Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor December 10, 2021

Letter From the Editors: Reflections on the End of the Semester

Dear Argus readers,  It’s been a semester, but we’re still here! For students and student journalists alike, each semester during the COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging in its own way, ...

Letters to the Editor November 11, 2021

Letter to the Editor: USLAC and Wesleyan Physical Plant Stand with Bates Workers

Bates College staff has made headlines recently with their efforts to unionize a solid majority of their staff, save the managers, supervisors, tenured/tenure track faculty, and security personnel. With that ...

Letters to the Editor November 1, 2021

Amherst Football Squad Went Too Far

The Amherst football team owes an apology to Wesleyan’s players and coaches, their equals on the playing field. My wife & I drove from Buffalo to see our son on ...

Letters to the Editor October 28, 2021

From Title IX to Yik Yak: Wesleyan Disempowers Survivors of Sexual Assault

Content Warning: This article contains references to sexual assault and abuse. As a Bystander Intervention Facilitator at Wesleyan University, I teach that survivors of sexual assault have the agency to define ...

Letters to the Editor October 18, 2021

Letter to the Editor: Brian Gartner for Middletown Planning & Zoning

Dear Wesleyan students & faculty,  My name is Brian Gartner, and I am one of the Endorsed Democratic Candidates running for a seat on the Middletown Planning & Zoning (P&Z) Commission. ...

Letters to the Editor September 10, 2021

Letter to the Editor: A Job Well Done!

Every year Wesleyan’s Orientation Committee, members of ResLife, and officers of Public Safety go to extraordinary lengths to ensure a safe, orderly, and welcoming arrival and program of events for ...

Letters to the Editor September 9, 2021

Letter From The Editors: Emma Smith ’22 and Hannah Docter-Loeb ’22

Dear Readers, Welcome back! We are so excited to write to you for the first (but not the last) time as Editors-in-Chief of The Argus. We have both been staff ...

Letters to the Editor April 1, 2021

If You Voted For Ben Florsheim ’14, You Should Donate to Alicia Hernandez Strong ’18

In the discourse around accomplished alumni of Wesleyan, Ben Florsheim ’14 is rarely left out of the conversation. Elected as Mayor of Middletown in 2019 at the age of 27, ...

Letters to the Editor February 25, 2021

Letter to the Editor: Middletown Community Fund

Most of us recognize that our college experience is only possible because of the city we live in. Middletown residents and Wesleyan students belong to the same community, and if ...

Letters to the Editor December 3, 2020

Lift Up Our Wider Wesleyan Community by Donating to the Center for Prison Education’s Re-Entry Fund

Dear Members of the Wesleyan Community, Most current students can agree that having to relocate right before the end of a semester is not easy. In addition to the usual ...