In response to reported inefficiencies in the traditional paper system, the registrar has implemented electronic "enrollment requests" that will replace Wesleyan's familiar add/drop slips.
Receiving numerous favorable reviews and a series of awards, Alexander Chee '89, author of the book "Edinburgh," won the Whiting Writers Award on Oct. 30. The names of all of the ten winners of the award appeared on the second page of Monday's Arts section of The New York Times. Each winner received $35,000.
The family of deceased student Terence Leary ’06 joined the Wesleyan community to celebrate his life at an ecumenical Memorial Service in the chapel today at 4 p.m. Leary, whose body was found below a Main Street bridge on the afternoon of Tuesday, Nov. 4, was a resident of Butterfield C, a pitcher for the baseball team and a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity.
This week, arrest warrants were approved for Cecil Hylton, the man who was arrested and charged in October in connection with two laptop thefts on campus, linking him with at least thirty other thefts at the University this year.
Shy of sleeping with professors, there’s no guaranteed way of getting into classes, and let’s face it: no matter what your mother may have told you, some of us weren’t born beautiful.
I’m the first to admit it: when people ask me ignorant things about homosexuality, I get annoyed and offended. My first reaction is anger. Dismiss the ignorant, blow them off; who cares, right? They offended me, they are ignorant and this is a despicable world. But these thoughts are counter-productive and scary. How can we ever hope to improve our society if we allow its own ill-conceived ideas to perpetuate themselves?
I remember the first time I saw a white person wearing cowry shells. This mindless appropriation stunned the hell out of me. Then Wet Seal started selling cowry shell jewelry, then the "Asian dresses" (as we called it back in Brooklyn) came out and became all the rage (by all the rage I mean 5 girls at senior prom wore them), then Madonna was cool and did yoga, and Richard Gere is the image of Buddhism that the US media usually chooses to present.
I had a frustrating weekend two weekends ago. While I was walking home from radical cheerleading practice, a white man stuck his head out of his window and shouted "faggot" at me. Unfortunately, I was not surprised, as i had just learned from some friends that they too had recently been called racist and homophobic slurs.
In response to the Wespeak: "Productive debate, not drunken debate," about the incidents at Intown last Saturday night, I would like to say that I was misrepresented and my quote was taken out of context in a racist manner. The debate was about the Hawaiian party that was thrown that night by some Beta brothers. Many other students and I were offended by this event because it served to ignorantly appropriate another culture and was racist.
Ms. Shrier, Ms. Greathead would like to respond to "I hope you were aiming for sarcasm." She was, and apologizes for her failure to convey that. Have a nice day. —Kate
Like Matt Browner-Hamlin, I too was part of the "Productive Debate, Not Drunken Debate" last Saturday night. However, my night wasn't productive, but painful and disturbing. Our "dialogue" was not "fruitful and informative," nor was it "productive, educational, and intelligent." Any discussion which ends in throwing beer, calling someone a bitch, and threatening to call the cops is not productive.
(Author’s note: I wrote this editorial the same day Jameson Walthers’ critique was featured, and submitted it one day before the deadline for Wespeaks published in Friday’s paper. For reasons I can’t comprehend, it was never printed. I resubmitted the editorial with the conviction that, though some of my response’s urgency may have been lost, its necessity wasn’t.)
For Stephen Young ’73, the U.S. ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, diplomatic work was "a natural choice." Young joined the Foreign Service in 1980, after completing his doctorate, and has been in diplomacy ever since. He is armed with a B.A. in History and Russian Language and Literature from Wesleyan and a master’s degree and Ph.D in Russian History from the University of Chicago.
To the beating of drums, travelers on the Interfaith Kyoto Pilgrimage walked down High Street on Tuesday, Nov. 4 en route to New York City. Organized by Religious Witness for the Earth—a Buddhist organization devoted to preserving the environment—the pilgrimage will culminate on Nov. 12 with a protest at the United Nations in support of the Kyoto Protocol.
Not only did Jacob agree to be interviewed at midnight on a Sunday, he also invited me over to his house for the interview, where he and Sascha Stanton-Craven '04 treated me to ice cream, Adult Swim on Cartoon Network and their thoughts on everything from dating to puppies.
For most Wesleyan students, college life is a mere bus or airplane ride away. For a select group of international students, however, entry into the country and the institution is a time-consuming struggle to prove their good intentions to a suspicious government.
Last weekend was my first homecoming weekend at Wesleyan. And although I anticipated that there would be a lot of activities going on throughout the weekend to entertain the numerous parents, siblings, alumni, grandparents etc, I hardly expected the transformation that would take place throughout campus in an attempt to appease these spectators.
Last year La Cantina was my favorite Italian restaurant in Middletown. I thought it was delicious and authentic. After spending this past summer in Italy taking a class about Italian food culture, I wondered what I would now think of the food at La Cantina. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I still thoroughly enjoyed my two meals at the venue, which remains one of my favorite Middletown restaurants.
This past Saturday the Cardinals suffered a 53-0 loss to the Trinity Bantams, Division III's 24th ranked team. The Bantams secured their first undefeated season since 1993.
In what was considered a JV event, the men's and women's Cross Country teams ran extremely well despite the cold weather at the ECAC Division III Championships at Tufts University on Saturday.
The Cardinals volleyball season ended Friday night against the Colby Mules in the quarterfinals at Williams College. The Cardinals ended their season at 18-12 overall (5-5 NESCAC). The Cardinals rank sixth in NESCAC. This weekend was the last for Cardinals Quad-Captains Melissa DeCew '04, Marielle Lesnivich '04, Jocelyn Moore '04 and Katie Porter '04.
There are some things in the universe that are just too hot to touch. The sun is an example of one of these things that you don’t want to come close to. The same goes for the earth’s core. Pat Moffett is approaching that "too hot" threshold at an alarming speed. As I sit next to him in class, I begin to feel a little nervous, for there is a good chance that I will burst into flames and melt like a stick of butter on a frying pan.
Me: Hey. Yoga Boy: Hey. Me: You're in my yoga class, right? Yoga Boy: Yeah, totally. Me: What do you think of the class so far? I think it's really hard. It's weird though, I pretty much fart my way through the whole thing. I guess I just store all of my tension in my ass or something. Or I'm just a big ol' fart machine.
The end of the semester is getting uncomfortably close, and we have yet to generate a single angry Wespeak. What’s going on? We’ve tried everything. Everything except for killing puppies, and that’s how far we’ve gone for you this week. Someone must care enough about these poor little puffballs to get upset about their demise.
Under the guise of an activist conference, students turned the science tower into a representation of a hobo camp this weekend. The gathering, which brought together members of campus groups from several schools, spread over the entire first floor of the Exley Science Center. Students filled trash receptacles to overflowing and placed backpacks and other hobo paraphernalia around the building. Many also dressed the part.
[editors' note: keep in mind we have a limited budget] True Story: A friend of mine was at a party and struck up a conversation with a hardcore vegan. Farfetched, I know. But it's true, so bear with me. So they're talking and the conversation turns to how much someone would have to pay you to kill a puppy with your bare hands, as conversations often do.