Asian American Student Collective (AASC), in collaboration with Shakti (the University’s South Asian Student Association), the Korean Student Association (KSA), the Chinese Culture Club (CCC), and the Vietnamese Student Association (VSA), organized Asian American Identity Month, which ran throughout April. The programming for the month consisted of a range of in-person and online events, many […]
Content Warning: This article contains references to eating disorders. When the University announced that students could return to campus for the Fall 2020 semester, the Pandemic Planning Committee introduced COVID-19 protocols and rules to ensure students’ safety. They redesigned classrooms to allow for six feet social distancing, reordered dining spots on campus to be to-go […]
At the beginning of this academic year, the Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) passed Resolution 1.42, which institutionalized the Equity and Inclusion Committee (EIC) as a standing committee and redistributed the number of senators previously assigned to all other standing committees. As an official free-standing entity, like the Student Life Committee (SLC) or Academic Affairs Committee […]
Students in the University’s Science in Society Program (SISP) routinely do work in or adjacent to the sciences, and their senior theses are usually interdisciplinary, focusing on areas from anthropology to public health to environmental justice. However, prior to August 2020, there was little infrastructure for SISP students to do research prior to their thesis projects, […]
Content Warning: This article contains references to sexual harassment and abuse. Early in the summer of 2020, when many of us were sequestered in our homes because of social-distancing restrictions, Instagram took a turn toward activism. After the murder of George Floyd and the reinvigoration of the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as a wave […]
On the sun-soaked Monday morning of April 26, a group of five students gathered at the wooden benches outside Zelnick Pavilion. Carrying Dunkin’ Donuts coffee and rolls of wall-safe tape, they split up in teams of two. Jenna Handler ’24, Mallory Elliott ’23, Libby Beers ’23, Cassidy McDonough ’24, and Ellis Collier ’22 were on […]
It’s that time of year when seniors submit their theses, prep for graduation, and say their final goodbyes to Wesleyan. In the midst of all this, An Pham ’21 created not one, but two theses. This is not even close to all that Pham, a tour de force, has accomplished in their time at Wesleyan. […]
Spring has truly sprung in Middletown, Connecticut: The trees are blooming, the libraries are packed with students preparing for finals, and perhaps more importantly, Wescam season has arrived. Wescam (stylized on the current website as wescam but originally stylized as Wescam), a Wesleyan-specific online dating and hookup platform, was started in 1998 by Jesse Vincent ’98 […]
Many things were put on hold this year due to COVID-19, but it would take much more than a pandemic to keep Wesleyan Mock Trial out of their beloved fake courtroom. Just as real court cases moved online, collegiate mock trial continued competing this year over Zoom. In April 2021, the mock trial season came […]
We all know that feeling of walking into class on the first day. There’s the excitement of finding out which friends are enrolled, the worry that there’s already been an assignment you have missed, and the hope that you’ll like the professor. For students enrolling in a student forum, there’s no professor at all, just […]