Full disclosure: I was the Chair of the Student Budget Committee last semester during the media firestorm over The Argus’ funding. I, like many students at Wesleyan, strongly disagreed with the premise of Bryan’s article. I actively affirm that the Black Lives Matter movement is necessary. As a student leader my job was not to […]
For both a summary of the following arguments and to express support for more transparent financial policies and the protection of publication finances from WSA politics, we invite you to view and sign our petition, here. It’s time for the Wesleyan Student Assembly to stop trying to defund The Argus. The most recent development, in which […]
I first fell for Leonardo DiCaprio my freshman year of high school. In my English class, we read Romeo and Juliet and watched both the Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann adaptations of Shakespeare’s classic love story. However, it was Luhrmann’s film, and specifically Leonardo DiCaprio’s portrayal of Romeo that I found the most compelling. I […]
A recent ranking of the top 25 US small colleges appeared in the Houston Chronicle. Here’s the link: http://www.chron.com/news/education/article/These-are-the-best-small-colleges-in-America-6853745.php#photo-8789938 Although Amherst and Williams made it, Wesleyan University is not listed and as usual, brings up the rear of the ‘Little Three.’ One wonders if the negative publicity about the cuts in funding the ‘Wesleyan Argus’ (a free-speech […]
On Saturday, February 27 from 1-2:30PM in the Memorial Chapel, there will be an Open Student Forum with members of the Board of Trustees. In an effort to bridge the gap between students and the Administration, the WSA has organized this event to allow all students to directly interact and question the people who decide […]
Dear Michael, It’s being bruited about the Street that, in the Great Game of Liberal Education (a bruising, no-holds-barred affair), you have to be and are the go-to guy – a guy whose literary bravura recalls the shock and awe of the Bores’ War. (Granted, down on Wall the bar isn’t set very high. To […]
Wesleyan is an extremely active campus committed to social justice and change. However, all too often the issue of disability rights is overlooked and forgotten despite 12 percent of the Wesleyan undergraduate population being registered in the Office of Disability Resources. Over the past few years within the disabled persons and disability rights community there […]
In 2007, Matt Ball, WSA President at the time, proposed an innovative idea for the first ever endowment run by a university student government. He suggested that instead of rolling all left over or unused SBC funds to the next academic year, we invest them so they grow. One of the primary responsibilities of the […]
Cultural suffocation is a slow and painful process, this I know. It is unlike the claustrophobia of the caterpillar who, in a cosmic slumber, meets its own death. It is instead like a stifling outside force pressed upon others like second skin. Wesleyan suffocates when it’s “cool” culture meets inebriated egos. Our insular program houses […]
An illustrious member of the Wes community has gone to spirit at 65. His time on campus was over four decades past. Understandable the current and past student bodies might be thinking: ho-hum. Listen if you choose. Nothing mournful. The Rev dude, like Diamond Jim Brady, would be slurping abundant oysters, downing twin lobster specials, […]