Despite Scalia’s antithetical beliefs, we should still appreciate his visit to campus as an opportunity to challenge and discuss our own political leanings and to engage in dialogue with a very important judicial leader.
Within a week of my arrival at Wesleyan, I had been awarded a new nickname by my dorm mates. “Try-anything-once-Emily,” my friend Andrew christened me after it became clear that, from mystery food items to obscure extreme sports, “no” was not a word often used in my vocabulary.