It was halftime of the Student vs. Faculty/Staff Basketball Game. The scoreboard read Students 24, FacStaff 13.
The Wesleyan Forum for International Development will take place on Feb. 18 at 41 Wyllys Ave. and the Daniel Family Commons (DFC). Organized by students and sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs and several departments, the forum will be a combination of lectures and workshops. Rachel Levenson ’12 said that the forum, while broadly […]
From impromptu community meetings to the heart of Occupy Wall Street, Wesleyan is known as a hub for activism. To get a better sense of the broad range of issues that matter to students here, The Argus requested submissions from the presidents and coordinators of campus organizations. The result is the first ever comprehensive directory […]
Brighter Dawns (BD) founder Tasmiha Khan ’12 won a $10,000 grant from the Davis Project for Peace in January to increase access to clean water and health education in the slums of Bangladesh. Now, over summer break, BD’s dream will begin to become a reality.
I have been here at Wesleyan for three years, and have had the pleasure of getting to know many of you. I want to let you know that it has been a blessing to have you around. I am sad that it’s your time to leave, but even if I cry, nothing will stop you from facing the outside world.
Students crammed into the Usdan Café on Monday evening to listen to Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) presidential candidates Joe O’Donnell ’13, Melody Oliphant ’13 and Zachary Malter ’13 debate their qualifications for the position.
I was in disbelief when I got the email that invited me to speak at the fourth annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U). There is no way I can share a platform with President Bill Clinton and Sean Penn, I said to myself. This must be spam. How could the former President of the United States share a panel with a Kenyan slum boy?
Last weekend, Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) Executive Director Kennedy Odede ’12 served as a panelist with former President Bill Clinton and Sean Penn at the fourth annual Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) Meeting at the University of California San Diego (UCSD).
Over the past several days, a New York Times op-ed Kennedy Odede ’12 wrote last summer about slum tourism has been repeatedly cycling through my mind (and my conversations with friends, because apparently I am a walking, talking advertisement for Wesleyan).
In an effort to improve the lives of impoverished Bangladeshis by providing them with a clean water supply, the recently-founded student organization Brighter Dawns, is amongst the groups competing for the $50,000 prize given by Dell Social Innovation to the group with the most votes.