The following Wespeak was collectively authored by a number of involved students, including the following: Virgil Taylor ’15, Ross Levin ’15, Nico Vitti ’12, Paul Blasenheim ’12, Zak Kirwood ’12, Cheryl Walker ’12, Meggie McGuire ’12, Mariama Eversley ’14, Isabelle Gauthier ’14, Josh Krugman ’14, Joseph Cribb ’13, Hannah Rubin ’13, Cesar Chavez ’15, Dan […]
Tickets to the 21st Annual Hugo L. Black Lecture featuring Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be available for free at the box office at 10 a.m. Thursday morning, Feb. 23, as announced in an all-student email on Monday, Feb. 20. The lecture, titled “The Originalist Approach to the First Amendment,” will take place […]
Scalia’s upcoming lecture will allow for the right wing of the American political spectrum to be represented in the University’s political discourse.
The announcement that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be giving the Hugo L. Black Lecture in the spring has spurred discussion among students, faculty, and staff.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be the keynote speaker for the University’s Hugo L. Black Lecture on Freedom of Expression this upcoming spring.
President Michael Roth ’78 spoke about his new book, “Safe Enough Spaces,” with Roxanne Coady, owner of the R.J. Julia Booksellers, at the University bookstore on Thursday, Sept. 26. While the conversation mainly focused on issues regarding free speech and political correctness on college campuses, student and faculty protesters also voiced concerns about University workers […]
Linda Greenhouse was probably writing about the Supreme Court of the United States before you were born. She covered twenty-nine sessions of the Court for the New York Times from 1978 to 2007, a run of incredible longevity where she wrote on issues ranging from abortion rights to torture. Greenhouse arrived in Washington in the […]
With the recent WSA discussions concerning funding for The Argus, I have been asked several times about my views on the status of freedom of expression at Wesleyan. I have pulled together some earlier things I’ve written on the subject, and added some new thoughts on recent debates. Wesleyan students have long been concerned with issues of “freedom of expression,” […]
As talkative as he is tall, Virgil Taylor ’15 gave the Argus an inside look at his life of art, activism, 80’s music, and getting plenty of sleep.Printmaking plays a big role in Virgil Taylor ’15’s life. He works as a teaching assistant for Printmaking 2, and he is double majoring in studio art with […]
Last week, I checked my Facebook account to find an invitation to a tailgate with the Wesleyan Republicans. I could not attend the tailgate, alas, but I was pleasantly surprised to learn that a new group has formed. I had covered the group’s previous incarnation for the Argus when I was a freshman, only to […]