Damn, Wesleyan really is an out there place, huh? Hostile to frats, white people, men, straight people, people who rape other people, rich people, people who eat at Thai Gardens…if you got your head stuck in the Wesleyan cement you’d think the unprincipled hordes were overrunning the trenches of General Bennet, General Benjamin and their quickly diminishing troops. Just to reassure all those people who thought they might be feeling a little insecure in this world (there were just a million people marching for women’s lives, and that was in the U.S!) I thought I’d do a summary of the last couple of weeks:
Two anonymous (and by anonymous I mean hooded) individuals took advantage of the chalking ban to relay their political messages on the campus center bathroom:
1. swastika
2. “Reasons to hate fags: They’re gay. They like cock. They suck (dick). They’re annoying. Chalk too much. They’re gay.”
Jesse Brenner decided that culture was better when it was actually packaged (and by this I mean in plastic, a.k.a suffocated) as opposed to when it included history, politics, voice (besides his)…that sort of thing. (Wespeak, April 20)
Claire Potter declared some power as absolute. hmmm…right, like God, the French colonial rule in Algeria, North American ties to Britain in the 1700s, slavery. (Wespeak, April 27)
Adam Hodge and Elaina Dellacava reminded us “everything is better south of the border,” which is why they go to La Boca. Word, go NAFTA, sexual tourism, ecotourism, fetishism, murders in Juarez…see above point about culture…(Roving Reporter, April 27)
Evan Carp brought up the long forgotten point that working is “voluntary,” and that Wal-Mart (as the largest corporation in the world and the largest single employer in the U.S. and Mexico) is being kind in offering non-unionized jobs to all those who just got unlucky and are unemployed. (Wespeak, April 27)
I don’t know if there has been any consequence for the two men who raped a Wesleyan student a few weeks ago.
The recent physical assaults, which are NOT a new expression of the aggravated relationship between Middletown and Wesleyan, have yet to be addressed in a meaningful way by anyone in the Administration. Come to think of it, I haven’t heard Bennet say anything about anything on a campus that is pretty damn nervous.
There has to be many things that I missed (someone in class today said Latinos are more ethnic than white people…) but these were some of the most visible. I’m not trying to point people out in order to bring consequence on them (Vera Schwarz would remind me of the Red Guard), I just wanted to remind anyone who was feeling a bit insecure because of liberated liberal Wes that there is a community for you too.
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