On Saturday, April 27, the Garden Festival returned to campus for its second year. Greeted by warm weather, members of the Wesleyan community gathered behind Russell House to celebrate sustainability. Last Spring, the festival was introduced as a part of the Senior Capstone of Talia Zitner’s ’23. This year, it returned as a result of the hard work […]
Ten years ago, Hannah Sokoloff-Rubin ’16 stood before a panel of judges on the top floor of the Allbritton Center and made her case for The Wesleyan Doula Project (WDP) to win a New Venture Award (then known as a Seed Grant) from the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship. The room was hot, and Sokoloff-Rubin was […]
Despite arriving at the University only two years ago, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Yu-Chan Chang is well-known by math majors and non-math majors alike. His classes, ranging from introductory to higher-level math courses, are always full by the end of the course pre-registration period. With meticulously crafted lesson plans, unwavering encouragement, and a knack for weaving […]
This week, we will be looking at a game from the Czech Championship 2005 between Petr Hába and Jiří Lechtýnský. In this position, White is clearly better—he is up the exchange for a pawn, and is maintaining immense pressure on Black’s position. Although there are many winning ideas, can you find the most precise continuation […]
Conceptualizing, visualizing, and creating art is both an exciting and intimidating journey for many aspiring artists. To address these joys and struggles that come with artistic endeavors, a group of students revived the Lucid Color Collective—an inclusive space for visual artists of color at the University—at the beginning of the Spring 2024 semester. The Lucid Color Collective offers […]
Wesleyan Entrepreneurship Society, co-founded by Wesley Tan ’26 and Zachary Berkenkotter ’26, was among the 21 student organizations approved by the Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) Community Committee during the spring 2024 semester. While a quaint liberal arts college like ours isn’t particularly known for mass-producing Silicon Valley moguls, our administrators do boast about our school’s […]
This week, The Argus sat down with Evan Hsu ’24. As a Disorientation coordinator, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (MB&B) major and College of East Asian Studies minor, and big name on campus, Hsu has made a sizeable mark on Wesleyan in his time here. If you’ve seen him on campus, chances are he’s said hello. […]
Instructions: Look at each image or symbol: Start by examining each picture or symbol individually. Each one represents a word or a part of a word. Each box signifies a new word. Sound it out: Say what you see out loud. Sometimes it’s the literal image; other times, it might be a homophone or a […]
If you sat in on a weekly meeting of the University’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) club last spring, you’d likely have found between five and ten attendees. If you sit in on a meeting this spring, you’ll find closer to 20 people. SJP has survived several challenges, including a brief hiatus during COVID-19. A handful […]
Most people don’t get jobs by defacing property. Sammy Sackett ’25 isn’t most people. “I was just being a little bit silly,” Sackett told The Argus. For weeks last fall, Sackett would sneak up to the letter board sign outside of the Cardinal Tech store in Usdan and rearrange the letters to create a new […]