When discussions about resurrecting the Cardinal Pub took place at the end of last year, they caught the attention of WesWings owner Ed Thorndike ’89. Thorndike approached administrators and Wesleyan Student Assembly President Mike Pernick ’10 with a proposal this past summer, but zoning issues and the administration’s decision not to pursue the matter have significantly impeded its consideration.
Relatively stable only days before, Kibera, the home of Kennedy Odede ’12, suddenly became ground zero in the violent conflict between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga in late December, 2007. Having barely escaped across the country to the coastal city of Mombosa, Odede and his friends sat in shock, watching their homes burn on the television screen.
Mailman by day, restaurateur by night, Jerry Windsor, co-owner of Café Ology, has become somewhat of a superhero on campus.
Due to the recent increase in the price of the New York Times--from 30 to 45 cents per university copy--funding for the Wesleyan Readership Program is slated to run out early next semester. The program, which was started nearly nine years ago, distributes free copies of the paper across campus Monday through Friday.
The Center for the Arts (CFA) decided to bring an end to the Arts Bus this summer, thus removing a convenient transportation option for students who want to travel to New York City. Director of the Center for the Arts Pamela Tatge cited rising fuel costs and liability issues as the main factors in the decision to cancel the bus.
Well-Being House, the grandiose, substance-free Victorian on Court Street, has been on campus for over 12 years. However, when most people hear the name, they have no idea what to make of it.
“What does your name mean to you?” Micah Weiss ’10 asked a group of 15 first-year and transfer students gathered in the Nicolson Lounge last Sunday night. After receiving these instructions for the icebreaker, the students split off into pairs to discuss the origins of their names, as well as their likes and dislikes of them.
While Khalif Diouf ’11 is certainly a man-about-campus, he also just might be our first WesCeleb who is soon to be an actual celeb. Creating tracks through a collaboration with Harrison Schaaf ’11, Leif has performed with the likes of RJD2, Flosstradamus, Trentemøller, Bunny Rabbit, Rye Rye, White Williams, Mapei and Congorock. Leif has also been gaining some attention from big names like NME and Fader. He’s also one of my favorite people at Wesleyan, and I’m grateful that he granted me some time to ask him lots of formal questions.
While the term “anonymous tip line” may bring to mind a detective agency, Public Safety (PSafe) is currently trying to publicize a recent project with just this title. According to Director of Public Safety David Meyer, a lack of specifics regarding a graffiti incident in Clark Residence Hall during the spring of 2007 prompted PSafe to reconsider the ways they collect information from students. After reviewing their options, PSafe created a web page that allows students to anonymously submit information regarding criminal incidents on campus.
A team of students and administrators finalized plans last week to institute WesVotes, a partnership between the Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) and various administrative offices aimed at aiding students in the registration and voting processes. The program, currently led by a bipartisan group of University students, represents a major step towards increasing voter turnout within the campus community.
The prefix “trans” refers to binary opposition, whether it be in terms of atoms on a longitudinal axis of a double bond, two mutant genes on opposite ends of a chromosome, translation between two distinct languages, transportation between two places, or a “transgender” person. Implicit in the term “transgender” is a conception of discrete, dependent oppositional categories: male and female.
Charles Simic, former Poet Laureate of the United States and winner of countless other awards, has a vivid imagination, as anyone can tell from his poetry. But one can only imagine if he could have imagined his words being put to music, as Professor of Music Neely Bruce did at the Memorial Chapel last Sunday.
Greetings to my fellow film fans, and to those less fortunate among us who have yet to experience the Wesleyan Film Series. Well, if you happen to fall into the latter group, there could not be a better week to pop your Film Series cherry. That’s right, there really is something for everyone in the next four films. Robots, abortions, serial killers and Winona Ryder; just take your pick… or if you’re smart, take them all!
You’ve been waiting with bated breath and, yes, it’s finally that time of the month. Powder your wigs, wax your merkins, juice your loins, and grease your members; the Eclectic Sex Party is only a reach around away!
Forget what you heard about green. It’s not expensive, it’s not a fad, and it’s not just for tree huggers (although I do love my trees). Green is a mindset and an ethical basis, a scientific understanding and a spiritual perspective that is required to move into the future sanely.
Who: Megafaun, a North Carolina folk band with Jacob Milstein ’09, and Wesleyan’s the Shade.
