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For as long as she can remember, Mia Ronn ’27 has

For as long as she can remember, Mia Ronn ’27 has had an unyielding passion for acting and theater. From getting cast in the hit TV series “Black-ish,” to being a lead in “Rip Her to Shreds” at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Ronn has explored a great deal of what the theater world has to offer. This week, The Argus sat down with Ronn to discuss her acting career and her role as an actor to build human connections and find community.

Read about Mia Ronn’s connection to acting and more from our Features section at the link in our bio.

Story by Chloe Rappaport Crowther
Photo from Mia Ronn

“Drawn Between the Lines” is a new exhibition show

“Drawn Between the Lines” is a new exhibition showcasing works by students enrolled in “Drawing I,” a course Associate Professor of Art Julia Randall teaches at the Cheshire Correctional Institution, made possible through the University’s Center for Prison Education. Randall also curated the exhibition with help from Teaching Assistant Coline McEachern ’26.

Split across three parts of Olin Memorial Library, the exhibition highlights the works of incarcerated students, created through a curriculum very similar to one students on campus might take in the University’s “Drawing I” (ARST131) course. The three chronological sections, “Sketchbook,” “Observation and Study,” and the final project, “Self Portrait as Diptych,” give us insight into each student’s artistic progression through the course.

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

Story by Katerina Vasyukevich, Fundraising Manager
Photo by Cale Dusseault

Music lovers rejoiced as the ’92 Theater hosted th

Music lovers rejoiced as the ’92 Theater hosted the latest edition of the Spike Tape X SHADES Cabaret, coordinated by Vivian Orthwein ’27, Leela Yohannes ’29, Celeste Belin ’28, and Osato Oronsaye ’29. On Saturday, Oct. 3 at 7:00 p.m., audience members entered to the dulcet piano tones of Jack St. Amand ’28, and after brief remarks from Belin and Orthwein, the lights went down, and the performers took the stage.

Read about the liveliness of musical theater at Wesleyan and more from our Arts & Culture section at the link in our bio.

Story by Ezra Cooper, Contributing Writer
Photo by Amelia Solomon

On Friday, Oct. 2, New York Magazine published a p

On Friday, Oct. 2, New York Magazine published a piece titled “The Post-Me Too Generation Gets Its Me Too Moment,” referencing the recent lawsuit made by plaintiff Jane Doe against Cornell University and several other institutions and individuals from the time of her sexual assault on Cornell’s campus in 2024. The author of the article, Zoe Yu, talks about the premise of living in a post-#MeToo landscape, where women in college are supposed to believe they are safe now, writing “For many young men, lessons had been learned. The new generation would be different. Harvey Weinstein and Larry Nassar were behind bars; the old monsters were gone. What more was there to do?”

This statement in particular stuck with me. Like Yu and her friends, whom she quotes in the article, I too grew up reading the headlines about Larry Nassar and his abuses against the USA Women’s Gymnastics team. I followed the effects of Weinstein’s sexual abuses across the entertainment industry. Most recently, we were faced with the publication of the Epstein Files and the reckoning that followed. Again and again, we are forced to confront the systemic cracks that allow for abusers to slip through. And it is clearly still no different on college campuses.

After a record high summer of U.S. Immigration and

After a record high summer of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests across the nation, visible ICE activity in Connecticut throughout September continues to rattle the community.

Local organizations like the Middlesex Immigrant Rights Association (MIRA) and Indivisible Middlesex have been working to respond to reports of ICE arrests in the area.

On Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026, MIRA was notified of ICE activity at a courthouse in New Britain at roughly 11 a.m. and mobilized several members of its rapid response team to the area. The Argus spoke with two members of MIRA who were present at the incident.

Read about MIRA and Indivisible Middlesex’s responses to ICE activity and more from our News section at the link in our bio.

Story by Anabel Goode & Peyton De Winter, Managing Editor & Executive Editor
Photo submitted anonymously

On Wednesday, Oct. 7, the University’s chapters of

On Wednesday, Oct. 7, the University’s chapters of Students Supporting Israel (SSI) and J Street hosted a memorial at the Zelnick Pavilion. The event was held to commemorate the lives lost in the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas forces.
The groups came together this week seeking to hold an event primarily focused on the events of Oct. 7, not the years of violence that followed. J Street President Sofía Wollheim-Martínez ’28, who helped to introduce the event, noted that over 1,200 Israelis were killed on Oct. 7. Over 73,000 Palestinians and nearly 1,000 Israelis have been killed in the military effort since.
On the same day as the memorial hosted by SSI and J Street, Wesleyan Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) erected a large art piece on the lawn of College Row.
Read about the events and more from our News section at the link in our bio.

Story by Akari Ikeda & Finn Feldman, News Editor & Photo Editor
Reporting contributed by Miles Pinsof-Berlowitz, Executive Editor
Photo by Finn Feldman

Content warning: This article references sexual as

Content warning: This article references sexual assault.
On Oct. 19, 2024, a young woman left her sorority event to meet a friend at the Cornell Chi Phi fraternity house.
The 2024 incident at Cornell’s Chi Phi chapter has incited another wave in the #MeToo movement—a wave of examining the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses. A wave of reckoning with how 56 out of the 57 young men who received those texts did nothing.
Much of the answer to that lies in the institutions that brought those men together: The colleges, where 26.4% of female undergraduates experience sexual violence, as well as the fraternities, in which members are three times more likely to commit sexual assault than their non-member peers. The very communities designed to cultivate upstanding citizens and “build better men” have become notorious for being breeding grounds of violence.
Story by Alexandra Lee, Opinion Editor
Photo by Emily Xie, Unsplash

Students gathered in the Russell House backyard on

Students gathered in the Russell House backyard on Saturday, Oct. 3, to watch some of their favorite campus bands perform in the autumn sun for the second annual Immigrant Rights Benefit Concert. The event, which ran from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., brought together sets from Analysis Paralysis, Tickle Monster, Dryvent, Wurley, Mommy’s Little Meatballs, and the Tripartite Body and Universe. The event aimed to raise money for immigration aid and legal defense and show support for immigrant rights as the University and its surrounding community in Middlesex County still reel from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.

About 30 people showed up to buy baked goods and learn more about the local and on-campus organizations opposing ICE activity in Middlesex County and supporting immigrants in the community more broadly. Proceeds went to the Middlesex/Meriden Immigrant Rights Alliance (MIRA).

Read about Wesleyan students’ solidarity with the immigrant community in Middletown and beyond and more from our News section at the link in our bio.

Story by Miles Craven
Photo by Abby Lee

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIA

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recently released its Mid-Year Music Industry Revenue Report for 2026. Results show that physical music revenues jumped 25.9% in the first six months of the year, compared to digital revenue with only 4.2%.
WESU, Middletown hosted its biannual Record Fair on Saturday, Oct. 3. Founded in 1939, the station is available on the frequency 88.1 FM. WESU and is, according to their mission statement, “a noncommercial, community/college radio station…. [serving] Wesleyan University students and members of the greater Middletown area.”
The event gathered various vendors from across New England, and WESU DJs spun vinyl, creating a comforting environment throughout Exley Science Center. The station has organized the Record Fair since the early 2000s, with collectors bringing thousands of records, CDs, cameras, and books for both the Wesleyan and Middletown communities to browse through and purchase.

Read about the local community culture surrounding physical media and more from our Features section at the link in our bio.

Story by Hana Futai, Contributing Writer
Photo by Cale Dusseault

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