On Saturday, Oct. 7, news alerts across the world blared devastatingly: Hamas (the terrorist or militant group, depending on who you ask), had mounted a widespread and devastating attack against civilian communities across Israel, assaulting, kidnapping, and killing hundreds. The following days have seen bombing and starvation and fighting grow in nauseating intensity. Like hundreds […]
On Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022, President Michael Roth ’78 announced the departure of former Vice President for Equity and Inclusion Alison Williams ’81 from the University in an all-campus email titled “Campus Update.” Sound familiar? This is the first line of an article I wrote a year ago after students were informed that Williams would […]
I truly cannot express how excited I was when I learned that someone had written a reply to my last opinion piece, and how excited I honestly still am. Before replying to the objections made against my work, I want to give a sincere thank you to my critic. I find it genuinely touching that […]
The Opinion Section created the column Argus Apps to humanize the college process. Common App essays only ever exist within the framework of college admissions, alongside a list of accomplishments, extracurriculars, and test scores. With Argus Apps, we’re revisiting old Common App essays written by Wesleyan students to think about where we’ve been and where we’re […]
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a long-standing, profoundly complex, and nuanced topic characterized by both external and internal disagreements regarding conflict resolution. Nonetheless, we should fundamentally agree that this does not justify genocide. Personally, I don’t agree with many of the actions of the Netanyahu government, and am not alone as the majority (52%) of Israelis share this […]
While scrolling through TikTok and seeing the app’s perpetual outburst of trivial trends, I stumbled across a particularly interesting online fad: “girlfriend air.” The trend is quite sweet, and for those unfamiliar, it looks a little something like this: A girlfriend will post a few pictures of her boyfriend before they started dating. The pictures are […]
If you’re anything like Dill and Doe, you have probably taken a love languages quiz on the internet or maybe even read “The Five Love Languages” by Gary Chapman. (If not, though, that’s okay! Chapman is infamously homophobic, so take his words critically.) If you are unfamiliar, the five love languages are as follows: quality […]
I have always known I would work throughout college. The days of using my parents’ money to go out for lunch with my friends or buy a new sweater would be over. Living 50 minutes from my high school and keeping up with a constant stream of homework, volunteering, school newspaper, and so on, I […]
When I first read, “I Hate Good People: Why We Should Stop Pairing Morality and Identity,” the provocative title certainly drew my attention—not by stirring the ire of your average reader of The Argus, but by novelly expressing belief in and philosophy of the basic nature of the so-called intelligent inhabitants of this planet. What the writer posits is very clearly […]
If you’ve never visited Craigslist before, you should know that it’s a place you need to go to with a mission. It’s an online marketplace, similar to eBay or Facebook marketplace, but without the polished commercialism. Founded in 1995, it is one of the earliest hosts of Internet communities. The creator, Craig Newmark, a self-proclaimed […]