Spring Fling boozin’, beer pong at the frats, Jell-O shots in LoRise: all may become off-limits to students if proposed policies banning open containers of alcohol, hard liquor, and large containers of alcohol, such as kegs, are approved. These bans would apply to all University students, regardless of age.
Want to hear New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd give a talk on feminism? How about one of the Times’ international correspondents give a presentation on the Darfur crisis?
Next semester, 400 students will be spending their Tuesday mornings with President Michael Roth. This spring, the president will teach a Film Studies course entitled “The Past on Film,” which will explore cinematic representations of how human beings interact with the past.
We firmly oppose the new campus alcohol policy suggested by Assistant Dean of Student Services Scott Backer. The goals of the policy not only seem unfairly strict, it also seems likely that, if implemented, they would do more harm than good.
Dear Mytheos, Unlike fire, weapons (and by this I don’t mean hunting rifles, I mean Raytheon’s kind of prime ass-kicking weapons) are designed and constructed with a single purpose in mind—to kill other humans. I’ll admit, one could argue that there are times when ending one life could save more.
There’s a local election coming up in Middletown this Tuesday. I’m a Wesleyan student running as a Democratic candidate for a local office, the Planning and Zoning Commission, the city body with the greatest control over what Middletown looks like. Whenever developers want to build just about anything, they have to come to the Planning and Zoning Commission to seek approval.
Wesleyan University has a big problem, and it is this problem that stops me from attending homecoming this year with my fellow ’07 graduates. Wesleyan, the administration and the community do not want to acknowledge how frequently rape and sexual assault occur on this campus. It happens a lot.
The wet kiss you slathered on nihilist Richard Rorty, whom you dubbed “a great American pragmatist,” leads me to believe that you favor the realist school. So do I, so let’s get real about global warming: we need to acknowledge both the cause (Wesleyan’s ‘really hot’ student body) and the solution (cold showers).
Salam Wesleyan students, staff, faculty, alumni and Middletown residents! The Muslim Students Association and the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life are proud to announce the second annual Islam in Conversation Week. Months of organizing have brought together an event lineup that would make the country’s most prominent Islamic Studies programs jealous of us here at Wesleyan.
Attention all veg*ns and vegetarians!!!! It has recently come to my attention that the seaweed salad peddled at the oh-so-controversial sushi stand on the first floor of Usdan is not the innocent vegan staple that it seems!
Students for Ending the War in Iraq (SEWI) would like to thank Mytheos Holt for his opinions on divestment. We are always glad to see this important issue debated. Nevertheless, Mr. Holt is mistaken about the history of our campaign to divest from weapons contractors and how the campaign relates to the situation in Iraq and the goals and nature of our University.
Bowdoin shattered Wesleyan’s last remaining hopes of making the playoffs on Saturday, scraping out a close 1-0 victory over the Cards. Wesleyan and Connecticut College finished the season tied for the seventh and final postseason slot with identical conference records, but Connecticut College beat Wesleyan in the head-to-head match-up, edging out the Cards for that last playoff spot and ending Wesleyan’s run.
The men and women’s crew teams finished the fall season at the Head of the Fish Regatta in Saratoga, N.Y. last Sunday. The men’s varsity eight team captured second, falling behind Colgate University’s first varsity by the slim margin of just 0.15 seconds over the two-mile course. The women’s varsity four finished 10th out of 16 contestants.
Since 2001, a Wesleyan volleyball player has led the NESCAC in at least one statistical category every season except 2003. However, no Wesleyan freshman ever led the NESCAC in any category until 2006, when freshman setter Ellie Healy ’10 burst onto the scene with 1024 assists in 90 games for a NESCAC-leading 11.38 average.
Early last Monday morning, three Public Safety officers entered Out House uninvited. They knocked on several bedroom doors before taking down the names and numbers of two residents Galen Degraf ’09 and Isaac Levy ’09. Why Public Safety came into Out House in the wee hours of a school day is the story of an old, playful grudge between Out House, and their neighbors across High Street, German Haus.
