What's the Role of the Ride Anyway?

Many students who live far away from the center campus, at places like Pearl Street, Women of Color House, or La Casa do not feel as comfortable going out at night without the assurance that they can always get picked up by the Ride.

November 10, 2009

The Body image Campaign and Me

I guess I’m some kind of activist here at Wesleyan. Meaning mostly that I help organize stuff, get money for stuff, and hang stuff up. One of the things I most recently helped to hang stuff up for is the Body Image Campaign that happened and is happening right now.

Addressing the Elephant in the Room

Wesleyan’s contracted endowment prompted the Board of Trustees not only to vote to freeze faculty and staff salaries for this year, but to consider extending the salary freeze for a second year.

November 6, 2009

Setting "Separation" Straight

The Voluntary Separation Program (VSP) seemed like the perfect solution for minimizing the effects of the University’s financial troubles on the staff. Unfortunately, the program did not accomplish all that it was supposed to.

Mytheology: Heeeeeere's Ronnie!

Having ecstatically declared conservatism dead several times, each time with an increasing level of sickening nausea, the liberal community seems to be shocked, shocked, that, like Freddie Krueger or Jason Voorhees, conservatism has once more risen from the grave, alive, well, and out for blood.

FYIs

1. Epilepsy and the Brain: Watching the propagation of seizures incortical circuits
McNair Research Talks presents Wesleyan Biology Professor Gloster Aaron to talk about his research. Grab your lunch and a friend and join us on Tuesday, November 10 at NOON, Exley Science Center, Room 121. For more information, please contact Valerie Marinelli at vmarinelli@wesleyan.edu.
Marinelli is an administrative assistant.
2. Operation Wallacea
Dr. James [...]

The Wages of Professionalism

There is something strangely—but significantly—slippery about the idea of a "profession" and what it means to have one.

November 3, 2009

Small Steps to Sustainability

The Do-It-In-The-Dark program has saved the University more than $80,000 over the past two years, even though the only residences competing in the program were senior wood-frame houses.

October 30, 2009

Don't Bug Out Over Organic Food

We commend Bon Appetit for serving organic produce, albeit a few times a week and sometimes with bugs.

Mytheology: 350 Inconvenient Lies

There is a third option in the challenge for our environmental future: that we maintain our “destructive” ways and when nothing happens, radical environmentalism suffers yet another self-induced annihilation of its own scant credibility.

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