News   May 6, 2008
Protesting profiling: N.Y. shooting prompts Marketplace barricade
By Kim Segall
Yesterday at lunch, about 40 students wearing black blocked the main staircase of the Usdan University Center in a protest that connected police brutality off campus with issues of racism and racial profiling on campus.

News   May 6, 2008
Course evaluations to save paper, time
By Jacob Kleinman
Next semester, students will fill out course evaluations online through their electronic portfolios instead of on paper forms in class. This change follows a year of pilot studies prompted by the implementation of similar systems at several of the University’s peer institutions. The new evaluations should streamline the evaluation process, reduce waste and increase student participation.

News   May 6, 2008
News Brief
By StarRose Keyes-Lebergott
In a recent Wespeak (“Psafe lurking,” May 2, 2008, Volume CXLIII, Number 45) John Chisholm ’09 expressed concern over PSafe’s possible use of unmarked vehicles to apprehend students. While this comes shortly after rumors of photographs taken on 4/20 being used against students, Director of Public Safety David Meyer asserts that these actions are within normal procedural parameters.

News   May 6, 2008
NYT editor speaks at Crowell
By Dan Levine
In the “Making Democracy Work” keynote address on Saturday, New York Times Assistant Managing Editor Richard Berke deflected questions on the newspaper’s handling of the wiretapping issue and talked about his personal experiences interviewing politicians.

News   May 6, 2008
Popular recruiters face labor lawsuits
By Tadd Gero
Among the many posters visible on campus, some of the most noticeable have been the bright red, white and blue fliers calling for a democratic takeover of the White House. The posters were created by Grassroots Campaigns, Inc., a not-for-profit organization that is recruiting graduating seniors for canvassing jobs in support of organizations such as the Democratic National Convention and Moveon.org. What these posters do not tell passersby is that Grassroots Campaigns was the defendant in two lawsuits filed by their college-age employees.

News   May 6, 2008
After 25 years, leadership looks at possibility of Cardinal Pub
By Lydia Tomkiw
From 1974 until 1984 Wesleyan students could enjoy beer on tap at The Cardinal Pub located in Downey House, the former student center. Now, 24 years later, Mike Pernick ’10, the Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) President-elect, would like to see a pub return to campus.

News   May 6, 2008
Roth to meet with Physical Plant union
By Hilary Moss
After nearly ten months of working without a contract, Physical Plant employees continue to protest the negotiating delay. On Wednesday, President Michael Roth, the University’s negotiating committee and representatives of Physical Plant’s union, the Office and Professional Employees’ International Union (OPEIU), will meet to discuss numbers.

News   May 6, 2008
Roth reaches out in first year
By Hilary Moss
In his first year as the University’s sixteenth president, Michael Roth invigorated the Wesleyan community with a series of new initiatives, while simultaneously becoming reacquainted with his alma mater that he left 30 years ago.

News   May 6, 2008
Foss Cross may be cut from orientation
By Brian Colgan
Foss Cross, the annual cross-dressing dance party held during New Student Orientation, may become a thing of the past.

News   May 6, 2008
Picture brief
Pakistani rock star Salman Ahmad performed Friday, April 25, in the Memorial Chapel, along with percussionist Sameeer Chatterjee. Ahmad is the lead singer of internationally acclaimed band Junoon, known pioneers of sufi-rock, and cites both Led Zeppelin and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (a Pakistani Sufi music maestro) as major influences.