The views and comments expressed in Letters to the Editor are those of the writer(s) alone and do not necessarily reflect those of The Argus as an institution nor those of any of its staff. Letters to the Editor are not subject to the same editorial process and standards as regular Argus content. Dear Friends, […]
Welcome (or welcome back) to everyone at Wesleyan! We are so excited to be the Editors-in-Chief for The Wesleyan Argus this fall and are looking forward to an amazing semester with you, our wonderful, dedicated readers. The two of us come from slightly different journalistic backgrounds, one coming from News and the other Arts, and […]
With the start of classes among us, there is a nervous, yet excited energy felt throughout campus. Students and faculty alike have once again begun their Sunday night rituals to prepare themselves for the semester and the new week ahead. Unfortunately, there is a group on campus that must now change their Sunday night routine because […]
Dear Argus readers, After a long, eventful, and relatively chilly spring semester, we are still kicking! Taking on the role of Editor-in-Chief as two juniors in a semester that saw Wesleyan begin to return to normalcy, we had a lot of questions about how The Argus would run, which stories we would tell, and how […]
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 […]