There are numerous places to get a good cup of coffee and bite to eat in Middletown, but Story and Soil is the only place where the drink can be named after a Studio Ghibli film and the sandwich after Bernie Sanders. Beyond carefully catering to the University’s liberal arts student population, Story and Soil endeavors […]
Hi all! I am excited to welcome you to a new column: Weshop Recipes! These are not just your standard, casual “recipes.” Instead, everything in these recipes can be purchased in the famed, ever-beloved Weshop, or, in the rare case, purchased online (and can be shipped to your WesBox). As students, we often have limited […]
After a long year and a half of Zoom University, adjusting back to college life (or adjusting for the first time!) isn’t for the faint of heart. We have all become accustomed to awkward breakout room “interactions,” way too many walks to kill time, and watching an abundance of “Day in the Life” videos. But […]
As a high school student in Connecticut, Emily McEvoy ’22 never saw Wesleyan recruiters at college fairs. Now, they’re bridging the disconnect between the University and the surrounding Middletown community. From mutual aid fundraising to policymaking as a Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) Senator, they’ve worked closely with Middletown activists and advocated for low-income students. The […]
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 […]