Come to Wesleyan! I say that most enthusiastically. My four years at Wes were great, and I still visit frequently since I reside in Connecticut. But I must remind you that there is a difference between “keeping an open mind about things” and conforming to the norms or the “Orwellian Groupthink,” as Martin Benjamin ’57 discusses in his April 4 “Open Letter to President Roth” (Volume CXLIII, Number 37).
It’s 2 a.m. on Thursday morning in the ST Lab. This is neither an amusing hour nor location to be awake. Some people on campus are probably arriving home from the bar, while some are probably warm in their quilted beds. Few students in ST Lab are smiling, excluding the ones entertaining themselves with IM conversations.
This year, the Usdan Campus Center was introduced as a substitute for that venerable old institution known as McConaughey Hall, or MoCon. Those of us who spent our freshman years entwined in MoCon’s chaotic embrace, which forever smelt of mediocre Aramark food and carried the eternal clang of dropped cups, responded with ambivalence. How could this new, shiny, almost clinically clean building, whose atmosphere barely outmatched Pluto’s, hope to compete with darling old MoCon?
The last thing a fellow suspected of being a fool should do is open his mouth and remove all doubt. Pay that advice no heed, Mr. Dorman. I’m sure that I speak for President Roth, as well as myself, in saying that I’m always more than glad to hear from a product-in-the-making of ‘new and improved’ Wes.
This past weekend, I was in the bathroom, and I was trying to read Martin Benjamin’s letter when by accident the newssheet slipped out of my hands and fell into the toilet. I was about to pick it up, but then on further review, I decided that’s exactly where it belongs.
John Brush, Middletown’s new conservative blogger, doesn’t bring to mind stereotypes of Bud-drinking, pickup-driving, gun-wielding, liberal-hating red-staters. In fact, decked out in hiking boots, brown corduroys, big glasses, and a broad gray beard that is tied together at the bottom, the founder of the blog "Right of Middle" looks like he’d fit in better at a hippie commune than an NRA convention.
The Presidential Search Committee recently gave the Argus permission to publish the names of the rejected presidential candidates, as well as the presidential search committee members’ notes on each. For the betterment of the community, we’ve published them, in their entirety, below.
It gives me great pleasure, as the assitant to the deputy manager of Auxiliary Services of Wesleyan University, to release this floor plan of the new Suzanne Lemberg Usdan University Center. (name is subject to change depending on the outcome of our lawsuit with Suzanne Lemberg Usdan University). We’re so pumped about this place we had to rank the plans in numerical order from greatest to favorite.
Fun things to do during commencement? The funniest Ampersand lists of all time? Things that are harder to do once you’ve moved back home? Ampersand editors who have not attended a single meeting all semester – not even the meeting where Katie made us hamburgers and hot dogs? Things that were better about Wesleyan when we were freshmen? Things that will undoubtedly be worse when you’re a senior?
In a campus-wide e-mail sent Tuesday night, President Douglas Bennet announced that the University would be razing the Zelnick Pavillion. "I’m going to be honest, guys: we fucked up," Bennet wrote. "That thing looks as awkward as Mike Myers did when Kanye started talking about George Bush’s alleged dislike of black people."