The act of cutting off the tongue of someone who is practicing Free Speech is the worst form of hypocrisy. How can someone say that they support the U.S. Constitution and then vote in mass to defund a news journal that prints a diversity of opinion? There is no such thing as good opinion and […]
On Wednesday, October 14, Wesleyan Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) displayed a banner in Usdan that read “Occupation Breeds Violence, Free Palestine.” While hanging the banner, we read a statement that included the names of all known people killed in Israel and Palestine as a result of recent violence, as of midday on October […]
Dear Wesleyan community, It is beyond long past due that Eclectic openly acknowledges our collective failure as a society to fully and unquestionably support Karmenife and another member, then active members of Eclectic, following their coming forward as survivors of rape and sexual assault. It is with a deep, inexcusable shame that Eclectic is complicit […]
Letter to the Editor: I noted with great interest, Dan Drew’s latest campaign mailer hitting up would-be contributors to donate “$100 to Drew 2015 before the critical September 30th deadline’.” I was ready to dismiss this latest ploy as just another in an endless flood of shameless money grabs by the Drew Campaign until I […]
To the Editor of The Wesleyan Argus, Greetings to all Wesleyan students and Faculty. I’d like to introduce myself, I am Brian E. Clark, and I am running as Candidate for Mayor of Middletown, as a Write In Candidate. I’d like to appeal for your support this Election Day. I am a lifelong citizen of […]
As a Wesleyan alumnus and a former Argus circulation manager, I was disappointed by the responses of both Wesleyan students and the Argus to the controversy surrounding the Opinion piece, “Why Black Lives Matter Isn’t What You Think.” The Opinion section of a newspaper is exactly where opinions get published. A newspaper’s content is determined […]
With all the discussion lately about free speech issues, we have lost the core of the issue on Wesleyan’s campus. There has been a lack of Wespeaks actually stating that Black lives DO matter, and arguing against the claim that the movement is a hate group. This is a movement that seeks to raise up […]
The recent call by ‘activists’ to defund the Argus after the Stascavage op-ed is another assault on free speech by neoliberal fascists. These people clearly believe that they need to control not just the speech but the thought processes of anyone who doesn’t agree with their world view. There is nothing complicated here – this […]
Looking for words to help our friends on the hill struggling with basic concepts of personal liberty, I found them best stated in Michael Roth’s wise counsel, “We always have the right to our own opinion, but there is no right not to be offended.” The First Amendment is there because a state that compels […]
I have supported Wesleyan since my 1960 graduation. I, too, was a regular contributor to the Argus as an opinion writer. As I see things Rebecca Brill and Tess Morgan do not seem to understand the difference between fact and opinion. When someone writes an opinion piece they interpret the facts, but they are not, […]