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This weekend opened the season for men’s and women This weekend opened the season for men’s and women’s lacrosse and men’s and women’s tennis. Softball and baseball both will open their seasons in Florida before returning to Middletown to finish out Spring Break. So, while students will be gone, these student-athletes will be at the University continuing to compete. The Argus brings you a recap on the four sports that began their season this weekend and some things to look forward to over Spring Break. Read what’s coming up in the spring and more from our Sports section at the link in our bio. Story by Max Forstein, Ethan Lee, Leila Feldman, & Alessandra Woo, Sports Editors & Assistant Sports Editors
The Resource Center and the Ankh’s planning commit The Resource Center and the Ankh’s planning committee collaborated to celebrate this year’s Ankhsgiving on Saturday, Feb. 28. On this occasion, the University’s community celebrated students of color and continued the tradition of multicultural diversity in Beckham Hall, which was named after Edgar F. Beckham ’58, the University’s first African American dean of the college. The University’s first Ankhsgiving celebration was held in 2019, when Arline Pierre-Louis ’19 organized a formal gathering of students of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds to dine together, mingle, and observe one another’s talents and skills. Pierre-Louis sought to create an inviting and comfortable space for students of color and their allies to come together and exchange stories about navigating various aspects of life at the University. The Argus interviewed organizers of the Ankhsgiving event to learn more about its programming and impact. Read about the event and more from our Features section at the link in our bio. Story by Grace Lee, Assistant Opinion Editor Photo by Grace Lee
Picture this: A student running on five hours of s Picture this: A student running on five hours of sleep drudges into Pi Café in the early morning, stomach churning from the thought of her two exams later that day. Her gloomy attitude commands her to run in and out, grab a coffee and a bagel for substance, then return to studying. But from behind the counter, the student hears a familiar voice joking, “What can I get for you today, a beer?” It’s followed quickly by “Anything for you, honey,” from long-time Pi employee Miguel Rosa. Suddenly, the day does not look so bleak. This scene is familiar to any University student, coffee connoisseur, or casual cafe-goer. Students go to Pi for more than food: It’s the community and spirit that keep Pi’s line stretching well beyond its doors into Exley. Each table of the cafe is routinely filled with students socializing, listening to music, and perhaps even completing the work they set out to do. This atmosphere is especially championed by two long-serving employees of Pi Café: Rosa and Laura Goldner. Read The Argus’ conversations with Pi staff and more from our Features section at the link in our bio. Story by Leah Ziskin, Assistant Features Editor Photo by Finn Feldman
Over the past five months, the Argus spoke to 17 c Over the past five months, the Argus spoke to 17 current and former employees in the admissions office to better understand the nature of the allegations. Read The Argus’ investigative reporting and more from our News section at the link in our bio. Story by Miles Pinsof-Berlowitz & Leo Bader, Executive Editor & Senior Staff Writer Video by Aarushi Bahadur
Both seemingly insignificant and endlessly versati Both seemingly insignificant and endlessly versatile, paper shapes nearly every part of daily life, including this newspaper’s print medium. On Friday, Feb. 20, the University’s 2026 Paper Day installation brought visitors into the world of this dynamic material and medium. Through the work of visual artists, musicians, conservationists, and writers, the event showcased paper’s creative range. Visitors walked out of the day’s events with a newfound appreciation for the ubiquitous material and its many uses. Like the process of making a sheet of paper, the day was carefully organized, with meetings beginning as early as August 2025. Last spring, the Archaeology Department hosted a Bronze Day, which similarly centered on a single material through interactive programming. The organizers of Paper Day were inspired to translate that model into a different medium. Head of Special Collections at Olin Library Tess Goodman said the original idea was either hers or that of Dietrich Family Associate University Librarian for Unique Collections and University Archivist Amanda Nelson. Read about Paper Day 2026 and more from our Arts & Culture section at the link in our bio. Story by Molly Wynne, Contributing Writer Photo by Alex Waterman
