An estimated 500 people, including many within the Wesleyan community, came together last month to celebrate the life of David Lynn Harris, Jr. ’08, who died in a hiking accident in Oregon last July.
A working group gathered Thursday afternoon to discuss the final revisions of a report on the Fountain Avenue incident that occurred last May. While some finishing touches still remain, the final report will be sent to President Michael Roth soon, and released in either full or condensed form to the University community in the next seven days.
After careful consideration by University dining service provider Bon Appetit, resident district manager Delmar Crim has been replaced by new manager Michael Strumpf.
Early Friday morning, five students were arrested by the Middletown Police Department after the University’s Public Safety officers were unable to break up an outdoor party on Fountain Avenue. About 200 students fled the area as police used pepper spray, dogs and taser guns.
Several key posts in University administration have changed hands for the new school year, sources in North and South Colleges said Wednesday. Among the changes are a number of losses, some to other institutions, along with the introduction of a host of new faces.
Renowned environmentalist and activist Winona LaDuke welcomed students this year by passionately urging them to think critically about the current global crisis of climate change and the connection between their lives and the environment.
While most students base their college decisions on academic and social factors, 63 percent of students polled by The Princeton Review’s most recent “College Hopes and Worries Survey” cited environmental friendliness as criteria for applying to college.
After two years of publicity searches, active recruiting, and student pressure, the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life finally hired a new Catholic chaplain: Father Hal Weidner.
It's not every day that several hundred students gather to reflect on climate change through dance and discussion.
It's never been clear what kind of band Bloc Party wants to be, and their latest album, "Intimacy," makes it even harder to tell.
Jean Pockrus ’08 and Matt Valades ’08 are no strangers to spectacle—last Halloween they built a “haunted supermarket” in the basement of Usdan, replete with zombie shoppers and a giant edible body made of food.
A woman lies crumpled on the floor in her best evening gown. A man stands over her. He tries to lift her up in his arms, but she twists out of his grasp and falls to the ground. The man tries to lift her again, but she eludes his grasp for a second time, dancing away into a corner.
Crime — actual crime — is something most of us don’t see. If you do it right, no one knows. So how can a film ever try to present a realistic account of this criminal underworld we hear about but never see? Quite simply, it can’t. (This, of course, may be a complete lie, but I’ll probably never know.) What it can do is use this line, this thin divide between law and disorder, to create characters so completely in opposition, so utterly crossed, that the world shakes around their conflict. And that’s just what Christopher Nolan does with “The Dark Knight.”
So hopefully you have checked out the wonderful Wesleyan Film Series over the past few nights. “Apocalypse Now: Redux” was totally epic and “The Band's Visit” was totally awesome and witty. I hope all of you little froshies are as excited and as passionate about the Film Series as we all have been in the past years.
It was late on a humid August night when Noah Hutton ’09 and his one-person camera crew found themselves crawling through a wheat field in western North Dakota, trying to sneak some footage of a drilling rig. They set up their camera behind some mounds of dirt at the edge of the field, hoping not to get arrested for trespassing. This, Hutton says, was one of the best parts of his summer.
Anne Carson's place in contemporary poetry remains uncertain. Although her books, which blend literary criticism, theory, poetry, prose and ancient Greek drama, have received praise, many find her intellectual eclecticism tiresomely precocious. Two of Carson's more noted forays into the prose poem, “Autobiography of Red” and “The Beauty of the Husband,” demonstrate her ability to meditate upon lost love.
Nine members of the University swim teams joined the Swim Across America program to make a splash for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston this past summer.
The Princeton Review’s recently published survey on “environmental friendliness” shows the issue is a growing concern among students applying to colleges. The published campus Greenness ratings, however, highlighted major shortcomings in our own seemingly environmentally friendly campus.
Dear freshmen, With an understanding of the incredible irony that such a phrase will invoke the instant you discover who is uttering it, I must say, "welcome to Wesleyan."
In the past week, Sarah Palin (the recently appointed vice presidential candidate for the Republican party) has announced the pregnancy of her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, and openly expressed support for Bristol while proclaiming her loyalties to the “Feminists For Life” anti-abortion group. Many, including Barack Obama, have articulated that media speculation on this matter be quieted, as the pregnancy is a private family issue.
Dear all of Wesleyan, let us not be as fickle as the general public.
In the past week, Sarah Palin (the recently appointe