Occasionally I heard people add to this that “the top 1 percent own 40 percent of the nation’s wealth” or “I want to fight corporate greed,” but the acknowledgement by so many Wesleyan participants that they were not exactly going to crush the capitalist system is unsurprising.
Wesleyan students like to complain. This year, we’ve complained about how long it took to call Zonker Harris Day by its proper name again, the Beta housing policy brouhaha, the Matisyahu concert, the open container policy, the Student Judicial Board standard of proof, the increased vigilance of Public Safety, the lack of hot showers in the Butts, and countless other inconveniences (injustices!).
Clean your room.
Last night, I was dragged to “Take Back the Night,” a campus event to counter the silence surrounding sexual violence. I use the word “dragged” because I went without initially intending.
By now, most of you have probably seen the YouTube video “Asians in the Library.” For those of you that haven’t viewed this two-minute “treat” of student ineptitude, the video is a racist rant against Asians from UCLA student Alexandra Wallace.
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they finally fuck up. Every soccer player will eventually miss a goal they should have made.
Ok, just kidding, this article has nothing to do with municipal police corruption in Kyrgyzstan. This article is about a topic that hits much closer to home for many of us wine-sipping, aspiring intellectuals.
The other day, while on my way to class, a friend told me about their latest idea: a “Vagina Monologues” style play called “The CollegeACB Monologues,” in which a group of actors performed monologues based off the wild range of posts from Wesleyan’s favorite anonymous and trashy forum.