University Relations has organized a series of alumni receptions across the country to celebrate the tenure of President Doug Bennet and his wife Midge in their last year on campus.
With the end of the fall semester days away, the Presidential Search Committee finds itself on-schedule and anticipating its workload for the spring, including the first round of interviews for President Doug Bennet's successor.
It was the evening of Oct. 14, 1969, and two frosh stood before the Douglas Cannon, mounted on its brownstone pedestal between South College and the Chapel. Using a jack and electric saw, they freed the cannon from its pedestal and loaded it into a car headed for the White House.
When Thea De Armond '09 went to her kitchen in 344 Wash. (formerly Film House) one morning to have a waffle, she found one missing from the freezer she shares with her housemates. After searching the house, she discovered, sitting on top of the trash, a waffle with a single bite taken out of it.
Sarah E. Lazare began work Monday as the University's new Associate Dean for Student Academic Resources.
Biology Professors Janice Naegele and Laura Grabel, in collaboration with Assistant Professor of Biology Gloster Aaron, have recently received grants supporting stem-cell research and will use the money to build a state center for stem-cell research, as well as to fund neurological studies on the treatment of epilepsy.
Participating in the annual United Way fall fundraising campaign, the University has collected $119,000 since November, but remains short of its $143,000 goal.
Here's a sad fact—I have over five boxes of crap sitting in my basement. These boxes are filled with Wesleyan items I never unloaded. Every day I go through these trinkets and relive memories of things that once happened or cringe at my stupid behavior, but I can't bring myself to lighten my load.
In an e-mail sent to the University community on Dec. 7, Dean of the College Maria Cruz-Saco announced the creation of a Campus Climate Log to document acts of intolerance and inform the campus.
It's hard to say what Hunter King '08 is best known for on campus. Is it his winning personality? His involvement in New Orleans relief work? His radio show? Odds are, for some of you, that it's due in large part to his laugh. Regardless, for the ultimate in collisions of worlds and vocal tones, next Thursday night, Doug Bennet will be making a guest appearance on Hunter King's surf music radio show. So tune in. It's unclear whether or not blood will be involved.
When Arshad Chowdhury '98 was working as an investment banker a few years ago, he noticed that many of his sleep-deprived colleagues were in need of a nap. Desperate for a few minutes of sleep, Chowdhury and his coworkers found creative places to catch a few winks.
This is my last column of the year and my last column for a very long time. So, let's reflect on 2006. Oh, good old 2006, you're the year in which I learned too much. I thank a dangerous combination. Take the advent of TMZ and the popularity of YouTube and couple it with the rise in quality and popularity of video phones, and lo and behold, anything and everything is free and accessible on the Internet.
As you know, it's getting to be that season and, not to be too demanding, we came up with a Holiday Wish List:
Amos Elberg's response to Alison Weir did nothing but make pointless accusations which only hinder dialogue. Such global statements as, "advocates for the Palestinians abjure both fact and logic" is wholly inappropriate, untrue, and exactly the attitude that makes impossible any real peace talk or dialogue between moderates on both sides.
My good friend Tarek Sami's Wespeak in the last issue of the Argus addresses a very serious topic with the characteristic brilliance of his caustic tongue-in-cheek levity. I do not possess Tarek's verbal gifts and as such my response will seem unnecessarily dour. Yet I write it because I feel misrepresented by his swipe, as though I've been lumped together with a different sort of phantom.
Ms. Tawil's December 5, 2006, Wespeak is very cute. She does not deny that the Grand Mufti was a Nazi who recruited Palestinians for the Waffen SS; she does not deny that Palestinian nationalism has its intellectual roots in Nazism; she does not deny that Alison Weir is anti-Semitic; she does not deny that journalists broadcast Palestinians literally dancing in the streets on September 11, 2001.
Dear fellow Cards: Do you ever wonder why it is that those e-mails from Maria Cruz-Saco address issues of racist rhetoric or racial insensitivity, yet they are extremely vague about exactly what was written or said?
