Sometimes I start a sentence with “when I have kids” and then quickly change it to “if I have kids.” If I have kids, I will sign them up for ice skating lessons, piano lessons, and fencing lessons when they are toddlers so that they will never wish they started earlier. If I have kids, […]
Fashion is often predictable, or cyclical, in nature. As evident in modern fashion trends, what once was in style usually comes back around within a few decades. Young people, for example, have embraced the seventies—not only in terms of the music, the cigarettes, and the mullets—but in terms of stylistic silhouettes as well. It has become […]
With the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s announcement on Wednesday, Nov. 10 of the first reported flu-related death of the 2021-2022 season, it appears that influenza season has officially begun. While most Americans view the flu as just an inevitable bad cold, this year is an important reminder of how this is not […]
This week saw a soft blanket of winter engulf campus for the first time this semester. For some, the glistening snowfall like a million stars falling from the sky is a regular occurrence. For others, it’s a first-in-a-lifetime moment, or an opportunity for a moment of nostalgia. For Texans, it’s something else. My mother was raised […]
I have a confession to make: I am a proud Apple Music user (hold the slander please) and also a big fan of Spotify Wrapped. While Apple Music has its own version of Spotify’s iconic year-end presentation, Apple Music Replay, it pales in comparison and doesn’t incite the same anticipation as Spotify Wrapped. There is […]
Bushmeat is a term that refers to wild animal meat that is used for human consumption. In Africa and Asia, the hunting and handling of bushmeat, especially that of bats, monkeys, rats, snakes and other wild animals, is a very established practice. Indeed, the bushmeat industry is very important within this part of the world. […]
Although bushmeat hunting provides a livelihood for some hunters in Africa, the biological costs to humankind arguably outweigh these benefits. Many animals that are poached carry diseases that have been proven to be disastrous to humans; HIV spilled over from hunted primates while Ebola and COVID-19 are alleged to have come from poached bats. Today, […]
From “Yersinia Pestis” in the 14th century to COVID-19, death due to infectious disease is a prevalent and persistent threat to society. These diseases have the potential to affect everyone and even can kill humans as they spread, mutate, and replicate through communities like Wesleyan’s. This danger has been contested through a wide variety of […]
In mid-September, Mackenzie Wiley got a call from Dr. Tom McLarney, Wesleyan’s Medical Director and on-campus COVID-19 specialist, informing her that one part of her two-prong PCR test had come back positive. The situation was familiar; after all, last year, one of her housemates had tested positive and Mackenzie had to quarantine for fourteen days. […]
Every year once November hits, I start to feel a lingering sense of dread. Don’t get me wrong, I love the winter season—I’m always down for a snowball fight, I know all the words to Mariah Carey’s Christmas album, I’m first in line to try the new Starbucks holiday drinks, and I’ve been skiing almost […]