Ye Olde Wespeak: Bring Back Soft Serve!!!!!

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.

Climate Hooplah

Mr. Holt: You got us. Climate change is a hoax. You are correct in ignoring 50 years of science studies work.

"I Don't Have Swine Flu..."

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.

Editor’s Notebook: ’Speak Up, Kid

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.

On Realism in the Homosexual Community

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.

October 20, 2009

An Appeal to Save Wesleyan and the East Asian Studies

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.

Torah Buffet Thrives in Wesleyan's Dappled Light

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.

Ye Olde Wespeake: Student Workers: Unite With WSWA

The Wesleyan Student Workers Association (WSWA) was formed by students who were dissatisfied with the treatment they were getting at their worksites.

October 13, 2009

A Call to Action: 10/17 Antiwar Rally

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.

An Open Letter to President Roth

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.

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