The recent decision to require residential fraternities to admit women as full members, which is strenuously opposed by generations of supportive alumni, active volunteers, donors and committed trustees, is based on numerous false premises. Here’s the truth: FACT: This action will kill frats at Wesleyan. This is a backdoor way to eliminate fraternities altogether. The […]
Dear Editor, I sent the following email to President Roth, the board chair, and the development office. It stands for the proposition that actions have consequences, and I am writing to share it with the entire Wesleyan community. Here is what I wrote: Your letter seeking a contribution to the Wesleyan Fund has been sitting […]
When I was 11 years old, my father passed away unexpectedly. Death is a reality that most of us do not have to deal with until adulthood but those of us that have experienced this at such a young age know that it can become very engrained into our development. I know the way I […]
Dear Michael, The Great Emancipator’s point man, Frederick Douglass, is quoted in your April 24 blog as well as in your latest trek “Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters.” But the spellbinding orator’s own Emancipation Proclamation, “What the Black Man Wants,” is given not even an honorable mention. A telling paragraph: “In regard to […]
Whenever I read or hear about a new student group or project that promotes the discussion of sexual assault and harassment, consent, and male privilege, I feel proud of my generation, my alma mater, and my fellow human beings; I become excited about the new and innovative ways students are looking to change society and […]
Dear Michael, Regime Roth has had a strong couple of weeks. Bete Noire Beta, at last defenestrated, bit the dust. The final helpful shove was given by a hare-brained sophomore (“You’re blaming the victim!”) who fell from a third story window ledge, reportedly losing her footing while reaching for the roof in the dark of […]
This past summer, I had the privilege of doing on-campus research through a pompously named grant known as a “Student-Faculty Research Internship Award.” Just the title of this position alone made me cringe, and, eventually, laugh a bit at its pretentiousness. One of the main reasons I had decided to transfer to Wesleyan a few […]
The administration may leave the house door open “down the road,” but in reality, the announcement sticks the proverbial fork into the Mu Epsilon chapter of Beta Theta Pi as a residential fraternity experience. Since I completed my undergraduate term and my active service to the Wesleyan Student Assembly, I have regretted that the clock […]
The act of creating a state, much like creating a work of art, is a process replete with hope that often concludes in the artist’s disappointment. Like any other state, or man-made creation for that matter, Israel has not embodied the exact hope of its creators. In its short time in existence, it has suffered […]
On July 1st, 2013, I packed up my apartment in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, preparing for another new journey. Just over four years after graduating from Wesleyan University with a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies, I turned north for new beginnings in a new job in Washington, D.C. The last […]