Dear Wesleyan community, As part of an intercultural exchange and teaching-learning program, Wesleyan receives a group of Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTAs) from different countries around the world each year. With different backgrounds, stories, and mother-tongues, the current cohort of FLTAs brings together women from Colombia, Taiwan, Spain, Korea, Japan, France, Italy, India, Algeria, and […]
Today, student workers employed by Bon Appétit at Wesleyan’s dining facilities publicly launched our union drive, rallying outside Usdan alongside supporters and the already unionized food service workers. We are unionizing because we have faced on-the-job issues including low pay, poor workplace communication, discriminatory treatment, overwork, and scheduling issues. “Management at Pi Café often treats […]
On Friday, February 3rd, Monday, February 6th, and Thursday, February 9th, students across the world protested the ongoing human rights violations committed by Azerbaijan towards ethnic Armenians in Nagorno Karabakh. Student representatives from Columbia, Cornell, GWU, Harvard, Princeton, Villanova, University of Buenos Aires, Imperial College London, London School of Economics, King’s College, and University College […]
Ella Carr was born in Truckee, California, on May 25th, 2001. On March 5th, 2022 she passed away in Union County, Oregon, in an accident while backcountry skiing. Ella was enrolled in the class of 2023 and spent 2.5 years in the Wesleyan community, with a semester off during the pandemic. In the spring of […]
Last May, following the leak of the draft of the Supreme Court opinion that would soon overturn Roe v. Wade, hundreds of students gathered in front of Usdan to protest and stand in solidarity with each other. In light of the sobering reality that bodily autonomy was still up for political debate, many student groups, […]
At the end of 2022, Israel swore in an administration which The New York Times and The Economist describe as the country’s most right-wing government ever. While Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch already condemn Israeli policy as apartheid, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu threatens to accelerate arguably genocidal processes of annexation, expulsion, and massacre. […]
Dear Readers, Welcome back to The Wesleyan Argus Podcast! I am so excited to be the Podcast Manager this semester. My co-host, Executive Editor Oscar Kim Bauman ’23, and I hope to use the podcast as a platform to cover an array of topics and events, take listeners behind the scenes at The Argus, and […]
Dear Readers, Welcome back to another semester on campus! We hope everyone had a fun and relaxing break. We are thrilled to be at the helm of The Argus as Editors-in-Chief for the spring semester. Both of us have been members of the paper since setting foot on campus as first-years. This paper means so […]
Dear wonderful readers of The Argus, What a semester it has been! When we last wrote to you, we shared how excited we were to be taking on the mantle of Editors-in-Chief. The Argus is an organization that has meant a lot to both of us during our time at Wesleyan, and getting to lead […]
Students, faculty, staff, and alumni have every reason to feel confusion and concern over the sudden and unexplained departures of several Wesleyan staff members. As the November 17 article in the Argus points out, Equity and Inclusion Vice President Alison Williams (“Williams”) is the most recent of several departures that have rocked the campus. It comes […]