Students are joining the battle against the U.S. Army’s plans to build a training base in the rural Maromas section of Middletown, located five miles southeast of campus. Local officials attended Sunday’s Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) meeting to voice opposition to building the base at the proposed location.
Despite working with a substantially larger budget, the Student Budget Committee (SBC) has allocated less this year than it did last year, when the group was financially hamstrung by a much tighter budget.
For most, Valentine’s Day is a holiday dedicated to intimacy, obligatory purchases and wearing red in the name of love. Yet for Ashley Casale ’11 and thirteen other students, this holiday meant protesting the military’s recruiting practices and the Iraq War, also in the name of love.
While University students may have protested in the name of spreading love at Middletown’s Army recruitment office on Valentine’s Day, there may soon be a much larger audience to serenade in town.
As most students surely noticed, the campus was momentarily brought to life on Friday, Feb. 1 by a rally in support of Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Featuring big names like Ned Lamont and Kal Penn (of “Harold and Kumar” and “House” fame) and attracting local news teams, the rally gave off-the-beaten-track Middletown a rare taste of the political spotlight.
The United Arab Emirates recently announced plans to build the world’s first carbon-free, car-free and waste-free city. The plan, called the Masdar Initiative, calls for the construction of an entire city that is powered by solar energy. Water will be supplied by sustainable desalination plants, architecture will be designed to minimize energy usage and residents will travel on “transport pods” running on magnetic tracks instead of using cars.
According to the article “Waxman Regrets Hearing was Held” in the Sports Section of the Feb. 15 issue of The New York Times, Henry A. Waxman (D-Cal.), the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, regrets holding the nationally televised hearing over Yankees’ pitcher Roger Clemens’s alleged steroid abuse because “the four-hour hearing unnecessarily embarrassed Clemens.”
You’re all certainly familiar with the Wesleyan website home page and the odd collection of photos that cycle at the top. The picture of students who probably graduated in 1997 hanging out in front of the campus center that hasn’t been open since mid-2007; the dude that’s insanely happy to be graduating; a photo of the Usdan Center that is as out of scale and gracelessly cropped as the actual building; a nice shot of College Row that is from before whatever year they removed all the ivy from its buildings.
On a rainy afternoon on Valentine’s Day, students and faculty filled the seminar room of the East Asian Studies Center to hear Professor William Johnston lecture on sexually transmitted disease in feudal Japan.
Although scattered showers yesterday made getting to class frustrating, it was nothing like last Wednesday, Feb. 13, when a huge rainstorm drenched campus and those trying to make their way around it.
A proposal to install a new flat-screen television in Westco’s common lounge has divided residents, with tensions looming large at an emotionally-charged debate last week.
The class of 1975 was the first and only University class to graduate without publishing a yearbook. Three weeks ago, however, the class of 2008 almost became the second.
So, we’ll get a few things out of the way. The MacBook Air (with 80-gig hard drive, $1,799; with 64-gig solid stat drive, $3,098) is a design marvel.
A far cry from a liberal arts education, investment banking has become the career path of choice for many University alumni. Roberta Wong ’08 plans to work in the field after graduation.
Question: It has been rumored that one can get a heart attack from drinking both Red Bull and vodka. Is this true? Answer: Is a wide-awake drunk more appealing than a sleeping drunk? Red Bull is a high fructose jolt of caffeine whose consumption with vodka is based on the assumption that the answer to this question is yes. Is the wide-awake drunk at a higher risk of a heart attack? I don’t know.
O’ROURKE’S IS BACK. There is really nothing that we can write to adequately express our feelings about O’Rourke’s and its triumphant rise from the ashes of the Great Middletown Fire of 2006.
Today was President’s Day and I celebrated accordingly. To feel extra presidential, I hired Public Safety to set up video cameras and monitor me while I slept. The film, “The Science of Me Sleeping,” will be shown in my next class. Then, I freed myself up for the day (that oven will still be on tomorrow) and traveled to New York City. Before I left, I filled my wallet full of counterfeit $5 bills with my face on them (I’m the real 16th President).
In the true style of the Argus, we’re celebrating a holiday a day late: happy President’s Day! And although you might be too hungover from your wacky celebrations last night - which indubitably included playing Presidents (or, as you Loyalist Torrie bastards call it, “Kings”) - it’s important that we all take this time to reflect on great President’s Day of year’s past.
Yesterday, I was lucky enough to run into America’s friendly presidential candidates at a Denny’s. It was just after the Iowa caucus and, after introducing myself, they were all nice enough to dish out some presidential perspectives on current film.
Did you know that there were tons of presidents before George Washington? People say that they don’t count since it was under the Articles of Confederation. Well that’s twaddle! Did gravity not count before Isaac Newton? Did everyone fly around and live in outer-space villages? The answer is no, most of them did not. When will Nathaniel Gorham get his moment in the spotlight? Cyrus Griffin awaits his fifteen minutes. But the powerful George Washington lobby is stopping the word from getting out. Spread the word and stop this balderdash! George Washington didn’t even have teeth! Is that the man we want as our first president?
This is the first installment of a six-part series on historic Wesleyan teams. The men’s lacrosse team enters the 2008 season on the heels of back-to-back appearances in the NCAA semifinals and ranked sixth in the nation in “Inside Lacrosse’s” preseason poll. It’s just business as usual for one of the nation’s preeminent squads. But it hasn’t always been this way.
After losing to first-seeded Tufts 1-8 in its first game at Nationals, the men’s squash team pulled off a 5-4 upset of fifth-seeded Middlebury to reach the consolation finals. There, it lost a close 4-5 decision to Stanford to finish 22nd nationally in the tournament held in Boston and Cambridge at Harvard University.
With the spring season just around the corner, we take a look ahead for this week’s Cardinal Character. Mike Frank ’08, a.k.a. “The Franchise,” is the captain of the men’s tennis team, something he has been preparing for seemingly since birth. The team had a solid fall season, working its way to a 3-2 record, and there is a lot of optimism surrounding the upcoming spring season. I talked to Frank about the season ahead, the team’s chances and his coach’s famous ponytail.
The difference between the women’s basketball team’s two home games this weekend was like day and night. After stumbling to a 35-32 loss to Middlebury on Friday night, the Cardinals came roaring back the next afternoon to dismantle Little Three rival Williams 65-47.
The women’s squash team earned two wins on Saturday, beating Smith College and Columbia University to push its final regular season record to 9-15. The Cards await their final seeding in the season-ending Howe Cup, the national team championship for women’s squash.
The women’s ice hockey team watched its last hopes of making the NESCAC playoffs fade away this weekend with a pair of losses to conference foe Hamilton College. When they traveled to Clinton, NY, this weekend, the Cardinals were still in contention, but dropping the front end of the two-game set knocked the team out of the playoff picture.