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The John Wesleyan Charter has made a name for itse

The John Wesleyan Charter has made a name for itself in recent months. Since its founding in 2022, the satire publication has steadily earned a reputation around campus. Today, its Instagram account has climbed to nearly 900 followers. Their recent April Fools’ joke—two John writers in a trench coat attempting to swipe into Usdan as one person—did numbers on social media and garnered lively discussion on Fizz. A meme has spawned from a picture of John Co-founder Thomas Lyons ’26 wearing a bright yellow raincoat, squatting and watching the prank in disbelief.

The Argus recently sat down with the campus provocateurs (Thomas Lyons ’26, Adam Wilan ’26, and Liv Rubenstein ’26) at their new outpost in the renovated University Organizing Center. The group discussed their history, Lyons’ staph infection, NESCAC military strategy, and more.

Read about the John’s biting coverage and more from our Arts & Culture section at the link in our bio.

Story by Conrad Lewis, Arts & Culture Editor
Photo by Conrad Lewis

Despite being the capital of Connecticut, Hartford

Despite being the capital of Connecticut, Hartford is one of the state’s most striking examples of food apartheid, a system of segregation that restricts access to nutritious, affordable foods in low-income, Black, and Indigenous communities. According to Feeding America, a nationwide network of food pantries, as much as 24.6% of Hartford residents face barriers to food access.

Jocelyn Cerda, a grocer and food justice advocate, is tackling the inequities embedded in Hartford’s food system and bridging the gap between the city’s residents and food producers.

Cerda visited the University on Friday, Feb. 21, to promote and discuss Mercado Popular, the grocery store she established to address the city’s increasing food insecurity in 2021. Cerda was invited to campus by the University’s prospective chapter of the Real Food Challenge (WesRFC), the Sustainability Office, the Resource Center, and Rooted Solidarity.

Read about Cerda’s talk and more from our Features section at the link in our bio.

Story by Rory Joslin, Contributing Writer
Photo by Jocelyn Cerda

College of Science and Technology Studies Celebrat

College of Science and Technology Studies Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Then called the College of Science in Society, the College of Science and Technology Studies (STS) first came to the University in 1975 and aimed to foster interdisciplinary and applied study.

Half a century later, faculty, students, and alumni gathered for a conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the program on Saturday, Apr. 11. The all-day event in the Frank Center for Public Affairs (PAC) featured multiple alumni panels, talks by professors, and student presentations.

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

Story by Akari Ikeda & Spencer Landers, Assistant News Editor & News Editor
Photo by Spencer Landers

On the Record is a column about getting to know ou

On the Record is a column about getting to know our professors through their music taste, built around a deceptively simple question: What’s your favorite album of all time?

For Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies Veronica Brownstone, the answer begins in her childhood living room at 7 a.m.

Before anyone else in the house was awake, her mother would play Sly and the Family Stone quietly and dance alone, just enough for the music to drift upstairs.

“It gave her energy,” Brownstone said. “The same way it gave me energy later.”

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

Story by Griffin Abdo, Contributing Writer
Photo by Louis Chiasson

Based on the many forms of student expression on c

Based on the many forms of student expression on campus that align with the University’s liberal arts description, it is not a reach to say that students here take pride in their quirks. In the mid 2000s, students who wished to use their eccentricity to leave a mark on the University campus especially enjoyed spray painting the tunnels. Unsurprisingly, this graffiti was not viewed favorably by the administration, which opted to paint over some of the alleged vandalism.

The Butterfield (Butts) B laundry room was particularly treasured by students as one of the last areas of the tunnels they were allowed permission to enter. Creative students would spray paint their art on the walls, contributing significantly to the University’s artistic student culture. However, this method of expression went south when the University decided to paint over the graffiti in the Butts laundry room, erasing years of student expression and history.

Read about the tunnels, graffiti at Wes, and more from our Features section at the link in our bio.

Story by Lara Anlar, Archivist
Photo by Olivia Drake

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

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