Mytheos, you’re killing my buzz.
As I read last week’s Argus, it was difficult to ignore the disquieting warmth emanating off of yet another steaming pile of North College bullshit. Wesleyan has “only” $800 million, which makes us too “poor” to launch significant new sustainability initiatives. Or so we’re told. Again.
P-Safe is slowly acquiring a fleet of subtle-yet-creepy unmarked cruisers and unmarked SUVs. What’s with that?!? Who decided to take the “public” out of “public safety?”
The former “Zonker Harris Day” is finally no more and I, for one, welcome it. It is obvious that the students of America’s elite universities should not be permitted to even consider Zonker Harris’s unprofitable lifestyle as an option. War protests, pot smoking, and prolonged relaxation have no place at Wesleyan…not even in jest. This is why our institution’s fearless leaders have had the foresight to censor the incipient thoughts that the title “Zonker Harris” plants in our impressionable minds.
David, there are many, many investments Wesleyan could make that will help build the endowment AND a better world, and by "better world" I don't mean a world with more-advanced technologies of death. Why not invest in green energy, or hybrid cars? Or micro-loans? Or even something neutral, like Google?
It's totally absurd that student opinion at Wesleyan is represented by a bunch of ambitious conservative sycophants with no concept of right and wrong. Wesleyan got an official opinion from the Argus' editor, proclaiming his strong feelings that we should continue to invest in arms makers Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Tyco.*
A flurry of responses addressed a recent Wespeak by Kevin Young suggesting that the University divest from U.S. weapons manufacturers. "Wesleyan needs to support America" was the gist of their argument. They couldn't be more right.
Dear Campus Fire Safety, Of all the Man's bureaucracies, it is hard to imagine that Fire Safety would be caught up in childish competition with "peer schools." Is your goal really to out-fine Williams? Will it impress US News and World Report if Wesleyan can be more paranoid about spontaneous combustion than the billion-dollar schools?
While this is not a commonly discussed topic in government (yet!), we would like today to step outside the box. We want to pause and reflect on issues that affect the lives of hippies across the country—something many a Wesleyan student can relate to. Why should the granola-eating, Birkenstock-wearing citizens of California necessarily be subject to the federal government of the United States when they clearly view themselves as distinct? So today, we ponder….