Song selection is critical at any karaoke party. To help, Daniel Knopf ’22, Nalu Tripician ’22, and Isabel Wrubel ’22 recently redesigned and launched an app, Verse-a-tility, that curates a playlist of the 10 best karaoke songs from a user’s Spotify library. To create playlists for users, the app’s algorithm rates songs based on “karaokeability,” which […]
We have been foodies for a long time. Our home borough of Brooklyn provided us with ample opportunities to try many cuisines at a variety of restaurants, and we both came to the University with complex palates and serious penchants for eating good food. Middletown definitely surprised us. From Vietnamese to Ethiopian to Tibetan, our little haven […]
On Wednesday, March 2, all students on campus received an email from Associate Vice President and Dean of Students Rick Culliton announcing that the University would be returning to a Green Alert Level. After cases at the University reached a staggering 4.73% positivity rate in mid-February, students were relieved by the eventual decline in COVID-19 cases and Culliton’s subsequent announcement. The Argus […]
You may have seen this week’s WesCeleb behind the counter at Weshop or on stage performing with the University’s only stand-up group for women and trans and nonbinary people, Hysterics. Lilah Hixson ’22 sat down with The Argus to talk about her love for comics, working in the Integrated Design, Engineering, and Applied Sciences (IDEAS) lab, […]
In the early hours of Thursday, Feb. 24, President of Russia Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into Ukraine, breaching international law as bombs dropped on the country of 42 million. In the subsequent days, regular citizens have taken up arms to protect their people and their sovereignty. Over 4,000 miles away, on the second day of […]
The 90 minutes I spent on Tuesday, Feb. 8 at the first webinar of the Pachaysana Collective’s “Restorying Our World” series were transformative, leaving a deep impression on me about the aspects of our global society that I have the power to change. The series, led by the Pachaysana Collective—a non-profit organization based in Ecuador that has […]
The University’s campus has been crowded during the 2021-22 academic year, and perhaps no group has been more aware of this than the Facilities Department. The class of 2025 is the second-largest first-year class in University history, and there are currently 96 more students living in University-owned buildings than there were before the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
Sponsored by the Office for Equity & Inclusion, Wesleyan’s second annual Diversity Summit was held from Monday, Jan. 31 to Friday, Feb. 4, and aimed to spark conversation and foster understanding among the wider Wesleyan community. This year’s theme, “Critical Race Theory: From Concept to Action,” was explored through four Zoom events throughout the week. The events were recorded […]
If you know anything about dance at the University, you’ve probably heard about Kevonte Payton ’22. In addition to being a director of X-Tacy and Fusion, Payton is also a QuestBridge scholar from New Orleans, Louisiana, works at the Office of Admission, and conducts research for the Economics Department. On top of all of that, he is an active member […]
Two years after Spring Fling was canceled due to COVID-19 for the 2019–20 academic year, the University’s Student Involvement Office has decided to replace its end-of-year tradition with University Day. The celebration will take place after the last day of classes on Thursday, May 5 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. The decision was initially […]