No Free Speech, No Donation
I just got a fundraising call from Wesleyan and to be perfectly frank, since the WSA has voted to cut the Argus's funding, I honestly do not want to donate ...
Letters to the Editor
Argoid Inclusion
Dear: Wesleyan Argus Editors Wesleyan Student Assembly Officers University President Michael Roth It seems as though Wesleyan is failing to educate its students regarding the concept of “Op-Ed” articles. Per ...
A Call for Administrative Reform
To the Editor, Wesleyan Argus, Substantive questions can be raised about recent events at Wesleyan ranging from limiting free speech (recent Argus issue), the February, 2015, drug arrests and medical ...
Embarrassed
As a Wesleyan Graduate (1954) I find the recent WASHINGTON POST article about partial defunding of the Wesleyan Argus a total embarrassment. However, this is not the first time I ...
Psi U and Constitutional Rights
I received a letter from President Roth to Psi U members trying to explain the University’s ban on students entering Psi U (thereby ending the housing plans of members who had secured ...
Hate Speech and Free Speech: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
To the Editors: About 1964, a Wesleyan student board decided to invite the head of the American Nazi Party to speak on campus. The Board had college money, and the head of ...
The Student Assembly Should Reverse Its Anti-Argus Moves
I am writing to urge the Wesleyan Student Assembly to reconsider its recently approved proposal that threatens to cut the Argus’s budget. As a Wesleyan alumnus and long-time journalist, I was ...
Money in Middletown Elections
Campaign finance reform damages our political process. It is a problem that affects all political races, from the national level to local politics including our own community, Middletown. With both ...
Against Censorship
The members of the student government who voted to cut Argus funding in response to the newspaper’s content are going to be in for quite a shock after graduation. Censorship ...
Where Would the WSA Have Stood in 1837?
On the main quad of Colby College, our sister institution in Waterville, Maine, stands a handsome brick building known as Lovejoy Hall. It is named after Elijah Parish Lovejoy, Colby ...