On March 3, President Michael Roth ’78 visited the Wesleyan General Assembly for his regularly scheduled recap of the February 2024 board retreat. However, his reception at this particular meeting was different than usual. Dozens of students lined the walls and sat on the scratchy carpeted floor of Boger Hall to have a chance to […]
My current relationship is with someone I’ve known since my first year of college. He has always been part of my outer circle of friends, but recently we have become much closer. This new relationship was not something I was anticipating or expecting, but was something I stumbled into. Dating within my friend group has always […]
Lodge rules: No smoking in the rooms. Turn off lights and air conditioning when leaving the room. Keep food in the refrigerator. Keep noise to a minimum to respect the other guests. Wi-Fi may be available; ask the front desk for more information. No same-sex parties allowed in rooms. These regulations extended well beyond six […]
A few weeks ago, a Connecticut mayor received an email in his inbox from an anonymous address. The email claimed my father was holding my family at gunpoint in our home. The concerned mayor passed the email to our local police, who diligently showed up at our door. A few hours later, the police department returned […]
Coming to the U.S. as a student from Russia, what I expected the most was genuine freedom of speech. However, this turned out not to be the case quite so much as I presumed. Even though the restriction is incomparable to what I experienced in my country, I would still say that the environment here is […]
I grew up believing that I had a birthright to a place 7,605 miles away. That place—yes, that place—was mine. I was told that I could take a knife to a map, carve out an entire section, and smear it with words like trauma, safety, and Jew. I am a daughter of Abraham and a […]
I have a confession: I stayed in a class last semester solely because the professor was hot. I went to the first class planning to drop it and never look back, but the professor caught my attention. Of course I would never act on my little crush, but the knowledge that I would spend three hours a […]
This chill girl has a bone to pick…and it’s not from the Swings happy hour deal. I will seek to go about my critique in the most sensitive, self-aware fashion possible, but I may adopt an opp or two. I’d like to take up an ambiguity that has been artificially adopted by heterosexuals at Wesleyan […]
While attending a wedding celebration, I found myself scribbling a cliché sentiment in the guestbook: “You two are truly meant to be.” As trite as it may sound, I meant every word. Their love story, with its mysterious encounter at a nightclub that the now-bride was DJ-ing, felt like the epitome of destiny. In Western […]
I always knew I wanted to study abroad. I grew up surrounded by stories of my mother’s life in Freiburg, Germany—a small city in the Black Forest where she relocated after finishing her undergraduate degree. Her plan was to work there as a German language translator for a year, but she ended up staying for […]