Around 50 student, faculty, and citizen protesters met on Tuesday to march on the Army recruitment office in Metro Square, where they were confronted by four police officers and a security guard. Because the recruitment station had closed for the day in anticipation of the protest, protestors were unable to carry an act of civil disobedience as originally planned.
The future of Senior Cocktails remains unclear after the cancellation of the December Cocktails. Senior Class officers are deciding what events to hold next semester and plan to notify the Class of 2008 before winter break.
Crammed onto the stairs and spilling out into the hallway, almost one hundred students, faculty, and community members attended renowned sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein’s open seminar entitled “On the Global Crisis,” Tuesday afternoon in the Public Affairs Center. Wallerstein, who is the former president of the International Sociological Association and is currently a senior researcher at Yale University, outlined his prediction for the demise of capitalism as we know it within the next 30 to 50 years.
We encourage students to pace themselves when drinking and to familiarize themselves with how their bodies react to alcohol: everyone pities those who can’t stop when it’s clear that they’ve had enough Jungle Juice.
Since the beginning of the semester, my car has been vandalized on three separate occasions. Two times an egg was thrown at it, and another time the GPS antenna was ripped off. Do you know how long it takes to clean egg off of a car? About three hours with three people, when it’s all over the side of your car; and it’s really really hard to do.
The Hipster identity thrives on narcissism and self-indulgence, enabling the denial of any involvement in the processes and policies that support their lifestyle. The Hipster’s self-indulgent fantasy prevents them from acknowledging their role in white supremacist capitalism, allowing them to build a guilt-free identity based on the consumption of its products.
Anybody else really tired of dining hall hours that don’t coincide? Anybody else tired of the fact that Summerfields no longer offers late night? Anybody else fed-up with woodframe house conditions? Exhibit “Shafted:” damage at 134 Cross (big up to my learning tower chaps!).
Interested in urban studies? Wish there were more course options? Frustrated by the helpful but often incomplete list of available courses in the urban studies cluster? Want to help solidify and possibly expand urban studies at Wesleyan? You are not alone! A group of students will be meeting to discuss the state of urban studies at Wesleyan and what kind of changes we would like to see in the future.
This past year the University renovated the smaller half of the PAC computer labs, and I admit that it is now well organized and a nicer environment to work in than the unorganized space that previously existed. However, the University decided to avoid the complaints of students (and one Argus Wespeak by Steven Maroti) for more computer lab availability.
On Tuesday, Nov. 27, the Wesleyan community recognized Trans Day of Remembrance, largely by means of a memorial taped to the steps of the main staircase in Usdan. Tuesday morning, ambling through the campus center, I paused to read each of the names, locations, dates and methods of murder of several hundred members of the transgender/transsexual community.
There are two ways in which one can betray a total sense of ignorance about Iraq: they say that Saddam Hussein was a secularist, or that terrorism/Al Qaeda forces were not a problem in Iraq before the arrival of coalition forces. An anti-war critic who believes one of these can usually be heard saying that the War in Iraq must come to an immediate end. On this final point one must always ask in response: which war do they want to end exactly?
Thank you for publishing my Wespeak last Friday, but I have a problem with your ‘fucked’ policy. I spent 42 zarking minutes figuring out how to ‘fuck’ up my essay on Biochem exams, because I thought that was mandatory for publication in The Argus (given the Wespeaks I’ve seen over the past few years).
Injustice wraps its arms around us everyday. Sometimes it squeezes so tight that it restricts our breathing, even paralyzes us. Yet, panic doesn’t set in. Why? Because we rely on the Wesleyan experience to weaken injustice’s grip by engaging our intellectual know-how gained from courses, social activism skills refined through opportunities outside the classroom, and emotional and inner confidence reinforced by friends, families, Middletown residents, and various members of the campus community.
Wesleyan University is in dire need of a comprehensive policy on sensible, moral investment. Our endowment cannot be tied to companies that profit from the death of human beings. Every year, over 25,000 Americans die as a direct result of obesity (CDC, 2005). Thus, it is a moral imperative for Wesleyan University to divest from Yum! Brands, a company that preys on the misery and hunger of average Americans.
Dear Bon Appetit/Summerfields/Delmar, would you be so kind as to re-introduce the visual display of your sporadically tasty meals at Summerfields? I don’t speak French, Culinarees, or whatever other language you name your meals in. Let’s make Summerfields eating healthy and easy.
Before Thanksgiving break, the Cardinals staged a strong showing at the Doug Parker Tournament at Springfield College. Finishing ninth of 18 teams, Wesleyan set the tone for a great season. Ranked seventh in the nation, Greg Hurd ’10 dominated his early matches at 174 pounds and came out with a second place finish.
The men’s hockey team heads into tonight’s home opener against UMass Boston (2-3-0) after an up-and-down 2-2 start, featuring wins against NESCAC rivals Hamilton and Connecticut College. Scott Burns ’09 netted the go-ahead goal with under five minutes to play in the season opener at Hamilton, leading the Cardinals to a 4-3 victory in a wild game.
On Tuesday night Fraggle looked ready. The stuffed cardinal sitting on the end of the bench sported a partial ’fro with a fountain-top hairdo and some classy bling. Fraggle has emerged as a good luck charm for the women’s basketball team who never travels without him. Every year a sophomore is picked to be his caretaker and dress him up for both home and away games.
The men’s basketball team opened its season with a home match against Springfield in the Inn at Middletown Tip-Off Tournament on Nov. 16. Wesleyan led 5-4 just over two minutes into the half, but Springfield nailed a three-pointer with 15:46 remaining to take a 7-5 lead that it did not relinquish.
