Dear Michael, I hasten to stand aside for Wesleyan’s geared-up walking sandwich board of “a gauche” clichés. Of thee I sing; you’re off to the races: “All around the country people are speaking out against the outrageous injustices that people of color face on a regular basis…. (There’s) the police brutality and systemic racism that […]
Dear Michael, “White male privilege” (the term is a neo-Marxist Hail Mary, a strong-armed play to get back in the game) is being gossiped about and romantically linked with the term “fraternity.” Cute linkage, you reckon? Not half as cute as yours. To whom? To the very incarnation of “white male privilege,” the Crown Prince […]
Dear Michael, The Great Emancipator’s point man, Frederick Douglass, is quoted in your April 24 blog as well as in your latest trek “Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters.” But the spellbinding orator’s own Emancipation Proclamation, “What the Black Man Wants,” is given not even an honorable mention. A telling paragraph: “In regard to […]
Dear Michael, Regime Roth has had a strong couple of weeks. Bete Noire Beta, at last defenestrated, bit the dust. The final helpful shove was given by a hare-brained sophomore (“You’re blaming the victim!”) who fell from a third story window ledge, reportedly losing her footing while reaching for the roof in the dark of […]
Dear community disorganizer: I quote your necktie party’s faux-reflective call to action (Argus, 18 April), signed by 400 folles (and chuck in your fellow wise fous): “Because fraternities are male-exclusive and the possessors of some of our campus’s largest party spaces, they explicitly and implicitly cultivate a gender-based power dynamic that privileges men, the hosts, […]
Dear editor, The Argus flatters this writer by taking the trouble and time to improve his prose. But one can have too much of a good thing. My Nov. 18 submission (Open Letter to President Roth) contained the phrase, “bumper-sticker humanist you.” It was lengthened it to “you bumper-sticker humanist you.” The second improvement pertains […]
UPDATE Dec. 7, 7:01 pm: We originally printed an outdated version of this Wespeak in Volume CLI, Issue 23 of The Argus and published it on our website. We have now replaced it with the correct version, which can be read below. We apologize for the error. Dear Professor, Regarding the recent Diversity Forum, you’re quoted in […]
After having been at Wesleyan for three years, I have witnessed Beta be an active and crucial part of student life.
Know him or not, you’ve probably come across Zach Schonfeld ’13 before. As the dear leader and most prolific blogger of the ubiquitous campus blog Wesleying, Schonfeld has covered nearly everything that’s happened at the University worth covering
Your final paragraph “In Support of Affirmative Action” (Argus, Nov. 12) contains your high-minded refusal to engage in debate with “race-baiting” scapegoaters. (Where is your high-minded refusal to engage in name-calling?)