Wesleyan University is a leader not just among peer colleges for the quality of education, but also in its community impact, helping to shape Middletown into a leading progressive city in the state of Connecticut. As a near-fully residential college, Residential Life (ResLife) student workers are foundational to Wesleyan’s success and leadership. Now, Wesleyan’s ResLife […]
Content warning: this article contains references to suicide, self-harm, and other mental health-related issues. It’s the week before Thanksgiving 2019 and I am standing in the University’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) waiting room when the receptionist walks out with a piece of paper. She hands it to me. “This is where you need to […]
Dear Readers, Welcome back to another semester at the wonderfully quaint Wesleyan University! We are so excited to be writing our first Letter from the Editor. This is the sixth semester in The Argus for both of us (oh, how time flies) and we are so honored and fortunate to be chosen as Editors-in-Chief for […]
Dear Argus readers, It’s been a semester, but we’re still here! For students and student journalists alike, each semester during the COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging in its own way, and this one has been no exception: the demands of returning to mostly in-person classes, obligations, and social schedules while cases rise and fall (sometimes […]
Bates College staff has made headlines recently with their efforts to unionize a solid majority of their staff, save the managers, supervisors, tenured/tenure track faculty, and security personnel. With that unionization effort has come a sharp backlash from the Bates administration. Workers recently filed a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) about Bates’s […]
The Amherst football team owes an apology to Wesleyan’s players and coaches, their equals on the playing field. My wife & I drove from Buffalo to see our son on Homecoming Weekend. Twelve months ago COVID cancelled Parent’s Weekend when he was a freshman. On Saturday, Amherst won a tense, nail-biting, muddy football game with […]
Content Warning: This article contains references to sexual assault and abuse. As a Bystander Intervention Facilitator at Wesleyan University, I teach that survivors of sexual assault have the agency to define their experience. Wesleyan survivors are robbed of this agency, as attempts from both the institution and the student body to hold perpetrators accountable are rarely […]
Dear Wesleyan students & faculty, My name is Brian Gartner, and I am one of the Endorsed Democratic Candidates running for a seat on the Middletown Planning & Zoning (P&Z) Commission. I am hoping to seek your support in running for this elected office. Wesleyan is such an important part of this community, our community, which […]
Every year Wesleyan’s Orientation Committee, members of ResLife, and officers of Public Safety go to extraordinary lengths to ensure a safe, orderly, and welcoming arrival and program of events for Wesleyan’s incoming class. This year’s Orientation, ResLife, and Public Safety students and staff gave new meaning to the word “extraordinary.” In addition to the usual […]
Dear Readers, Welcome back! We are so excited to write to you for the first (but not the last) time as Editors-in-Chief of The Argus. We have both been staff members since the fall of our first year on campus, and while neither of us envisioned being in this position at that moment, we could […]