Divestment & the Future of the University’s Endowment
Divestment, the Wesleyan Committee for Investor Responsibility (CIR), and Wesleyan’s Endowment’s relationship with oil and gas are three confusing and ...
Opinion
Intervention of the Individual is Not Enough: The Failures of Bystander Intervention Training
It’s your first week on campus as a first-year student. Along with the excitement of a new adventure, orientation, and ...
The Curious Absence of the Bell and Scroll
For the past two weeks, I’ve been searching for members of the Bell and Scroll, a student group that plays ...
Why Students Should Engage in Community and Electoral Organizing
President Biden’s first few months in office have been productive, a welcome change from the sheer chaos of the previous ...
We Love Them, We Hate Them: The Era of The Influencer
On March 18, Kylie Jenner shared an Instagram post with her 222 million followers, urging readers to donate to a ...
Well, I Got It! A Vaccination Reflection
It was the second week of April, and for the first time this year, I could feel spring in the ...
Taking “The Office” Off of Netflix Doesn’t Absolve its Troubling Content
Trigger Warnings: Racism, Sexual Assault, Colonialism NBC’s “The Office” is a cultural icon. The television show debuted many iconic actors—Steve Carell, ...
No Matter How You Frame It, Your Vaccine Selfie Might Make Someone Uncomfortable
Over the course of April, my social media feed has slowly but surely become filled with three types of photos: ...
At Wesleyan and Beyond, Suburbs Produce Harmful Ideologies of Space
A model home is set against the side of the hill. Surrounding it, there is a perfect patch of sod ...
The Time for Ambitious Climate Policy is Now, Senator Hickenlooper ‘74
In 2019, during his campaign for president, University alumnus John Hickenlooper ’74, MA ’80, addressed the California Democratic Party’s convention. Hickenlooper used his ...