May 1, 2012: Dear Michael, “Last [spring], during the HOLI festival on Foss Hill, several members of Shakti, one of the groups that organized the event, put up signs on the doors of Usdan…that prompted broad student criticism and discussion. The posters were intended to prevent festival attendees from entering Usdan while coated […]
In February of this year, university students in the Canadian province of Québec went on strike in protest of the government’s plan to raise tuition by 75% over the next five years. In May, 400,000 people marched against the plan and the Liberal government’s repressive response to the demonstrations. Two days ago, the newly elected […]
This article regards the harassment I suffered on Friday night, by PSafe officers, during the Tour de Franzia. I was at the fountain backyard and am not ashamed to say that I separated from my friends because I had to vomit. I was then approached by two PSafe officers who without consulting me judged that […]
“COMMUNAL FOOD!” Every college student’s ears perk up at that phrase. It’s free food and it usually attracts a swarm of people to hang out with. But what if you cannot eat many types of food? Having a digestive disease/allergy/problem, such as Celiac Disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, or Irritable Bowel Syndrome can be extremely isolating […]
It is not my habit, as a member of the faculty now long retired, to submit copy to The Argus. My position for many years has been that your paper is published for and by the undergraduate body and ought not to be a platform for faculty or administrative opinion and communication—with some exceptions. This […]
It’s been about two weeks now since Active Minds laid out 1,100 backpacks on the lawn of Olin Library to represent the 1,100 college students who die by suicide every year in America. Having spent four months planning and envisioning this event, we can’t imagine what it must have been like to be going about […]
To my fellow Wesleyan students: Here at Wesleyan we tend to believe that we are a part of a progressive and diverse community dedicated to making sure that people of all backgrounds can feel comfortable, respected and safe. This is mostly accurate and so it is all the sadder that there is an unacknowledged darker […]
I want to be a male stripper. A classy one. It’s my final year at Wesweyan, and if I’ve learned anything here, it’s that we ought to embrace who we really are, and I really think I’m a great stripper. I’ve been working out my butt muscles for many months now, practicing on my friends, […]
If nothing else, a Wesleyan education is said to provide valuable training in “critical thinking.” And yet, in considering the campus landscape, such meaningful reflection seems to be either absent or unassimilated. We have instead, as before, “critical thinking” as a productive career skill for the up-and-coming specialist, another resume badge for already overqualified young […]
Trayvon Martin is the most recent victim in a long line of black men targeted for execution and erasure by institutional and interpersonal violence in the United States, beginning in the time of slavery. Lynchings by white supremacist terrorists in postbellum United States, Jim Crow segregation, the U.S. government’s COINTELPRO war against the black power […]