When Edwin Sanders ’69 decided to attend Wesleyan University—and consequently to become one of the 13 black male students comprising the Vanguard Class of 1969—he had to defy his stepfather’s wishes and turn down the historically black Morehouse College.
Rocking big sunglasses and an even bigger smile, Allyson Chung ’10 is hard to miss on campus.
More than 100 students packed inside of Usdan 108 on Friday for the first meeting of the newly formed Haiti Relief Action Team.
Sabine Vilsaint, whose parents were both born and raised in Haiti, is just one of several Wesleyan students who were directly effected by the Jan. 12 earthquake and have since struggled to locate family members.
Living in irrational fear in suburbia is nothing like living in very rational fear in South Africa. When we first arrived in Durban, our program directors gave us a list of ‘basic’ safety precautions. Keep your money in your bra or your socks. Don’t carry more than 80 Rand (about $8). Keep your phone in your pocket or bra at all times, never take it out in public. Don’t walk around with an iPod or a laptop on your person. Don’t wear a necklace in public—someone might rip it off your neck.
Members of the University community recently established the Johanna Justin-Jinich ’10 Memorial Scholarship Fund, which to date has raised an impressive total of $239,000 from nearly 1,000 individual gifts.
In the aftermath of the fatal shooting of Johanna Justin-Jinich ’10, Sophia deBoer P’12 and Monica Valenti P’12 wrote to the Parent Listserv—an online forum for parents of current students and alumni—in hopes of starting a violence prevention group.
Speaking on issues of race, poverty and American popular culture, Juan Williams delivered the 16th Annual Dwight L. Greene Symposium in the Memorial Chapel on Oct. 18.
“What does your name mean to you?” Micah Weiss ’10 asked a group of 15 first-year and transfer students gathered in the Nicolson Lounge last Sunday night. After receiving these instructions for the icebreaker, the students split off into pairs to discuss the origins of their names, as well as their likes and dislikes of them.
Though Middletown is hardly the dining capital of the Northeast, local restaurants are often crowded with students seeking respite from dining hall mystery meat. Who knew that central Connecticut would be home to a variety of world cuisines?
If the frat parties and the film series just aren’t cutting it anymore, try heading off campus for a change of scene. You may run into anyone from Wild Bill to Coco the sea lion during your off campus adventures.
In his commencement address, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) directly challenged the class of 2008 to commit themselves to community involvement and global engagement. Obama filled in for Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA), whose recent diagnosis with a malignant brain tumor prevented him from speaking at the event.
In his commencement address, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) directly challenged the class of 2008 to commit themselves to community involvement and global engagement. Obama filled in for Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA), whose recent diagnosis with a malignant brain tumor prevented him from speaking at the event.
Question:
Recently, Senator Barack Obama officially denounced his pastor Reverend Wright. How do you think Reverend Wright’s public comments, as well as Obama’s reactions to them, have affected and will affect his campaign?
Question: Should race-based Affirmative Action continue into the 21st Century?
Answer: There has been a dramatic decline in the gap in educational attainment between Blacks and Whites since the middle of the twentieth century, from 2.9 years in the 1920s birth cohort to 0.9 years for the 1970s birth cohort, due in part to Affirmative Action.
We would like to write in response to last week’s Wespeak regarding Visiting Associate Professor of African American Studies Anna Bean’s case (“Bean’s case needs clarification,” April 15, Volume CXLIII, Number 40), as students who have taken her courses. When you read between the lines of this Wespeak, it seems that the authors did not care for Professor Bean’s teaching, or have not taken a class with her.
Stacks of papers clutter Becca Feiden’s room. Using recycled Teach for America flyers for scrap paper, Feiden has spent the past eight months brainstorming and sketching proofs for her thesis in mathematics. With little use for a carrel, Feiden worked all over campus, transporting her papers in a big green folder.
Every year The Bi-College News—the weekly newspaper for Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges—conducts an online survey asking readers what the newspaper staff can do to improve its coverage. And every year someone writes: “You need more people of color on staff.”
Question: Do you think that there is evidence in the “Harry Potter” series that suggests that Albus Dumbledore is gay? Do you think that J.K. Rowling’s divulgence of this information will affect how readers view the series and Dumbledore as a character?
