Continuing to stroll through its brief fall schedule, the men’s tennis team stunned the Springfield Maroon at home on Wednesday with a 7-2 team victory, placing the Cards at 1-0 in dual-match competition. "This match was a great first test for us to work our way into the season, when we will have some tougher matches," said senior tri-captain Max Schenkein ’08.
The Middletown Police Department (MPD) identified several suspects yesterday in connection with last weekend's on-campus assaults, wrote Director of Public Safety David Meyer in an all-campus e-mail on Thursday. One or two of the suspects apprehended yesterday were directly involved in the assault of a University student that occurred early Saturday morning on Church St., Meyer said. The other suspects were present but did not take direct part in the assault.
Anyone who has ever taken a guided tour here (or at any college in the U.S.) has experienced the classic backward-walking tour guide. But the days of guides bumping into trees and street signs may be at an end. The University recently revamped its campus tour, rethinking everything from tour route and time length to, yes, even the direction the tour guides walk. The new route went into operation on Monday.
As a student worker at the science library reference desk I've had the opportunity to witness first hand the disparity in quality between different electronic staplers. I write mainly to bring to the Wesleyan community's attention how much the electric stapler at the Science Library sucks.
Wesleyan University's sponsorship of war and violence through its investment in General Dynamics and Raytheon (two of the world's largest weapons contractors) is strikingly inconsistent with its stated claim to be a "socially responsible" institution. Among other weaponry, these companies manufacture warships, tanks, nuclear submarines, cluster bombs, air-to-ground missiles, and nuclear weapons delivery systems.
Please cover Ron Paul more. The mainstream corporate owned military industrial complex media is suppressing him, yet he has a huge grass roots campaign that is fueled 100% on personal contributions illegally capped @ $2300 per person --- yet even with all of this suppression, he is getting very popular.
On Tuesday, September 25th, all Bon Appétit Management Company cafés across the country will serve a lunch or dinner that is made completely from local ingredients. Everything used in the preparation of the food will come from within a 150 mile radius of the café; the only exception being salt.
Between the tasering last year at UCLA and the one this week at UF, I have developed an irrational fear of getting tasered. However, what's worse is my fear that when I get tasered (an event which I now deem inevitable), you, my peers, will not help me. Instead, you will videotape me as I cry out in pain and scream for help.
From her start in San Francisco on May 21 to her arrival in Washington DC on Sept. 10, Ashley Casale '10 walked nearly 25 miles a day on a 3,000-mile "March for Peace." Casale clearly deserves the applause she has received; the march was as much a fete of ideological purpose as it was one of physical endurance.
The recent Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) elections highlighted the full range of student uses for the write-in vote. On the one hand, write-in votes elected a student to fill the otherwise-empty eighth At-Large Representative seat on the ballot. On the other hand, write-in votes also made it possible for "Giant Joint" to come within three votes of filling the same position.
Although Ashley Casale '10 completed her cross-country "March for Peace" on Sept. 10, her adventures were not yet over. Three days later, she and four fellow peace marchers were arrested at a protest in Washington, DC.
Amid ongoing complaints about the Usdan University Center and Bon Appétit Dining Service, a group of students retaliated with a small-scale boycott on Wednesday. Their stated grievances included high food prices, unfair workers’ rights, and the inability of the new campus center to accommodate the campus community.
Certain types of people in certain types of administrative positions will come to the realization that it is amazing what people will put up with if you simply excuse an action as common practice. Asked about the recent arrest of a student for possession of less than two grams of marijuana, Director of Public Safety David Meyer replied, "These incidents occur throughout the year."
The University's Xi chapter won four awards at the National Psi Upsilon (Psi U) Convention in Boston this summer, including The Garnet and Gold Award of Academic Excellence. Other honors garnered by the chapter included: the Diamond Award of Exceptional Chapters; The Clasped Hands Award for Outstanding Philanthropy and Service; and an Award of Distinction for a banquet the chapter held in honor of the late Captain Joseph Pagano of the Middletown Fire Department.
Once reserved for the tech elite, blogs are now triggering the shift towards user-generated content on the Internet, otherwise known as the "Web 2.0" movement. The emergence of the blogosphere has even become prevalent in the Wesleyan classroom.
Posing as a prospective Wesleyan student in a phone call to the Office of Admissions, this reporter's request for information about visiting professors at the University was greeted with skepticism. Responding to the student's statement that some schools may be increasing their numbers of visiting professors, the Admissions officer said, "Where did you hear that? From the hallways?"
