Last night, pre-registered students from the Wesleyan University senior class attended their first Senior Class Reception. Barely any hint was given that this event was in fact a fundraiser for the University scheduled to coincide with the “Giving Tuesday” fundraising initiative directed at the alumni. I attended anyway, but felt incredibly uncomfortable at the event. […]
Hi everyone, Alex Kelley here—I graduated last spring. I majored in English and now live in Oakland working as a namer at Catchword. During my senior year, there was a lot of campus kerfuffle about need-blind admissions. And, now that my friends and I are having to start paying back our student loan bills, I […]
Current Sophomores and Juniors, I’m writing to encourage you to apply for this year’s Morgenstern-Clarren Award for social justice work! This award recognizes activist, volunteer, and organizing work that students have done at or around Wesleyan that has had some positive impact on people’s quality of life, and has made communities healthier, safer, more equitable, […]
Dear Board of Trustees, The climate crisis is a defining issue of current and future generations. The fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released earlier this year, states with at least 95 percent certainty that humans are the primary contributors to current warming trends. As a responsible institution, Wesleyan teaches students to shape […]
Dear Parent/Student/Alum, If you are concerned, as we are, with the profound demographic changes in the Wesleyan student body that have been attended by Wesleyan’s new need-discriminatory admissions policy, please email or call Michael Roth (mroth@wesleyan.edu/860/685-3500), the President of the University, and John Meerts (jmeerts@wesleyan.edu/860/685-2607), the Vice President for Finance and Administration, and explain that […]
Dear Parent/Student/Alum, If you are concerned, as we are, with the profound demographic changes in the Wesleyan student body that have been attended by Wesleyan’s new need-discriminatory admissions policy, please email or call Michael Roth (mroth@wesleyan.edu/860/685-3500), the President of the University, and John Meerts (jmeerts@wesleyan.edu/ 860/685-2607), the Vice President of Finance, and explain that your deep disappointment […]
March 30, 2013 Nora Pandolfo-Steiner East Maple St. New Paltz, NY 12561 Dear Ms. Pandolfo-Steiner, The admissions committee has met and I am sorry to inform you that you are too poor to attend Wesleyan University this year. We received a record applicant pool of over nine thousand financially qualified applicants and we […]
Dear editor, The Argus flatters this writer by taking the trouble and time to improve his prose. But one can have too much of a good thing. My Nov. 18 submission (Open Letter to President Roth) contained the phrase, “bumper-sticker humanist you.” It was lengthened it to “you bumper-sticker humanist you.” The second improvement pertains […]
Dear Michael, Wes recently hosted a dog-and-pony show (what else is new?), a Gun Violence Prevention Conference. You may rest assured that Yale statistics professor John Lott, who authored “More Guns, Less Crime,” had not been invited. Democrat politicians Blumenthal and Malloy, who had been invited, and who reside in zip codes where crime is […]
Dear Michael, At the risk of boring the reader, I quote your April 9 blog, entitled “Sexual Assault Awareness Month,” verbatim: “April on campus is typically a time of intense work for faculty and students (exams, theses) and liberating play (Foss Hill in the sunshine, drumming in the CFA). April is also ‘sexual assault awareness […]