The Argus f*cked up. The Argus isn’t going to say the Argus f*cked up, and nobody’s going to force The Argus to say the Argus f*cked up because semantics and censorship is more important to them than the pain experienced by black students on this campus who have felt beaten down for years by a […]
In the Tuesday’s Argus, Bryan Stascavage argues that the Black Lives Matter movement is responsible for the murder of innocent police officers. Stascavage made points such as, “Police officers… have been targeted and gunned down…Good officers…go to work every day… worried that they won’t come home.” The irony of this statement appears to be lost […]
I’m disappointed with the WSA. I was really hoping that this year would be different under the new leadership, and I’m deeply frustrated to see another meeting that does not make space for survivors, and allows fraternity members to dominate the conversation. I want to acknowledge that the role of WSA is really hard because […]
It’s a strange world where a University goes to war against some of its most loyal, dedicated and generous alumni, but there have been many bizarre elements about Wesleyan’s anti-fraternity campaign. As Jeff Gray outlined in a recent Wespeaks, Wesleyan has achieved the hat trick in closing all three fraternities this year even though no […]
College campuses across the country are generally safe places for the students attending them, and our campus is no different. In many instances, though, this leads to a relaxed attitude toward personal safety and security measures, and students tend to let their guard down. A majority of the crimes that occur on campus are crimes […]
Well, President Michael Roth finally seems to have gotten his way. He has now found pretexts for closing all three Wesleyan fraternity houses and it’s hard not to draw the obvious conclusion: that his whole anti-fraternity campaign over the last year has been a cover for a longer-term plan to seize the fraternities’ real estate […]
Dear Wes, The summer of 1990 was the most amazing summer I ever had. After all, in the fall I would be attending Wesleyan, a place that had captured my heart the first time I visited. Three semesters after arriving on the Wes campus, however, I went to Boston College for a year, and due […]
We are writing in response to President Roth’s announcement today to suspend Psi Upsilon’s housing status for at least the 2015-16 academic year as a result of alleged illegal activity involving a person who was not a Wesleyan student occurring near the House after the completion of spring term. This is the second time the […]
It feels like I’ve spent the last week crying on the Usdan floor. Since Thursday when I rushed to the Speakout between a lecture on Palestine and my first shift at work, I haven’t left that space. My voice through the megaphone, unfamiliar and wavering, echoes in my ears. My eyes are still raw from […]
One year as a consolation prize for hunting down the afikomen* at Passover I received a wind-up toy in the form of a mouse in a wheel. The mouse churns itself in circles on hardwood floors, and it tires every twenty seconds or so. I’ve noticed that when I crank the little sucker up and […]