Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Program (AFROTC) at the University Today On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, Nate Zola ’25 wakes up at 4 a.m., shaves, eats breakfast, and commutes to New Haven for physical training. Zola is currently the only active member of Wesleyan’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program (ROTC), which operates […]
You may know her for unbridled energy on stage, her ever-present smile, or perhaps her many successfully planned functions on campus. Crystal Peña ’24 is perhaps the epitome of a campus celebrity, involved in activities ranging from the Latin and Ballroom Dance Club to the Writing Workshop. Intrigued by her many interests and unrelenting involvement […]
This week, we’re changing it up a little. Instead of some incredibly specific and esoteric grandmaster game with fancy brilliancies and accurate moves, this position is taken directly from one of the author’s games. In this endgame position, white has just exchanged rooks, giving black a narrow opportunity to equalize. Can you find the continuation […]
Espwesso, a student-run café in the basement of Albritton, is a hidden gem at the University. Even though students frequently mumble the name, it’s not because they’re trying to keep the spot a secret, but rather because Espwesso can feel awkward to pronounce. Whisper it to yourself, you’ll see…. The name, just like the café […]
This week, The Argus sat down with Alisha Simmons ’24, an artist in every sense of the word. They talked about their two majors, being involved in the arts world on campus, and the inspiration for their senior projects on transformative imagination. From Middletown to London, Simmons has the passion and love for performance. The Argus: What are […]
Walking down High Street, you have probably passed by a cobblestone house that almost always has its lights off. Owned by the University’s Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) chapter, the house has served as a hub for the fraternity since 1868. However, it has been off limits to its members since 2015 after a conflict between […]
In the final round of the 2015 edition of the Tata Steel Masters tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the French grandmaster Maxime Vachier-Lagrave played against Fabiano Caruana. After a very positional Najdorf Sicilian game, Vachier-Lagrave was in a position to win his last game and secure a second-place finish in the tournament (first place being […]
At the University, student forums are intimate classes led by students, accommodating up to 15 undergraduates. Students at the University often seize the opportunity to contribute to the broader community by sharing their academic passions with fellow students. In these spaces, you can forget about dull lecture-based courses with mountains of assignments and grade-related stress. These […]
Over the last few weeks, a new way to anonymously express your innermost thoughts and feelings—or make memes about the infamous puppy play of President Michael Roth ’78 and confess to accidentally using your roommate’s matching vibrator—has spread across the University. Fizz, an anonymous, Reddit-like platform, has become ubiquitous among first-years at the University through persistent […]
This week, The Argus sat down with one of the most influential students on campus. Orly Meyer ’24 chatted about being this year’s Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) president, and also math, the College of Letters (COL), and letting boredom propel her into leadership. Plus, we finally sus out the event that gave both Meyer and […]