As applications roll in and the annual WesFest ceremonies approach, Residential Life, with President Michael Roth's consent and the Admissions Office's encouragement, is threatening to cut funding for Zonker Harris Day unless the festival is renamed. The annual celebration references a perpetually-stoned character in Gary Trudeau's "Doonesbury" comic strip, inspiring University participants to emulate Zonker Harris's drug habits.
Many students may be surprised to know that the University owns works by Durer, Rembrandt, Rubens, Goya, Renoir, Pisarro, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Miró, Ernst, Arp, Magritte, Kandinsky and many others—all of which are stored in a vault in the basement of the Davison Art Center.
Students planning to study abroad in certain University programs in England, Scotland, and Ireland will be receiving three credits for the semester instead of four, due to a recent vote made by the Committee on International Studies.
Since this semester’s change to All-You-Care-To-Eat dining at the Usdan University Center’s Marketplace, diners have been required to eat all meals inside the second-floor dining rooms. Under a new plan, “To Go” carryout containers for students eating on the run would return, and students would also be permitted to carry meals downstairs or outside.
Last Wednesday, Professor of Economics Richard Adelstein gave a lecture entitled “Parties of Ideas in American Politics: Why Libertarians and Socialists Can’t Get Elected.” In this lecture, he described the difference between “parties of ideas,” like the Libertarian and Socialist parties, and “parties of politics and power,” like the Democratic and Republican parties.
On Sunday, the Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) passed a resolution in opposition to the proposed United States Army training base on Freeman Road, in the Maromas section of Middletown. The resolution passed by a vote of 28 to zero, with two WSA members abstaining.
This past year, poor planning scattered substance-free housing rooms on three floors of Butterfield C, making community-based living difficult. Next year, substance-free housing will be grouped together on one hall on the fourth floor of Butterfield C.
ResLife is at loggerheads with WestCo presidents surrounding the future of Zonker Harris Day, threatening to cut funding for the day's events or even cancel the festivities altogether. This conflict comes on the heels of administrative actions to mainstream University culture, from the scaling down of Senior Cocktails to the construction of Usdan, a building that many students regard as sterile and lacking in character.
The Homegrown Terrorism and Violent Radicalization Prevention Act, which in November was approved by an overwhelming majority of U.S. Representatives in the House, presents an important challenge to those fighting for freedom and peace in the world.
In what now seems like a quadrennial occurrence, consumer advocate Ralph Nader has once again declared his presidential candidacy. Members of both dominant political parties will be quick to react, one to denounce the bid and the other to gloatingly embolden it, but voters have an opportunity to consider the political freedom it represents.
Mytheos Holt’s “Mytheology” column (“Mytheology: Don’t tear down these walls!” Feb. 26, vol. CXLIII, no. 32) evinces a false nostalgia that undercuts its argument for the preservation of Shanklin Laboratory.
It’s 2 a.m. on Thursday morning in the ST Lab. This is neither an amusing hour nor location to be awake. Some people on campus are probably arriving home from the bar, while some are probably warm in their quilted beds. Few students in ST Lab are smiling, excluding the ones entertaining themselves with IM conversations.
When Facebook first created a Wesleyan network in 2004, Jenny Ryan '08 was hesitant to join. Now, she is completing a master's thesis in Anthropology about this same social networking site. "I've always liked to pretend I'm a really tech-savvy chick who turns her nose up at the latest 'Internet fad,'" she said. "But it was actually a fun, slick, cool site, so I caved pretty quickly."
Two years ago, Brad Karsh ’87, president and founder of JobBound, was waiting for a candidate to arrive for a job interview when he decided to check the potential new hire’s Facebook profile. After looking at the site, Karsh knew the interview was a moot point.
When Jen Liebschutz ’11 signed on to Facebook to see a friend request from her father, she was less than pleased. “I was annoyed, because I felt like he was encroaching on a clearly teen only place,” Jen said. Parents cited equally diverse reasons for creating accounts.
While you may not see professors shopping in Weshop or studying in Olin, they are now popping up in a different student-oriented environment. Facebook’s “Wesleyan Faculty” network currently boasts 16 members.
What’s hot and dirty on campus right now? Ha, you wish. Composting, of course! Thanks to Usdan and Summerfield’s staff and all of your support, we are now composting almost all pre- and post-consumer waste from our two biggest dining halls. Many halls and houses now have compost buckets, and a few backyard composters on campus collect and decompose personal scraps.
The LG VX10000 Voyager ($299.99 for Verizon, with two-year contract) is Verizon’s answer to AT&T’s iPhone. If you are on the Verizon network, the Voyager is your best choice if you are looking for a multimedia smart phone.