It has been a disappointing start to the season for the women’s ice hockey team. The Cardinals have lost four straight conference games opening the season, but the team remains optimistic. Last Sunday, Nov. 25, the offense was able to find a rhythm in a match against Williams College.
Theo Freeman, a RIDE driver and former Public Safety officer, is founding P.E.A.C.E Preschool in Middletown. The school will be housed in an 1872 Victorian mansion in the Wesleyan Hills area of Middletown, just south of campus. This project is the natural next step for a man dedicated to Middletown.
Suggestions that were merely discussed by a committee charged with recommending changes to the school’s alcohol and drug policy will not be pursued after all, administrators and Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) officials say. The considered ideas would have banned open containers of alcohol in public places, mandated that all kegs be registered, and banned all hard alcohol on campus.
The registration system was supposed to open at 8 a.m. Tuesday morning for students with fewer than three credits registered. When students opened the Drop/Add page, however, they found a listing of their current fall semester schedule.
Dean Daniel Teraguchi doesn’t want you to be intimidated by the Office for Diversity and Academic Advancement (ODAA), now entering its second year. The head of the ODAA rejects what he calls the “diversity police” approach to campus issues.
One month ago, library staff claimed that roughly 20 percent of senior thesis carrels had gone unused by the thesis writers they were assigned to. Library staff sent out e-mails telling those students to turn over their carrel keys. So far they say that all that they’ve received is empty promises.
From 2001 to 2006, the University hired 17 new professors in the Natural Sciences and Mathematics division. None of them were women. “We were doing a great job of hiring women before, but people took their eyes off of the problem,” said Ishita Mukerji, professor and chair of molecular biology and biochemistry (MB&B). “It was just another incident of unconscious bias.”
For many students, this week consists of digesting leftover Thanksgiving turkey, preparing for upcoming finals, and stressing over next semester’s schedule. But Nov. 26 through 30 also marks a more important global event—World AIDS Week.
You probably know Holly Wood as one of the founders of the all-things-Wesleyan blog, “Wesleying.” But these days, she’s spending much more quality time with helicopter parents than on the college blogosphere. Read on to find out more about Holly’s special relationship with overprotective parents and her pet hedgehog, Winston. Plus, you know you want to find out how she got her name (but were just afraid to ask).
Numerous indicators have confirmed my suspicions that the Netherlands is, in fact, a strange parallel — or “bizarro” — universe. Bikes have the right of way. Prisoners are kept one to a cell with a T.V., a coffee-maker and opportunity. The Party for the Animals has two seats in Parliament. But nothing about this bizarro world is quite so confounding as the present holiday season.
Gina Ulysse, assistant professor of African American Studies and anthropology, introduced writer director Julian Schnabel’s biopic “Basquiat” Wednesday night, with more of an assault on the film’s portrayal of the young artist than an appraisal of the man himself or his work.
As the lights dimmed and the crowd grew silent, the orchestra stood ready and a single note was played, that ominous shriek that we all know, enough to scare many of us out of the ocean. The conductor looked back at the crowd and grinned. “Jaws the Musical” had begun, and the audience settled in for a night of great music and acting, as well as campy jokes and show tunes.
You may have noticed that I took a break from keeping you informed these past few weeks. It wasn’t a respite, but part of the Writers Guild of America’s (WGA) strike. Although I’m not one of the 12,000 who are members or annual due-payers, I do spend a considerable amount of time trapped in my room writing teleplays, reading “Variety,” and making gay jokes.
A week before the Fall 2007 Theater Department Production of “Oedipus Rex,” Director and Assistant Professor of Theater Yuriy Kordonskiy and company were hard at work. The actors were practicing with their intricate and beautiful masks, the costume workers were putting finishing touches on the Grecian gowns, and the crew was finishing up the set.
Philip Roth has won a lot of prizes. He is the only author in recent history to accumulate all of the United States’ four major literary awards in a single decade, culminating with the Pulitzer Prize for “American Pastoral” in 1997. He has won the PEN/Faulkner award twice, and in 2001 the American Academy of Arts and Letters granted him the Gold Medal in Fiction, given every six years for an author’s entire body of work.
There are a lot of honors and awards one can pursue as a college student, but a Grammy typically isn’t one of them"unless you’re Skye LoGuidice ’09. The singer-songwriter, who goes by the stage name Skye Claire, received the phone call of a lifetime from her promoter in late October, informing her that she had received preliminary Grammy ballot nominations in three categories.
Domestic comforts and naturalistic poetry came together in the winding, brilliantly constructed Second Stage production “Kitchen Poems,” written and performed Nov. 8, 9, and 10 by Kailie Larkin ’09 and Susanna Myrseth ’10. Stories, built into definition through movement, poetry, and activity, ran the gamut of shapes and spaces, settling into “power lines carrying high voltage current between continents and kitchen tables.”
Computers are taking over the world. We all know it, and truth be told, we all kind of like it. “Beowulf” is perhaps humankind’s newest reminder that we are quickly being overtaken by something that can make 40 trillion calculations in a nanosecond. First off, if you are going to see this movie, see it in 3D. The extra three dollars isn’t going to break the bank, but it might just blow your mind. Trust me on this one.
I’m happily convinced that, as we move toward the close of the aughts, Hollywood is beginning to experience a second Wesleyan surge. The first happened in the 1990s with a rush of Wesleyan graduates from the 80’s taking a firm grip of commercial cinema’s delicate parts. Graduates Michael Bay, Paul Schiff, and Joss Whedon, among many others, found great success and paved the way for a new batch of Wesleyan grads from the 90’s.