There are few things in this world that I think of as soft. These include, but are not limited to: New Ro, Sirlin, and ice cream.
Mr. Holt: You got us. Climate change is a hoax. You are correct in ignoring 50 years of science studies work.
While I appreciate the publicity you've given me by posting my photograph in a recent issue of the Argus, I did not, do not, and have never been infected with the H1N1 virus.
Halfway through this semester, I’d like to take inventory of two of The Argus’ most relevant sections—Wespeaks, and our new Op-Ed section. Why? Because these are your—the reader’s—sections.
Last Friday, in what may be the best argument I have ever read for getting rid of the Wespeaks section, Zak Kirwood ’12 responded to my column not with good sense and logic, but with the usual response one gets when criticizing a movement shielded by the wall of political correctness—moral outrage, misinterpretation and unjustified smears.
Many of you have, but more of you have not, heard of the heartbreaking news that Mrs. Shirley Lawrence, East Asian Studies Program Coordinator, will retire in December.
Each Thursday at noon a group made up of Wesleyan students, faculty and community members gathers for a gracious kosher lunch accompanied by thought-provoking conversation about Jewish texts.
The Wesleyan Student Workers Association (WSWA) was formed by students who were dissatisfied with the treatment they were getting at their worksites.
The U.S. is losing its grip on Afghanistan—so says the chief of its occupying forces, General Stanley McChrystal, in his warning to Congress that if troop levels in Afghanistan are not greatly increased then defeat is assured. After the political calculations are made, President Obama is expected to escalate the number of troops by as many as 40,000.
Looking a gift horse in the mouth, the Argus’ Ezra Silk asked, “Who is Robert Allbritton ’92?” The Michael Roth College of the Environment and his fledgling Middle East Studies Program are gift horses too, said “gifts” extorted from millions of taxpaying, working Americans poorer by far than a university able to shell out 300K per 8-month academic annum to a former provost to teach a course or two.