The University is offering $100 cash to the winner of a new contest, dubbed “A Minute with the President-elect,” in which students post original videos on YouTube that pose hypothetical questions to President-elect Barack Obama.
While plans for the new Molecular and Life Sciences building have been postponed, President Michael Roth’s initiatives to expand the range of science programs offered at the University will continue. A proposal will soon be submitted to the Educational Policy Committee to create an Environmental Studies major. If approved, this major would serve as a step in planning for the more expansive College of the Environment (COE), which would examine environmental issues from a multidisciplinary perspective.
I know Connecticut is not the greatest climate for growing avocados, oranges and kiwis, but I don’t think the Wesleyan fruit and vegetable co-op should be getting its food from so far away.
Although all students receive a notice concerning copyright laws and illegal file sharing when they first log on to their Electronic Portfolio each year, several students still have their Internet access restricted each semester as a result of illegal sharing.
Ten minutes ago, I went to Weshop to buy some groceries. When I entered, I was feeling happy, enthusiastic and emotionally content. When I left, I was feeling upset, insulted and unspeakably offended.
When Jae Aron ’11 was awoken in the middle of the night on Saturday Nov. 1, she was surprised to find her floor in Butterfield C covered in two inches of water. Aron went out into the hall to investigate the source of the water, where she found that an inebriated hallmate had fallen asleep in the shower and was sitting on the drain with the water running.
I’ll never forget the night my soul reached beyond its physical being and held a once cowering hand up in pride proclaiming, “Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last.”
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Last Thursday, Nov. 6th, Katherine Bascom ’10 brought the Beehive Collective to the University. An arts-based grassroots campaign that educates people about globalization, it was the first project completed under the Independent Project feature of Student Budget Committee (SBC). The feature allows students not affiliated with a student group to obtain funding for events.
The Undergraduate Residential Life Committee (URLC), a part of the Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA), passed a new lockout policy two weeks ago that allows each student one free lockout. In addition, the Office of Residential Life (ResLife) plans to refund any students who have been charged for a first lockout this semester.
Why am I indifferent? This election was not decided based on issues.
While Tuesday night marked the conclusion of the 2008 national elections, University Communications and the New Media Lab are offering students a chance to participate in their own competition. The “Minute with the President-elect” Video Contest asks students to combine political activism and their command of the video camera to create an original short for YouTube.
The men’s crew team excelled in each regatta they entered, capping off the short fall season with a first place finish at the Head of the Fish Regatta on Oct. 26.
Students walking through the Olin Library lobby have probably noticed a banner depicting a young boy and his words—“We had to leave our lovely city”—framing his solemn face. The banner is a portrait of a thirteen-year old refugee named Uryi, who fled Blarus in 2000 to seek political asylum in the British seaside town of Margate. Wendy Ewald, who took the photograph, is one of three internationally renowned documentary photographers whose work is currently on display in the Zilka Gallery.
The volleyball team had a very impressive 2008 season, finishing with an overall record of 21-7, including 8-2 in NESCAC play.
Lisa Drennan (’09 - Volleyball) concluded an incredible four years at Wesleyan with a dominant senior campaign, leading the conference in total kills for the third time in her illustrious career while Liz Wheatley (’09 - Women’s Cross Country) received first-team all-NESCAC honors in 2008 after placing sixth at the NESCAC championships out of 117 runners.
So there it is. Barack Obama has been elected the next president of the United States. Nothing to be done about it, except to perform the obvious and painful task of conducting a political autopsy to discover exactly why this turn of events has occurred.
Signups for 2008-2009 Winter Intramurals will take place until Wednesday, Nov. 12 at noon.
When activists consider about how to improve the conditions of life in Africa, they tend to approach the continent’s vast problems in a number of ways. On Wednesday, around 70 students and staff in Usdan heard two experts, Samuel Watulatsu and Kennedy Odede ’12, espouse a relatively similar attitude toward addressing East African poverty—one that stressed self-reliance over outside relief. Although the presenters were generally of the same mind, Odede’s dynamic and deeply personal address provided a stark contrast to Watulatsu’s straightforward PowerPoint-based speech—a difference that highlighted the generation gap between the two.
Visiting Instructor of Romance Languages and Literatures Simona Ceci noted that reading is “probably her biggest passion.” Although she comes from Parma, Italy and prefers to read Italian novels, she is well-versed in English and American literature, as well. Ceci is in the middle of reading “La Concienza di Zeno” or “Zeno’s Conscience.”