Intisar Abioto ’08 spent last semester documenting the aspirations and dreams of people all over the United States and Djibouti and telling their stories through photography, writing and dance. I sat down with Intisar and discovered how her own dream is becoming a reality through The People Could Fly Project.
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France shocked his république earlier this month, not just with a whirlwind romance and marriage to an Italian singer/supermodel recently photographed in knee-high black boots and nothing else, but with an announcement about the national curriculum. Sarkozy has mandated that, beginning next fall, every French fifth grader will have to study the life story of one of the 11,000 French children killed during the Holocaust.
Blending passion, wit and expertise, "Jubilee," the University's annual Black Cultural Show, put a festive note at the end of Black History Month last Saturday night. The sold-out performance filled Crowell Concert Hall with an eclectic audience, with attendees ranging from President Michael Roth to residents of Traverse Square.
It’s a quiet Saturday night heavy with cold, and the suburban Connecticut landscape is crusted over with half a foot of frozen snow. Pellets of freezing rain hit the ice and glaze over the windshields of cars with the sound of static on a radio. On Foss Hill, a few lone sledders careen into the darkness, the scraping of their sleds swallowed into the night.
“Can somebody kill those fucking romantic lights?” Those were Staceyann Chin’s first words at the mic. The 35-year-old Jamaican-born poet was referring to a set of floodlights that cast a soft yellow glow on her petite frame as she stood before the large crowd of students gathered at the Usdan Café on Thursday, Feb. 21.
Labeling Tenniscoats “lesser-known relatives of Deerhoof,” as many have done, is sort of like saying Mussolini and Michelangelo were long lost brothers. I admit that both bands have at least one Japanese member, and play their individual mutations of pop, but the end result of the Tenniscoats and the husband and wife duo of Saya and Takashi Ueno, is about as far away from Deerhoof as possible.
Please, all of you, call me Xernon: I am from a far far away star but right now I am hovering in a spaceship very near your atmosphere. I happened to get my fingers on a copy of Tuesday’s Argus and was delighted to see some of the articles written on page 3. My species has been involved in something I now feel open to tell you all about since I feel you will all understand where I am coming from.
After continually offering an inferior contract to the food service workers at Wesleyan, Bon Appétit was made to understand, very clearly, WE ARE NOT GOING BACKWARDS!!! And more positive movement towards fair wages and working conditions is expected within the VERY near future.
If you think the movie star life in Hollywood’s golden age was all autographs and red carpet photo ops, Chair of the Film Studies Department Jeanine Basinger has some news for you. Discussing actress Betty Grable, one of the many film actors and actresses examined in her book, “The Star Machine,” Basinger laid out but a few of the job skills required of Grable to maintain her high status within Hollywood.
Save yourself? Or save everyone else? Perhaps one of drama’s greatest dilemmas, the question is also an incredibly difficult one to set up with realism, conviction, and consequence. And that is exactly what “The Counterfeiters” does and what makes it such great cinema.
Recent British music has been almost completely engulfed by post-Libertines, indie copy-cat bands. Songs about London have littered the pop charts along with the usual R&B. But while this cardigan-and-Converse-clad army marches toward eternity, London-based band Klaxons takes a lit glow stick to the scene with 2007’s “Myths Of The Near Future,” and gives birth to the genre of “Nu-Rave.”
Today, I turn to my column with some dread, having just learned that William Buckley, famed wit and “crypto-Nazi,” died yesterday at his writing desk, presumably scrambling to finish his weekly piece for the National Review.
Cardinals men baseball returns nine pitchers from the 2007 season, accounting for 80 percent of the total innings pitched. Leading the way are Kit Tholen '08 and Lou Gabel '08, who tied for the team lead with nine games started apiece. Tholen's 4.64 ERA was the best among starters, slightly ahead of Gabel's 4.92. They also held the two highest innings pitched totals during the 2007 season, Gabel with 56 2/3, and Tholen with 54 1/3.
After victories over Smith College and Connecticut College, Wesleyan lost to the University of Virginia by a score of 7-2 in the finals of the Howe Cup’s “D” division national tournament. The loss leaves Wesleyan’s final record at 11-16 and a national ranking of 26.
It competed during the 2000-01 school year. It won a record number of games and set a record for NESCAC regular-season wins that still stands today. It defeated long-time power Middlebury in a double-overtime game. It bowed out early in the NESCAC tournament, but rebounded to make the finals of the ECAC New England Division III tournament.