If you have stopped by any Shakespeare production at the University in the past four years, from last semester’s Pericles to the 2023 Spike Tape production of Twelfth Night, chances are you have seen ...
In middle school, President Michael Roth ’78 was obsessed with the rebellious figures of the late 1960s: Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, the Yippies. He begged his dad, a furrier who commuted from Long ...
At the end of Christine Kemp’s interview for Wesleyan’s head field hockey coaching job, Director of Athletics Michael Whalen ’83 asked whether she thought the program could win. “Think we could get an ...
Flashing lights. The pulsing beat of a house track. Two people in a dark corner. Smoke wafting out of a joint. Dancing, like really dancing, in a way that would be embarrassing if not for the boldness ...
University President Michael Roth ’78 does not fit perfectly into one ideological bucket. Among a sea of college presidents who have stayed silent, Roth’s presence stands out like a walrus among a ...
Twice a week this past summer term, some 20 students at the high-security Cheshire Correctional Institution—about a 30-minute drive from Wesleyan—poured into the prison’s resource room, a stuffy ...
What was once a simple, practical purchase—an insulated, reusable bottle designed to reduce plastic waste—has fallen victim to the capitalist machine. The global reusable water bottle market generated ...
The Long Lane rugby pitch, nestled on the outskirts of Wesleyan University, is a veritable oasis of tranquility. The landscape exudes serenity, with lush, verdant grass stretching as far as the eye ...
Welcome to Office Hours, a series brought to you by the Features section! In these articles, Argus writers speak to faculty, staff, and members of the administration about their interests, classes, ...
It’s no secret that university admissions offices are high-pressure environments, tasked with the profound responsibility of shaping their school’s future community. Faced with ever-increasing ...
Middletown’s only movie theater, Metro Movies 12, closed last month after 27 years in business. Sadly, this is not a unique event, with thousands of movie theaters closing in the past decade. The ...
I set out to write an article about the history of Augusta National’s racist past by chronicling the journey of the lives and contributions of the key figures. I wrote about Clifford Roberts, the ...