Save the Orchestra’s Wind Section
To whom it may concern, Hi my name is John Codman and I am a junior at Wesleyan University this semester and I was looking forward to once again participating ...
Letters to the Editor
40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade: What’s Next?
Last Tuesday, Jan. 22nd was the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in the United States. In 1965, illegal abortions made up nearly ...
Open Letter to Chair of Religion
UPDATE Dec. 7, 7:01 pm: We originally printed an outdated version of this Wespeak in Volume CLI, Issue 23 of The Argus and published it on our website. We have now replaced ...
A Real Middletown Commons
Dear Wesleyan students, faculty, staff, and administration, An anonymous flier reads, “As paying students we deserve…a new modern look, consistent with the overall image of Wesleyan.” I ask, what is ...
Public Safety and Police Brutality
I’m writing this in response to a comment on an article in the online edition of The Argus. I want to make it a Wespeak rather than another comment in ...
Power Plant Proposal Not Good for Wesleyan
In a university setting, there are very good reasons for having heat and electricity in an emergency situation (providing shelter to the community, preserving scientific experiments and intellectual property, keeping ...
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 ...
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 ...