Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor December 2, 2016

To ResLife and Members of the Wesleyan Community

Dear ResLife and members of the Wesleyan community, We are Students for Consent and Communication, an on-campus group that strives to promote healthy and consensual relationships throughout the Wesleyan community. Naturally, our goal is to ...

Letters to the Editor December 1, 2016

Wesleyan is a Sanctuary Campus…Now What?

December 1, 2016 Early November 2016, the organization Movimiento Cosecha made a call to action for students on college campuses to join a national walk out in support of making ...

Letters to the Editor November 29, 2016

Faculty Letter on Becoming a Sanctuary Campus

November 28, 2016 Dear President Roth, Board of Trustees, and members of the Wesleyan community, On November 7, the day before the 2016 presidential election, President Roth held a meeting ...

Letters to the Editor November 17, 2016

On Teaching How to “Narrow Gaps” at Liberal Universities: An Open Response to Bryan Stascavage

Mr. Stascavage’s claim that somehow what he has learned at Wesleyan University could cement his vote for Donald Trump seems to make sense only within the framework of a self-proclaimed ...

Letters to the Editor November 17, 2016

“Beantown,” Devil’s Advocates, and the Art of Critiquing Your Peers

Dear Saam, My name is Russell, and I’m the class of 2017. I’ve spent most of my time at Wesleyan involved in the arts community, particularly in theater - I ...

Letters to the Editor November 10, 2016

All Precincts Reporting: Grief and Now What?

Like many people I’m still trying to make sense of the numbers and tabulations that I saw on CNN at 2:30 AM. Despite such a polarizing, mean-spirited and divisive campaign ...

Letters to the Editor November 8, 2016

OPEN LETTER TO ARGUS READERS

Dear Readers, My OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT ROTH, the giant one-paragraph blob which ran in print last Friday and online the Monday before, is not the multi-paragraphed letter this contributing ...

Letters to the Editor October 31, 2016

Continued Allocation of Resources Toward NAGPRA Compliance

A visit to Exley Science Center on Monday, October 10, 2016 may have been business as usual for many Wesleyan students, faculty, and staff. Others may have been sidetracked on ...

Letters to the Editor October 31, 2016

Open Letter to President Roth

Dear Michael, University Reels from Scott Backer Firing over Sexual Misconduct Tensions Heighten in Wake of Backer Scandal Those recent Argus headlines and the stories beneath them didn’t amount to ...

Letters to the Editor October 31, 2016

Technically, You Should Care: A Rebuttal to “The Merits of Informal Film Analysis”

My name is Eli Sands, class of 2018. On Saturday evening, while on a break from working on a senior thesis film, I read the Argus piece titled “Technically, I ...