After all the votes were tabulated this weekend, Student Activities Chair Mike Pernick ’10 soundly defeated Student Budget Committee member and former Wesleyan Democrats President Chris Goy ’09, 65 percent to 31 percent, to secure the spot as the next President of the Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA).
On Monday, the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) again decided to ask the faculty to exclude study abroad grades when calculating a student’s grade point average. Instead, all grades earned off-campus will count only as University credit. Almost all of the University’s peer institutions use this sort of system.
How often is it that college friends are able to translate a senior thesis project to the Broadway stage? For Lin-Manuel Miranda ’02 and Thomas Kail ’99, this was precisely the process for their musical “In the Heights.”
The University community’s web dependence became clear last Tuesday, when the Internet shut down for several hours due to a hacker, leaving many students and faculty waiting anxiously for unfettered access to return. Fortunately, it did. This brief technical glitch, however, underlines a long-term Internet issue that has been pestering the community over the last several months: a very slow streaming of online videos. This problem has especially affected those who use on-campus wireless Internet connections.
This semester, Assistant Professor of Art Elijah Huge’s Architecture II class is trying something new. Not only is the class researching and designing a project for an outside client, but the students are also building this project.
Question: Should race-based Affirmative Action continue into the 21st Century? Answer: There has been a dramatic decline in the gap in educational attainment between Blacks and Whites since the middle of the twentieth century, from 2.9 years in the 1920s birth cohort to 0.9 years for the 1970s birth cohort, due in part to Affirmative Action.
Upon picking up last Tuesday’s Argus, I was immediately struck by the headline ‘No Wesploitation’—a highly dramatic title, and certainly one which enticed me into reading the attendant article. According to the writer, apparently the officials at North College are busily engaged in a masterwork of exploitative cruelty designed to make our noble labor unions bend their knees to losing money every year while toiling ever harder to serve their capitalist masters. It is nothing less than slavery that North College demands, we are told, and to make matters worse, the Union might even be forced out by the introduction of subcontractors! Somebody call Upton Sinclair back from the grave, this is really a crisis!
Choosing where to land after graduation (or just for the summer) can be difficult. After all, Middletown sets a pretty high bar for standard of living and the weather in New England can’t be beat. But, while you might miss good ol’ CT, here are some other interesting locales to consider for your time after Wesleyan.
It’s heating up ’round these parts, and many of you don’t have air conditioning. In order to protect against heat rash, here are two refreshing iced teas. The first is more of a technique than a recipe, while the second is so quick and easy that you won’t miss any valuable Foss Hill time.
Students returning from abroad may no longer have to worry about translating restaurant menus, but they should worry about another kind of translation: their grades. In light of the Educational Policy Committee’s (EPC) vote in favor of a policy that excludes study abroad grades when calculating a student’s grade point average, we encourage the University faculty to reevaluate treatment of grades received abroad.
I read, and joined, with warm interest President Roth’s trip down memory lane (“Productive Idealists,” Roth on Wesleyan) as he wrote of the turbulent ‘60s and the real changes in our society wrought by students and campus activism.
The former “Zonker Harris Day” is finally no more and I, for one, welcome it. It is obvious that the students of America’s elite universities should not be permitted to even consider Zonker Harris’s unprofitable lifestyle as an option. War protests, pot smoking, and prolonged relaxation have no place at Wesleyan…not even in jest. This is why our institution’s fearless leaders have had the foresight to censor the incipient thoughts that the title “Zonker Harris” plants in our impressionable minds.
I am assuming since the University accepted my donation for Zonker Harris Day 2008, the event went off after all. Thank goodness!
In one of the saddest moments in recent Wesleyan history, students awoke Monday morning to find that the sustainable, environmentally friendly community that they had worked so hard to cultivate had been shattered. Slathered on the door of a second floor dorm room in Clark Hall was, to the utter dismay of EON members and also other people, a most offensive and destructive brand of graffiti.
We, the Ampersand, are proud to announce that this issue is entirely green. However, we cannot be selfish in honoring ourselves. The award for the greenest place on campus goes to Anne and Nat Greene’s house.
-Drink green beer. St. Patrick’s Day is everyday now! And everybody’s Irish. Even Jews! -Move to Colonial Williamsburg. Why, your only emissions will be farts! (ed. note: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!)
To celebrate Earth Day, or Earth Week if one day isn’t enough to exercise your liberal guilt, some brand spankin’ new initiatives were put forth by businesses around the nation. The green initiative, getting as rampantly overused as the red conspiracy, yellow peril, or the chartreuse agenda (the worst of them all), has permeated and mutated into a slew of new conscious-clearing items for sale.
Wesleyan track and field headed to Hamilton on Saturday for this year’s NESCAC championship meet. Three Cardinals turned in the best individual performances of the day in their events, as the men’s team took fourth and the women finished eighth out of the eleven NESCAC schools.
While watching SportsCenter recently, the running segment “Question of the Night” came onto the screen, where a question is asked, choices are given, and fans vote online to decide the outcome. Normally, this is a negligible segment of an increasingly crowded show that has begun to resemble MTV when “music television” made its shift from exclusively showing music videos to replacing them with shows such as “True Life: I Want the Perfect Body.” While it’s entertaining to watch these trainwrecks unfold, they are not exactly in line with the original intent of the channel.
Following a pair of weekend wins, the men’s lacrosse team is in the NESCAC tournament semifinals for the sixth straight season. The team defeated Bates 14-10 on Saturday to secure the second seed and returned home to deal Trinity an 11-5 loss on Sunday. The Cardinals will now travel to Middlebury—the tournament host for the seventh time in its eight years of existence—to take on fourth-seeded Bowdoin, which defeated Connecticut College 11-10 in overtime on Sunday.
This weekend, the softball team went 1-1 with NESCAC East second-place finisher, Trinity College. The doubleheader was a preview for the upcoming playoffs, which begin this Friday, as the teams will open up against each other.
I’m a Washington Capitals fan. Always have been. And now that I’ve recovered from the inexplicable seven-game first-round loss to the eminently dislikable Flyers, it’s time to complain about something other than the no-call on Sami Kapinen’s goal. That something is the lack of coverage of hockey here in the States.