Michael Roth ’78 has been selected as Wesleyan’s next president, the University announced Monday. Roth, currently the president of California College of the Arts (CCA), will become the University’s 16th president effective in May.
With Michael Roth ’78 announced as incoming president, the campus is cautiously celebrating the choice of an academic candidate and reflecting on the occasionally controversial legacy of departing president Doug Bennet. Though at present most only have an initial impression of Roth, his long intellectual background in art, history, and psychology has given many people high hopes for an era focused on core academic issues.
The women's indoor track team sent only one of its members, Ellen Davis '07, to the NCAA Division III Championships in Terre Haute, Indiana on March 9-10, and she returned to Middletown as a national champion.
The question on everyone's minds since the announcement of the new president on Monday has been: "What will he be like?" Michael Roth has been selected as the next University president, and everyone wants to know. We can venture a few guesses.
To Whom it May Concern in the Wesleyan Community: I write to bring to your attention the recent decision of Davidson College in North Carolina, which announced on Monday, March 19th, 2007 that it would be eliminating student loans from all of its future financial-aid packages. Although there will be a significant financial responsibility for the college, Davidson will help students with financial need pay costs by providing only grants and jobs, starting in August.
Right now, I am sitting in the kitchen of my rather small apartment unit on Court Street, wondering how I will get the five hundred plus pages of reading for my four midterms done in the next three days. My rather poor work ethic these days is not something that I can completely attribute to my lack of planning.
Hey seniors. The first round of results for the Do it In the Dark competition is in. Remember, whichever house reduces its energy usage the most this semester will get $40 per person for a night out on the town, at the establishment of their choice.
Ed Klein frequently writes some of the most amusing articles in the Argus, totally overshadowing the Ampersand in my opinion. His piece "A la Mode" following Valentines Day absolutely had me, and I'm sure most other students at the campus, chuckling at the tongue-in-cheek potshots at fashion at Wesleyan. Yes, I know some of you may have been taken aback by his tearing your fashion sense a new one, but you must have realized from the first paragraph, the first sentence, that all of it was a joke, and went on your merry way.
Since the week of May 11th, 2003, chalking has been banned at Wesleyan University. This ban was the result of a contentious battle, fought on the pavement by a group of students looking suspiciously like a Crayola street marketing team. The dispute with the administration was so epic, it was covered by the New York Times. But this fight was just a big cloudy smokescreen hiding the reality; the slow death of an American institution. Won't somebody think of the foursquare?
Hey look, the new president is another old white Academy insider, what a surprise. And oh look, a long catalogue of dry sounding academic achievements. Actually, this one’s fine. At least he went to Wesleyan in the 70’s when it was a pretty cool place, not in the 60’s when it was still old-boy, old-money frats-and-football, like when Dougie B was here.
Thank you for the story on the CCP’s First Friday Forum last week. I write to offer a clarification about a quote that was attributed to me. While I did, in fact, say "If you don’t get involved in your community, you’re just passing through," I directly prefaced the sentence by noting that it was first uttered by one of my co-panelists, Mark Masselli, during his commencement address to graduating students at Middlesex Community College a few years ago.
Lost Black Samsung/Spting cell phone found by student who called me last week. Please return to Regan Schubel at The Wesleyan Fund at 164 Mt. Vernon St, or call (860) 685-2253. Thanks!
Dear Wesleyan: We are tremendously satisfied today. Although we as an institution struggle with inequalities and are often mired by constant contradictions, we are taking steps toward bettering ourselves. As you have now heard, the board of trustees has unanimously selected Michael Roth as the 16th president of Wesleyan University.
Tyrannously I scorch the air With a roaring solar flare. Deadly, though not in silence, Rated PG-13 for violence
Responds To: "Bike". Last Seen: In a ditch near Nic 7. Value: Sentimental.
Please don’t take away the New York Times.
To all of you very talented Wesleyan performers, I am honored to inform each and every one of you of a fabulous performance space located in our Middletown neighborhood: The Buttonwood Tree.
For local bookstore owner Stu Hecht, the choice between his store and nearby book-selling chain stores Barnes & Noble and Borders literally comes down to a matter of taste. "Here [in Connecticut], we are the meat between two pieces of white bread," Hecht said.
Information Technology Services (ITS) is currently making changes to ensure that the University's network and internet access are exempt from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations that seek to make it easier for law enforcement agencies to wiretap electronic sources.
HiRise and LoRise residents had to shiver and grit their teeth while taking their morning showers this past Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday mornings, due to mechanical complications in the water heaters. "This was something we couldn’t predict," said Assistant Director of Mechanical Trades at Physical Plant Mike Conte. "But we got lucky when it came to fixing this kind of problem. On other occasions it usually takes days and days."
In addition to celebrating the achievements of the class of 2007, the University's 175th Commencement will include a ceremony recognizing five individuals who, in the words of Vice President of the University and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Peter Patton, "meet our standards."
