The quasi-spontaneous dance party that took place last Saturday night in the lobby of the Science Center wasn’t just a great time—it was an embodiment of this spring’s vast potential
If opposition to segregation is bigotry, Martin Luther King and the freedom riders, murdered by segregationists, must have been bigots too.
Dear Fire Safety, You don’t make me feel safe; you don’t protect me in any way.
In 1939, two University students living in Clark Hall broke into its tunnels and used the water pipes to create a makeshift antenna and broadcast a grassroots radio show to their peers. They could scarcely have imagined that 70 years later, WESU would be a thriving radio station celebrating its anniversary with one of today's foremost pioneers of independent media, Amy Goodman.
Professor of Philosophy Stephen Angle specializes in Chinese philosophy and Confucianism in particular. He recently read “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness,” which discusses “libertarian paternalism,” a new philosophy with some interesting connections to Confucianism.
Aliza Simons ’09 was in Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library over spring break exploring its rare books collection when she got the long-awaited email. The Watson Foundation informed Simons that she would receive a grant for her proposed project entitled, “Voices Across the Airwaves: Community Radio Broadcasters Across the World”.
In a time when Jayson Blair and others have drawn our attention to how vulnerable we are to lies in the media as a whole, and newspapers specifically, I call for the Argus to make a stand for unimpeachable accuracy, so that it may remain the cornerstone of campus information and discussion that it has always been.
Assistant professor of astronomy Seth Redfield never owned a telescope when he was young.
The men’s lacrosse team followed up a tough loss at Tufts on March 28 with two big home NESCAC wins against Trinity and Colby.
After a series of weather-related postponements, the Cardinal softball squad finally began its three-game set against NESCAC West rival Middlebury on Saturday afternoon.
The Cardinals suffered their first defeat of the spring season, losing 7-2 to the Panthers.
After a rainy Saturday washed away the first game of a weekend series at Middlebury, Wesleyan was ready Sunday for a double-header in Vermont.
On Tuesday, March 31, Womanist House was broken into.
The men’s tennis team traveled to Middlebury on Saturday for its first match against the Panthers since April 14, 1972.
The men’s and women’s track teams competed in the Coast Guard Invitational this past weekend, with the men finishing third out of 12 teams and the women 10th of 13.
The men’s and women’s crew teams continued their winning ways over the weekend on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass.
Women’s ice hockey co-captain Hannah Jackson ’09, women’s crew tri-captain Beth Ogata ’09, and men’s crew captain Charlie Weiss ’09 were recently named the 2008-09 recipients of the Roger Maynard ’37 Memorial Award.
On Saturday night, a senior dance thesis that took place in the lobby of Exley Science Center developed into a dance party. “What are we already?,” choreographed by Molly Birnbaum ’09, had three performances at 8 p.m., 11 p.m. and midnight.