The University’s Pandemic Planning Committee released a vaccination plan for the spring 2021 semester in a campus-wide email on Wednesday, March 31. This email followed Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont’s announcement on March 31 that all state residents aged 16 and older are eligible to receive a vaccination on Thursday, April 1. In partnership with the […]
The University announced plans for an in-person commencement and named award-winning poet Reginald Dwayne Betts as commencement speaker, along with environmental health activist Catherine Coleman Flowers and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb ’94 as honorary degree recipients. The announcement came in an all-campus email on Thursday, March 4. The original commencement date was May 30, […]
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship (PCSE) announced six finalists for the PCSE Seed Grants on Monday March 8. Six projects were selected as finalists for the academic year: B4 ~ Bold, Brave, and Bald (Alexis Papavasiliou ’24 and Kara Hodge ’24), Hearth Creative Co. LLC (Nélida Zepeda ’23), Infinitely: Doing Good While We’re Here (Nimra Karamat […]
Espwesso, the University’s student-run cafe, reopened on Monday, March 15, nearly a year after its last reopening. After experiencing difficulties with Connecticut’s Public Health Code in January 2020, the cafe was shut down again when the University suspended all on-campus activities on March 11, 2020. Since then, Espwesso has been vacant, with no signs pointing […]
The Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) unanimously passed Resolution 11.42 on Sunday, March 7. The resolution focuses on helping housing-insecure students in the event that their on-campus housing is suspended due to violations of the University’s COVID-19 protocols. It calls upon the University to create a system through which students can report and check in with […]
The University hosted a webinar titled “Why Get Vaccinated? A Conversation and Q&A with Wesleyan’s experts” on Monday, March 15. Mediated by Dean of the Natural Sciences and Mathematics Jan Naegele, the webinar consisted of a series of presentations by Davison Health Center Medical Director Dr. Tom McLarney, Daniel Ayres Professor of Biology Donald Oliver, […]
The Connecticut Supreme Court released a decision for the Kent Literary Club et al. v. Wesleyan University et al. court case reversing the previous judgment, which had ruled in Delta Kappa Epsilon’s (DKE’s) favor, and sending the case back to a trial court for additional proceedings. This verdict, released on Friday, March 5, comes after six […]
The Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) unanimously passed an amendment titled “The Wesleyan CommUNITY Act” on Sunday Mar. 7. The amendment was written in response to the spring sports letter published over winter break by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) on their Instagram. Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee Ben Garfield ’22, Chair of the Equity and […]
The University’s Pandemic Planning Committee released new changes to COVID-19 restrictions in a campus-wide email on Tuesday, March 9. The email announced that the administration has opened limited indoor dining at Usdan Marketplace in addition to grab-and-go options. Students may travel into Middletown for a wider range of purposes, with the exception of dining at […]
The Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) unanimously passed a resolution on Sunday, Feb. 28 to grant work-study awards to members of the Green Fund Committee (GFC), an auxiliary committee of the WSA which provides funding for environmental activism and sustainability projects. “[The WSA] recogniz[es] that students on financial aid face barriers to participating in student government, […]