The Physical Plant workers' campaign for a revised contract became even more visible on Wednesday, when a large group of Physical Plant workers, secretarial and clerical employees and students marched through Usdan's Marketplace during the busy lunchtime period, holding signs and chanting "Contract now!"
On Tuesday, student environmentalists celebrated Earth Day with festivities in the Usdan courtyard that helped build connections between progressive activists. “We wanted to organize an Earth Day celebration like the ones we remember from when we were kids, because most of the year we’re doing serious policy work,” said Environmental Organizers Network (EON) member Allison Quantz ’10.
This past Monday, the University’s Summer Language Institute decided to cancel its French and Spanish language offerings. The decision was based on low enrollment in both languages—only six students had enrolled in Spanish while only four students had enrolled in French.
As food prices around the world continue to soar, some Middletown businesses have been forced to increase their prices in an effort to stay afloat during a time of economic hardship. According to a recent press release by the World Food Programme (WFP), “high food prices are creating the biggest challenge that WFP has faced in its 45-year history, a silent tsunami threatening to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger.”
With an applicant pool of 8,250, the University has admitted 2,242 students for the prospective class of 2012. “We were looking for students who will use this opportunity well, and who will have the capacity to study across the curriculum,” said Senior Associate Dean of Admission Greg Pyke.
As the third installment of the Argus Speaker Series, Eric Gershon ’98 talked about his experience in business reporting and the journalism field in “8 Weeks, 12 Dwarves, 3 Camels and All 72 Rockettes: You Call This Work?”
What if an established professional playwright asked you to direct the world premier of his new play? To Jessica Posner '09, this thespian fantasy became a reality at last year's Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Ky.
This past weekend, the campus was filled with the fresh new faces of recently admitted Students of Color (SOC). The Prefrosh Program for admitted SOC offered a variety of events, including the Invisible Man show, the annual SOC fashion show and Mabuhay, the Asian and Asian American cultural show, as well as open classes and academic lunches.
AT&T’s DataConnect (USB Connect 881, free with a two-year contract and rebates, and $60 monthly) lets you connect to the Internet wherever you may be. Make no mistake, at top speed, it offers true high-speed wireless access—sometimes even faster than what you get on campus, especially during finals week in Olin Library when everyone is watching YouTube.
Tanya Llewellyn ’08 had not always pictured herself writing a 218-page piece of original historical fiction. Llewellyn’s inspiration for her creative writing senior thesis evolved from the many English classes she took during her time at the University. She was particularly influenced by a course she took during her junior year: a Center for the Humanities seminar entitled, “Ordering Nature, Humanity, and Deities” taught by Professor of Religion Peter Gottschalk.
When I was ten years old, a good friend of mine lent me his Army ID for the weekend. His father had gone to Berlin, and had told him it was okay if he used it until he got back. He didn’t count on his son abusing the privilege. “If my dad finds out about this, I’m dead,” he said as he handed me the pass.
While Alex Levy ’08 may have won a lifetime supply of Legos at the age of 10, his life’s achievements certainly do not stop there. He just recently finished a senior thesis in Economics on the estate tax, spent his junior year abroad studying at the London School of Economics, and even dressed to the nines in suit and tie for this interview. Read on to find out more about this musical-loving aspiring economist.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, crust, sauce and cheese lovers of all ages, it’s time once again for the Great Connecticut Pizza Debate. To all the lovers of Iliano’s and anchovy-obsessed devotees of Jerry’s secret White Sicilian (a delicious garlic, anchovy and herb pizza that is not on the menu and takes 90 minutes to make), we are truly sorry, but this is a debate that supersedes Middletown, a place where the pizza surprisingly betrays its Italian roots.
Reading President Roth's recent book review in the San Francisco Chronicle, it is clear we have a man in North College with a complex and generally supportive view of the 1960s. At the same time, we don't think this impressive understanding of this bygone era meshes with his recent comments about the less-than-generous contract the University is offering Physical Plant workers.
I've been thinking recently about Andrus Field and about which sports teams we get to cheer on in that most central of locations between Usdan, Olin Library and Foss Hill. And I've realized that we only have two options, and they're both men's teams. Don't get me wrong. I've thoroughly enjoyed cheering on Wes football from the terraced steps behind Olin, and watching the baseball team step up to bat. I just don't understand why our options are so limited.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t support killing or arms dealing or indirectly funding wars. The University obviously has a social responsibility when it invests, but simply breaking down the situation into a moral issue is oversimplification. I think a better approach to this entire divestment process would be from an economic point of view.
We would like to write in response to last week’s Wespeak regarding Visiting Associate Professor of African American Studies Anna Bean’s case (“Bean’s case needs clarification,” April 15, Volume CXLIII, Number 40), as students who have taken her courses. When you read between the lines of this Wespeak, it seems that the authors did not care for Professor Bean’s teaching, or have not taken a class with her.
The baseball team had an offensive explosion this past weekend, scoring 38 runs in four games on the way to a three-win weekend, featuring captain Chris Simpson '08 tying the single season Wesleyan home run record.
Despite a four-game NESCAC losing streak in the wake of its first win over Williams since 1983, the women’s lacrosse team has the inside track to clinch a berth in the NESCAC tournament for the sixth straight year. The team, which currently sits at 6-8 overall and 2-6 in NESCAC play, will clinch a playoff spot with a win Saturday over Bates, a game that will represent a refreshing change from the team’s recent run of conference heavyweights.
This past Saturday, the women’s crew team traveled to Pittsfield, Mass. to take on the University of Vermont and Little Three Rival Williams College. The Cards entered the competition knowing that Williams had a fast women’s varsity eight but were determined to row hard and remain competitive throughout the race.
Dan Savage, editor of Seattle's independent newspaper The Stranger and author of "Savage Love," a popular syndicated sex advice column, makes further spectacle of his personal life in his two memoirs, "The Kid" and "The Commitment." Although much of Savage's material is explicit, he makes broad efforts to mock heteronormative American society and further the public image of gay men.
Anton Newcombe has good reason for the chip on his shoulder. A prolific start in the early 1990s got his band, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, labeled the Next Big Thing, before it was derailed by a perfect storm of drugs, volatile personalities, and plain old bad luck.
Hurrah for beautiful weather! Can anyone say global warming? I don’t know about the rest of you, but I really feel like the warm weather has infected my brain. Or maybe that’s just lack of sleep. April crazies bring May daisies? All I want to do is take my sleepy, over-worked, sun-addled brain and sit in front of a big screen and have somebody project movies for me.
I’m not really sure what it is about most straight-up dance music that pisses me off so much. A lot of what I thought was cool in high school was only so because most of my friends said it was. But even after sober parties became a thing of the past, techno and house never did it for me.
If a prefrosh didn’t know any better, one might assume that, based on the modest flyers plastered around campus, last Friday’s annual Mabuhay performance—intended to showcase the talents of the University’s Asian and Asian American community—might be too humdrum an event for a Friday night.
Last week our local Destinta movie theater finally did something interesting, an all-you-can-eat horror double feature. A well-intentioned but ultimately weak attempt, Fright Night’s single largest flaw was completely out of Destinta’s control: the movies just didn’t have a heart.
I’m just gonna go ahead and call this as this year’s “We Are Your Friends.” Jacksonville’s Black Kids are already just about as catchy and adorable as up-and-coming indie bands get, but the early-MGMT disco-pop stylings of The Twelves gives their viral single just the edge it needs to catch your ears and keep you dancing at the next Tomb party.