Peter Morgenstern-Clarren Social Justice Award Nominations
During my junior year of high school, as I stepped out of the admissions building to start my tour of Wesleyan, the first students I encountered were a group of ...
Letters to the Editor
On WesToWes
In light of all the conversations that we have had on this campus lately, it seems fair to deduce one very basic concept: we, as a community, care deeply about ...
An Open Letter to President Roth and the Wesleyan Community
Dear President Roth and the Wesleyan Community, I was dismayed by the news that Wesleyan had ended need-blind admissions. I believe that this decision damages Wesleyan morally, as well as ...
On the Bookstore Relocation Proposal
I initially wrote the following letter to thank a member of the WSA, and lifelong resident of Middletown, for expressing her opinion against relocating the bookstore. The campus’ decision concerning ...
Employ Your Creativity with Venture For America
Now is as good a time as any to start thinking about post grad employment opportunities, especially if you’re a senior (what up fellow seniors!). However, for many of us, ...
Just a Friendly Reminder To Everybody Who Might Still Be Voting Absentee in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, or Wyoming And Doesn’t Already Realize This For Some Reason:
Yes you can vote for Jill Stein or Rocky Anderson or Gary Johnson or Virgil Goode or Eugene V. Debs or Aynwar Randte or whoever you support without possibly being ...
I’ll Donate When Wesleyan Earns My Donation
All right, I’m going to throw my hat into this ring. The University is cash-starved. Thus, the Wesleyan administration’s primary concern at this point in time is to try to ...
Stand Strong and Stand Together: Why Wesleyan Must Get Active on Need-Blind
I was never involved in activism before this semester. Any kind of activism, let alone that concerned with Wesleyan. I was never consciously complacent; I just never went out of ...
The Problem with “Resigned Acceptance” in the Need-Blind Debate
In the most recent weekly poll put out by Wesleying asking “Which option below aligns most closely with your thoughts on the administrative plan to scale back need-blind admissions?,” the ...
In Defense of “Hot Pants”
Reading Gavriella Wolf’s article on what she apparently viewed as the eyebrow-raising rise in hemlines on campus, I was momentarily confused by her usage of the term “hot pants”. Short shorts ...