In Play(er) of the Week, we seek to highlight Wesleyan athletes or parts of games that deserve extra attention. James Marsden ’26 is a center fielder and pitcher for the Wesleyan men’s baseball team. Marsden recently won the NESCAC Player of the Week award for his performances during the Cardinals’ spring trip to Tucson, Ariz., and helped […]
When Talia Rodriguez ’24 recalls her childhood, two things come to mind: sports and food. Growing up in Garrett Park, Maryland, Rodriguez spent much of her time trying every sport under the sun and growing particularly fond of basketball and soccer. When not playing these two sports, she found herself in the kitchen cooking with her […]
As the final buzzer sounded on March 21 in Pittsburgh, Penn., Jack Gohlke collected the rebound and rejoiced. The senior guard’s stellar performance led the No. 14 seed Oakland University Golden Grizzlies in a bracket-busting upset over the No. 3 seed Kentucky University Wildcats. Golkhe, who has been used almost exclusively as a 3-point specialist, […]
Who do the movies truly belong to? The question was on my mind as I watched the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 10. The themes of this year’s most prominent films included similar questions about possession and ownership of the narrative, and it felt like the structure of this year’s glitzy awards shows posed similar queries. […]
On the evening of Saturday, Feb. 17, a senior house on Brainerd Avenue had a carbon monoxide leak, leading to an evacuation of the building. Debbra Goh ’24, the only resident who had been staying in her house on Brainerd Avenue for an extended period of time that day, recounted having a headache and feeling dizzy. […]
During my 10-day vacation in Costa Rica, I probably consumed 10 pounds of rice, 10 pounds of beans, and 50 million plantains. That’s an exaggeration, but as a voracious lover of Latin American cuisine, I couldn’t help but gorge myself on the delicious bounties that the home country of the casado had to offer. The […]
She’s back and gutsier than ever: Olivia Rodrigo has returned to her sophomore album with four new songs to create the deluxe edition of GUTS, titled GUTS (spilled). Released on March 22, 2024, the album features the original twelve songs from GUTS’ initial release in 2023 alongside five new songs. GUTS (spilled) was announced mid-concert during […]
The senior woodframe houses of Wesleyan University are renowned for their manifold capabilities. Arranged and rearranged to accommodate potlucks, cocktail forums, dance rehearsals, meetings, movie nights, movie shoots, performances, thesis workshops, fitness classes, and, on rare occasions, parties, they morph, with few constraints, alongside the visions of the students that inhabit them. For Judeley Jean-Charles ’24, […]
After the success of his 2023 album Unreal Unearth, Irish singer-songwriter Hozier released Unheard, an EP of four songs that did not make the original album. These new additions round out Hozier’s modern retelling of Dante’s “Inferno,” with each song representing a layer of hell. Originally teased in a TikTok featuring the artist sketching a skeleton […]
Ali Eckstein can be reached at aeckstein@wesleyan.edu.