The Great Wesleyan Land Grab
Well, President Michael Roth finally seems to have gotten his way. He has now found pretexts for closing all three Wesleyan fraternity houses and it’s hard not to draw the ...
Letters to the Editor
The Rise of Wesleyan
Dear Wes, The summer of 1990 was the most amazing summer I ever had. After all, in the fall I would be attending Wesleyan, a place that had captured my ...
Statement from Psi Upsilon
We are writing in response to President Roth’s announcement today to suspend Psi Upsilon’s housing status for at least the 2015-16 academic year as a result of alleged illegal activity ...
On Speakouts, Pain and being “OK”
It feels like I’ve spent the last week crying on the Usdan floor. Since Thursday when I rushed to the Speakout between a lecture on Palestine and my first shift ...
A New Metaphor for Anxiety
One year as a consolation prize for hunting down the afikomen* at Passover I received a wind-up toy in the form of a mouse in a wheel. The mouse churns ...
What Just Happened? Prisons, Divestment, and Transparency
Last week, President Roth committed to endorse prison divestment following a student sit in at his office. The sit in called for divestment from the fossil fuel industry, the private ...
The New WSA
Dear Wes, I was thrilled to find out last Friday night I was elected to be the next WSA President with Aidan Martinez for WSA Vice-President. It’s a great Wescam ...
Discrimination Against Bon Appetit Workers
We as Bon Appetit workers feel that we are being discriminated by being prevented from parking at lot "E" the closet lot to Usden center. Due to the fact that ...
Making Realistic Change for the WSA
The work that the WSA does often is not glamorous. And because of that, it often flies under the radar of most Wesleyan students, including myself. I came to Wesleyan ...
The Underpants Lecture or, “How Do I Turn a Wesleyan Economics Degree Into a Viable Long Term Income Stream?”
The Underpants gnomes famously said: 1. Collect underpants 2. ??? 3. Profit Arguably, many of you are faced with a slightly different version of the same: 1. Study Economics 2. ...