Haley Baron ’12 was about to take another bite of her Usdan salad when she noticed something strange on the leaf—a pinky-sized brownish green caterpillar.
Nestled next to Long Lane Farm sits the Wesleyan University Press, small, overlooked, and increasingly celebrated. This semester alone, the Press and its legendary poetry series have been thrust into the literary limelight after two of its collections received national recognition this fall.
This fall break eight Wesleyan students gathered in Washington, D.C. to counter the claim that one voice can represent all American Jews and their connection to Israel and the Middle East.
On Tuesday, the University received 100 doses of the H1N1 vaccine from the Connecticut Department of Public Health.
On Monday, Oct. 26, Middletown health and school officials decided to close Keigwin Middle School for the remainder of the week due to the high number of students exhibiting influenza-like symptoms. According to Middletown School Superintendent Michael J. Frechette, 40 percent of students were absent on Monday due to illness.
Just ask the librarians in Archives and Special Collections about the history of the mascot here at Wesleyan, and you will find that Wesleyan students have had a mischievous streak since at least 1915.
There are a lot of associations people make when they hear the name Wesleyan University: nudity, extreme liberals, and hipsters, for example. Army training grounds, however, does not usually make the list.
On Wednesday, Oct. 21, students gathered on the steps of Olin Library for Take Back the Night, an event that allows survivors of sexual assault and rape to speak out about their experiences in order to increase awareness about sexual violence.
Stephen L. Morgan’s pre-trial at the Middletown Superior Court on Tuesday, Oct. 20 was postponed until Dec. 15. Morgan, who was charged with fatally shooting Johanna Justin-Jinich ’10 last May, appeared in the court for the first time since early September.
There are many ways to get to places in Ecuador, and I have experienced almost all of them, except for the plane and llama. This is a summary of transportation in Ecuador, in case this column has inspired you to visit.
News from the Middletown, Hartford, and New Haven areas.
As we sat around a makeshift dinner table—a door propped up on milk crates—with Christmas lights and calm music in the background, we knew we weren’t in Usdan anymore.
We commend Bon Appetit for serving organic produce, albeit a few times a week and sometimes with bugs.
“Alice Ashes,” the play written and directed by Daniel O’Sullivan ’11 that opened in the ’92 Theater on Oct. 15, is a show about aging, loneliness, betrayal, and the often-bitter lives people lead.
There is a third option in the challenge for our environmental future: that we maintain our “destructive” ways and when nothing happens, radical environmentalism suffers yet another self-induced annihilation of its own scant credibility.
Chris Correa, class of 2010, is sitting across from me in an armchair—one of those big, fuzzy ones that dot the entrance to SciLi.
Entering the CFA Theater to see “Disfarmer” two Saturdays ago, I have to admit I was skeptical.
The information board outside the “Enlightening Images” exhibit at the Mansfield-Freeman Center opens with two quotes on the nature of images.
After starting out its season 0-6, the volleyball team finally has a winning record, and is sitting at 13-12 (4-5 in NESCAC play) after winning five matches in a row since Oct. 20.
The title of stand-up comedian Eugene Mirman’s third album would certainly catch you if you were to spy it out of your peripheral on a shelf in a music store
Last Saturday, while most of campus was enjoying the first day of Fall Break, the men’s soccer team was challenging Amherst on the Lord Jeffs’ home turf, looking to break two school records and continue its magical season.
In the spirit of Halloween, Death Match, or Undead Match, as I’d like to call it, is tackling the sacred collegiate canon of zombies.
This Friday and Saturday, two members of the dance department will present an evening of solo and duet performances, entitled “Connection.”
Paranormal Activity may be one of the biggest box-office success stories of the year.
The Wesleyan football team traveled to Amherst this past Saturday for their first Little Three game of the season, losing 23-0 to the Lord Jeffs. Rain fell for most of the game, contributing to a messy field and a similarly sloppy game by the Cardinals.
Red Wire Black Wire is an indie band founded at Wesleyan and based in Brooklyn that slings antiquated synths and just put out its first LP, “Robots and Roses.”
Last Saturday morning, the men’s and women’s cross country teams competed in the Little Three Championships, hosted by Amherst. Despite the rainy weather, the Cardinals put up a good fight against their two biggest rivals, though both the men and women came in third overall.
Alright, first of all, there’s a pretty basic taxonomic issue we have to address before we discuss zombies.
Returning to the pitch after a week of preparation, the women’s soccer team traveled to Amherst on Saturday looking for its first win against he Lord Jeffs since 1993.
While it is statistically true that there are other great horror movies, we have been unable to find any totally magnificent death outside of the Final Destination franchise—aside for the brilliant decapitation of Paris Hilton in House of Wax.
After running its winning streak to five games with a pair of wins against Salve Regina University and Mount Holyoke College, the Cardinal field hockey team lost at Amherst 3-0 on Saturday to fall to 7-6 overall and 2-6 in NESCAC play.
NESCAC Executive Director Andrea Savage has been appointed to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Board of Directors, the ECAC announced Tuesday.
The crew teams completed their fall action on Sunday, rowing in the Head of the Fish Regatta in Saratoga, N.Y.
“Turkeys,” a one-act drama written and directed by Anthony Bryan Lexington Smith ’11, is a multidimensional piece of theater that captures the dark complexity of human relationships.
The golf team concluded its fall action Oct. 19-20 in the New England Championship in Brewster, Mass., in which the team placed 31st of 39 teams.
