This year’s David Nord Award, an annual prize given to students for projects addressing problems that queer communities face, went to junior Colleen Boken and alumna Anna Zheng. Each chose a creative...
This past week, on Tuesday Nov. 29, Planned Parenthood Generation Action (PPGA) hosted a collaborative event with All Students for Consent (ASC), called, “What Does Consent Look Like?”
This event...
Illustration by Emma Rust.
Birkenstock Orthopädie GmbH & Co. KG, the German company that manufactures Birkenstocks, announced Friday that they are recalling all Birkenstocks bought since February...
Attendees of second annual Dia de los Muertos celebration could see students' finished woodblocks inked up and pressed into prints via a steamroller, buy some authentic Mexican food or merchandise or even get in on the printmaking fun themselves by carving their own mini wood block to press onto a paper or t-shirt alongside the official student prints.
To do this, I have acknowledged that suffering awaits all of us in the form of death. Our personal mortalities and those that surround us ensure its role in the course of existence. I could be enjoying a gorgeous Pacific sunset as a coconut falls and bumps my life away, or punching a criminal vending machine before it crushes my hopes and dreams.
While Roth and Boger explain that they simply want to be "inclusive," the decision seems to contain a hidden motivation focused on regaining Wesleyan public esteem in relation to sexual violence.
Encouragement and positivity for women going into STEM are crucial. If women love physics, they should study it. But if they love discussing philosophy, they should do that, because the humanities play a vital role in society.
The NFL clearly has a problem on its hands when it comes to domestic violence. This summer, a video surfaced of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice dragging his unconscious then-girlfriend, now wife Janay Palmer out of an elevator by her hair. Rice had allegedly knocked Palmer out seconds before in the elevator. Video footage from inside the elevator was made public on Monday and brought Rice's relatively lax, two-game suspension back into the public discussion, while also completely clearing up what had occurred inside the elevator.
I was able to resist being seduced by “Game of Thrones†until post-midterms several weeks ago when I finally succumbed. This was the best worst decision that I’ve made in a long time.
The Board of Trustees is the governing body that makes many of the most important decisions regarding Whitman’s future. From how to invest the $450 million endowment to choosing Whitman’s presidential leadership, the Board of Trustees is the highest authority at the college.
The ever so clever 2014 first-year class has come up with a new way to get through Encounters: drinking.
The mastermind behind the trend, Sandy Caine, described how it came into fruition.
"I...
