Features   May 6, 2008
Students push for Asian American Studies major
By Maya Bery and Diana Shum
In January 2002, in an effort to gauge student interest in Asian American Studies, the Freeman Foundation gave the University $1.9 million dollars over the course of four years to bring visiting professors specializing in Asian American Studies to campus. Part of the money also sponsored student research relating to Asia and the Asian Diaspora.

Features   May 6, 2008
Campus vendors express discontent with Usdan space
By Hannah Dreier
Add another voice to the chorus of people dissatisfied with the Usdan University Center.

Features   May 6, 2008
WesCeleb: Gitanjali 'Gitsy' Prasad '08
By Barbara Fenig
Gitanjali “Gitsy” Prasad ’08 is so endearing that her residence hall dedicated a Facebook group to her, “Gitsy is the Shitzy!” A self-described “amorphous potato that talks,” Gitsy is also involved with WESTAND and the Tsunami Relief group, and wants to start a revolution to bring back the old campus center as the hub of student life. She loves to discuss her favorite places on campus and in Middletown, so I sat down with her in the Olin lobby, which happens to be at the top of her list.

Features   May 6, 2008
Picture brief
“Many Worlds” is the first exhibition put together by photography club Wes Shutterbugs.

Features   May 6, 2008
Magazine showcases wide range of student photography
By Stephanie Yarger
“It can be difficult to want to take pictures,” said Niki Achitoff-Gray ’09. “You want to ask people before you photograph them but you also want to take a picture of what people are doing. The minute you ask for permission it changes things, they throw their arms around each other and give you a thumbs up, which is interesting, but not necessarily what you were hoping for.”

Features   May 6, 2008
Ask a Professor: Obama and Wright, Elvin Lim, Professor of Government
By Suzanna Hirsch and Miriam Leshin
Question:

Recently, Senator Barack Obama officially denounced his pastor Reverend Wright. How do you think Reverend Wright’s public comments, as well as Obama’s reactions to them, have affected and will affect his campaign?

Features   May 6, 2008
The Weshop Gourmet: At long last, spring
By Lauren Rothman
Spring has finally arrived here in Middletown, and I couldn’t be happier. All across campus the flowering trees are in riotous full bloom, daffodils and tulips are pushing their way up through the earth in front of the woodframe houses, and cheery yellow dandelions sprinkle the bright green expanses of all the manicured lawns: it’s like a Monet painting out there.

Features   May 6, 2008
Volunteering abroad offers summer challenges for students
By Jake Aron
By senior year of high school, Sam Grodman ’10 knew what he wanted to do with his life.

“I had this feeling all of a sudden that I wanted to do something with medicine and surgery and so I decided to get my EMT certification,” he said. “I knew I wanted to do this, but it seemed a long way off.”

Features   May 6, 2008
Select students enjoy perks, price of off-campus housing
By Hannah Dreier
While many students might shudder at the concept of off-campus housing, some believe it is one of the University’s best-kept secrets.

Features   May 6, 2008
Mytheology: The wages of sin at Wesleyan
By Mytheos Holt
Until last Thursday, I was under the impression that the defunct Davenport Campus Center would be transformed into a building known as the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, and I found this development to be entirely pleasing. For too long have the disciples of the social sciences been cloistered inside their single building, while more naturally scientific minds were given Hall-Atwater, Shanklin and Exley to serve their academic needs.

Features   May 6, 2008
Anglers fish Connecticut waters
By Laura Vollmer
Although Connecticut may not be thought of as a high-profile fishing destination, the region’s pristine and well-stocked rivers are full of fish begging to be caught.

Features   May 6, 2008
As founding members exit, Wesleying looks to the future
By Ezra Silk
As the student body has settled into its chaotic embrace with the information age, the ever-popular blog Wesleying has tapped into college life in a way that would most certainly seem alien to past generations of college students.

Features   May 6, 2008
Emdashes: An ode to...
By Emily Greenhouse
Most of you, surely, have heard by now of the case of the Austrian ‘house of horror.’ For those diligently engaged with final projects, or still in the throes of post-thesis regalia, however, I will explain in brief. Last week, after a critically ill 19-year-old from Amstetten (in southwest Lower Austria) was admitted to a local hospital, medical inquiries regarding her alarming oxygen deprivation led to the discovery of a woman who had been imprisoned by her father for the past 24 years.