While in the basement of 285 Court St. preparing for an upcoming renovation, Roseann Sillasen noticed a mysterious locked door. "When I had inquired to find the combination, nobody knew," Sillasen, associate director and project manager for physical plant, said. "People weren't aware that there was a vault in the basement." Sillasen called Connecticut Safe and Lock to open the vault's door.
The Undergraduate Residential Life Committee (URLC) will make a final recommendation next week about the proposal to furnish senior woodframe houses. This past Tuesday the URLC began working on a plan where the University will provide common room furniture, kitchen furniture, desks, desk chairs, and dressers. The URLC is still undecided on whether to support furnishing beds.
ResLife is amending its recently-revised pet policy for next year. The policy, which bans all pets in University housing except fish, will remain unchanged for incoming students, but will include a grandfather clause that will allow current pet owners to register for an exemption from the rule.
Professor of Law and Legal History Robert W. Gordon, a professor at Yale University and a former Newsweek journalist, spoke Monday night at Russell House. His lecture, entitled "The Past as Authority, Inspiration and Nightmare: Visions of History in Legal Argument," was part of the Spring Lecture Series organized by the Center for the Humanities.
Large metal bins where students can drop off unwanted clothes and shoes were installed Feb. 1 behind Exley Science Center as part of a fundraising project for the Nutmeg branch of Big Brothers Big Sisters. This branch of the mentoring organization works to help disadvantaged kids in much of Connecticut, including Middletown and surrounding cities.
Five Days that Made the Middle Ages. Being and Becoming Human. Doubles in Literature. Language. The 52 First Year Initiative (FYI) seminars offered this year varied from the highly specialized to the wide reaching and everything in between.
Have you ever had Saturday night sex result in Sunday morning panic? Maybe the condom broke, or maybe there never was a condom. Whatever the precursor, many college women are unsure of how to react to the possibility of an unintended pregnancy. Most women have heard of emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs), popularly known as the Morning After Pill, or Plan B.
This week saw one of my favourite celebrated days in Ireland: Pancake Tuesday. It's self-explanatory, really, but I'll elaborate anyway. Most of the world calls it Shrove Tuesday, Britain titles it 'Pancake Day' and Ireland and Australia dub it 'Pancake Tuesday'. Shrove Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent in the Christian calendar.
At their season ending contest, the men's swim team reached new heights at NESCACs. Breaking 1,000 points for the first time in school history, five relay squads and 12 individuals ascended the top-eight podium. Five Cardinals were named to the all-NESCAC team, and two swimmers achieved provisional standards for D-III nationals.
I saw Barry Bonds in drag on ESPN the other day, and yeah, I thought it was pretty damn gross. But this is a guy that has been vilified in the media his whole career, a guy that's been blasted for being aloof and surly since his skinny days as a Pirates leadoff hitter. And now he's showing a lighter side, joking with his teammates and not taking himself as seriously as he usually does.
Tension ran high last Sunday in the Wesleyan Arena. Yellow and pink shirts could be spotted throughout the Freeman Athletic Center. After a series of games that began in November, it was finally time for the Intramural Basketball Championships. With the pressure on and eternal intramural glory on the line, Wesleyan's non-varsity ballers brought their best dunks, freshest looks, and nastiest trash talking to the hardwood.
In 2005, the St. Louis Cardinals won 100 games and ran away with the NL Central title. Look for the Cardinals to achieve similar success in 2006. With a deep pitching staff headlined by last years Cy Young Winner, Chris Carpenter, and a deep lineup that features perennial MVP candidate Albert Pujols, the Cardinals look primed to return to their second World Series in the last three years.
As we approach Selection Sunday, here are a couple issues that have stood out this season in college basketball, as well as what to look for come tournament time.
This past weekend, All-American Ben Byers '07 showed why he is one of the top swimmers in the NESCACs with his performance at the conference tournament. Not only did Byers repeat as NESCAC champion in the 1000 yard freestyle, but he also finished second in the 1650 free and placed third in the 500 free to pick up three top three finishes.
In recent years Wesleyan housing has undergone major changes, from the renovations to Clark Hall to the introduction of the prototype senior houses. Unfortunately many of the existing senior houses have been left out of the renovations, leaving students with cracked windowpanes, peeling paint, and ancient kitchen appliances for their final year at Wes.
The other night, I had two dreams. In the first one, I was Lee Harvey Oswald. In the second one, I was a hausfrau. Is it surprising that I was more scared by the second dream? Granted, any dream where you shoot the 35th President of the United States of America is suggestive of deep psychological issues that are better off left unconfronted.
It appears as though my point was lost on the majority of you all. My 2/24 Wespeak was not designed to attack ALL Muslims; in fact, I mentioned TWICE that that was not my intention (I even mentioned that I knew many would ignore that point). However, when one is discussing a particular group of people, the use of "generalizations" is often necessary.
1 The World is all that is the case. … 2 It is the case that to write a vacuous narcissistic Wespeak is the functional equivalent of urinating on one's self publicly. … 2.01 A vacuous narcissistic Wespeak can be understood as one full of invective rant but without a discernible point. … 2.011 Omni-directional criticism, no matter how witty, by definition has no central message.