Students have expressed frustration with the public computer kiosks in the Usdan University Center, which have been prone to frequently shut down or freeze up. “In the beginning of the year, almost none of them worked,” said Nate Ash-Morgan ’08. Employees of Information Technology Services (ITS) said they are aware of the problems.
President Roth announced on Thursday Nov. 1 that the University will replace loans with grants for its neediest students, as part of an initiative to reduce student debt by 35 percent and increase access for students who come from high-need socioeconomic backgrounds.
While some on campus indulge in freshly made waffles on Saturdays and nurse their hangovers on Sunday mornings, a surprising number of students stream into Middletown to take part in religious activities. Services with off-campus congregations provide spiritual fulfillment, familiarity and a sense of community.
The men’s soccer season ended last weekend, and I feel like I speak for more than just myself as I thank the seniors for helping to provide four years of super and sometimes-somnambulistic Saturdays. But, for the first time since Wesleyan was exclusively for men, the University will “return to normalcy” this weekend and resemble other prestigious schools.
On a recent Sunday morning, one student wrote to a e-mail list, “In a drunk stupor I misplaced my phone,” requesting that everyone keep their eyes open for it. The request worked: she recovered her phone the same day.
If you’ve had him as your Resident Advisor or are one of his 888 Facebook friends, then you probably know a thing or two about Jason Harris ’09. But does anyone really know the true Jason? Do you know that he once preached to stuffed animals? Or that he plays a mean tambourine? Or that he’d like to tattoo the name of Glaister Leslie ’08 on his butt? Check out this soul-bearing interview of Jason Harris.
Last Saturday night, as many University students were changing into costumes for Eclectic’s annual Halloween party, a different kind of transformation was taking place inside Crowell Concert Hall. Behind its doors, legendary pianist and composer Randy Weston created music that crossed cultural and temporal boundaries and no doubt transformed the way audience members listened to music.
If there’s one thing that hip-hop/electronica extraordinaire RJD2 will teach you, it’s that nothing gets in the way of a good beat. And no one knows this better than the throngs of students who filed into Beckham Hall last Thursday night to see the internationally-acclaimed DJ spin.
“When I read a sentence by him, it seems to me as if he wrote it with all the neurons in his brain firing.” With such stellar praise, Assistant Professor of English Matthew Sharpe introduced acclaimed author Daniel Handler ’92. Handler, who alternately publishes under the pseudonym of Lemony Snicket, spoke last Wednesday in Beckham Hall of the Fayerweather building.
Daniel Handler ‘92—best known for his children’s books “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” published under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket—shared a chapter from his latest novel, “Adverbs,” at a reading in Beckham Hall last Wednesday, Oct. 24. “Adverbs” marks Handler’s third novel published under his own name.
As of today, Wesleyan will be on its most proper and traditional behavior for the remainder of the weekend. With the homecoming football game, a Presidential inauguration, the Douglas Cannon (?), and a boatload of parents on our hands, we have a bevy of things to be apathetic about or inconspicuously absent from.
It was not until later that it became clear to the audience what role the projection screen and large pile of synthetic, cloudlike material would play in Brian Brooks’ dance performance/screening last Saturday evening at the ’92 Theater.
On Oct. 19 and 20, the Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble presented “Time In,” a performance piece based on the group’s residency at the York Women’s Prison in Niantic, Conn. While there, the eleven-woman ensemble worked with members of the prison to construct the piece.
As the sun set and the air became chilly last Tuesday evening, Eclectic’s ballroom was filled with eager students, gathered around an empty stage and chatting to the sounds of generic dance music. Shortly thereafter, acclaimed Swedish pop musician Jens Lekman stepped onto the stage, accompanied by a blond girl on the bongos. The room fell silent, and Lekman broke into his first song.
Simply put, “Michael Clayton” is the most boring, rehashed legal thriller to come out in the last 200 years. In fact, the only interesting thing about it is wondering how it even got made.