This Sunday, at the corner of Liberty Street and Main Street, the Middletown chapter of Food Not Bombs set up a few tables with prepared vegetarian food and vegetables, as they do every week at 12:45, despite recent intervention by the Middletown Health Department.
Change has come to Wesleying, the student-run blog read by thousands of students and alumni. The site, unaffiliated with the University’s administration, recently began soliciting donations to keep the blog running for the next two years, and surpassed its goal of $200 in only three days.
If one day a week at WesWings has not been enough to fulfill your O’Rourke cravings, fear not: O’Rourke’s diner will likely reopen next year. After his diner burned down this past August, Brian O’Rourke has been working tirelessly with the campus and the Middletown community to raise enough money to be open by fall.
Though rain and other campus events led to two postponements, the spirit of Duke Day persevered when it finally came to fruition on the sun-kissed afternoon on Saturday, Nov. 11. Following the paths winding into the WestCo courtyard, one glimpsed clusters of students sprawled on blankets, sharing beers, and playing board games as various musical groups performed near Weshop.
Long Lane Farm will be growing this summer, in more ways than one. Students plan to increase the cultivation area to a full acre, expanding into the surrounding land owned by the University. "We only planted around one-half, maybe a little less, of the acre last summer, so the expansion just means we’re actually going to plant on the whole acre," said Rachel Ostlund ’08.
Long Lane Farm celebrated Pumpkinfest, its second annual fall festival, on Saturday afternoon. Students, faculty, staff, and members of the Middletown community enjoyed a vegetarian barbeque, live music, face painting, and a bike ride were just some of the attractions enjoyed.
Professor Paul Farmer of Harvard University stressed the urgent need for public health improvement in third world countries during his lecture, "Pathologies of Power: Health and Human Rights in the 21st Century" Wednesday night. Farmer, in addition to being a medical anthropologist at Harvard is also an infectious disease physician. He has worked in communicable disease control in the Americas for over a decade and is a renowned authority on tuberculosis treatment and control.
Tsunami Relief Week took place this past week to raise money for and awareness regarding the recent disaster in southeast Asia. The series of events that week followed a widely attended forum that was held at the beginning of the spring semester. The original forum created the momentum that has led to the formation of two separate groups, the Wesleyan Tsunami Relief Campaign, run entirely by students, and the Tsunami Relief Committee, comprised of both students and administrators. Both groups worked in conjunction to plan and organize the week.
Our Parents: "Gee whiz, wanna go to the sock hop with me?"
Us: "You have been poked by Katie Brown."
On Wednesday night, half a dozen administrators, led by Dean of Student Services Mike Whaley and Director of Public Safety Maryann Wiggin, toured campus to assess which areas are in need of improved lighting fixtures.