Around 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 9, the usual silence in Olin Library was disrupted when Alex Pfeifer-Rosenblum '10 stripped down to his boxers, mounted a table, and played Tenacious D's "Fuck Her Gently" on his guitar. "It took a while to realize [what was going on]," said eyewitness Emma Drew '10.
Five girls have found themselves living in a college fraternity. It may sound like a sitcom, but for Ingrid Parl '10, Alisha Neptune '10, Beth Kenworthy '10, Kiran Sheffrin '10, and Kalen Flynn '10, living at Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE), one of the University's three fraternity houses, it's reality.
Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics Gary Yohe is among the members of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize last Friday. The IPCC shared the award with former Vice President Al Gore.
In the olden days, paying for music was never questioned. People would go to a record store and actually stand in line and wait to give the cashier $16 dollars for a CD (remember those?). Then Napster came. Suddenly music was free. Customers cheered, record companies shook their fists.
Last week two portraits were stolen from the Olin Library lobby. I am distressed about the theft for two reasons: that a unique, irreplaceable part of Wesleyan's tradition has been taken from the community; and community trust has been shattered in a way that is likely to change Olin Library's environment.
Many female students have been rudely awakened when attempting to buy oral contraceptives at the Wesleyan's Health Center. A complex federal legislative change has caused the price of contraception to jump more than ten times its original cost. As you can imagine, this forces hundreds of students on campus to make the difficult decisions about how, or whether, they can afford birth control.
My name's Alexis Horan, and I am the intern at the University Organizing Center (UOC) this year. The UOC is the building at 162 Church Street between Beta and Open House, across from the Bayit. What I do is (ahem) "provide peer assistance and support to Wesleyan's various affinity groups and organizations" and "lend logistical assistance to student organizations and advise and encourage them in the use of campus resources."
We want to thank everyone who was involved with this year's Fast-A-Thon and Ramadan Banquet on Oct. 9. This event exceeded all of our expectations; over 250 students donated a total of more than $4,400 in points and meals to Amazing Grace Food Pantry and St. Vincent DePaul's Soup Kitchen!
Last Saturday, with a crowd of only the staunchest Wesleyan supporters, the football team improved to 3-1 on the season through its stunning rout of the Bates Bobcats. In Wesleyan's most complete performance of the season, the offense and defense combined to smash Bates 41-21.
The men's soccer team continued its impressive play and extended its winning streak to eight games with three victories this past week over Tufts, Bates, and Western Connecticut State University (WCSU). The eight-game streak matches the longest such run in program history, equaling a feat also accomplished by the 1962 and 1991 squads.
Two weeks ago, the Wesleyan men's tennis team looked beaten. After starting the season off strong, a 9-0 spanking from visiting Bates College on Oct. 7 left the Cards with a 1-2 record with three matches to go and in serious need of quality wins.
The women's volleyball team dropped a pair of matches over the weekend, falling to Amherst and Tufts by 3-0 scores. However, weekend losses by Bates, Bowdoin, and Colby allowed the team to clinch a spot in the NESCAC tournament. Wesleyan then returned home on Wednesday for senior night and made it back into the win column with a 3-0 victory over Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU).
Over the weekend, the women's soccer team held down the fort as many students left campus for fall break. The Bates College Bobcats paid a visit and were quickly turned away, as the Cardinals earned a 2-0 victory. It was the team's third win of the season and came at critical point, following a number of close, unlucky losses.
The field hockey team split NESCAC games this week, picking up its sixth consecutive win with a 1-0 victory over Bates College on Saturday before losing to Tufts 2-0 on Wednesday. The week's play moved the Cards record to 7-5 (3-4 NESCAC), good enough for sixth place in the standings, up one from last week.
The women's crew team began its season on a good note at the Head of the Housatonic in Shelton, Conn. on Oct. 6. The first boat was fielded in the collegiate-eight competition and finished sixth of 12 boats with a time of 17:13, four seconds behind Wellesley College. Wesleyan also fielded a novice boat in the collegiate-novice eight race, finishing 12th of 13 boats with a time of 22:13.
