An Open Letter to President Roth
May 1, 2012: Dear Michael, “Last [spring], during the HOLI festival on Foss Hill, several members of Shakti, one of the groups that organized the event, put up ...
Letters to the Editor
Lessons We Can Learn From Québec
In February of this year, university students in the Canadian province of Québec went on strike in protest of the government's plan to raise tuition by 75% over the next ...
PSafe and Forced Hospitalization
This article regards the harassment I suffered on Friday night, by PSafe officers, during the Tour de Franzia. I was at the fountain backyard and am not ashamed to say ...
Introducing the Troubling Tummies Team
“COMMUNAL FOOD!” Every college student’s ears perk up at that phrase. It’s free food and it usually attracts a swarm of people to hang out with. But what if you ...
A Letter Concerning The Art Library
It is not my habit, as a member of the faculty now long retired, to submit copy to The Argus. My position for many years has been that your paper ...
Send Silence Packing: A Call to Action
It’s been about two weeks now since Active Minds laid out 1,100 backpacks on the lawn of Olin Library to represent the 1,100 college students who die by suicide every ...
Silence is Not the Remedy for Rape
To my fellow Wesleyan students: Here at Wesleyan we tend to believe that we are a part of a progressive and diverse community dedicated to making sure that people of ...
I Want to be a Male Stripper
I want to be a male stripper. A classy one. It’s my final year at Wesweyan, and if I’ve learned anything here, it’s that we ought to embrace who we ...
At Least Now the Mandarins are Organic
If nothing else, a Wesleyan education is said to provide valuable training in “critical thinking.” And yet, in considering the campus landscape, such meaningful reflection seems to be either absent ...
Prison for George Zimmerman is Not Justice for Trayvon Martin
Trayvon Martin is the most recent victim in a long line of black men targeted for execution and erasure by institutional and interpersonal violence in the United States, beginning in ...