While walking to a party on Washington Street in the wee hours of last Friday morning, Al Fertig ’10 threw a Sour Patch Kid candy into the street. It was a decision he soon came to regret as he noticed a Middletown Police car quickly approaching.
Curious high school seniors stumbling upon the University’s homepage are immediately greeted by headlines linking to stories about alumni achievements in Hollywood, or professors commenting on some issue of public policy to National Public Radio.
Every year The Bi-College News—the weekly newspaper for Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges—conducts an online survey asking readers what the newspaper staff can do to improve its coverage. And every year someone writes: “You need more people of color on staff.”
It began with a meal. On Friday, April 4, over 100 people gathered for the sixth annual Shasha Seminar in the Daniel Family Commons over a Bon Appétit-catered dinner. Attendees included students, their parents, alumni, scholars and bright lights of gastronomy from all over the country. For the next two days they would be discussing this year’s seminar topic, “Food: Power and Identity.”
On Sunday night at PAC, members of El Kilombo Intergaláctico, a radical community collective from Durham, N.C., spoke to students about the lessons that activists around the world can learn from Mexico’s Zapatista revolutionary movement. Members of the collective recently held a long interview with the masked Zapatista spokesman known internationally as Subcomandante Marcos and published it independently in a new book “Beyond Resistance: Everything.”
Chair and Professor of Film Studies Jeanine Basinger was announced as the inaugural honoree of Daily Variety’s “Mentor of the Year” award, the film and entertainment industry’s leading publication announced in its March 27 issue.
Thousands of miles away from home, Sarah Moustafa ’11, Abdulrahman Nasser Al-Amri ’08 and D’or Seifer ’10 each bring unique perspectives to campus: from Qatar, Oman and Israel, respectively. All three students have positive opinions regarding President Michael Roth’s internationalization plan and agree that the University needs to expand course offerings focusing on the Middle East.
Pine Street residents returned from Spring Break to find a hole where a house had been. By the Fall semester, a new senior prototype house, 231 Pine St., will fill the spot.
Every afternoon, scores of kids arrive at Green Street Arts Center (GSAC) from vans and school buses, have a snack and start working on homework. University students, like Emily Troll ’10, also drop by to tutor and act as teaching assistants in art classes.
Take a bag, leave a bag. Compost. Don’t use paper towels. Choose eco-friendly laundry detergent. Such prescriptions, which emphasize the impacts of individual consumption, dominate our culture’s environmental consciousness. Alexa Jay’s Wespeak “Missing the forest for the trees” (March 4, Volume CXLIII, Number 34) calls for a dialogue about a bigger picture, one that encompasses more than “the penguins” when considering the problem of global climate destabilization and what we can do in the face of it. Without any intention of smiting Jay or any of her bottled-water drinking and driving associates, we’d like to both agree with some of her points and contest others.
In an effort to improve campus security, the University recently announced that it would install security cameras in public areas around High and Low Rise, as well as a few additional sites on campus. And, while this move has aroused concern among students for several reasons, a more sensible response would be one of gratitude that the University is finally taking steps to improve student safety on the margins of campus.
As seniors decide on post-undergraduate plans, Teach for America (TFA) remains a popular and compelling option for University students.
While participants are usually happy enough to play against friends and classmates, this spring offers extra excitement for the Intramural Softball C-League: the chance to play ball against the University’s president.
Question: Do people’s moods actually vary with the seasons? If so, in what ways and what are some of the reasons behind this phenomenon? Answer: While findings regarding changes in mood states across the seasons in samples of healthy people are mixed, there is strong evidence for a subtype of mood disorder that is seasonal in nature. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a mood disorder characterized by seasonal cycles, most typically emerging during the short and cold days of winter in more northern latitudes and remitting in spring as the days become longer.
Interested in learning about something? The next natural step, for most people, is to look online. In this day and digital age, wesleyan.edu makes the University’s first impression on prospective students, parents and alumni donors. The Headlines section on the homepage gives Internet surfers a mix of articles culled from publications and briefs on University happenings.
Over the past few weeks, reporters and politicians around the globe have turned their attention to Tibet. On March 10 an annual protest by Tibetans to commemorate the 1959 failed uprising in Lhasa turned into riots that were met by a brutal crackdown by Chinese police and the Chinese military. Although tight military control is nothing new for Tibet, these protests have received widespread media attention because they come in the lead up to this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing.
