A small group gathered Wednesday afternoon to witness the raising of eight new bells to South College’s tower. The addition adds a full octave to the instrument and brings the total number of bells in the tower to 24. This addition is significant because it converts the set from the status of a chime (22 bells or fewer) to that of a carillon (23 bells or more).
The RIDE, the campus shuttle system, underwent a reevaluation over the summer to address several issues that came up during its first year. Student confusion with the service's policies and the high financial cost of door-to-door service provided the impetus for the changes. The most significant change has been the adoption of a regular schedule with fixed stops around campus.
After appearing in Middletown Superior Court on Wednesday, all charges were dropped against Middletown Mayor Domenique Thornton. Thornton was taken into police custody on Sept. 14 under the suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Middletown Police Officer Glenn Morron claimed that the mayor was driving erratically, at one point driving in the oncoming traffic lane, and failed to stop at a stop sign.
Rachel Soriano '06 remains in critical but stable condition at Hartford Hospital. On Sept. 10, a car hit Soriano while she was attempting to cross Church Street. She has been unconscious since the accident. According to an e-mail sent to the Wesleyan community Monday by Dean of the College Maria Cruz-Saco, Soriano suffered a trauma to her brain.
To improve campus transportation, the University implemented several changes to the RIDE shuttle service this summer, including the addition of a timetable and the division of the route into two independent loops. The changes came on the heels of charges of disorganization, most notably, frequent deviation from the RIDE’s route.
It is impossible to know precisely what was expected from Whil Piavis when he was elected student body president last semester. With his pirate persona and passionate scurvy crew, student voters may have seen Piavis as a man on a mission to buck the system.
Wesleyan University has a contract with Comcast guaranteeing basic cable to all undergraduate students. If you do not have cable in your room, first there are a few things to check.
As we all know, the highly-excellent "Big Pasta Dinner" station is a main staple of any post-frosh diet, and is always really really crowded. For some inexplicable reason, however, this year the 2nd burner has disappeared. My math is a bit weak but I think that means it takes TWICE AS LONG to get pasta. And it already took, like, a million years.
While perusing the Argus on Tuesday, I became very distressed by an advertisement taken out by the paper, advocating the medium of communication (Wespeak) I am using right now. The advertisement read: "Hey '09. Remember Chalking? Of course you don't. Well you can't chalk anyway. So what's an angry frosh to do? Write a wespeak."
Bruce Springsteen is not cool. Odds are, one or both of your parents probably adore him, occasionally dusting off an old LP copy of "Born to Run" to wax nostalgically about their wayward youth. Couple that with all the droopingly reverent press he gets about being the last great American rock star, and it's almost enough to make you miss the fact that Bruce Springsteen makes astonishingly good music.
I do not like changes. I will be the first person to admit it. I have certain traditions I need to do at the beginning of each and every semester before I’m really able to settle back into school. Like accidentally driving the wrong direction down one-way streets in a futile attempt to reach Main Street. Or falling down the steps from Olin to the campus center and spilling coffee all over myself.
Margaret H. Marshall, the first female Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts gave the fifteenth annual Hugo L. Black Lecture on Freedom of Expression last Tuesday. Marshall spoke about whether the First Amendment of the American Constitution undermined judicial independence.
When the Office of Residential Life (ResLife) decided in 2003 that senior homes on Home and Lawn Avenue would be quiet houses, local residents breathed a sigh of relief. Some students predicted a hit to their social lives, but this concern seems to have died down.
If you were to accept the movie "PCU" as fact, you’d think the average student’s diet consists of beer, Easy Mac and more beer, with the occasional Cup-o-Noodles thrown in. There are many who crave something more, however, those who aren’t satisfied with the greasy but oh-so-tasty grilled cheese sandwiches from MoCon.
The Neo-Futurists are the rare troupe of actors that commands a cult following by not, in any conventional sense, acting. The wildly popular Chicago-based collective brought their dynamic style of "non-illusory theater" to the CFA last weekend with their signature show, "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind."
Anyone arriving even a minute late for Qi Liu’s piano recital was hard-pressed to find an open seat. In fact, even before she began to play her first piece, several members of the audience were already banished to the staircase or temporary folding-chairs, straining their necks to catch a glimpse of the musical master.
If you managed to walk past Crowell Concert Hall last weekend, you may have been wondering what was happening. For the uncultured and those of us still thinking inside the box, Thursday night sounded like bumblebees one minute and a car crash the next. Friday night looked like a costume party, but sounded like a bullfight.
Lydia Davis proved her gift for transforming the banal into the fascinating when she read at Russell House Wednesday evening. The audience responded most enthusiastically to a story structured as a letter of complaint about an insufficiently flattering illustration of the contents of a can of peas.
It was a tough week for the women's volleyball team. The Cardinals followed up their strong performance at the Johnson and Wales tournament with a poorer showing at NESCAC weekend at Middlebury. Against their division foes, the Lady Cards went 1-2, the lone victory a big 3-0 over Hamilton College.
The Cardinals took their first flight test on Monday and soared over the competition. The men’s tennis team knocked off Bentley, 5-1, in Middletown for their first win of the season. Max Kates ’06, the Cardinals ace, started the afternoon off in good fashion, winning a tough three-set game with his Bentley foe.
After starting their season with a 0-3 record, the women's soccer team dropped its fourth consecutive game this past Wednesday to the Pioneers of Smith College. Tri-captain Natalie Cohen '06 provided some Cardinal offense by scoring a goal in the 69th minute of play but it was too little, too late for comeback and the Pioneers went on to win 3-1.
After qualifying for the NCAA Championships last spring in the steeplechase, Owen Kiely, along with grad student Wes Fuhrman, looks to lead the men's cross country team to their first NCAA Championship appearance. Today the lovable "Uncle Owie" sits down to talk about running 85 miles a week, pull-ups in the "pit," and life in his hometown of Athol, Massachusetts.
In light of recent events, here is a list of why the Film Series dwarfs other options on campus (greatest hits).