A Reflection on Being a Veteran at Wesleyan
Eight years ago, I was sitting at home staring at my college applications. I sat and mulled over which personal ...
Opinion
Constructive Disruption: The Need for More Civil Disobedience in Campus Activism
Last December, as a first-year at Wesleyan, I participated in a Black Lives Matter protest and die-in organized by various ...
The Wesleyan Condition: Endless Intellectual Curiosity
The Wesleyan Condition is an endless curiosity that can never go far enough. No matter what academic category our curiosities ...
Can “I” Have a Word With You?: On Language Adjustment
If you are visiting Wesleyan University as a parent or prospective student, or if you are a current student or ...
The Paradox of Trigger Warnings
One night of my freshman year of high school I was walking down Central Park West after a late rehearsal. ...
Love in the Time of Zika: To Prevent Microcephaly, Brazil Must Embrace Safe Sex
As the Zika epidemic sweeps Brazil, the country’s Health Ministry has struggled to address one of the disease’s most troubling ...
Waging War: The Value of Raising the Minimum Wage
The boundaries that mark the middle class are becoming increasingly ambiguous, and policymakers need to focus on a boundary that ...
Raising the Bar: Wesleyan and Vines on Church
It’s hump day. You have a 9 a.m. tomorrow, but you still want to go out and let off some ...
Finstant Gratification: Social Media and Authenticity
“Follow my finsta!” instructed a text from my sister, a senior in high school, yesterday. What is a “finsta?” you ...
What’s Not to Like: Talkin’ Bout My Generation
In middle school and high school, saying “like” as a sentence filler seemed grown up, even a right of passage. ...