Although Wesleyan is a school known for its interest in politics, past policy has made it surprisingly difficult to bring political candidates to campus. Although the recent arrival of David Winakor, the University's first on-campus legal counsel, has generated hope for a more lenient policy on political speakers, so far no changes have been made.
The Usdan Student Center was evacuated Wednesday afternoon when a steam pipe valve below the building malfunctioned, triggering the fire alarm. As people exited, most spotted the cause: a large column of steam was shooting out of the building's east side ground floor vents.
This past summer, two current Wesleyan students—Kirsten Sharpes '08, formerly Kirsten Haller, and Dusty Sharpes '08—were married. The wedded couple now shares a two-person woodframe house. With the average age of marriage in the United States creeping towards 27 years old, the Sharpes, both 21, are an anomaly.
If you're a fan of a cappella or musicals, then you've probably seen Steve Sunu '08 sing his heart out in the New Group or Waiting in Line, or heard his beautiful lyrics in last semester's "Orpheus." But have you ever heard him improv a cappella songs about Pam Beesly or wondered what name he'd go by if his singing talents brought him to boy band stardom?
Fall in Europe looks suspiciously like fall in the United States: leaves are changing; farmers are hauling their harvests to cities for sale; overcoats appear; and people seek refuge from the freezing darkness in bustling cafés—the days are getting shorter. But, far from being a depressing successor to summer, the first three weeks of autumn play host to the greatest party ever to be invented by a German: OKTOBERFEST.
The guttural churning of over 700 vintage Buick, Chevrolet, Corvette, Ford and Pontiac vehicles resounded on Middletown's Main Street this past Sunday. Parked on the knoll across from the First United Methodist Church, extending in two single-file lines down Main Street and occupying every parking spot along the sides, these cars represented generations of the American auto industry.
As we have just returned from Fall Break and many of you probably went somewhere that made you realize that you suck more than an indebted cokehead and Pure Filth Productions' entire team of fluffers combined, let me remind you for the second time in two years that you, the students of Wesleyan, collectively look worse than a group of Louisiana foster children.
Michael Bay '87 gets to dream for a living. At least, that was his explanation for his Friday night ebullience, which inspired him to fly out to Middletown and personally introduce his summer blockbuster "Transformers" to a packed audience of sugar-charged 90s kids and raucously cheering adrenaline junkies.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Wesleyan University Press, poet James Tate, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Selected Poems was first published by the Press, spoke on Wednesday, Oct. 10 in Russell House. Tate, who published his first volume of poetry in 1967 and has published fourteen additional titles, has had four collections with the University Press.
On each of the four tables in the World Music Hall, four vases of alstroemeria stood, pink-throated or holding up white petals bordered with red, supported in ellipsoidal vases. Seated, a crowd of nearly 100 Middletown-area residents and members of the University community ate vegetarian South Indian fare on paper plates.
With Halloween less than two weeks away, there is no book more appropriate to get your mind in gear than H.P. Lovecraft's "The Road to Madness." twenty-nine short stories in 19th-century prose curl like wrought iron around subjects more varied and terrifying than the costumes at an Alpha Delt Halloween party.
On Wednesday, Lore Segal read excerpts from her new novel, "Shakespeare's Kitchen," speaking with the easy confidence of an author of her distinction and experience. "Anything can be turned into a piece of writing," she said at the start of her reading. Still, Segal life's has offered more material than most.
After spending the past 15 years apologizing for guitar rock, Radiohead has finally made the "Pablo Honey" they meant to. With the Oct. 10 release of their seventh album, "In Rainbows," came the portrait of a band that has finally come full-circle with both its sound and its identity.
We fucked up. The film series calendars you received in your mailboxes are not only tersely written and seductively designed but also flat out wrong. This week we will be showing SICKO, not SUPERBAD. Both movies are essential viewing, incisively surveying the comprehensive failings of our nation' health care system and the drinking age, respectively.
This weekend the Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble, a Hartford-based dance company, will present a multimedia piece made in collaboration with female inmates at a maximum security prison. During a year and a half long residency at York Women's Prison in Niantic, Conn., Dworin and her ensemble worked with inmates to create a multimedia performance piece called Time-In.