The ‘Cac
Wesleyan’s Public Safety Nightmare
Wesleyan University has had quite an eventful year in the way of security issues: physical assault, theft, voyeurism, and racial discrimination have all appeared in campus-wide e-mails. Below is a selection of the Public Safety (P-Safe, Wes’s campus security) alerts and incidents that have cropped up this past year, followed by a few major concerns [...]
Amherst says No to edX
In April, the faculty of Amherst College voted 70-36 (5 abstentions) against joining edX, a non-profit enterprise co-founded by Harvard and MIT, which bills itself as “the Future of Online Education.” In edX’s view, such a future centers on the development and creation of “MOOCs,” short for “massive open online courses.” While Amherst, like its [...]
NESCAC Strong
Today marks the two week anniversary of the Boston bombings. As a runner and lifelong New England resident, the horrific events hit close to home – the fact that I had two senior teammates cheering and many others I knew competing (all of whom were uninjured) at the marathon that day made everything seem much [...]
Trinity Women’s Lax continues to dominate
While most Bantams have kissed their social lives goodbye and begun the search for a finals hideaway spot, the Trinity Women’s Lacrosse team still has plenty of reason to celebrate. Solidifying their lead among the NESCACs, Trinity added another “W” to their perfect record this past weekend (15-0 overall and 11-0 in the NESCAC), beating [...]
Weekend round-up: Darty edition
If you’re like us, you probably glanced at your nerdy assignment notebook this morning and felt a pang of ‘Oh shit’ wash over you like so much hangover nausea. If you were too busy attending one of the classic NESCAC parties held this weekend (or otherwise just basking in the glorious New England weather we [...]
Wesleyan, 4/20, and the pizza stampede
Peter Frank (Wesleyan ’12)–creator of the infamous CollegeACB website–is back with a new venture called Texts.com, which looks like some nifty way for students to buy and sell textbooks on campus. More importantly, at least on Saturday, the service officially launched at Wes via a mass distribution of pizzas at 4:20 p.m. Only in the ‘Cac [...]
In case you missed it: Timeflies Freestyles Boston
Cal, of the exponentially successful Tufts spawn Timeflies, spits rhymes about Boston like he’s a native:
