Today I am suffering from what my friend referred to as “residual stress,” the culmination of a week of hair pulling, unsaid tensions, frantic break ups, and ironic re-groupings. I don’t know what it was about housing that was so distressing to me (I rarely write on a whim like this)—but something about it set off an irrational fear inside of me. With one-year left of college, the housing mess does not bode well for what lies ahead—a world void of GRS, but with bills, leases, and mortgages to take its dreaded place.
Ever since the Argus Editorial Board gave their stamp of approval last year, Iguanas Ranas has become an Argus (and Wesleyan) favorite on Main St.
When Melody Chang ’12 and Josh Levine ’12 put up signs around 200 Church encouraging residents to conserve water, they had no idea what they were getting themselves into.
Assistant Professor of Political Studies at Bard College, Daniel Karpowitz, describes a course he teaches on Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” in which students study the relationship between law and literature.
Jane Eisner ’77 is a woman of firsts. This past June, she was named the first female editor of The Forward, one of the country’s most prominent independent Jewish newspapers. Eisner was also the first female editor-in-chief of The Argus.
When identical twins Charles Puelz ’11 and David Puelz ’11 stopped by Assistant Professor of Physics Tsampikos Kottos’ office to ask about a problem set they were working on for his class, they did not expect anything more to come of the conversation. One week later, however, Kottos called the twins back into his office and invited them to join his research group in Germany for the summer.
Last semester, the 13 students enrolled in Architecture II were presented with a serious challenge: to research and design a bird-viewing structure to be built in a former commercial cranberry bog immersed in three feet of water.
Last Wednesday, seven editors of six campus publications—ranging from a literary arts magazine with a name that even its editors forget how to pronounce, to an unnamed publication still in progress—were brought together by a common cause: to build a Wesleyan publications community.
Well-Being House, the grandiose, substance-free Victorian on Court Street, has been on campus for over 12 years. However, when most people hear the name, they have no idea what to make of it.
While the new Muslim chaplain has been here for over two weeks now, her office gives evidence to the contrary. With no furniture, aside from three chairs in one corner, a computer and phone on the floor, an unstable, empty bookshelf and a name written in paper on the door, Chaplain Marwa Said Aly’s makeshift office reflects the haste in which she was hired.
After two years of publicity searches, active recruiting, and student pressure, the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life finally hired a new Catholic chaplain: Father Hal Weidner.
Three thousand graduating seniors from 50 schools filled out applications for the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Now, six months later, two University seniors have been awarded the fellowship, and will receive $25,000 each for one year of independent study outside of the United States. The catch? They must create, execute and evaluate their own projects without the heavy hand of students, parents, teachers and administrators.
In 1969, 160 University students occupied the president’s office for 27 hours in protest of military recruitment on campus. In 1973, 1,165 students signed a petition to impeach Nixon. And in 1975, a group of student activists founded the political journal named after the God of Mischief, Hermes, as a rival to the University’s official school newspaper, The Argus.
When comedian, writer and filmmaker Mark Malkoff decided to move into IKEA for a week and film the results. Sophie Pollitt-Cohen ’09 followed along as his assistant on the production.