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Maggie Brown ’26 will tell you she’s never taken a

Maggie Brown ’26 will tell you she’s never taken a class she didn’t like. Add in captaining a national championship-winning ultimate frisbee team and conducting human rights advocacy fieldwork, and it’s easy to assume she had it all figured out from the start. However, finding the people and spaces where she belonged was a journey that took years. The Argus spoke with Brown about her work with the University Network for Human Rights (UNHR), her plans to travel to Lisbon, and more.

Read The Argus’ conversation with Brown and more from our Features section at the link in our bio.

Story by Maggie Smith, Features Editor
Photo by Maggie Brown

The University’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery (Z

The University’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery (Zilkha) held the second week of senior art theses from Tuesday, March 31 to Sunday April 5, featuring Clio Gourevitch ’26 with “Twelve Feet,” Lillian Hoefflin ’26 with “Aura,” Elias Seignourel ’26 with “Pope of the Cave Crickets,” Al Shterenberg ’26 with “Bestow this Degenerate Body,” Leandra Sze ’26 with “Discarnate Bodies,” and Liam Waldman ’26 with “Slump Speech.”

Currently residing at the Zilkha Gallery is the third week of senior art theses! Running until Sunday, April 12, visit works by Anthony Crossman ’26, Christian Jallo ’26, Katia Michals ’26, Stella Oman ’26, Greta Schloss ’26, and Asher Baron Weintraub ’26. The fourth week of studio art theses will be open starting Tuesday, April 14.

Read about the theses and more from our Arts & Culture section at the link in our bio.

Story by Isabella Canizares-Bidwa, Assistant Arts & Culture Editor
Photo by Finn Feldman

Claire has a lot of questions. And so does the aud

Claire has a lot of questions. And so does the audience.

“Fuddy Meers” begins when Claire (Sophia Bourne ’28) wakes up, as she does every day, to rediscover that she has amnesia. In the day that follows, she is wrested from domestic bliss and transported through a violent and confusing world of neurotics, escaped convicts, and mistaken identities. Directed by Jerry Persaud Jr. ’26 and staged by SHADES, the play brought us along on her whirlwind day this past weekend, on Friday, April 3 and Saturday, April 4.

As Claire’s initially simple world of a seemingly loving husband and unexplained amnesia is violently disrupted, Bourne understood that for all the play’s “fuddy” moments, “Fuddy Meers is not really a comedy, it’s more a horror,” saying that, “it was important to me to balance the play’s humor with intensity.”

Read The Argus’ review and more from our Arts & Culture section at the link in our bio.

Story by Abby Slap, Assistant Arts & Culture Editor
Photo by Finn Feldman

After a historic 2025 season which saw the Wesleya

After a historic 2025 season which saw the Wesleyan softball team fall just short in the NESCAC Championship game, the Cards are back and hungry as ever in 2026. Far from resting on their laurels, the Cards have burst into the year with a scrappy identity built on always making the play that’s best for the team, celebrating each other’s successes, and being the toughest out in the ’CAC.

The Cards, with their 14–9 record, look to continue their hot streak with a NESCAC matchup against the 9–9 Trinity Bantams this Saturday, April 11, as a part of Senior Day.

Read about the softball season so far and more from our Sports section at the link in our bio.

Story by Ethan Lee & Benjamin Mayer, Sports Editor & Contributing Writer
Photo by Angelica Mock

Presidential and vice presidential candidates for

Presidential and vice presidential candidates for the Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) discussed their platforms and debated senator pay, University-Middletown relations, and administrative accountability in the Frank Center for Public Affairs on Tuesday, April 7.

Moderated by The Argus, the debate drew a crowd of over 20 students. Three presidential candidates, Noelle Crandell ’27, Andrea Herrera ’27, and Eric He ’28, as well as the two vice presidential candidates UsZee McKoy ’29 and Gray West ’28, answered questions from the audience and the wider student body for approximately an hour. Crandell joined in via Zoom, while the other four candidates attended in person.

Herrera is Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee, Crandell is former Chair of the Community Committee, whereas He is on the Student Budget Committee (SBC). McKoy is on the Community Committee. While West is the only candidate who has not formerly served on the WSA, he noted his community-engagement experience via his involvement with the Center for Prison Education, Wesleyan Institute for Policy, the Wesleyan Business Review, and Student Academic Resources.

Read about the candidates’ policies and more from our News section at the link in our bio.