On a campus that can sometimes seem fragmented within itself and estranged from the town that surrounds it, we believe it is important to take advantage of opportunities to create community. On Thursday, Sept. 25, the Interfaith Justice League, Muslim Student Association, Haveli India, Bon Appétit, the Middletown Mayor, the University Chaplains, Office of Community Service, Reslife, Adelphic Education Fund, Student Budget Committee, Student Activities and Leadership Development Board, Campus Progress, Middletown Clergy Association, Shakti, Havurah, Catholic Student Organization, and Wesleyan students of all faith backgrounds will come together as one community through fasting and charity.
Standing in front of the “Incantation Wheel of Garuda to Conquer Enemies,” a thangka at the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, I had to bow my head and put my hands together in praise. Not all visitors to “Pearl of the Snowlands: Buddhist Prints from the Derge Parkhang,” will be Buddhist practitioners like myself, but the art at the Center’s current exhibit is detailed enough to inspire respect from even the most atheistic postmodernist.
Bon Appétit is listening to students and Summerfields has implemented distinct menu changes since Monday, Sept. 15.
Walking from Usdan to Olin yesterday I read your numerous statements against the Bank of America on the grounds that it “FUNDS COAL,” and frankly, I’m confused.
In reading the Argus, I've observed that some people find themselves "incredibly horrified and offended" by some of what the Argus is publishing.
Purveyors of a global pleasant revolution in music and transportation made a pit stop at the University last Saturday, as students and Middletown residents were treated to a showcase of the Ginger Ninjas’ self described “mind shaking love groove folk funk roots rock explosive international pedal powered mountain music for a pleasant revolution,” at the High Rise/Low Rise barbeque. The Environmental Organizers Network (EON) invited the bicycle-powered band to campus.
Calexico is not a rock band, and it’s gratifying that the Tucson, Ariz. collective is finally ready to acknowledge it. Since 1996, Joey Burns and John Convertino, the core members, along with a crack team of studio musicians, produced four increasingly great albums, peaking with 2003’s “Feast of Wire,” which drew from American folk, Mexican mariachi and tejano, cool jazz, Ennio Morricone-style film scores, surf, Jamaican dub and a wide variety of Latin American and Caribbean styles, as well as their own classical training.
The field hockey team dominated the turf Tuesday, capturing its first win of the season against Salve Regina University, 3-1.
The men’s football team will challenge the Tufts Jumbos in Boston on Saturday. The squad has not played Tufts since 2005, when the Jumbos beat the Cards 16-6 and Wesleyan only accumulated 138 yards of total offense. The loss was Wesleyan’s first in a dreadful 0-8 season. The team has since posted a 3-5 record in 2006 and a 4-4 record in 2007.
We’ve been hearing a lot about this Estelle character lately. Some seem to believe “American Boy” is this year’s official Summer Jam, following in the footsteps of such illustrious works as “Crazy” and “In Da Club.” We disagree.
As Gayle Pemberton took the podium at Russell House on Wednesday night, she gave a regal wave and a mock bow, before spending the next several minutes jokingly attempting to curb the crowd’s adulation. But to the University community, the former professor of English, African American Studies and American Studies might as well be royalty. Chair of the English Department Ann duCille unabashedly conveyed the pride that she, along with many others, feels regarding Pemberton’s tenure on campus.
The women’s soccer team emerged from its match Wednesday with a win that it could be proud of, shutting out Smith College 2-0 on Jackson Field.
Is Woody Allen serious? He apparently wants us to think so. Ever since “Annie Hall,” his films as writer-director have been peppered (lightly or heavily) with Big Themes, Philosophical Propositions and Self-Referential Musings. I haven’t seen many of Allen’s heavy dramas and, if the well admired “Crimes and Misdemeanors” is any indication, I don’t really want to.
The volleyball team turned what appeared to be a sure defeat into a victory on Wednesday, beating the Keene State Owls in the final three games in the match in the Silloway Gym.
After an exhilarating 1-0 victory over Bowdoin last weekend with the winning goal in the final minutes, the men’s soccer team kept their momentum going Wednesday night by dominating the Springfield College Pride, with a final score of 3-1. The Cardinals did so largely on the strength of a hat trick by Keisuke Yamashita ’10, the first hat trick by a Wesleyan player since Brandon Smith ’07 in 2004.
I disagree with Trent’s analysis of the term “transgender.” First of all, the prefix “trans” usually does not imply a binary opposition. It frequently means “across” or “beyond,” like it frequently does in astronomy. Only on occasions, and linguistically they are rare, does trans ever imply a binary opposition.