Mathematics and economics major Luyang Yang ’10 is known around campus for his impressive guitar skills. Born in China and currently calling New York home, Yang sat down recently with The Argus to discuss music, mangoes, and Macy Gray.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, one in five women will be sexually assaulted while at college. For the new Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) intern Liz Krushnic ’10, this fact underscores the necessity of her position to serve as a centralized campus resource on sexual assault.
With her eclectic style and incessant smile, Sarice Greenstein ’10 is not to be missed around campus
While debate over the shape of national health care reform continues to endure, Liana Woskie’s ’10 path for improving public health and policy has just been secured.
Environmentally conscious partiers rejoice: solo cups can now be recycled.
At a University where classes such as “Gender in a Transnational Perspective” and “Ethnographic Approaches to Queer Studies” have moved towards the mainstream, Allegra Stout ’12 nevertheless felt that something was missing.
In 1998, “Pornography: Writing of Prostitutes,” a College of Letters class that aimed to examine “the implication of pornography in so-called perverse practices,” and consider “the inflections of the dominant white-heterosexual tradition by alternative sexualities,” appeared on the Wesleyan curriculum.
In some respects, Betty Blum’s life is no different than the University students who live across from her on Church Street in the High Rise and Low Rise complexes; like her neighbors, the highlight of her day is meals with friends in the dining room or the occasional birthday party festivities. Yet, Blum’s far-off stare and thinning hair remind the onlooker that life at Water’s Edge Center for Health and Rehabilitation follows a far different flow than the routine of students, some of whom volunteer at her home each week.
Izzi Greenberg ’05 never considered Middletown as just her college town.
New Haven native and Kippah-wearing, esoteric philosopher, Jared Gimble, is the President of the Yiddish Club and the only observant Jew larping on campus.
Children at play across from the Low Rise and High Rise apartments on Williams Street are a common sight for students on their way to and from Broad Street Books.
The Transportation Committee, a subcommittee of the Sustainability Advisory Group for Environmental Stewardship (SAGES), will be meeting this month to further develop initiatives for reducing campus carbon emissions.
Alex Dezieck ’08 knew he wouldn’t survive when he saw his roommate, who was wearing nothing but a pair of underwear and a bandana on his head, dive towards him from across the second floor of their house.
Replacing the popular Café Ology is not a task for the faint-hearted, but international model and Broadway actor John Gecewicz is already showcasing the product of his ambitious vision for the space on Church Street
In October of 2007, President Roth signed the American College and University President’s Climate Commitment, a framework of support for colleges and universities nationwide to effectively reduce carbon use and increase energy efficiency.
The ongoing investigation into the Hall-Atwater fire was further complicated on Wednesday, when an electrical reaction following the restoration of additional electricity to the building resulted in a cloud of smoke.
A three-alarm fire broke out in Hall-Atwater laboratories on Sunday night, resulting in significant smoke, water and fire damage to the building.
Five University students joined twenty-three other Connecticut students in Hartford on Wednesday to lobby their legislators to maintain the current levels of state financial aid grants for private Connecticut colleges.
Assistant professor of astronomy Seth Redfield never owned a telescope when he was young.
Every day, the 400 to 500 students who frequent Summerfields use roughly 150 to-go, non-reusable containers, according to Bon Appétit Dining Supervisor Joao Esteves. Now, through a collaborative effort between Bon Appétit, the WSA Dining Committee, and the University Sustainability Interns, those containers are being replaced with an eco-friendly and reusable alternative.
President Michael Roth announced on Tuesday that distinguished novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anna Quindlen P’07 has been selected to follow President Obama as this year’s Commencement Address speaker.
The organizers of D.C.-based Our Spring Break, a two-week program begun by students to promote anti-war activism, have a different vision as to how their time and energies can best be spent.
The area surrounding the Davison Art Center is generally considered a safe space for students. However, it was the scene of an unprovoked crime this past Friday night when Claire Staples ’09 and Travis Fitzgerald ’09 were assailed by four youths outside of the building on High Street.
The student leaders of various activist organizations on campus have formed a new Wesleyan Activist Coalition in an effort to further streamline campus political activity.
“Right now I’d say that relations, town/gown relations, are better than they’ve been in the past,” said Professor of Sociology Rob Rosenthal. “But we can always do more.”
Members of the Local 513 Union representing the University’s Clerical and Secretarial workers and the University Human Resources Department officially ratified the workers’ new contract.
This week Residential Life (ResLife) announced the approval of six new program houses for undergraduates opening in the fall of 2009.
Residential Life (ResLife) has decided to allow WestCo Café to remain open for the remainder of the year despite recent fire safety and alcohol violations.
As University students, faculty and administration work to decrease carbon emissions on campus, Eli Allen ’09 is taking this cause across the warming seas to Poland. Allen will be serving as a youth delegate to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held this December in Poland, as one of 20 American students sponsored by SustainUs, an environmental non-profit. At the conference, the SustainUs youth delegates will work to direct the attention of both the delegates to the policy plans necessary for combating global warming and the media towards the scientific and social issues at stake.
The Office of Student Affairs and Residential Life (ResLife) have begun a campaign to increase student awareness and use of the University overnight guest policy, citing the large number of students and their unregistered guests who have been documented for violating the code of Non-Academic Conduct. A link to the policy, which requires all overnight guests to fill out a contact and medical form, has been permanently placed under the “Student Life at Wesleyan” section of the E-Portfolio after rotating through the alert box.
To conclude a week of elections, Wesleyan University has advanced to round two in the PETA2.com contest for the title of Most-Vegetarian Friendly College in the country. The contest, in its third year, judges universities and colleges on the consistency, quality, and availability of their meatless meals. Based on student responses and research, PETA.com chose 32 finalists for the competition, consisting of 18 schools from the United States and 16 from Canada. The winner will be announced on November 17th.
November 4 is the day. We all know that the outcome of these national and local elections may be a defining moment of change for our generation. And right here, in Middletown, you can make this election your own by volunteering for a member of our Wesleyan community Matt Lesser ’09, the Democratic candidate for State Representative.
A petition calling for increased investment in security for senior woodframe houses was denied this past Tuesday due to the high costs associated with such measures.
“We have two oceans protecting us — yet why do we fight and why do we fight so much?” University graduate Erik Rosenberg ’08 raised this question at a talk hosted by Students for Ending the War in Iraq (SEWI) last Tuesday afternoon in the Public Affairs Center.
While the availability of a Bank of America ATM on campus has been a source of unquestioned convenience for many students, students on campus have begun a fight for its removal.
Renowned environmentalist and activist Winona LaDuke welcomed students this year by passionately urging them to think critically about the current global crisis of climate change and the connection between their lives and the environment.