On any night of the week, La Boca Mexican Restaura On any night of the week, La Boca Mexican Restaurant & Cantina was once a bustling hub of Middletown residents and students alike. From the clatter of silverware over plates of authentic Mexican cuisine to the sounds of laughter that resonated throughout the restaurant during its regular trivia and karaoke nights, La Boca fostered a vibrant social scene for the community. However, after two decades of serving Middletown, La Boca is putting a pause on providing its services to the local community. Saturday, Feb. 28 marked La Boca’s final day of operations for the foreseeable future, as the restaurant is now closed for building renovations, according to La Boca’s official spokesperson Matt Lehet. Read about La Boca’s hiatus and more from our Features section at the link in our bio. Story by Maggie Smith, Features Editor Photo by Maggie Smith
Correction: the six deans left across Summer 2025, Correction: the six deans left across Summer 2025, not only in July 2025. It’s no secret that university admissions offices are high-pressure environments, tasked with the profound responsibility of shaping their school’s future community. Faced with ever-increasing applications and demand to deliver quality candidates and low acceptance rates, staff turnover is a familiar problem for offices across the nation. The University’s Office of Admission (Admissions) has been no stranger to this trend. 47 admissions deans worked in the office between 2015 and 2025, and 36 of them left in the same time period, according to an independent analysis of Admissions data. The resignations reached a climax in July 2025, when six admissions deans left the office in the span of two weeks. Former staff said the reasons behind the recent departures went far beyond the profession’s usual revolving door. In conversation with The Argus, former Admissions employees alleged a long-term pattern of strained leadership practices, inappropriate workplace rhetoric, and unaddressed internal conflicts that exceeded the usual stresses of the workplace and contributed to the 2025 departures. A significant number of the former employees’ complaints were directed at Assistant Vice President and Director of Admission Chandra Joos deKoven. Multiple former deans reported that deKoven made inappropriately personal, mocking, and racist comments to office employees on multiple occasions. A vast majority said that the office’s day-to-day functions were hampered by pervasive communication problems. Read The Argus’ investigative reporting and more from our News section at the link in our bio. Story by Miles Pinsof-Berlowitz & Leo Bader, Executive Editor & Senior Staff Writer Photo by Finn Feldman
If you are a University student, you may have gott If you are a University student, you may have gotten an Instagram follow request from @wescam2026 earlier this semester. In the account’s bio is a link to WeScam, a website featuring a countdown to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Mar. 22, the last day of Spring Break. So who or what is behind this mysterious WeScam? In the late ’90s, before the dawn of Tinder, Hinge, and sliding into someone’s DMs, University students had WeScam. WeScam was a class project turned yearly tradition that automated the age-old question: “So…are you into me?” While originally stylized as WeScam, the website has been referred to as wescam, Wescam, and WesCam throughout the years. Read about the long history of WeScam and more from our Features section at the link in our bio. Story by Lyah Muktavaram, Senior Staff Writer Photo illustration by Aarushi Bahadur
Flashing lights. The pulsing beat of a house track Flashing lights. The pulsing beat of a house track. Two people in a dark corner. Smoke wafting out of a joint. Dancing, like really dancing, in a way that would be embarrassing if not for the boldness it requires. Daisy von Scherler Mayer’s “Party Girl” (1995) inhabits New York City’s vibrant and occasionally gritty club scene through the eyes of its titular party girl, Mary (played by an outrageously perfect Parker Posey). She dances until the morning in colorful designer clothes. That is, until she throws a party to raise rent money but gets busted and thrown in jail. Mary’s only way out is her uptight godmother Judy, who hires her as a library clerk. She struggles to get the hang of the Dewey Decimal System, her indoor voice, and not coming to work hungover, but she slowly finds her groove and begins to enjoy the job. “Yes, mama, I know what’s going on, mama,” Mary theatrically drawls in an after-hours shelving session, books piled atop her head. Nearly 30 years after one party girl was lost to grad school, another was anointed in a neon green light from on high. “Brat” and its visionary party girl, Charli xcx, revitalized the archetype in 2024. She brought us back to, as Meaghan Garvey wrote in Pitchfork, “a time when the It Girls were hot messes, flashing the paparazzi as they tumbled from the Chateau or looking feral outside Les Deux at 4 a.m. on a Tuesday.” The album flows easily between hyper-energetic songs like “Guess,” “365,” and “Club Classics” that have become, well, club classics, while moodier entries such as “So I” and “I think about it all the time” are hauntingly vulnerable expressions of grief and aging. Read about evolving club culture, “The Moment,” and more from our Arts & Culture section at the link in our bio. Story by Abby Slap, Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Photo by YouTube
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