The 800-Pound Gorilla Speaks: Roth ’78 on Free Speech and the Future of Academia
University President Michael Roth ’78 does not fit perfectly into one ideological bucket. He has sparred with Dartmouth College President ...
Opinion
Overconsumption Has Ruined Collecting
It’s no coincidence that the decline in collecting as a hobby corresponds with the decline in the consumption of physical ...
My Last Argus Article: The Training Ground, Not the Pinnacle
“Well I stood stone-like at midnight suspended in my masquerade…” This is my 35th and final article for The Wesleyan ...
SafeWords: Sex Horoscopes
It’s hard to believe, but it’s the last issue of the semester, which means that it’s the last SafeWords article ...
The Cost of Convenience: How Ease Undermines Sustainability
The University’s obsession with convenience has embedded itself into everything we do. Take me, for example: I couldn’t think of ...
On the Correct Usage of Em Dashes
The hottest punctuation mark today is the em dash. From that of steadfast devotees, for whom it is a mark ...
Tired of Choosing Between Selling Out and Shouting? The Case for the Tempered Radical
Each day, we as students are called to abandon our generational nihilism: to show up at every protest, sign every ...
Who’s to Blame?
We’ve all grown up with the same story: The underdog works twice as hard as everyone else, proves their worth, ...
Reconsider Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE): Gents, Scholars, and Jolly Good Fellows
The name Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) seems to conjure a specific image to University students, one that I have never ...
Now We’re Commodifying…Friendship?
If you ever watched The Lorax or WALL-E growing up, you (hopefully) agreed with the themes of those movies, but ...