When Amir Hasson ’98 graduated from Wesleyan, he could not have predicted where his college education would take him. Following his intuitions and using the problem-solving tools he had acquired, his path led him to jumpstart his own company, United Villages, which seeks to empower people in rural areas of the world by delivering information and services.
While most reading groups usually meet to discuss written works, it is not unusual for the University’s “Underground” Reading Group to spend two hours watching and discussing a movie about a pet cemetery.
While the students at Wesleyan may be smart, the lights in Usdan are smarter. The lights at the Usdan University Center adjust to the brightness of the room themselves—as the natural light in the room decreases, the intensity of the bulbs increases. The lights are also programmed by motion-detecting technology that will turn them off when the sensors detect no movement for 30 minutes.
The once booming and lively MoCon Dining Hall sits empty and desolate, hidden in the currently remote corner of campus between Nicolson and Hewitt. Now, according to Joyce Topshe, associate vice president for Facilities, the University may soon put an end to MoCon’s misery.
The Jewish and Muslim chaplains came together last Friday to teach their congregants about the most famous anti-religion book in recent memory, Christopher Hitchens’ “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.”
This seemingly unusual occasion has become a now-regular event: the fifth annual Interfaith Iftar-Shabbat Dinner, which brings together Jewish and Muslim groups on campus for a Friday night dinner and prayer service. Both communities pray and celebrate on Friday nights yet remain separated by conventional traditions.