In a Friday afternoon meeting with Students for Ending the War in Iraq (SEWI), President Michael Roth committed to discussing the possibility of divesting from weapons contractors with the Board of Trustees when they convene on Nov. 16. “I think we could have a conversation,” Roth said.
For Paul Boulat ’09, choosing where to study abroad was simple. “I chose [the Paris program] mostly because it’s a program recommended for College of Letters (COL) for French speakers,” said Boulat. “I was actually born in France, so I have a lot of family that I could see there.”
The University’s football team concluded its 2007 season on Saturday at Trinity, losing to the Bantams 32-14. The loss dropped the squad’s record to 4-4 for the year, the best record that a Cardinals football team has held in three seasons. “Being .500 isn’t amazing, but it’s an improvement,” said linebacker Dave Brustein ’10.
At the New England Division III meet last Saturday, Nov. 10, three Wesleyan runners—Sean Watson ’08, Lucia Pier ’08, and Ravenna Neville ’10—earned all-New England honors. Watson and Pier, both captains of their respective sides, earned a trip to Nationals next Saturday in Minnesota.
The women’s ice hockey team is poised for a big turn-around this season after a disappointing campaign last year, when the squad finished 4-16-4. After failing to qualify for the NESCAC playoffs in each of the past two seasons, the Cardinals are ready to improve and make a playoff run this year.
The men’s hockey team, coming off its most successful season as a member of the NESCAC conference, looks to build upon that success as they open up the 2007-08 season this Friday at Hamilton College. The 2006-07 team finished 11-8-5, including a 6-0-2 finish in the conference to earn its first-ever NESCAC tournament home game.
I didn’t really know what to think when I read earlier this week on the Williams College athletics website that our traditional NESCAC rival would play host to ESPN College GameDay for their football game against Amherst. When the initial shock and excitement wore off, I was merely perplexed.
To show our solidarity with the television writer’s union, as well as the oft-neglected stagehand’s union, the Ampersand is on strike. Like our brothers in comedic arms, we demand revenue from the millions, if not billions, if not tens of dollars that the Argus is making off our comedic genius by putting Ampersand articles online (wesleyanargus.com go right now!).
Entering the unassuming britches of Hannah Peterberg ’10, one finely put together lass from the sandy shores of eastern North Carolina, I was greeted with the warm aromas of welcoming femininity, coupled with a dash of pine tree bark and a sprinkle of autumnal breeze. It was like strolling through the Appalachians on a brisk October morn, with old Mother Nature thanking you for waking her up, but still slapping back at you as if you were some ambulatory snooze button.
A current theory is that the fundamental model of physics is comprised of single strand objects called strings. The theory is an attempt to disprove the standard model of particle physics made of point particles. Drawing from numerous theories, the string theory (or superstring theory as it is sometimes called) could unify all the natural forces under the same equations (otherwise known as the theory of everything).
Want your name to appear in the same sentence as an oversized ‘W’, like Jason Bitterman ’10, winner of our last installment of the Reverse Caption Contest? The Ampersand gives you that chance! Once again, here are the rules: Each week, we’ll give you a caption, and it’s your job to draw a cartoon for it.
President Roth deserves much acclaim for his recently announced initiative to replace loans with grants for Wesleyan’s neediest students. It’s good to have a president who acknowledges that money makes the world go round—that without financial access, none of us would have the opportunity to be here.
Matt Lesser ’09 was one of four University-affiliated candidates elected to public office in last Tuesday’s Middletown election. A healthy turnout by members of the University community helped secure victory for the four candidates. Lesser (D) won an alternate seat on the Planning and Zoning Commision, garnering more votes than Mayor Sebastian N. Giuliano (R) who ran for reelection.
Tabletop advertisements in the Usdan Marketplace dining area have emphasized the environmental sustainability of the fish served by Bon Appétit. However, Advanced Fresh Concepts (AFC), the company that provides sushi under contact with Bon Appétit, does not employ the same sustainability standards as Bon Appétit.
According to this August’s U.S. News & World Report, Wesleyan is now the 11th best liberal arts institution in the country. While it once occupied the prestigious tenth spot in 2007, Wesleyan is now listed below many of its peer institutions, including Williams, Amherst, and Swarthmore College.
The Main Street Diner doesn’t look like other diners. For one thing, the Portland eatery is located inside a 200-year-old clapboard house, which it shares with two upstairs apartments and, next-door, Zah’s Bait and Tackle. For another, the seafoam stucco walls of the one-room restaurant are covered with colorful children’s art—pictures of the world in primary colors— providing a vibrant background for the restaurant that points toward its equally vivacious character.
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) will host an upcoming event to protest the ban on chalking at Wesleyan. To advertise the event, SDS has posted two different fliers around campus, one asking students if they think it is “fucked up” that chalking was banned, and another associating the chalking movement with a number of other Left-wing ideas (which for some reason include baseball) with which the group generally holds sympathy.
As students engaged in the world outside the University bubble, we are troubled by investments in military contractors that profit from a war that has killed over 3,000 U.S. soldiers and an estimated 665,000 Iraqis. For The Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) and Students for Ending the War in Iraq (SEWI), the University’s investment in companies profiting from the Iraq War directly contradict Wesleyan’s image and commitment to social justice.
The senior class officers did not cancel December cocktails to punish our class for the actions of a few people. We were simply given no choice. The planning and booking of cocktails happens months in advance. To find a new bus company who would be willing to do the job, given the circumstances, and would be within our budget, combined with the short time until the next event would have been nearly impossible.
Dear Argus, what did I ever do to hurt you? Nothing, I swear! I thought we were friends! So why is it nearly impossible to pick you up without finding an article that makes fun of and often delegitimizes transgender and intersex identities? The example I have in front of me is from the Nov. 6th, 2007 edition where a student says, in response to “What were you hiding from your parents this Parents’ Weekend?” — “I had my first period.”
Nick Fesenko, your recent Wespeak defending James Watson’s pessimistic beliefs about the intelligence of African people is at best open-mindedness to unpleasant ideas and at worst offering deference to bigotry.
Wesleyan is invested in Halliburton.
My experience as an Asian American on campus isn’t clear — to others or even myself. Perhaps that derives from the amorphous Asian American community on campus, but more likely it derives from my personal sense of identity. Identity politics have never been important to me. To me, identity politics seemed to separate, while I wished to find commonality — humanity among humans.
I experienced two equally jarring moments these past two days. The first occurred when a fellow student announced in the most recent Sunday WSA meeting that it was Veterans Day. I — and I suspect several others around me — had forgotten. Were we to search through the newspaper, or maybe think twice about the row of monuments adjacent to Washington Street, we might have remembered. Otherwise, Wesleyan University ignored the day.
Saturday night’s great, right? Go to some parties, hang out with your friends, get in a car and drive around drunkenly yelling “dyke” at some people walking up Church Street? Awesome. Really great. Here is a piece of useful information: most people don’t like it when people yell things at them out of car windows.
I’ll be the first to say it: I’m a major dork. I spend my free time playing Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike. I have MC Hawking on my iTunes. I’ve even been known to do physics problems for fun on long train rides. My friends hang their heads in shame, my parents wonder where they went wrong, and even my grandmother asked me why I was reading instead of partying (on a Wednesday afternoon).