The conventional wisdom about Fucked Up is that they’re not your daddy’s hardcore band.
In the July 6, 2008 issue of the New York Times, Op-Ed columnist Frank Rich wrote a piece entitled “WALL-E for President.” The column described the cultural significance and striking poignancy of “WALL-E” at the time of its summer release
If you didn’t know, Wesleyan is in. Our musical alumni have conquered the world, or at least Brooklyn. Bear Hands and Boy Crisis are two of the leading lights of the post-Wes music scene. Both have garnered a fairly huge amount of buzz, especially across le pond. Boy Crisis just got back from England and is heading off to Iceland this weekend, while Bear Hands is about to head out on their first UK tour. But luckily, being slobbered all over by New Musical Express and that newfangled blog-o-sphere hasn’t made these proud sons of the Red and Black forget their roots. They returned once more to Eclectic last Friday to play for a capacity crowd.
Every person has his or her own preconceived notion of what photography is. We take our own photographs; we receive them; we can see them in books, advertising, on the Internet, etc. What we don’t always understand about photography is that its meaning continually changes over time, resulting in conflicting views towards photography’s fundamental properties. The new exhibit at the Davison Art Center (DAC), entitled “Documentary or Art? Photography in the Long 19th Century, 1839-1914” rises from this tension.
wkward love was in the air and on the stage last weekend at Second Stage’s “Blitz-Plays: The 24 Hour Play Festival,” a showcase of six plays written, directed and staged in only 24 hours. Of the six plays, five involved female and male characters attempting to verbalize mutual attraction, but getting lost in insecurity or unavoidable circumstances that made romantic feelings impossible to act on. If I walked away from “Blitz-Plays” with anything salient, it was the knowledge that Wesleyan students are a sexually charged bunch that has difficulty forming healthy relationships.
College lacrosse coaches now have all the information they need at their fingertips to proficiently scout and recruit high school talent from every state in America.
What would the end of the world look like? Or would it be so tragic you couldn’t even stand to watch? In his third feature, “Blindness,” director Fernando Meirelles focuses his camera on a world gone blind to tell a story of humanity collapsing in on itself.
The men’s soccer team scored early and then held on for a 1-0 win against a shaky Western Connecticut State University at Jackson Field on Wednesday.
Holy Parcheesi, it’s Homecoming Weekend! This, of course, is a time for gratuitous shopping trips, dinner at the most expensive restaurant you can find and trying to avoid explaining all those mysterious charges on your student account bill — it is, in short, a time to bleed dry the people who have loved and nurtured you since childhood.
I sat down with cross country star Liz Wheatley on a sunny morning in Usdan, and we talked about everything from hobbits to running to “Project Runway.”
Eastern Connecticut abruptly ended the volleyball team’s eight-game winning streak on Wednesday, sweeping the Cardinals in three straight sets, 25-22, 25-20, 25-11. The loss followed an impressive weekend that included two crucial NESCAC wins.
With the start of the second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2009, the University has only now begun to grasp the full impact of the economy’s recent downturn. The endowment declined by 3.9 percent for FY 2008—which spanned from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008—and the performance of the first quarter of FY 2009, which ended Sept. 30, was anything but positive.
3: Finish of the men’s crew team (out of 16 boats) in the Head of the Housatonic Regatta on Saturday. 40-3: All-time record of the volleyball team against Trinity when it wins the first set of the match.
When Jonna Humphries ’10 left Wesleyan to spend last semester at NYU, many people thought that she transferred out—but Jonna is back and better than ever. This awesome and ambitious babe sat down with me to answer a few questions about what it is that makes her so cool.
Men’s tennis was defeated for only the second time this semester on Monday, wrapping up its fall season with a 9-0 home loss to Amherst. The Cards have struggled against NESCAC rivals while surging against non-conference teams throughout their fall season.
While the students at Wesleyan may be smart, the lights in Usdan are smarter. The lights at the Usdan University Center adjust to the brightness of the room themselves—as the natural light in the room decreases, the intensity of the bulbs increases. The lights are also programmed by motion-detecting technology that will turn them off when the sensors detect no movement for 30 minutes.
Last Tuesday, two students whose home was recently burglarized sent a petition to Residential Life that called for new security measures on woodframe houses. Among other additions, the petition asked that puncture-proof windows and dead-bolted steel doors be installed in each house, along with motion-sensitive lighting for outdoor porches and patios.
Since she left Thai Gardens in 2001 to open Typhoon across the street, Sarinee Trisub and the story of her allegedly dramatic break with her former employer has become a permanent fixture of gossip on campus. In her own uniquely convivial manner, Trisub has done little to dispel or confirm the rumors of the two restaurants’ rivalry, only offering vague allusions to Typhoon’s superiority as well as backhanded criticisms of Thai Garden’s employment practices.
It may not be widely known, but every Thursday night, without fail, the Argus staff throws down. We may come off as intellectual types, but come production night this office is the most raucous party house on campus.
Karla Suarez ’11 is taking eight courses this semester in order to complete her undergraduate degree in three years.
Given the global financial crisis, parents sitting around the kitchen table worrying about paying the University’s $42,297 tuition fee should add another exorbitant cost to the list—textbook prices.
A petition calling for increased investment in security for senior woodframe houses was denied this past Tuesday due to the high costs associated with such measures.
Over the course of last year, amidst the arrival of a new president, a new student center, and a controversial new dining company, several student campaigns figured prominently in the unraveling of events. There was USLAC’s fight for better union wages and benefits; the Environmental Organizers Network’s (EON) negotiations with the administration for a greener campus; and most memorably, Students for Ending the War in Iraq’s (SEWI) extended brawl with Tom Kannam and the Investment Office over the University’s investment in weapons contractors Raytheon and General Dynamics.
This September marked an over 50 percent increase in the number of students hospitalized due to alcohol consumption, according to Public Safety (PSafe).
The Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) unanimously voted against a controversial amendment to the resolution that seeks to open the position of student commencement speaker to all seniors through an application process.