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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
Dance majors’ thesis performances and capstone pro Dance majors’ thesis performances and capstone projects drew a crowd at the ’92 Theater on Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28. Ivan Lopez ’26, Tyler Schimpff ’26, Noelle Schultz ’26, D’Vine Straughter ’26, and Akhil Joondeph ’26 each showcased the dances that they had been choreographing for the past year. Each dance was striking and unique, with many combining the medium of film into their performance and others fusing multiple genres in their choreography. Read more about salsa, silence, subversion as it appeared in these senior theses performances, and more from our Arts & Culture section at the link in our bio. Story by Amelia Haas, Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Photo by Wesleyan Dance Department Instagram
A crowd of roughly 50 students and Middletown resi A crowd of roughly 50 students and Middletown residents gathered outside of Usdan University Center on Monday, April 6 to protest the detainments of a Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) student and a man from Middletown by federal immigration authorities in Middletown last Tuesday. Organized by the student-led ICE OUT Coalition, the demonstration was timed to coincide with a flagship rally held at SCSU. The rally followed an uptick in federal immigration enforcement presence in Middletown; two individuals, including the SCSU student, were detained in separate operations on Tuesday, March 31, marking the largest reported wave of enforcement in the city in almost a year. In one of the detainments, a male driver was surrounded by four vehicles at the corner of Court St. and Main St. at 11:40 a.m. Onlookers photographed him being led, in handcuffs, into a black Dodge Charger with a Connecticut license plate by two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. In the second detainment, according to local activists and news outlets, an SCSU student identified as Keyla Vazquez-Zuniga was arrested while leaving the State of Connecticut Superior Court, just one block east of the first detainment. According to NBC Connecticut, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed that Vasquez-Zuniga had been detained. The Argus could not independently confirm that the student was arrested at the courthouse. Read more of the story and more from our News section at the link in our bio. Story by Aarushi Bahadur & Miles Pinsof-Berlowitz, Assistant News Editor & Executive Editor Photo by Indivisible Middlesex, CT.
Professor Kelly Thayer is a professor of the Colle Professor Kelly Thayer is a professor of the College of Integrative Science at the University. She completed her Ph.D. in computational chemistry at the University in 2004. She has developed novel HIV therapeutics, improved strategies for the development of malaria vaccines, provided insight into the relationship between the stability and evolution of proteins, and combated biomolecular bioterrorism. Her current research, the Thayer Laboratory at the University, uses computational molecular biophysics to study the p53 protein involved in cancer. Read Thayer’s conversation with The Argus and more from our Features section at the link in our bio. Story by Claire Farina, Assistant Features Editor Photo by Kelly Thayer
On March 7, 2025, Elijah Philip ’28 posted a story On March 7, 2025, Elijah Philip ’28 posted a story to his Instagram account which read, “So, if I wrote a Dante’s Inferno Musical, would yall vibe with it?” By no coincidence, that story was posted an odd week after Phillip had journeyed down to Broadway to see a production of “Hadestown,” the smash hit musical by Anaïs Mitchell. Drawing from Hellenic myth, “Hadestown”—written in 2006 and premiered on Broadway in 2019—stages the tragic romance of Orpheus and Eurydice in Depression-era America. Accents of sultry New Orleans jazz and American folk music underscore a story of persistence amidst apocalypse. After that, a lightbulb flashed over Philip’s head—and right out of the gate (-s of Hell, perhaps), he knew exactly what he wanted. In the Instagram story, he added that violins would be the “main instrument of choice,” and that the music would draw heavily from classical and jazz music, just like “Hadestown.” For Spike Tape’s Spring 2026 playwright showcase, an abridged version of Elijah Philip’s “Inferno”— or as he likes to call it, “Diet Dante”—went up, and it seems Philip cooked up just what he wanted. A blazing hot fire. Read about Philip’s musical and more from our Arts & Culture section at the link in our bio. Story by Conrad Lewis, Arts & Culture Editor Photo by Tom Hoefner
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