You’re all certainly familiar with the Wesleyan website home page and the odd collection of photos that cycle at the top. The picture of students who probably graduated in 1997 hanging out in front of the campus center that hasn’t been open since mid-2007; the dude that’s insanely happy to be graduating; a photo of the Usdan Center that is as out of scale and gracelessly cropped as the actual building; a nice shot of College Row that is from before whatever year they removed all the ivy from its buildings. But I write to draw your attention to the one of (I think) Rushmore’s Jason Schwartzman sitting at a computer that I imagine he just used to surf an AOL chat room, or to buy some Pets.com stock, because I don’t think that the computer lab he’s in even exists anymore, and the computer he is sitting in front of looks like it was produced in the same year as any prefrosh who might be checking out wesleyan.edu . Honestly, look out for it.
President Roth has said that “communication effectiveness to clarify what Wesleyan stands for in the world of progressive liberal arts education” is one of his priorities. And a lot of people have said that a picture is worth at a thousand words. The reality is that there aren’t any computers that old on campus, not even at the Argus office. So, I challenge whomever it is that comes up with this stuff to find a contemporary picture of a Wesleyan student sitting at a computer. Hint: they’ll probably be waiting for Cisco Clean Access to finish.
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