A group of students from Wesleyan, members of the Sierra Club, and the Connecticut Public Interest Research Group met with aides in Senator Chris Dodd’s and Senator Joe Lieberman’s offices on Friday afternoon to lobby for strong national climate legislation.
The University announced last week that it had received approval from the Connecticut Department of Public Health to extend the H1N1 vaccine to high-risk students 17-24 years old.
On Monday, Nov. 2, members of Food Not Bombs attended a small ceremony at the Buttonwood Tree Cultural Center to receive a check for a $2,000 grant from the Liberty Bank Foundation.
After Typhoon Ketsana struck several Asian countries in September, killing hundreds and causing billions of dollars worth of damage, members of Wesleyan’s Filipino Awareness Club began preparing fundraising efforts.
This year, Wesleyan is back in the race for the title of “Most Vegetarian-Friendly College” in the nation, which has prompted controversy on campus over whether or not it deserves the honor.
Over 2,700 people registered for Homecoming this year, an increase from the 2,450 registrations last year, according to Gemma Ebstein, Associate VP for External Relations.
Sarah Wildman ’96, a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, returned to campus over Homecoming weekend on Saturday to speak about gaining access in the summer of 2008 to the 60 million pages of unexamined archival material stored by the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, Germany.
Ajua Campos is shifting the focus of Latino Awareness Month this year, renaming the event Latin@ Affirmation Month for its twentieth anniversary.
A recent article in The Chronicle of Higher of Education revealed that President Michael Roth is one of the highest paid liberal arts college presidents, which, in light of the budget cuts that campus programs currently face, generated significant criticism from students.
Sitting comfortably in the PAC computer lab I stared in disbelief at pictures of the destruction Typhoon Ketsana had caused to my hometown of Manila, Philippines. My reaction was immediate and highly emotional—as soon as my last class was over, I began speaking with my Dean and professors about wanting to help.