As financial markets remain in crisis, colleges and universities around the country are cutting spending, delaying projects and holding off on new hires.
As University students, faculty and administration work to decrease carbon emissions on campus, Eli Allen ’09 is taking this cause across the warming seas to Poland. Allen will be serving as a youth delegate to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held this December in Poland, as one of 20 American students sponsored by SustainUs, an environmental non-profit. At the conference, the SustainUs youth delegates will work to direct the attention of both the delegates to the policy plans necessary for combating global warming and the media towards the scientific and social issues at stake.
Given that we’re suffering from a recession and also given that it hasn’t gotten better in the aftermath of the election, it would be political malpractice of me not to write a few words about it.
American activists will have to modify their relationship with soldiers if they hope to advance a progressive agenda, four panelists at the Supporting Troops from a Progressive Perspective panel said Saturday. This contentious relationship between peace advocates and the military is just one of several issues the group addressed, which also included the injustices of veterans’ medical care, the need for reform at the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), and the complicated motives involved in joining the Armed Forces.
Wesleyan University prides itself for being an accepting and diverse campus.
In light of the nation’s current economic crisis, the University is reevaluating its expenditures and beginning a new fundraising campaign that will significantly contribute to the maintenance of scholarships and financial aid as part of President Michael Roth’s seven initiatives. Progress towards this part of the initiative was initially taken during Roth’s inaugural year as president, as loans were replaced by grants for families earning less than $40,000 a year. The University also partnered with QuestBridge, a non-profit program which links motivated low-income students with the country’s top universities.
The overuse of capital letters in Nicholas Moutinho’s Wespeak (“Obama supporters: have you read the Constitution?” Nov. 14, 2008, Volume CXLIV, Number 20) made me suspect momentarily that the author is not entirely serious. However, he seems sincere, and his arguments have been made by many and are worth rebutting.
Student groups requested over $100,000 more from the Student Budget Committee (SBC) this year than last, according to the SBC, a division of the Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA). While student groups requested $35,834 in September of 2007, they requested $149,359 this past September.
Dear Michael, I recently made an effort to acquaint you with some facts about Barack Obama, but what are facts? There are none, declared your Princeton mentor Richard Rorty.
One thing I’ve always loved about Wesleyan is that students tend not to consider service a duty, but a challenging and enriching opportunity originating in the vision that the world can be a better place.
Though the University offers over 25 program houses and halls for its students, David Thompson ’11 still felt that a widespread student interest—music—had been curiously ignored within the program house pool.
When identical twins Charles Puelz ’11 and David Puelz ’11 stopped by Assistant Professor of Physics Tsampikos Kottos’ office to ask about a problem set they were working on for his class, they did not expect anything more to come of the conversation. One week later, however, Kottos called the twins back into his office and invited them to join his research group in Germany for the summer.
Despite losing big-time scorer Nick Pelletier ’08 to graduation last year the Cardinals are feeling good about their firepower this season.
Men’s squash is looking to rebound from a mediocre season last year in which the squad went just under .500. The Cardinals return nine players who saw action last year, including Robert Broadfoot ’10, who played the most matches at the one spot and had an 11-9 overall record.
Although this section is called “Players to Watch,” Chris Becker ’09 is one of the hardest Wesleyan athletes to see as he is the men’s swimming team’s top sprinter.
On September 9, 2005, Wesleyan volleyball opened its season with a 3-0 victory over Eastern Nazarene College at Johnson and Wales University. In that match, outside hitter Lisa Drennan ’09, a freshman from Ann Arbor, Mich., led the team with 16 kills. This would soon become a familiar sight over Drennan’s four years in the red and black.
The women’s hockey team hit the ice this past Saturday, losing 7-1 to Trinity in a tough start to the season. The nationally ranked Bantams dominated as Wesleyan struggled to stay out of the penalty box.
The wrestling team had a strong start to its season this weekend, opening up at the Roger Williams Invitational in Bristol, R.I. The team emerged with a solid 5th place finish out of a field of 12 teams.
After a brief fall tennis season Casey Simchik ’10 will now turn her focus to women’s squash.