On failing to be properly apotropaic: if consciousness is both irremediable hypostasis (Nietzsche calls metaphor a "full jump into another sphere" and Lacan speaks of the invasion of the signified by the signifier- opposite moments of the hypostasis) then it is also apostasy.
Among the features of the Wesleyan experience that we students like to gloat about is our unwavering dedication to truth, tolerance and open-mindedness. Wesleyan is supposed to be an institution where the "weird" among us are free to express themselves, to feel safe and engage their peers in intellectual and civilized debates on the issues—politics, gender, sexuality, religion, morality, art, etc. That sounds nice, doesn't it?
On Saturday night I attended a house party where a Wesleyan student was asked to leave by two fellow students at the party. This student holds politically controversial opinions and is known for being vocal about them on campus, and presumably was asked to leave because his presence was personally offensive to these students.
The Terpsichore dance concert last Saturday night concluded a three-day run of sold-out performances. The broad range of choreography touched upon a diversity of styles, from avant-garde modernism to crowd-pleasing fun.
On Monday night, Crowell Concert Hall felt more like a Southern Revivalist Church than a performance hall in a Northeastern college as Pastor Marichal Bryan Monts led the Ebony Singers through a dynamic and moving Gospel performance.
A midnight screening of cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" went up spectacularly in the CFA cinema last Thursday. The show began with the classic pre-show virgin initiation.
The Wesleyan Wind Ensemble performed a repertoire of modern movie soundtracks at Crowell Concert Hall last Tuesday. The concert, entitled "WesWinds Goes to the Movies," showcased the energy and talent of the ensemble, who performed the pieces in all their grandeur.
Music lovers filled Crowell Concert Hall this past Friday, ready for the first concert of the weekend-long musical celebration, "Festival of the American Piano." The festival consisted of Friday and Saturday evening performances, an open piano master class, a Saturday afternoon concert, and a festival keynote, given by Joseph Horowitz, which briefly contextualized the piano in the history of American music.
"Can one desire too much of a good thing?" inquires Rosalind, the heroine of Shakespeare's timeless "As You Like It." We at the Arts Section think not. Therefore, here's a sampling of Professor Gay Smith's sumptuous take on the Bard's classic tale of mistaken identities and all-conquering love. The lavish production went up last month at the CFA Theater.
"Mary and Myra," Catherine Filloux's two-person dramatization of the fight by lawyer Myra Bradwell to release Mary Todd Lincoln from an insane asylum following President Lincoln's assassination, received an impassioned reading last Saturday at the Patricelli '92 Theater.
"Mary and Myra," Catherine Filloux’s two-person dramatization of the fight by lawyer Myra Bradwell to release Mary Todd Lincoln from an insane asylum following President Lincoln’s assassination, received an impassioned reading last Saturday at the Patricelli ’92 Theater.
The women's basketball got back on track with a 67-60 victory over the Coast Guard Academy on Tuesday in New London. Ali Fourney '09 led the way with 17 points as the Cards improved their record to 3-2 on the season.
Hopes to improve on last year's tie with Holy Cross turned into a disappointing loss for the women's hockey team Tuesday evening at the Spurrier-Snyder rink. Two well-executed goals, the first by Julia Kazmers '08 and the second by Adrienne Shea '08, were not enough to combat increasingly faulty play, and the Cardinals ended with a harsh 6-2 loss.
The men's basketball team struggled down the stretch of two games this week, dropping close decisions to City College of New York, 86-83, and Hamilton College, 79-76. The Cards led in the late stages of both match-ups, but it was their opponents who were able to hit clutch buckets in the waning minutes.
Since this is my last column until second semester, I wanted to spread the holiday spirit to a struggling team, a struggling GM, and one of my favorite teams at Wesleyan.
Nick Pelletier ’08, Nikki Maletta ’08, David Layne ’10, Julia Kazmers ’08, Dan deLalla ’07, Robert Broadfoot ’10, Casey Simchik ’10, Dave Wilkinson ’09, and Kate Krems ’08 are featured.