As Chris Goy ’09 was busy perusing Film Studies courses at the beginning of the semester, the Student Budgetary Committee member was struck by the relative fee amounts for different courses, which he had previously assumed were charged explicitly to finance 35-millimeter film.
On sunny mornings, the soft strumming of a guitar often greets students walking past the “Divestment Office” on the Investment Office’s front lawn on Wyllys Ave.
For the past 20 years, the number of applications for the 30 seats in the College of Social Studies (CSS) have hovered in the 30s and 40s. This year’s application process, however, was much more competitive, with 61 students vying for a place in the program.
Activists gathered at the University on Saturday for the largest student-initiated anti-war conference ever held in Connecticut, sponsored by Connecticut Opposes the War (COW). Students, who hailed from 25 Connecticut schools, joined other activists in workshops and meetings that were intended to outline plans for specific anti-war campaigns.
Every Friday Tania Serrano ’08 arrives at Usdan around 7:30 a.m. to open the building. Wearing a red and black polo shirt, she unlocks all the exterior doors, ready to take on the varied responsibilities of a Usdan student manager.
A new member of the Teach For America (TFA) corps, Amy Ruiz ’07 felt ready to tackle the problems she’d studied in her sociology seminars when she started teaching sixth grade last fall in Newark, New Jersey. Still, she was shaken when less than one month into the school year, the one other TFA teacher working alongside her at Rafael Hernandez School decided to quit.
With the departure of Doug Bennett and the arrival of Michael Roth this fall, the University entered a new period in its development as an institution. Already, the new administration has made important decisions regarding the University’s future, most notably in determining how to allocate financial resources in order to improve the University’s competitiveness vis-à -vis its peer institutions.
Despite the fact that it’s only mid-April and last night’s low temperature was 33 degrees, spring has officially arrived—on the hill, at least. Last Thursday was a particularly fantastic example of the fashions that the best dressed at Wes are rocking this season.
When The Argus editors asked me if I would consider writing about diner food for this week’s column, I was immediately receptive to the idea: it so happens that I’m completely fascinated by diners and the hearty, dependable, gut-busting fare that they tend to serve.
Howdy thesis writers! I just spent the last few hours with you fine folks following the submission of your theses, submerging myself in the seedy underworld of undergraduate academic excellence. Now, getting crunked up with people that have just turned in their theses is a lot like how I imagine partying in America was like immediately after the repeal of Prohibition: all the cool people had spent the last few years getting all hopped up on giggle water at the speakeasies around West Egg, but now all those law-abiding over-achieving large-front-wheel-bicycle-riders from the Women’s Christian Temperance Union are drinking too.
A little secret about senior theses: only illiterate people write them. A few great thesis writers: Fantasia Barrino, Helen Keller, and Zach Davis.
Stacey Augmon. I bet when I just mentioned him, he was the farthest thing from your mind. If he was, well, then you’re just an insensitive prick. Stacey “Plastic Man” Augmon was one of the most electrifying college basketball players of the early 1990s, a three-time Defensive Player of the Year while at UNLV, scoring more than 2,000 points and grabbing more than 1,000 rebounds on his career, and being a member of UNLV’s 1990 National Championship team.
Beware, C-League Intramural softball teams! For you lie in the crosshairs of the heartiest hurler since Mordechai “Three-Finger” Brown! His career started in nineteen hundred seventy six, as a mustachioed Salvador Dali-wannabe with his patented postmodern slider (upper left). The ball would travel midway to the plate, stop, question its own existence, and then commit suicide. Strike one, sir, strike one.
By 4 p.m. yesterday, the campus was peppered with seniors cheering and toting champagne bottles—many of them assembled on the lawn in front of Olin Library at an impromptu party—as the deadline for written senior theses arrived, at long last, and passed. The deadlines for Art Studio, Dance, Film and Music theses were interspersed between the last week of March and this past weekend.
There are few things as difficult to define than the idea of tradition. By nature of its definition, it is related to the past and therefore when held up to modern standards, seems antiquated and (to some) irrelevant. Yet, again by nature of its very definition, it links the present to the past, and constantly reminds us not to forget the past and its importance in shaping the future. That said, there are some traditions worth keeping, and some that are not.
Hi everyone. I am Becky Weiss ’10, chair of the Wesleyan Student Assembly’s (WSA) Finance & Facilities Committee. I have served on the WSA for the last year-and-a-half. In that time I have worked closely with Mike Pernick ’10 and Saul Carlin ’09, both of whom have proven to be outstanding WSA members.
Since being involved in the now infamous Sour Patch Kids incident last week, I have been met with nothing but support from the Wesleyan community. Everywhere I go, people are all like, “Hey man, that shit is crazy, you better not have to pay that fine,” or, “Al, what can I do to help you fight this injustice?” And I thank you all for the words of encouragement.
We do not disagree that there are problems regarding the hiring and existence of visiting professors at Wesleyan and in academia generally. We do, however, take issue with The Argus’s conflation of visiting professors in general with the specific case of Visiting Associate Professor in the African American Studies Program Professor Annemarie Bean (“Visiting professor turnover questioned after Bean’s dismissal,” April 11, 2008, Volume CXLIII, Number 39).
I apologize for waiting this long, but I, too, have also experienced the harassment of Officer Clark first hand. In the summer of 2006, I was followed in my car by Clark, who eventually pulled me over. The reason? I looked “black” from behind and my red car was believed to have weapons in it. After stopping me at the four-way intersection near Long Lane, I was pulled from the car, thrown onto the sidewalk and handcuffed.
Last Friday we attended a conference on investor responsibility on behalf of the Endowment Advisory Committee (EAC), the Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) student group that makes recommendations to the Investment Office on shareholder proxy resolutions. This national gathering of campus investor responsibility committees was hosted by Columbia University and organized by the Responsible Endowments Coalition, a national organization that works with students to promote investor responsibility.
Here’s a shocking fact—the food system is responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions! In fact, scientists have shown that dietary choices can equal the difference between driving an efficient sedan versus a large SUV. Bon Appétit Management Company is taking a leadership position in the fight against global warming with our Low Carbon Diet. We are implementing over 20 procurement initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the highest impact areas of our business by 25 percent.
In a preseason interview, men’s lacrosse Head Coach John Raba noted that the team’s scoring depth would be crucial to the its success this season, with the presence of four 20-plus goal-scorers from 2007 denying opponents an opportunity to focus on shutting down one player.
The golf team traveled to Dudley, Mass. last Friday for a quad match against Nichols College, Brandeis University and Johnson & Wales University. Playing under cloudy skies and cool and damp conditions, Wesleyan struggled to a fourth-place finish with a team total score of 330. Nichols took first place, shooting a 315 to Brandeis’s 317 and Johnson & Wales’s 319.
There was no calm on the water this past Saturday in Malden, Mass. when the women’s crew first eight, ranked tenth in New England, endured a grueling race against Tufts University, ranked sixth, the team’s second race of the day.
This past Friday, a luncheon was held for Maynard Award winners Zach Schechter-Steinberg ’08, Stephanie O’Brien ’08, and Lucia Pier ’08, in support of National Student-Athlete Day, an annual NCAA event.
After a month of road meets, Wesleyan track and field finally came to Middletown on Saturday for its lone home meet of the 2008 season. The Cards did it right, too, racking up 11 first-place finishes as they dominated the field of ten schools participating in the Elmer Swanson Invitational.
The softball team swept the Panthers this weekend in a triple-header at Middlebury, giving them a commanding lead in the NESCAC West division with a record of 8-1.