Open Letter to President Roth
Dear Michael, Regime Roth has had a strong couple of weeks. Bete Noire Beta, at last defenestrated, bit the dust. The final helpful shove was given by a hare-brained sophomore ...
Letters to the Editor
My Own Freedom Summer
This past summer, I had the privilege of doing on-campus research through a pompously named grant known as a “Student-Faculty Research Internship Award.” Just the title of this position alone ...
Betagate: Enter the Fork
The administration may leave the house door open “down the road,” but in reality, the announcement sticks the proverbial fork into the Mu Epsilon chapter of Beta Theta Pi as ...
A Call to Action
The act of creating a state, much like creating a work of art, is a process replete with hope that often concludes in the artist’s disappointment. Like any other state, ...
AFAM is Why
On July 1st, 2013, I packed up my apartment in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, preparing for another new journey. Just over four years after graduating from ...
Demanding the Re-Prioritization of AFAM Studies at Wesleyan
As a first generation, low- income, woman of color the truth is that Wesleyan did not feel like home. There was a point in my educational journey where I questioned ...
AFAM is why
My last year at Wesleyan, I was talking to Joel Pfister in the Center for Humanities, and he remarked that the biggest gift Wesleyan gives to its students is the ...
AFAM Is Why
I’ve worked with reentry and education programs in jails in NYC since graduating from Wesleyan in 2009. My educational background almost always comes up in conversation as I do transition/reentry ...
AfAm Studies was essential towards my career
I was shocked and saddened when I first read the news about Wesleyan’s cutbacks in the African American Studies department. As an American Studies major who took many courses in ...
AFAMisWhy
My sole memory of my first week of class at Wesleyan is when I miraculously ended up in Professor Ann duCille’s "Introduction to African-American Literature" course – I remember thinking, ...