On Wednesday, the Cardinal Conservatives continued the contentious discussion over affirmative action by hosting a lecture with Ward Connerly, founder and chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute.
If Wesleyan conservatives are particularly good at one thing, it’s riling people up. You always seem willing to do things to “troll” the community and provoke a response out of an unshakable belief in the correctness of your principles.
In an all-campus e-mail sent on Nov. 18, President Michael Roth introduced Making Excellence Inclusive (MEI), an initiative intended to promote discussion about institutional diversity.
At http://www.studentfreepress.net/archives/4534 I read Wesleyan Professor Claire Potter’s statement that for many students, presumably those of color she was writing in defense of, going to Wesleyan “is an honor to them and a privilege to our community.”
In response to “A Half-Baked Opposition,” I’d like to talk about affirmative action, its role in higher education today, and other eerily similar policies.
When Lieutenant Dan Choi was in Baghdad, he used his knowledge of Arabic to relate to the people on the ground, even visiting mosques and learning the work of Iraqi poet al-Mutanabbi.
“Glee” seems to be one of those shows that you either love or hate with every fiber of your being.
Since the announcement that the American Cancer Society was bringing Relay for Life to the University for the first time, the campus community has been fundraising furiously.
Jane Eisner ’77 has broken many barriers since her enrollment at Wesleyan.
Mark your calendar for SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2009 from 1pm – 4pm.