The body of Terence Leary '06 was found in a brook under a South Main Street bridge on Tuesday after a distressed phone call to his family prompted a nearly 12-hour search. The state medical examiner has ruled the 19-year-old baseball pitcher's death a suicide after conducting a preliminary autopsy.
Incumbent Mayor of Middletown, Democrat Domenique Thornton, defeated Republican challenger Sebastian Giuliano by a vote of 4,735 to 4,503 in Tuesday's Nov. 4 municipal elections, making her the first Democratic mayor of Middletown in the last 70 years to be elected to a fourth term.
Citing her research efforts of scientific and social importance, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Wesleyan professor Laura Grabel an AAAS fellow. Grabel, professor of biology and women's studies and Fisk Professor of Natural Sciences, has gained international recognition for her work, which has recently focused upon stem-cell research.
In a bold step to address the needs of its growing Islamic population, Wesleyan recently appointed Abdullah Antelpi as its first-ever Muslim chaplain. Antelpi will join the resident Catholic, Protestant and Jewish chaplains in an effort to enrich the quality of Islamic practices, as well as further the on-going inter-faith dialogue on campus.
The Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) is calling the recently passed resolution for off-campus dining a compromise between its interests and those of the dining workers' union and the United Student Labor Action Coalition (USLAC). But the union and USLAC disagree, saying that the resolution still threatens jobs and arguing that dining workers have already compromised enough by accepting cuts last year.
The Wesleyan community will soon have another eating venue to add to the selection of campus eating options. Construction has already begun on a café in the Exeley Science Center, fittingly called "π."
In an attempt to make libraries on campus more efficient and student-friendly, a Student Library Advisory Committee is currently being formed.
The Inn at Middletown, a new hotel on Main St. provides an upscale accommodation for those visiting Middletown, especially Wesleyan parents who wish to stay near the campus.
According to Director of Technology Support Services Ganesan Ravishanker, about 2200 students, including graduate students, registered campus extensions this fall—a number that tends to decrease throughout the school year and that has been on the decline overall.
Starting Tuesday evening and continuing throughout this week and the next, University administrators supplemented the existing support services for grieving students in order to help them cope with the death of Terence Leary '06.
This past Saturday afternoon, students, parents and alumni were treated to a halftime performance by a group of cheerleaders quite different from those traditionally present at football games. Called the Wes Radical Cheer Squad, this group of about seven students had a mission greater than wishing the home team luck.
It's a familiar scene- you sit down at your computer to start a paper and just can't seem to pry yourself away from checking people's away messages, looking up your compatibility with someone on WesMatch or writing a Friendster testimonial. You think to yourself, "If only I can learn one more random fact about someone, everything will be right in the world and I can finally nail this 10 page paper."
Abdullah Antelpi’s recent appointment as the University’s first Muslim chaplain stands as a phenomenal example of the way that student efforts can influence administrative decisions.
I ran away from school the other weekend. I didn't intend to. I just needed to get out suddenly. I rode the train all the way from New Haven to Philadelphia silently, in the dark, wearing sunglasses. Big ones. Black plastic Jackie O. sunglasses that not only covered my eyes but half of my face.
Dear Ms. Greathead, So I picked up last Friday’s copy of the Argus the other day, and your column ["Stranger Things Have Happened: WesleyaNYC: Simply the best, Better than all the rest" (Argus, October 31, 2003)] caught my eye. I’m hoping that you were aiming for sarcasm with that one, and that I’m just not getting the joke. Maybe it flew over my head. But you came off as just a tad too serious for sarcasm.
The issue of points off campus has received much attention lately. Since the WSA passed its dining resolution on October 26 giving Aramark the green light to move forward with their plan to move points off campus, most of the power now rests with the WSA's dining committee. It is their responsibility to select the restaurant where points will be used, and to adopt a set of standards for evaluating potential restaurants.
