Amid the barrage of news reports and speculation surrounding the deaths of the 32 individuals at Virginia Tech, members of the University community came together on Wednesday for a candlelight vigil in memory of the victims of the tragedy. Several dozen students and faculty and staff gathered on the steps of Olin Library at 7 p.m., where speakers and audience members were invited to share their thoughts.
In a bid to bring spending under control, the University has instituted a five-year plan to streamline the library acquisitions budget, a $3.3 million fund used to maintain and add journal subscriptions and purchase books. The University started by not raising this year’s budget, effectively a $115,000 cut, and getting rid of two library staff positions.
Campus Fire Safety, under heat from students and the Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) regarding stringent new regulations, has responded. Beginning next year, students charged with safety violations will be able to appeal their fines through a board and may also lower or eliminate their fines by attending one-hour fire safety seminars.
Even while many students remained suspicious of Richard Blumenthal's personal record on the environment, the Connecticut attorney general spoke last Wednesday as part of the Earth Day Keynote Address. The lecture coincided with 1,400 separate events across the country that addressed ways to curb the global increase in carbon dioxide emissions.
Lisa Chedekel '82 was a recent finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting. Chedekel was nominated, along with fellow Harford Courant staff writer Matthew Kauffman, for a four-part exposé that revealed deficiencies in the U.S. military's mental health system in Iraq and triggered a swift congressional response.
Hidden in the twists and turns of the halls of the Exley Science Center lies the Office of Graduate Student Services. Just as the office is out of sight, graduate students remain out of mind for many undergraduates on campus. According to Director of Graduate Student Services Marina Melendez, there are about 200 students enrolled in graduate programs on campus.
Close your eyes and imagine you are in paradise: palm trees, the sound of the ocean a few feet away, soft sand, maybe you are lying in a hammock while a cool breeze grazes your face. It is warm and beautiful. Despite how perfect this scene may sound right now, many students have chosen to leave Hawaii to attend Wesleyan University.
The Class of '11 consisted of 45 men and four women, who hailed from all corners of the East Coast, from Waterville, Maine to Montclair, New Jersey. No, this is not the class of 2011. It is the Class of 1911, the 100-year-old ancestor of next year's Wesleyan class. When the Class of '11 arrived on campus in the fall of 1907, older students and faculty remarked at the unusually small size of the class.
Mike Bolds '08 told us he was surprised he was going to be a WesCeleb. As an RA, a tutor at Traverse Square, an exhibited artist in Skittles (an annual student of color show that debuted this year), a performer in "Invisible Man," and with a thesis already in development, we were surprised he hadn't been one sooner.
Mike Bolds ’08 told us he was surprised he was going to be a WesCeleb. As an RA, a tutor at Traverse Square, an exhibited artist in Skittles (an annual student of color show that debuted this year), a performer in "Invisible Man," and with a thesis already in development, we were surprised he hadn’t been one sooner.
Today marks the first day of WesFest and with this wacky weekend naturally comes 4/20, the collegiate day of consumption. But unlike years past, the Wesleyan student body’s ability to intimidate prospective students and their parents may be hindered on account of the wet weather
In last week’s issue, both Matt DiBlasi and David Knappenberger, in response to Kevin Young and SEWI’s Wespeak "Why Does Wesleyan Invest in Weapons Contractors?" argue that more weapons must be produced in order to defend the U.S.
Originally, I was not very inclined to engage this debate, though I find it exceptionally compelling. This is partly because I think all those involved, on both sides of the issue, have brought legitimate arguments, some of which have been very persuasive. As a matter of fact, I do not think either side can claim a complete victory in this debate.
Yet again, you revert to the typical Wesleyan fashion of speaking down to those whom you disagree with and lecturing them with your clearly superior intelligence (break out your dictionaries, seriously?) You make a legitimate point in some cases. Weapons are not desirable things. Yet I never ADVOCATED weapons.
WesFest is here, and many prospective students aware of The Princeton Review’s ranking of Wesleyan among schools where "students ignore God on a regular basis." I would like to briefly share—with the Wesleyan community and this weekend’s visitors—my personal faith in Jesus Christ and how being at Wesleyan has strengthened my faith.
WesPeace, an organization of Wesleyan students, faculty and staff that has opposed a military solution in Iraq since long before the war began in March 2003, will welcome Ned Lamont to campus this Monday. Lamont's bid for the U.S. Senate in the last election did not win him a six-year stint in Washington, but his campaign accomplished something far more important.
I appreciate your Wespeak titled "Don't abuse chalk" (4/13/07). I'll admit that, based on my reaction to a few of your past Wespeaks, I wasn't expecting to perceive this one as entirely reasonable and valid, but you raise questions that are worth considering. I apologize for my premature judgment.
The librarians and staff have discussed the letter to the Argus and want to let the students and faculty know that we understand and are sympathetic to your concerns about finding quiet spaces for study—24/7. We are, of course, happy that students like the library so much and choose us as the study space of choice.
We will be headed to Wadsworth this Saturday for a short hike/walk. Bring your pre-frosh and a car if you have one and let's show people how fun the outing club can be! Contact Liz (ewyner@wes) with questions. Meet at outhouse (132 High street) at 11 am.
