Although the national unemployment rate grew to 9.8 percent in Sept., Middletown’s unemployment rate has remained below the national average at 7.5 percent, according to the City’s Statistics Report.
Sarah Wildman ’96, a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, returned to campus over Homecoming weekend on Saturday to speak about gaining access in the summer of 2008 to the 60 million pages of unexamined archival material stored by the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, Germany.
On Tuesday, the Republican incumbent Middletown Mayor Sebastian Giuliano beat his Democratic challenger, Dan Drew, to enter his third term.
In an effort to counteract the spread of H1N1 and other strains of influenza, Physical Plant hopes to install 200 new hand sanitizer dispensers throughout campus by Homecoming Weekend.
On Tuesday, the University received 100 doses of the H1N1 vaccine from the Connecticut Department of Public Health.
On Monday, Oct. 26, Middletown health and school officials decided to close Keigwin Middle School for the remainder of the week due to the high number of students exhibiting influenza-like symptoms. According to Middletown School Superintendent Michael J. Frechette, 40 percent of students were absent on Monday due to illness.
Following the success of last year’s Eco To-Go program at Summerfields, the eco-friendly reusable containers will now be available for use at the Usdan Marketplace during lunch.
After 147 years of publication, the Student Budget Committee (SBC) of the Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) will discontinue funding the University’s Olla Podrida Yearbook in its current print form. The decision was made in response to a declining purchase rate over the past several years, although Olla Podrida members dispute some of the WSA’s arguments for canceling funding.
With over 1,360 participants, the third annual Fast-a-Thon and Ramadan Banquet raised $17,061.91 for St. Vincent DePaul’s Amazing Grace Food Pantry in Middletown this year.
Following complaints from students, along with their visiting family and friends, Bon Appétit, will now grant students with four guest meals each semester.
The announcement last May that Adjunct Associate Government Professor Melanye Price would not be offered tenure called into question the criteria required for tenure and highlighted the misconceptions surrounding the process.
For junior and sophomore transfers, the medley of meet-and-greets, workshops, and how-to sessions evokes a sense of déjà-vu, despite their new surroundings.
From greener dining practices to a new linked-major program, students, faculty, and administrators have recently intensified efforts to make campus life more eco-friendly.
This Wednesday, faculty members will vote on the proposed Wesleyan Center for Prison Education (WCPE) pilot program.
During these final weeks of the academic year, the Honor Board is revising the University’s Honor code for the first time since 1972.
Despite the Wesleyan Student Assembly’s (WSA) approval of camera installation last summer, there are currently no surveillance cameras monitoring the Vine Street parking lot.
Last Wednesday, representatives from the Connecticut Department of Labor (DOL) found two of the subcontractors running the Davenport construction project to be in violation of proper worker’s compensation practices.
Despite its recent financial difficulties, Wesleyan will not follow a large proportion of American colleges and universities in freezing faculty hiring. According to President Roth, the University has no plan to implement a hiring freeze for the 2009-2010 academic year.
To overcome the growing budget shortfall and improve course access for students, the University is expanding professors’ course loads for the next academic year.
While nearly 45 percent of juniors study abroad each year, students have often expressed frustration over the University’s policy of “Wesleyan tuition for Wesleyan credit,” or home-school tuition.
Since January 2008, the Attorney General of Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, has been leading an ongoing investigation into college and university study-abroad deals with program providers.
Through a collaboration between the ITS New Media Lab (NML) and University Communications, Wesleyan now has a presence on iTunes U, the academic sector of Apple’s digital media player application, iTunes.
The Richard Alsop IV House, home to the Davison Art Center and Davison’s print collection, has been formally designated as a National Historic Landmark.
In its efforts to decrease spending, the University is considering a potential cut that, if approved, would reduce the amount of cleaning provided for smaller program houses.
In tandem with other endeavors to make the University more friendly to the environment, Bon Appétit and various faculty members are working to improve the sustainability of catered events and campus-wide eating habits.
While Tuesday night marked the conclusion of the 2008 national elections, University Communications and the New Media Lab are offering students a chance to participate in their own competition. The “Minute with the President-elect” Video Contest asks students to combine political activism and their command of the video camera to create an original short for YouTube.
“What mattered most to me in my own project was the inclusion of the Jewish dimension, along all others, within an integrated historical narrative. There is more, however, to this concept of integrated history.”
This September marked an over 50 percent increase in the number of students hospitalized due to alcohol consumption, according to Public Safety (PSafe).
Despite high demand for Olin Library senior thesis carrels in past years, this fall marks a 60 percent drop in the number of students on the waiting list for a carrel. Those on the waiting list have the option of claiming space in the microforms center—a new room for thesis writers that has drawn mixed reactions from students.
The Sustainability Advisory Group and Environmental Stewardship (SAGES) published The Green Report last May, a review of the University’s environmental sustainability, which placed the University on a path to reach carbon neutrality by 2030.
While the term “anonymous tip line” may bring to mind a detective agency, Public Safety (PSafe) is currently trying to publicize a recent project with just this title. According to Director of Public Safety David Meyer, a lack of specifics regarding a graffiti incident in Clark Residence Hall during the spring of 2007 prompted PSafe to reconsider the ways they collect information from students. After reviewing their options, PSafe created a web page that allows students to anonymously submit information regarding criminal incidents on campus.
With the approach of November’s presidential elections, both the Wesleyan Democrats (WesDems) and the Wesleyan Republicans (WesRepublicans) are gearing up for this year’s pivotal election day. While the University is often known for its students’ political activism, it will be particularly heightened in the months leading up to November.