When Facebook first created a Wesleyan network in 2004, Jenny Ryan ’08 was hesitant to join. Now, she is completing a master’s thesis in Anthropology about this same social networking site. "I’ve always liked to pretend I’m a really tech-savvy chick who turns her nose up at the latest ‘Internet fad,’" she said. "But it was actually a fun, slick, cool site, so I caved pretty quickly."
Question: What are the advantages of fair trade coffee?
Answer: Coffee is one of the world’s most commonly consumed beverages—roughly 400 billions of cups a day. By one estimate, coffee is the second most important commodity traded on the (legal) global marketplace. But what is fair trade coffee?
Question: It has been rumored that one can get a heart attack from drinking both Red Bull and vodka. Is this true?
Answer: Is a wide-awake drunk more appealing than a sleeping drunk? Red Bull is a high fructose jolt of caffeine whose consumption with vodka is based on the assumption that the answer to this question is yes. Is the wide-awake drunk at a higher risk of a heart attack? I don’t know.
Question: How do you think the writers’ strike will resolve itself? How do you think it will ultimately affect the TV and Film Industries?
Question: What can we personally do to help alleviate global warming and other environmental problems?
Answer: In the United States, automobiles, power plants and industry each contribute about a third of the total human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide. These are the areas that we as individuals should focus on to reduce our collective carbon footprint.
“Leave your parents. Leave your country. Move to Israel.”
This was the beginning of Interior Minister of Israel Meir Sheetrit’s speech at Taglit-Birthright’s infamous Mega Event.
When Emily Sheehan ’10 first joined Wesleyan Christian Fellowship (WesCF) in her freshman year, she was uncomfortable revealing her Catholic denomination. “Then, I didn’t know if they would see it well,” Sheehan said, explaining that WesCF is mostly Protestant. Now, however, Sheehan is an active member in WesCF as well as the Catholic Student Organization (CSO).
Sunday afternoon, the brothers of La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Incorporated (LUL), sat by the main stairs of Usdan, offering to exchange Latino desserts for clothes to be donated to The Salvation Army.
In 1985, Louis Farrakhan, minister and leader of the Black Nation of Islam, came to speak on campus—and was met with two different protests: one by students and one by the Ku Klux Klan. Farrakhan, a proponent of black separatism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia, came to speak upon invitation from Ujamaa, the University’s black student group.
In French, "Bon Appétit" means "Enjoy Your Meal." At Wesleyan, "Bon Appétit" translates to "Enjoy Your Meal…after waiting in line for at least half an hour." The past few meals at the Usdan Marketplace—that’s the large dining area on the second floor of the new Usdan University Center, as opposed to the sushi counter on the first floor that is absurdly named the "Café"—have been so crowded that students are forced to line up outside of the Marketplace, on the second floor landing, waiting until the dining area is no longer filled to capacity.
Though Middletown is hardly the dining capital of the Northeast, local restaurants are often crowded with students seeking respite from dining hall mystery meat. Who knew that central Connecticut would be home to a variety of world cuisines?
If the frat parties and the film series just aren’t cutting it anymore, try heading off campus for a change of scene. You may run into anyone from Wild Bill to Coco the sea lion during your off campus adventures.
Last Saturday, students sat in a circle on the floor of the Center for African American Studies lounge playing "Star Power," trading colorful chips and receiving badges of different hues. But "Star Power" is no typical board game: it is geared toward exploring wealth and privilege in the United States.
Upon entering the Admissions Office’s entryway, smiling faces shine down on you from a neat array of photographs on the wall. These friendly looking faces are this year’s 21 senior interviewers.
Though the big red house on Pine Street is often affectionately referred to as the "Red Barn," it is technically the Women of Color House. Upon entering the house, it is clear that its six residents have infused their creative spirit into every aspect of their home—down to the bright purple sticky notes on the kitchen cabinets that detail their contents.
If you were looking for a photo club a couple of years ago, you would have been hard-pressed to find one, or even the remnants of one. According to current Wesfoto co-President Lirra Schiebler ’07, the photography club had essentially died until Schiebler and co-President Simone Collins ’07 re-started the club in the fall of 2004.
Though the Chaplain’s Lounge usually contains nondescript black leather couches on a dull blue carpet surrounded by entirely blank, white walls, it takes on a completely different feel every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. This is when Protestant Chaplain Gary Comstock hosts an interfaith, and what he calls "semi-spiritual", ritual called Vespers.