When her mother first offered her the option of attending Hebrew school, Leah Lucid ’10 declined, feeling that it just wouldn’t have meant much to her. Now, seven years after her 13th birthday, Lucid was just Bat Mitzvah’d at Wesleyan, through the Jewish Community’s B’nei Mitzvah program.
“This is not wheelchair golf,” said Jonathan Sigworth ’10. “This is very aggressive. This transcends the whole victim mentality.”
Since his freshman year at the University, Sigworth has played on the Connecticut Wheelchair Rugby Team. But Sigworth’s passion for the sport isn’t limited to his participation on the court—he has devoted the better part of his last two winter breaks and his summer break to introducing the sport to India.
Pay a visit to the bottom floor of Broad Street Books during Drop/Add and there will most likely be at least one student paused in front of a given title, contemplating whether to buy the book in the store or to research prices on the Internet.
When Dean of Student Services Michael Whaley was asked, "Are matters of class discussed at Wesleyan?" he responded that students often ignore them. "Matters of socio-economic class impact each of us every day," Whaley said. "As is frequently the case, those who have some privilege in this area are able to navigate without stopping to consider the impact."
So it’s nearing the end of the semester and chances are, you’re running a little low on points. What to do to survive the last month of school? If you’re on financial aid, you can purchase extra points with the help of a low-cost loan from the Office of Financial Aid.
During winter break, Jennifer Garcia ’10 gave her aunt, who was undergoing chemotherapy at the time, a scarf she had knitted as a gift. This gift would give Garcia the inspiration to create a new knitting club on campus.
Today, the Class of 2009 will breathe a collective sigh of relief as the deadline for major declaration passes. While declaring a major only requires a student to get an advisor’s signature on a declaration form, deciding on what to major in is not quite so easy.
While I agree with some of the sentiments expressed in the October 10 editorial, I must disagree with the ultimate verdict on the university’s policy regarding political candidates coming to campus.
When you’re majoring in a department as large as English, a sense of community can be hard to find. Frustrated with what one student called "an intellectually isolating" experience, the founders of Wesleyan Critical Review, Wesleyan’s first scholarly journal of student literary criticism, hope to facilitate a community of peers, in and out of the classroom.
Sometimes you have to create a new class to be able to think outside the box. Faculty merely oversee the student forum courses; they are chiefly the work of student leaders willing to undertake the significant preparatory work. Past forum groups have centered on subjects as experimental music, the female body, Harry Potter, and Long Lane Farm.
A little over a week ago, retired English professor Phyllis Rose invited students to her home on Wyllys Avenue to help her move. The professor, who retired this year after 36 years with the faculty, gave simple instructions: Take whatever you want. “It was open two days," said Rose, a self-described packrat. “Those students cleaned it out pretty fast…I wanted to empty the house.”
The scene was aglow at Earth House last week, where LiveWolves!, a new vegetarian Co-op, hosted a meal. A student entered with an enormous pot filled with tawny beads of rye, all accompanied minutes later by a second pot of fragrant ratatouille. An apple dessert, meanwhile, neared completion in the kitchen.