Over the past two years as a Wes student few things have been as important in forming my identity as my mailbox number, 4115. I felt that this number quantified my character in ways that other numbers did not. 4204, my room number, is too even, with its zero implying nullity. My WESID, 654690, while closer to capturing "who I am," falls short in its redundant 6's and not to mention its jarring 6-9 juxtaposition. Indeed, only 4115 truly sums up who I am.
There may come a point during this Friday, April 20th, that you might experience pangs of ravenous, uncontrollable hunger. I can't imagine what the source of this soul-ravaging desire for food would be. Who can say? But if it strikes you, fear not, because we have a solution.
If you care about the environment, come to PAC 002 this Saturday, April 21, at 1:00. There will be policy presentations from the Roosevelt Institution chapters of Wesleyan, Yale, and Hartford on topics ranging from compost to green architecture.
Happy 4/20. While you're at it on the hill, think about people who aren't partaking in your fun because they lost out on important government funding of their $47,800 a year tuition.
Wesleyan is a campus of old brownstones and other stately architecture. Historic landmarks and academic buildings are scattered throughout campus. The social center for undergraduates, however, is not found along frat row or in a local coffee shop but is rather located on Foss Hill.
Prefrosh and current students bask on Foss Hill, chatting and enjoying the sunshine. Down on Andrus field, students join in on a pick-up game of Frisbee. Others attend one of the many student- or university-run events taking place over the weekend. Yes, it's that time of year again. WesFest is here.
Within popular Wes culture, there are many scandalous, shocking, and silly tales that pass from generation to generation. Students have immortalized the legends, telling and retelling them, but how much truth is there to the myth?
Many students come here from bustling metropolitan centers such as New York City, Boston, and Los Angeles. For these students, Middletown may be a surprising and, at times, disappointing college town. While the town certainly features some perks, such as a movie theater, good Thai restaurants, and bars, the relationship between town and gown often leaves both feeling isolated.
College is a funny thing. Not haha funny like when your friend makes out with your ex-girlfriend, and later you agree with him that it was all a joke and he laughs about it and slaps you on the back as you wilt a little inside. Not like that.
Won't be able to fit Acting I into your class schedule? Musical tastes too obscure? Fear not, rising freshmen. The music and comedy groups profiled here are just a tiny fraction of student-run arts groups on campus. Most improv, sketch comedy, and a capella groups hold auditions every fall or at the beginning of each semester.
For students cutting through Andrus field, walking down High Street, or even looking through the windows at Olin Library, the looming structure along Wyllys Avenue has become little more than a mundane landmark on the daily route to class. For next year’s freshmen, however, that iconic castle-like archway won’t be a 150-year-old run-down field house full of history and nostalgia.
If you've already heard of Menomena, chances are that you've heard more about their bizarre method of composition than you have about their music. None of the band's three members actually compose any of the songs on their albums; instead a program called Deeler, created by frontman Brent Knopf, assembles their songs for them, digesting disparate progressions concocted by the three separately into full-fledged, working songs.
Twisting or using the memory of both public leaders and private figures thrust into the media spotlight now seems a common American practice. Opponents of affirmative action claim that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have abhorred the practice, while members of Congress, after viewing Bill Frist's "video diagnosis," professed to know that Terri Schiavo would have wanted to live brain dead.
Did any of you have a ska phase? I did, in high school. It lasted a year or so and it began with the purchase of my first CD—Reel Big Fish's "Turn the Radio Off." I thought it was a brilliant and infectious comment on the industry. You know, really giving it to "the man."
I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you that the film series is a democracy. That's right; once a year, we condescend to seek the people's input through an opaque, procedurally sloppy voting system! What I'm getting at is that we'll be sorting through whatever you managed to stuff into our suggestion boxes this weekend, so if you have any last-minute thoughts, complaints, or demands, e-mail us or post on our profanity-laced Facebook page.
Playing only its second game on the CFA grass, better known as "the Birdcage," the men's lacrosse team trounced the visiting Trinity Bantams 18-8 on Wednesday. Not wanting to underestimate another conference opponent, the team came out firing, leading 5-1 after 10 minutes of play and 9-1 at the half.
The Lady Cards took down Colby College's Mules 12-7 this past Saturday at Wesleyan in a continuance of round-robin NESCAC play, before losing to Trinity on Wednesday. The Cards, fighting for their first-ever home game in the upcoming NESCAC playoffs, had endured a seven-game losing streak to Colby over the past 12 years. Furthermore, the Cards needed a NESCAC win to even out their recent loss to Williams.
The men's tennis team bounced back with convincing victories over Hamilton and Connecticut College this week, snapping a six-game losing streak. The Cardinals thoroughly dominated the Continentals in every aspect of the match on Sunday, with Hamilton failing to win more than two games total in four singles matches in a 7-0 victory.
This past weekend the Cards met the Hamilton Continentals in what turned out to be a very one-sided three-game series, although the Cards took their collective foot off the gas at the last second and failed to deliver what should have been a three-game sweep. The Cards were untouchable for the first 24 innings of the weekend, winning the first two games with scores of 8-1 and 4-1, the second game being only seven innings.
For the past few years, the spring athletics season at Wesleyan has belonged to the men's lacrosse team. And while the Cardinals ran their record to 12-1 on Wednesday with a drubbing of Trinity, a couple of other prosperous Cardinal teams have grabbed headlines in recent weeks.