Red ribbons were hung on trees around campus this week to remind passersby of the AIDS pandemic as part of a series of events brought to campus to commemorate World AIDS Week. Sexual Health Awareness (ASHA) and Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC), two student groups organized Wesleyan’s participation in the international event, which raises awareness and money for research on the virus.
They inhabit Middletown’s alleyways, industrial areas and neighborhoods. They feed on discarded food, mice, small birds and handouts from sympathetic residents. They are Middletown’s stray and feral cats, and they are rampant.
Not long after Iowa University phenom Caitlin Clark waved off Raven Johnson’s offensive abilities in a viral video last year, Johnson—a guard for the University of South Carolina Gamecocks—officially named the 2023–2024 women’s NCAA basketball season her “revenge tour.” On Sunday afternoon, that tour finally ended. Johnson herself declared its completion, shouting into a microphone […]
Everyone knows the biggest problem with Main St. is its lack of dessert options, and more specifically the lack of artisanal doughnutteries. Dunkin’ Donuts just doesn’t cut it when looking for an authentic doughnut experience. Sure, if you have eight dollars on you and a severe sugar craving, there’s always the possibility of rolled ice […]
In the early months of the calendar year, high-quality film releases are the last thing any experienced theater-goer would expect. With the Oscar season wrapped up, audiences are left to feed on the scraps of projects abandoned by their studios. Conventional wisdom says that spending over ten dollars on a ticket for a product that […]
Back on the Eastern seaboard of the United States, the women’s and men’s tennis teams have continued their spring season with considerably more success than their spring break beginnings. Facing off against five different schools, the women’s team dropped only one dual to Williams. The men, having played seven different schools, also lost only a […]
Over 70 students from six different New England universities came to campus to participate in DataFest, an annual analytical competition sponsored by the University’s Quantitative Analysis Center (QAC). This year, participants gathered in Exley Science Center Fishbowl from April 6 to 7 to develop and present creative, data-driven projects. Student teams from Wesleyan, Yale University, University […]
The process of obtaining preferred housing is a complex—and at times, emotional—one, as students fight for the senior houses, two-room doubles, and high rises available on campus. For sophomores and juniors who choose to study abroad, finding appropriate housing can be even more difficult and emotionally charged and usually means forgoing preferred housing, leading to […]
Next year Wesleyan will celebrate the 50th anniversary of African American Studies. During the 1960s we became one of the best endowed liberal arts colleges in the United States. We used this money to create multidisciplinary colleges, strengthen graduate programs, and establish a university press. We also developed a groundbreaking program to recruit African American […]
When I first noticed the orange bikes—sleek in design, brilliant in color, overwhelming in their campus bike stands, shining in the light of the first warm Saturday morning—I was overcome with this thought: Holy crap. I do not have a bike on campus, but have always been jealous of those who do and have missed […]