Story by Akari Ikeda, Assistant News Editor
Photo by WSA Instagram

On Monday, April 6, officers from the Middletown P

On Monday, April 6, officers from the Middletown Police Department (MPD) arrested former University student Samuel “VuVu” Schumann of Brooklyn, N.Y., on 31 counts of voyeurism in connection with a string of secret recordings he made of 19 female students in Nicolson bathrooms.

“Identified victims have already been notified by MPD,” the University wrote in an email to The Argus on April 9. “Public Safety is available to help connect concerned students to the detective handling the case.”

In the days following his arrest, students have learned more about the alleged sex crimes of Schumann, a former first-year student and ex-member of the University’s men’s soccer team. Schumann was removed from the University last semester following an investigation by the MPD that tied him to 95 nude videos of female students.

“He will not be eligible to return to Wesleyan,” the University wrote.

In response to the announcement of Schumann’s arrest, University officials have made resources available for students affected by the series of incidents. A space for those directly impacted is to be held in the WesWell lounge on 287 High Street on Monday, April 13 at 6:15 p.m.

Students in need of further assistance are encouraged to reach out to Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), their area coordinator, or class dean.

Read about Schumann’s arraignment and more from our News section at the link in our bio.

Story by Miles Craven & Raiza Goel, News Editor & Managing Editor
Photo by Middletown Police Department

Patrick McDevitt ’28 is a government and psycholog

Patrick McDevitt ’28 is a government and psychology double major from Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec and is the starting goalie for the Wesleyan men’s hockey team. In each of his two seasons in Middletown, McDevitt has posted a save percentage above .900. He has started 42 games and logged 2,501 minutes in goal across both campaigns. McDevitt led the NESCAC with 738 saves this season, 73 more than second place, despite playing two fewer games.

In the Cardinals’ playoff game against Amherst, he made history recording 73 saves in a heartbreaking 3–2 double-overtime loss, breaking both the program record and the NESCAC Championship record. The Argus sat down with McDevitt to discuss his journey, what it takes to play goalie, and Wesleyan’s tight knit community.

Read McDevitt’s interview with The Argus and more from our Sports section at the link in our bio.

Story by Sam Weitzman-Kurker, Sports Editor
Photo by Sami Smith

Humanity lives within a diverse neighborhood of pl

Humanity lives within a diverse neighborhood of planets with unique mineralogies and chemistries that scientists are eager to explore. While Mars has been the primary focus of exploration efforts due to its proximity to Earth and its habitability potential, Martha Gilmore, Dean of Natural Science and Mathematics and Professor of Earth and Environmental Science has focused her attention on Venus, our rocky neighbor closer to the Sun.

As a planetary spectroscopist and geomorphologist, Gilmore studies images of Venus and the way light is absorbed by the minerals on the surface of the planet to better understand the evolution of Venus’ geologic and mineralogical features. In an interview with The Argus, Gilmore described her research and its importance in gaining a deeper understanding of planetary morphology.

“I have been working with two individual teams to propose two different missions,” Gilmore said. “One is a new Venus orbiter. One is a Venus probe. We submitted those proposals several times. This has taken decades, about 10 years of proposal submissions and construction, and then we were finally selected, both missions the same year, a couple of years ago. It was astounding.”

Read about Dean Gilmore’s research, what the future of these missions looks like, and more from our Features section at the link in our bio.

Story by Remi Peltzman, Contributing Writer
Photo by Henry Greenwood

Over a hundred students and faculty gathered in th

Over a hundred students and faculty gathered in the Frank Center of Public Affairs on Wednesday, April 1 to hear four professors from the University discuss America’s identity, political history, and future in a panel moderated by President Michael Roth ’78.

This panel was the first event in the Democracy 250 program, a four-part series on the current and future state of democracy in the U.S., and was sponsored by the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, the American Studies Department, the Government Department, the Philosophy Department, and the College of Social Studies.

The event series was born out of a conversation between Gray West ’28 and Donovan Lave ’27, two of its student organizers. Each sought to expand the current offerings of events on campus to include more challenging discussions amongst students and faculty. After developing the idea for the project, West and Lave brought in Ted Greenberg ’26 and Kiran Bleakney-Eastman ’27 as co-organizers.

The talk featured Associate Professor of American Studies Laura Grappo ’01, Chair of African American Studies Khalil Johnson, Associate Professor of Government Justin Peck, and Assistant Professor of Philosophy Nicholas Whittaker. They received questions from Roth on American civic and political identity, then held an open Q&A session.

Read about the event and more from our News section at the link in our bio.

Story by Anabel Goode & Miles Craven, News Editors
Photo by Miles Craven

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