If Wesleyan conservatives are particularly good at one thing, it’s riling people up. You always seem willing to do things to “troll” the community and provoke a response out of an unshakable belief in the correctness of your principles.
In seeking to summon up a coherent response to the Wespeak by Martin Benjamin ’57 featured in the Nov. 7 Argus (“Open letter to President Roth,” Volume CXLIV, Number 18), I decided to do a Google search for the terms “Martin Benjamin” and “Wesleyan University.”
On December 3, 1984 the city of Bhopal, India awoke to a thick cloud of poisonous vapors seeping into homes and asphyxiating many in their sleep. The explosion, a result of mismanagement of the plant, was made more destructive by the failure of all six of the plant’s safety systems. More than twenty years later, neither the local government nor the companies involved in the disaster have done their parts to alleviate the suffering.