and ice cream. Last year one could procure soft serve ice cream at any time betwixt 8 and 8. Now, never. That's right, at least on this campus. Don't get me wrong, MoCon ice cream is alright, but nothing beats some first class Colombo.
On Aug. 31, just before this school year began, a major demonstration took place on New York University's campus in Greenwich Village. Cheered on by a crowd of more than five-hundred, seventy-six people were arrested for blocking the entrance to NYU's Bobst Library in civil disobedience.
In response to Ms. Goldblatt's Wespeak, "Sexism still not addressed," we would like to say that yes there are underlying stereotypes present in some party setting but to answer Ms. Goldblatt's question: "What if I were to host a 'Birth of a Nation' themed party, where I asked guests to either dress in blackface or in white sheets. Would this cease to be offensive if I included beer and claimed that it was 'fun'?"
Over the past few weeks, the men's and women's swimming and diving kicked off their competitive season after a fall of serious training. In their first three competitions, both teams have gone 1-1 in dual meets and both won the Cardinal Invitational against Bentley, Brandeis and MIT.
Despite a few tough losses at the start of the season, the women's hockey team defeated a strong Hamilton College squad in NESCAC play this past weekend. The first game of the season against Trinity College was a hard-fought 2-1 loss. The second pair of games against Amherst College was the start of a series of away games that will last until mid-January.
After earning a trip to the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA tournament, the women's basketball team is 2-3 this season, after some tough early season matches against non-conference teams. The team kicked off its season in the Tip-Off Tournament at Marymount University in Virginia. In the first game, the Cardinals faced a strong Gettysburg College team.