The Arts Bus will be making its second trip to New York this semester on Saturday with a celebrity on board. The best loved teacher of all time, Miss Frizzle, who for years has rejected the Wesleyan administration’s pleas to occupy a full-time position at the University, has agreed to serve as the bus driver for this year’s last Arts Bus trip.
Her adventures as a science teacher at Walkerville Elementary have been well documented in the Magic School Bus series by Scholastic. With her extensive background in science, the Friz expressed excitement at leading Wesleyan students through a discovery of art.
“Even though Wesleyan is an ‘artsy’ school, if you will, I plan to show students how fun science can be!” said the Friz on an instant message chat.
The Friz will be driving her legendary school bus into the city that never sleeps (which she asserts is not humanly possible) to expose students to all the Metropolitan Museum of Art has to offer.
She has been lost in outer space, inside the human body, and even inside a hurricane, but she has never even seen a painting.
“I plan to do some really exciting things,” she said, “like turn into a drop of paint.”
The Friz has also arranged for students to spend the night at the Met to help organize the mixed-up files of her close friend Miss Basil E. Frankweiler.
“Um, what? I just, like, wanna go shopping,” said Kallie Kapinski ’07.
Other students are more enthusiastic.
“That’s totally trippy. The Friz rocks my socks,” said Zeke Morse ’04, a double major in studio art and astrophysics.
Despite the Friz’s popularity, animal rights activists plan to protest the Friz’s inclusion of her pet iguana on the trip.
“The poor thing can’t even decide for himself whether or not he wants to become a drop of paint. We defend his right to choose,” said Kitty Katz ’05, who is involved with many animal rights groups on campus even though she eats meat.
Even though the Friz’s creative field trips have been known to encounter mishaps (but really only for plot purposes) students have always been returned home safely.
“I really want our troops on alert during this trip. This ‘Friz,’ I just don’t know about her,” said Maryann Wiggin, Director of Public Safety.
Because the Friz is notorious for going where no human has gone before, there is no telling how she will transform students’ lives.
“The Friz is one cool lady,” said one student. “My little brother once went inside the human body, and he came out a man.”
There has been speculation that the Friz is a cartoon, and therefore incapable of driving a real-live school bus.
“We’re all cartoons deep down. We’re ‘Diversity University,’ who are we to judge?” said Mario Horowitz ’06, who himself is mixed media.
Nevertheless, this will be a memorable arts bus experience. The inclusion of a celebrity cameo is unprecedented in arts bus history.
The Friz is the Shiz.
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