What height of obscure intellectual reasoning have we reached! AAAAAGH! A Wespeak on Friday (“Liberal critique of divestment,” April 4, 2008, Volume CXLIII, Number 37) for investment told us that asking for divestment from corporations would result in giving power to corporations and legitimizing their ability to impose their will and that it’s not democratic for we should use the “appropriate” route through government instead.
Bradley Spahn, I appreciate your taking the time to examine the issue of divestment and express your point of view (“Liberal critique of divestment,” April 4, 2008, Volume CXLIII, Number 37). However, I believe that it is not only appropriate but also imperative for Wesleyan to divest from weapons contractors General Dynamics and Raytheon, corporations whose strength depends upon and promotes war as a solution to international conflict. I’d like to offer a different perspective on some of the important issues you raised.
For the first 18 years of my life, my birthdays were purely celebratory occasions, but since 1968, the day has always come tinged with a shadow. April 4 is the day Martin Luther King was shot.
Oh Martin, your prose abounds with pith (“Open Letter to President Roth,” April 4, 2008, Volume CXLIII, Number 37), and yet—I’m incredulous.
Wesleyan University Students and Staff: It hardly seems enough to write and tell you how much we appreciate your generosity in supporting Macdonough School with the Bring Back a Book donation program. I only wish that you could have seen the faces of our students as they came in to school to see all of the books. Smiles of excitement were seen throughout the day.
Broccoli: There are certain undeniable truths in life. When I take a step in my LA Gears, I know that they will light up. When I kiss a girl, I know that it means I’m gay. And when I eat broccoli, I know that it will taste like doody. And I don’t even mean doody in the casual, eat-your-dog’s-doody-off-your-carpet-because-you-think-it’s-chocolate doody.
I was sitting in the cafeteria with my friend Billy and Billy kept telling me that “Last Temptation of Christ” was better than “The Passion of the Christ,” but I know that he is lying because he is a Jew and he just wants to see Jesus mess up and make mistakes.
9:00 DARE Assembly Do you know somebody who has been asked to do drugs or are you a drug that has been asked to be done? If so, do not attend this assembly. Congratulations, you’re cooler than the rest of your classmates. Go get high!
Due to the recent rash of on-campus muggings, many students have felt their safety encroached upon by a 6’1” black guy and a 5’9” white or Hispanic guy. Wesleyan, being the proactive campus it is, has decided to take matters into its own hands. This will be the first student-run justice initiative since the Butterfield Posse of 1973, which rode several shady outlaws out of town after tar and feathering them.
Dear Timmy, I would like to cordially not invite you to my 7th Birthday Bash featuring both Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana. My mother says I have to invite you because I am inviting everyone else in our class, but I don’t want you there. Look Tim, don’t take this the wrong way, but you smell like my pee after I eat asparagus.
On April 30, 1983, the women’s lacrosse team defeated Williams at home, 13-12, in its final action of the season to clinch a share of the Little Three title. It was the Cardinals’ fourth straight win over the Ephs.
The baseball team took two out of three games from Middlebury this weekend, putting it in the midst of the NESCAC playoff race.
It was big weekend for the entire men’s crew team, as three boats went undefeated against four other top ten New England crews. Held in Worchester, Mass. by host (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) WPI, Wesleyan’s first boat took gold in the varsity eight race, beating out fourth-ranked WPI, sixth-ranked UMass, and ninth-ranked Colby College. For their efforts, the Cards were awarded the WPI Class of 2003 Cup, their second cup of the spring.
Dendy has been a vital part of the Wesleyan softball team that currently sits in first place in the NESCAC West Division with a 5-1 conference record (11-11 overall). As the team’s ace pitcher, Dendy, who was a first team all-NESCAC selection a year ago, has a 6-4 record and an impressive 2.40 ERA, good for fourth best in the conference.
There were few question marks bigger on the 2008 men’s lacrosse team roster than the goalie position. For the past three years, two-time all-american Charlie Congleton ’07 has been a mainstay between the pipes for the Cards. During that span, the team went to the NCAA tournament all three years and twice made the national quarterfinal game.
The softball team has a lot to be proud of this weekend as it went 2-1 NESCAC West Rival Williams College. Coming into the game, the Cardinals were 2-44 against the Ephs and had never won a series. Wesleyan now stands at 5-1 in division play, leading the NESCAC West and setting itself up nicely for a return to the playoffs this year.
Everyone should boycott this summer’s 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The sponsors should unsponsor, the athletes should stop training and the countries should officially back out.