In his editorial, Matt DiBlasi calls Evan's "an opinion with some valid points." He represents some of Carp's claims with an eye to making them seem more plausible. Yet, even this less overtly outrageous commentary on the recent violence is deeply flawed.
While the outpouring of responses to Evan Carp's February 24 Wespeak is unsurprising, the uniformity of the responses is. I thought opposing bigotry was a core Wesleyan value? Maybe not anymore.
Bea: In your recent Wespeak you make it quite clear that, in your opinion, Evan Carp's heinous, offensive Wespeak should not have been published. Would you rather that he continue to carry those opinions around without having to face the (let me count) fourteen Wespeaks condemning his bigoted views?
All of this talk of the Moslem hordes and their barbarous violence seems, in my mind, to ignore the far more pressing issue facing civility - I am speaking, of course, of the brutal and promiscuous ways of the Austro-Aboriginal Man.
In the past two years, the nefarious HPV ridden tentacles of facebook.com have seduced our guilty social-seeking consciences comparable to the Fischer-Price section of WalMart attracting single 55 year-old convicted sex offender recess aids named Bruce. You're probably saying to yourself, "Wait a minute, that's not true. Facebook isn't that bad. I mean, it doesn't have sex with little kids. Or does it?"
It is, indeed, Matt, an important revelation that you were the one to choose the headline for Evan Carp's Feb. 24 Wespeak, "Question Islamic Radicals." I completely support your decision to publish Carp's opinion, but your choice of headline is more significant than you make it seem.
Although the past week saw a number of positive steps taken towards providing meaningful security for the people of the Darfur region of Western Sudan, the United States has failed to use its month-long presidency of the United Nations (UN) Security Council to use that opportunity to gain support for new international action to address the ongoing genocide in this troubled region.
Those who say that Wespeaks like Evan Carp's should not be printed are totally ridiculous. This is especially true because many, many Americans (unfortunately more than we are willing to admit) who feel the way Carp does, associate Islam with terrorism, and have pejorative views of many Arab states in general.
The end of NESCAC Swimming Championships on Sunday marked an end to the careers of five members of the Wesleyan Swim Team. During their time on the team our record improved from 2-11 the year before their freshman year to 12-4 this year, and moved from 9th to 4th at our conference meet over the same time period.
We, the owners of WesWings, are writing in response to the recent Wespeak submitted by the people of the Chinese-Indian-Jewish alliance (and perhaps some mix thereof). We considered your argument and have concluded that our choice of menu description for the "Oriental Ginger Chicken" was an egregious oversight, though not intentional.
Dear Argus, How is it possible that with less than 3 months left at Wesleyan, Adam Gomolin has yet to be a WesCeleb. I mean seriously - is there anyone at this school who does not know who Adam Gomolin is? Please right this injustice. Thank you.
There wasn't much room to dance in Eclectic's main room, but the crowd was still able to enjoy Orquestra Fiebre's reunion show on Saturday night. The student salsa band, which had performed Afro-Cuban music for crowds of up to 400, disbanded last semester because of the graduation of most of its members.
n discussing this year's Oscars, it's become increasingly in vogue to characterize the nominees with such adjectives as "small" and "serious intent." These very phrases, in fact, were lifted directly from The New York Times Arts section the day after the Academy's morning announcement.
As a part of Ujamaa's Black History Month events, the group welcomed Yvette Heyliger and her cast with their presentation of "What Would Jesus Do?: The Play" in WestCo café. The story revolves around a minister's wife, Mrs. Wilson, whose exposure to HIV through her husband leads her to address the issues of HIV/AIDS in her community.
"Sign language, like spoken language, has opportunities for poetry and play," said Naomi Ekperigin '05. Ekperigin, Pinky Aiello, and Chris DeSouza are actors in the Little Theatre of the Deaf, the children's branch of the National Theatre of the Deaf (NTD).
Felt the temperature rise under your collar because of what that silly Carp boy said? Here is the definitive statement on Evan Carp: he will never get laid at Wesleyan again. Luckily, we have chicken soup for your discursive soul this Friday with "Paradise Now," a humanizing take on suicide bombing that will stimulate healthy discussion on all sides of the political spectrum.
Eiko Otake often uses the word "infiltrate" to describe her work with the Center for Creative Research, and for good reason. The CCR, established at Wesleyan just last year, is slowly but surely developing into an important resource for students and professors who wish to explore the applications of art in academia and vice versa.
Artist Ellen Levy presented a slide show on Tuesday as a closure to her exhibit in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. A part of the Samuel L. Silipo '85 Distinguished Visitor lecture series, Levy discussed her ongoing career as an artist who has embraced science as a creative source.
Thornton Wilder, oh how I have misjudged you! Apparently "Our Town" is not a worthy representation of your abilities. "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," a senior thesis written and adapted from Wilder's novel of the same name by Rebecca Josue '06 was performed last weekend in the '92 Theater. The fact that Josue's thesis managed to change my perspective on Wilder says quite a bit about the quality of her production.