Although Jess Jones '08 spends a good chunk of her time these days helping Traverse Square kids put together their own weekly radio show, you should still stop her and ask why her study abroad experience was that much cooler than yours. Maybe because it involved interviewing a teacher on hunger strike, brick-walling himself into a room? She'll also come right out and say it: the coolest dorks at Wesleyan can be found in the WESU offices.
Because having friends to visit is better than having friends at Wesleyan, I went to New York last weekend and was therefore able to provide the detectives of Middletown S.V.U with a sound alibi as they investigate the aftermath of the Sex Party. But as Dick Wolf's deranged cousin searches to solve crimes that either never occurred or were declared consensual, the Wesleyan student body is spent, sleeping, or wanting more after a wild night of s-e-x.
Fewer than 40 students attended President Michael Roth's meet-and-greet reception held Tuesday night. Roth did not seem to mind the small number, engaging one-on-one with various students on topics ranging from study abroad to the proposed Usdan boycott.
As of late, the issues surrounding the sushi employees at the new Usdan University Center have been largely regarded as a result of Bon Appétit's policy practices. But according to Wesleyan Dining Union Representative Len Nalencz, that may not be the case. Nalencz is now accusing the Wesleyan administration, namely University Center Director Rick Culliton, of shirking responsibility in investigating the Advanced Fresh Concepts' (AFC) sushi franchise.
The Cardinals captured their first win of the season at Salve Regina on Tuesday, defeating the Seahawks 2-1. This win could not have come at a better time, after the team had dropped a disappointing loss to NESCAC foe Trinity 3-2 on Saturday. The Cardinals came out flying Saturday, trapping the Bantams in their own end and dominating play for the first twenty minutes.
A common theme runs through the minds of Wesleyan cross-country captains when considering the upcoming season: optimism. While the departure of several key figures from last year's squads has given opposing sides reason to expect less this fall, both the men and women remain confident.
Building on the momentum from its three-match sweep in Maine over the weekend, the women's volleyball team defeated Rhode Island College 3-1 on Tuesday night for its fourth straight victory. It was the Cardinals' sixth win over R.I.C. in the past seven seasons. With the win, Wesleyan improved its all-time record against teams from the state of Rhode Island to 35-8 (a .814 winning percentage, Wesleyan's highest against any state).
The Cardinals lost to Smith College in overtime on Wednesday, 2-1, the third one-goal loss this season. The loss brings their record to 1-3-0. Wesleyan got on the board first in the 28th minute, jumping out early in a way they hadn’t been able to do against Williams or Trinity. Following a free kick, Dasha Battelle ’11 put the rebound away for her first goal of the season.
When Tadd Gero '08 becomes a rat, he first contorts the muscles around his eyes. Next, he sucks in his cheeks and thrusts his entire body into convulsions of feeding and cleaning. "I visually consider home to be where I am," Gero said. He spoke in between bouts of rat activity.
What can one express with wood? An address, a manifesto? As a certified master printer and artisan of the Shin-hanga and Sosaku-hanga schools of Japanese printmaking, Visiting Artist in Art and East Asian Studies Keiji Shinohara has spent much of his life answering this question. This week, the Davison Arts Center opens a new gallery in celebration of the past dozen years of Shinohara's work, a retrospective that chronicles his tenure at the University. "Color Harmony" runs through December.
I think that we're off to a good start. In fact, I think we have had the most fantastic opening weeks in my now-elderly Film Series memory. "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" made me think about my Dad, which is sometimes an adventure in itself. "The Holy Mountain" prompted Anna "not a girl, not yet a woman" Szapiro '11 to confess that she's "seriously scarred for life."
Everyone knows exactly how they feel about Rob Zombie. It's fucking Rob Zombie—no one really likes him, but he's a little popular and there isn't really anything to hate him for. He's just going to do some creepy stuff kind of well and it will be ok. Like its director, "Halloween" is no more than what one expects when hearing that a creep-core musician-turned-filmmaker just made a remake of a badass 1978 blood/breast/killer classic.
Ronald K. Brown, a choreographer internationally regarded as being one of the most important of the 20th century, premiered his newest work, "One Shot", at the CFA’s Breaking Ground Dance Series last Friday evening.
There's an anecdote about a great opera teacher who couldn't sing a note. However, we seek that our professors be both brilliant practitioners in their field as well as competent teachers. Some may even prefer a classroom ambience of heady inspiration to the stability of a well-crafted lesson plan.
Middletown residents and members of the Wesleyan community gathered in Union Park last Thursday as part of a nationwide day of solidarity for the Jena Six, a group of six African-American students who await trial in Jena, La. for attacking a white student after months of racially-charged provocation. If the central focus of the vigil remained on the imminent trial of Mychal Bell, a member of the Jena Six, the issue of how the Jena Six has been covered in the mainstream media was on people's minds as well.