College of Social Studies (CSS) alumnus Jonathan Bush ’92, a leader in the medical and insurance fields, credits Wesleyan as the training ground for his rhetorical ability. As the President and CEO of AthenaHealth Services, a consulting firm that helps private practices with claims processing and office organization, Bush has helped hundreds of firms streamline their operations, learning in the process how to appease stubborn doctors and legalistic claims adjusters alike.
While many of their peers boarded planes bound for home or warmer locations, a number of Wesleyan students opted to spend their spring breaks a little less traditionally. For those students who chose to do volunteer work in places like Nicaragua, El Salvador, and New Orleans, there was no kicking back after the midterm crunch. Instead, these students traveled to far away places to work odd jobs, form lasting relationships, and stand in solidarity alongside those confronted daily with every brand of adversity.
On Monday, Wesleyan students all over campus logged into their Webmail accounts to find an e-mail announcing the selection of new University president, Michael Roth. The e-mail included a link to his biography, with his picture.
Before leaving for break I was thinking about cool, trendy cities on the East coast that begin with the letter "M." After eliminating Macon, GA (because it's about as cool as Providence, RI), I was left with Middletown and Miami. I stopped in sunny south Florida for three days to compare the two metropolises before heading to South America for cultural enrichment (and advantageous exchange rates).
Lola Pellegrino '08 leads an exciting life. When not working at a haunted Providence sex shop or as a Love Detective, she fills her time with major surgeries, knight-filled comas, and BDSM seminars. And if you see her wearing an eye patch, you'll know that you've seen her alter-ego: Lola Dam Sorrow.
Who says Ibsen is all about bourgeois anguish in tastefully arranged sitting parlors? Directed with seemingly boundless energy and invention by Assistant Professor of Theater Yuriy Kordonskiy, "Peer Gynt," written by the revered playwright before his classic forays into psychological realism such as "A Doll's House" and "Hedda Gabler," burst with a giddy, infectious life that proved Ibsen to be as fantastically imaginative as he is emotionally perceptive. Kordonskiy's production lifted the audience up on a wave of theatrical ingenuity as wonderfully entertaining as it was thematically germane.
French chamber ensemble Trio Saxiana performed on March 4th in Crowell Concert Hall, playing world premieres of recently composed pieces by contemporary composers, including the University's own Professor of Music Neely Bruce. The ensemble consists of two saxophone players, Olivier Besson and Nicolas Prost, and piano player Laurent Wagschal.
Name of Band: Belly Boat Band Members: Silvie Margot Deutsch ’09, Zoe Ruth Cusmus Latta (Rhode Island School of Design ’08)
Name of group: Quasimodal, no, not Quasimodo, we ain’t no bell ringers, shoot.
Students packed the Zilkha Gallery lecture room on March 6 to hear the Silipo art series lecturer, Tom Sachs, discuss his work. Sachs described how he mixes viewing, doing, and consuming in his work, fueled by his belief that the relationship between consumers and shopping can be characterized as an almost religious experience.
Hark back, if you can, to before students fled New England to hit the beach. Eddie Palmieri came to town with his band, La Perfecta II, and made the sold-out audience at Crowell Concert Hall forget about the freezing winter and midterms with a few hours of very fine Latin jazz. Prior to the concert, Palmieri discussed his origins and the development of his music in a pre-concert gathering at the World Music Hall.
Spring has sprung, students are starting to gravitate towards Foss Hill, and love is in the air. What better way to celebrate all this excitement than by heading over to the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery and checking out the Senior Thesis exhibitions in the Art Studio program of the Department of Art and Art History?
Over spring break, the baseball team was hard at work, kicking off the season with a bicoastal thirteen-game road trip. The Cards traveled south to Georgia for the first five games of the trip, after which they traveled to California for the remaining eight. The team started slow, going 3-6 in the first nine games of the season before picking it up, sweeping a three-game series with UMass-Dartmouth before falling to the Division III powerhouse, Chapman University.
Eager to establish itself as a team to be reckoned with, the men's crew team traveled to Winter Park, Florida to compete in the Rollins Spring Break Race on Lake Maitland. Taking on Jacksonville, Georgia, and Rollins, the Cardinal rowers turned in strong performances in both the eight and four-man events.
The golf team opened its 2007 campaign in Florida with an impressive first outing. David Velardo ’08 started the spring season in fashion by shooting the lowest round not only of his career but the lowest round in Wesleyan history.
The women’s tennis team swept the competition during its spring break trip to Florida, going 6-0 in Orlando, including an exhibition win, to improve its overall record to 7-3.
Monday afternoon the men's lacrosse team put on an offensive and defensive clinic against Western Connecticut State University en route to an 18-1 victory. On the attacking side of the field, 11 different players found the back of net, with six scoring multiple goals.
After a difficult 2006 season, the women's crew team opens its 2007 season Saturday with a race against the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and the College of Holy Cross.