What are you? I often find myself asking this question. With objects, the answer almost always seems simple. Parasol? Oh, that’s just an umbrella. A palindrome? Words that are spelled to be read the same forwards and backwards. One way or another, we can easily search for synonyms or definitions that describe that which we […]
I can assure you that I am firmly in the progressive camp at Wesleyan. I approach every issue in American politics from the left: I am an ardent supporter of increasing spending on healthcare, insurance, climate resilience, and education at the expense of defense and border security. I am pro-abortion, anti-gun, and pro-immigration. But my opinion is thus: as liberals, progressives, moderates, socialists, and everything […]
At this year’s family Christmas gathering, an uncle asked me if I believed a peaceful, bilateral solution in the Middle East remained possible. I was a bit taken aback. Not because it was a strange question or because I hadn’t expected him, a high school history teacher, to pose it, but because no one had […]
Dearest readers, Welcome back! We hope you had a rejuvenating winter break. We’re thrilled to be serving as editors-in-chief for The Argus this semester. As you may know, our paper is named after Argus Panoptes, the 100-eyed giant from Greek mythology. This semester, for the first time since either of us started at The Argus, […]
Dear readers and friends of The Argus, We can’t believe that the end of the semester is already here. It really feels like time has flown, and it doesn’t feel quite real that finals and winter break are right around the corner. When our predecessors Rachel Wachman ’24 and Andrew Lu ’23 handed us the […]
On December 4th and 5th 2023, alums from multiple class years submitted updates to their class notes for the Wesleyan University Alumni Magazine. These updates highlighted their support of a petition demanding that Wesleyan divest from companies which profit from Israel’s occupation of Palestine. They were informed that their submissions would not be published due […]
Father Bill was my first real friend at Wesleyan. There were many times in freshman year where I doubted myself and my place at Wesleyan, but he always made me feel welcome and created home for me. He would often tell me that I am a great asset to the community and meet up for […]
An open letter to the Jewish community at Wesleyan— We write to you as Wesleyan alumni who have been watching with great concern the increased tensions on many college campuses concerning Hamas’ terror attacks on October 7 and Israel’s military response. We understand that in this time of heightened discourse, challenging rhetoric and concern for physical safety, […]
To President Michael Roth and Provost Nicole Stanton: We, the members of the Wesleyan Classical Studies Major Committee, are deeply disheartened that the university has chosen to not offer Dr. Serena Witzke any sort of long-term professorship at the end of the academic year. Dr. Witzke has been a visiting professor at Wesleyan for seven […]
Flames rise as ashes disperse, clouding the air with smoke and specks of pages burnt off of the revolutionary and racially educational books, and fly all around you. You look down to see that the faces of books you once studied and used to see in libraries and bookstores have now turned black, their memory […]