Petition to The Administration of Wesleyan University
Dear President Roth, There has been a great deal of controversy with regard to financial aid on this campus over the past year and a half. Many numbers and statistics ...
Letters to the Editor
Why Wesleyan Is My Cause
Dear Mica Taliaferro, When I was a student, I probably would have been likely to respond to your defense of the trans* community with one thousand words of pure snark, ...
Why I Support “Vandalism” As An Act of Social Justice
Dear Mytheos Holt, You are correct, the language of the alumni open letter was exclusionary. But I’m not apologizing. The letter wasn’t meant to be an objection to the particulars ...
Why I Will Not Support Vandalism in The Name of Social Justice
This past Wednesday, alumni of this university joined to author a letter condemning the administration’s alleged abuse of transgendered students, and calling for it to drop its controversial SJB case ...
Why You Should Care About Repatriation
It is hard to believe that Wesleyan once had strong religious roots as a Methodist Missionary school. Now the venue of trippy concerts, progressive lectures, and sexologist talks, the Chapel ...
On The Senior Class Reception
Last night, pre-registered students from the Wesleyan University senior class attended their first Senior Class Reception. Barely any hint was given that this event was in fact a fundraiser for ...
Keeping Textbooks in The (Student) Loop
Hi everyone, Alex Kelley here—I graduated last spring. I majored in English and now live in Oakland working as a namer at Catchword. During my senior year, there was a ...
Apply for The Morgenstern-Clarren Prize for Social Justice Work!
Current Sophomores and Juniors, I’m writing to encourage you to apply for this year’s Morgenstern-Clarren Award for social justice work! This award recognizes activist, volunteer, and organizing work that students ...
A Letter to The Board of Trustees
Dear Board of Trustees, The climate crisis is a defining issue of current and future generations. The fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released earlier this year, states ...
What We Can Do:
Dear Parent/Student/Alum, If you are concerned, as we are, with the profound demographic changes in the Wesleyan student body that have been attended by Wesleyan’s new need-discriminatory admissions policy, please ...