The recent gathering of the Board of Trustees highlighted both the important strides towards fixing Wesleyan’s budget deficit that have been made recently and the long road that we may have yet to travel.
The Wesleyan Student Assembly is pleased to announce that Roger Cohen will give a lecture entitled “The New Middle East and its Challenges for America” on Wednesday, March 4 in the Memorial Chapel.
Hannah, I am offended that you felt the need to be so rude, condescending, and mean to me in a public Wespeak.
These girls narrowly missed bringing finishing the season with the best record among Wesleyan’s 11 winter teams. And it seems as though they’re only going to continue to get better.
Since breaking onto the scene as a freshman with an indoor-record triple jump of 46-0, Tommie Lark ’11 has established himself as one of the top jumpers in the NESCAC.
After being named NESCAC Rookie of the Year in 2005-06, Fourney continued her rise up the ladder.
The men’s swimming team took home fifth place out of a field of 11 in this weekend’s NESCAC Championships, their second-best finish in the nine-year history of the meet.
Women’s ice hockey head coach Jodi McKenna was recently named an assistant coach for the U.S. Women’s National Team at the 2009 International Ice Hockey Federation World Women’s Championship.
Tommie Lark ’11 represented Wesleyan track at the New England Open Championships, which were held Friday and Saturday at Boston University.
Casey Simchik ’10 and Liz Demakos ’09 competed in the College Squash Association National Individual Championships over the weekend in the women’s squash team’s final action of the season.
At the end of January, Wesleyan’s endowment was $488 million dollars, a thirty two-percent loss since its peak in late 2007. The budget, which is approximately $208 million, will drop to roughly $188 million next year.
This weekend, the Board of Trustees approved the proposal to increase student enrollment for the next four years, beginning with the class of 2013.
Although the University’s endowment now sits around $488 million, next year’s tuition increase will be substantially lower than originally proposed.
As the economy deteriorates, institutions across the nation have been digging deep and implementing new policies to make ends meet.
In separate meetings this weekend with the Board of Trustees and the Board’s Finance Committee, President Roth discussed new measures that may have to be taken in response to the University’s budgetary crisis.
The organizers of D.C.-based Our Spring Break, a two-week program begun by students to promote anti-war activism, have a different vision as to how their time and energies can best be spent.
Currently, Connecticut is one of the only states in the nation that prosecutes minors in adult courts and incarcerates them in adult prisons.
As you may have heard, there has been quite a shakeup in the late night programming world. Jay Leno is stepping down from his host position at “The Tonight Show”, Conan O’Brien will be taking the helm at the 11:30 p.m. slot, and Carson Daly’s only viewer gave up falling asleep with the television on for Lent.
We come back from the fake commercial break. Brendan is passing out on the couch while Brian ventures into the audience. Over the break Brian took off one of his socks, put it on his hand and placed a lit cigar in the makeshift puppet’s mouth. Brian then walks up to a woman wearing a lot of makeup and the puppet asks, “Are you going to a kabuki theater after this?”
When students think about activism at the University, they are likely to think about environmentalism, labor issues, and human rights. Religion, however, may soon become the next key factor in campus activism.
Psychology Professor Scott Plous is an acclaimed teacher and scholar both within his field and in the broader academic world. This past August, he received the American Psychological Foundation’s Charles L. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching of Psychology.
Professor Khachig Tölölyan immigrated to the US with his entire family from Beirut, Lebanon when he was 16 years old. A member of the Armenian Diaspora, Tölölyan is connected with communities throughout the world, one of them being the community at Wesleyan, where Tölölyan has worked for 34 years since finishing graduate school in 1974. Tölölyan’s tenure at the University has given him a panoramic view of the University and of the way it has changed over time.
