Over 1000 people gathered on Foss Hill on the afternoon of Monday, April 8 to watch the Great North American Eclipse, which traced a path of totality across 13 U.S. states. From the Middletown vantage point, the moon obscured approximately 92% of the sun during the eclipse’s maximum coverage, at 3:27 pm. Students in the […]
On Wednesday, Jan. 31, President Michael Roth ’78 announced that the Wesleyan will award honorary degrees to three individuals at the 192nd Commencement on May 26, 2024. The recipients include Imani Perry, Raj Chetty, and Michael Greenberg ’76 P’14, all of whom currently teach at Harvard University. Perry will also deliver the commencement speech. In […]
On March 25, the University’s annual Hugo L. Black Lecture on Freedom of Expression hosted Carleton College professors Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder to analyze academic freedom in higher education in a presentation entitled “Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee: Campus Censorship from the ‘STOP WOKE ACT’ to Israel-Palestine.” Sponsored by the Allbritton […]
In light of recent divestment concerns, the Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) is reviving the Committee for Investor Responsibility (CIR), a student, faculty, staff, and alumni panel that advises the University’s board of trustees on ethical matters related to University endowment. The CIR, an auxiliary committee of the WSA, represents the community in advocating for greater […]
At least 26 cars near the University had their windows broken and valuables taken from them around 3:00 a.m. on Monday, March 25. Two of the vehicles were student cars parked on Pearl Street and Court Street, and at least 17 other vehicles were damaged north of Washington Street. Detectives from the Middletown Police Department […]
On the evening of Saturday, Feb. 17, a senior house on Brainerd Avenue had a carbon monoxide leak, leading to an evacuation of the building. Debbra Goh ’24, the only resident who had been staying in her house on Brainerd Avenue for an extended period of time that day, recounted having a headache and feeling dizzy. […]
Members of the Black Student Union, Ujamma (BSU), worked with University administrators to arrange events throughout February in celebration of Black History Month (BHM). The calendar included workshops, discussion spaces, social gatherings, film screenings, and performing arts events. The planning committee consisted of Alise Mackey ’24, Shekinah Mba ’26, Oluchi Chukwuemeka ’25, Tre Studgeon ’26, […]
At an event organized by the student group Code_Wes and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Senior Research Scientist at Google Vinodkumar Prabhakaran gave a lecture on Thursday, Feb. 29 about artificial intelligence (AI), titled “Culture as a Lens on Responsible AI.” Members of Code_Wes, faculty and students of the department, and others attended the […]
A student filed a Title IX report against board of trustees Chair John B. Frank ’78 P’12 with the University Title IX office on Sept. 21, 2023. In the report, the student alleged that Frank made inappropriate physical contact with them in February 2023 at a board meeting in the Daniel Family Commons, where the student was […]
The Office of Health Education (WesWell) hosted its second annual Sex Carnival on Friday, Feb. 23 in Beckham Hall. Despite the day’s pleasant and relatively warm weather, which may have kept some outside basking in the sun, over 250 Wesleyan community members visited Beckham over the two-hour run of the Carnival. The Sex Carnival included 34 […]