7:00 a.m. feels like the middle of the night for most college students. However, from Monday, Oct. 3 to Friday, Oct. 7, Wesleyan community members gathered at this time each day to meditate in the upper room of the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life (ORSL). After just a few minutes of sitting quietly, the […]
Naya Jorgensen ’24 and Shweta Kondapi ’24 lived out their Broadway dreams as the Phantom and Christine Daaé from the musical “Phantom of the Opera.” With Jorgensen in a mask made of white face paint and Kondapi in a flowing white dress, the pair was easily recognizable as the show’s title character and his angel […]
Disclaimer: This article discusses sexual violence and violence against women. On Friday, Oct. 31, 1997, the University campus was abuzz with chatter about the event that was planned to take place that evening called “Take Back the Night.” The event, during which students marched around campus to raise awareness about rape, sexual assault and intimate […]
This week, we will be looking at a position taken from one of Hikaru Nakamura’s immortal games. Playing the black pieces, the young prodigy faced the experienced Polish grandmaster Michał Krasenkow in the second round of the Casino de Barcelona tournament in 2007. Krasenkow, known for his aggressive attacking style, had just unleashed a brutal tactical shot after […]
The Shapiro Center for Writing, located at 116 Mt. Vernon Street, works to help members of the Wesleyan community develop their academic and creative writing skills. By hosting writers and book readings, it is a space where the English language blossoms. This academic year, the Shapiro Center brought three globally renowned writers into its newly launched Distinguished […]
Picture this: you’re a student at Wesleyan on Friday, Sept. 10, 2004. You’re reading your precious, irreplaceable copy of The Argus and you flip to a page with the headline “Thefacebook.com Comes to Wesleyan” by then-Features Editor Dan Bobkoff ’05. You are ecstatic, this hip new college social media site has finally entered into campus […]
This week, we will be looking at a much more unusual game, for more than one reason. We set the scene in the year 1850, where a 13-year-old Paul Morphy with the white pieces is playing against his father, Alonzo Morphy. Moreover, Paul Morphy is offering his father rook odds, meaning that at the start […]
A program that will teach Wesleyan students how to train service dogs will be coming to the University within the next few months. Mira Alicki, the founder and president of the Forever in My Heart Foundation, will be bringing her program to campus with the support of Adjunct Professor of Physical Education and Head Squash […]
From the pool to the chemistry lab, Jeremy Kim ’23 is active on all sides of campus. When he’s not at practice with the swimming and diving team or researching the polymerization of plastics, Kim is one of the co-chairs of the Korean Student Association (KSA) and works as a writing tutor and mentor at […]
“From the Argives” is a column that explores The Argus’ archives (Argives) and any interesting, topical, poignant, or comical articles that have been published in the past. Given The Argus’ long history on campus and the ever-shifting viewpoints of its student body, the material, subject matter, and perspectives expressed in the archived article may be […]