We are neither heartless nor emotionless; in fact, quite the opposite. But during the course of the past three years here, we’ve noticed a rather disturbing trend: people no longer ’think’ their opinions. Instead, they ’feel’ them. The phrase "I feel like" seems to have taken over this school. Some may argue that this is simply a question of semantics. We, however, are not convinced. We are saddened by... no, wait... we feel sad because of this egregious usage of our beautiful English language.
Parents, alumni, students and other members of the University community all gathered in the newly renovated Memorial Chapel this past Sunday to sing and listen to hymns written by Charles, John and Samuel Sebastian Wesley. Sponsored by the Wesleyan University Ministry and the Department of Music, the program commemorated the 300th birthday of John Wesley, the University’s namesake.
Last Friday, in a shameless attempt to prematurely generate interest in next summer's bound to be disastrous "Alien vs. Predator," 20th Century Fox brought Ridley Scott's "Alien" back to theaters, along with a couple of scenes cut prior to the film's original release back in 1979.
This weekend, the Film Series features my favorite movie of last year, Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" — a film so good that it brought me to tears repeatedly. I found it so incredibly moving that I could not physically move for a while after I first saw it. (The same thing happened to me when I first saw Lars von Trier’s "Dancer in the Dark.") "The Pianist" is the film that "Schindler’s List" should have been.
A cursory look at the Billboard charts leads one to conclude that not too much has changed on the pop landscape since 2001. Hip-hop is still the dominant cultural force, teen pop seems to have taken a vacation, and illegal file sharing continues to eat away at record-biz revenues big time. And the Strokes still ain’t all that popular.
Faeries, woodcutters, rabbis, novelists, pigs in dresses and LSD were among the subjects of tales shared last Wednesday at the Piccadilly Pow-Wow, the first performance by the new storytelling group of the same name. A large, enthusiastic crowd of people came to the event at the WestCo Café, some clad in pajamas and hugging pillows, and for an hour and a half were entertained by their fellow students' tall tales.
Bugs. Narrative poetry. Jocks. Last weekend's "Lunge" at the '92 Theater showcased these ideas and more through dance with the senior thesis projects of Mara Gross, Vanessa Guida and Aki Sasamoto.
Alumni and family were treated to a musical sampler at Russell House as the Music Department presented "Musica Viva" on Sunday, November 1st. The event paired faculty and students in a production that celebrated the diversity of Western Art Music. With works ranging from classical composers such as Beethoven and Mozart to contemporaries like Piazzolla and Berio, no one could complain of lacking diversity.
The Wesleyan volleyball team came back against Hamilton (3-0) and Middlebury (3-1) on Saturday after dropping to Williams (0-3) on Friday. The team evened its mark in NESCAC to 5-5 at the final NESCAC Weekend hosted at the Alumni Fieldhouse. In the last preparatory weekend before the NESCAC Tournament, the Cardinals bring their final season record to 18-11 overall.
They came, they saw and they conquered. And now they face the biggest challenge of all: NESCAC Tournaments. All of the hard practices and the road trips, the celebratory wins and the disappointing losses, all of it comes down to one game for these Cardinals.
It was the first of November, but the weather felt more like a warm spring day. Family, friends, and alumni were gathered on the sidelines to show their support for the Cardinals on Parents/Homecoming Weekend. The cheers coming from the fans, however, weren’t enough, and Wesleyan was left in the dust by the Williams College Ephs resulting in a 4-1 loss in the Cards’ last game of the regular-season.
Wesleyan women’s soccer ended the 2003 season on a sour note, dropping its Homecoming weekend match-up to Little Three rival Williams 5-0 and ending its season 2-12 overall (0-9 NESCAC). The Ephs completed the regular season 8-4-2 (6-3 NESCAC), good enough for a berth in the NESCAC tournament.
Next time you walk into your local supermarket or drug store, look at what sits on the shelves. No, not the miles of pantyhose, but the labels themselves. Each container bears the name of some bureaucratic monster, such as Flemmark®, Pens or Studly Aftershave. They all have some brand name on them. But seeing as how this is a sports column, not the financial pages, you may be asking yourself: What's this all got to do with sports?