Yet our Editorial Board (Hannah Berman ’21, Cristina LoGiudice ’21, Emily McDougal ’22, and our Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, Ludovica Romano) did not despair: WeScrive is back for its fourth consecutive year – our first issue was in spring 2016 – as one of the very few Wesleyan publications not in English. The pandemic has…
As the world changed drastically because of Covid, my life as an international student at Wesleyan also got shaken to its core: I’m now on a desolate campus where my most beloved friends are no longer here with me for an infinite period of time. Many feelings flooded me; perhaps too many, so that it…
By Joshua Petersen and Ruhan Nagra, University Network for Human Rights The University Network for Human Rights, based on Wesleyan’s campus, trains undergraduate students at Wesleyan and across the country in community-centered, interdisciplinary human rights advocacy. Read more about the University Network’s inaugural intensive summer training program here. Are you a Wesleyan student who…
By Heather Cassell ’23 An earthquake, the shifting of tectonic plates, has the potential to either disrupt a Sunday brunch or devastate entire societies. It all depends on how stable and secure the structures in place. If you felt a 7.0 quake in California, you might feel your house shake or watch buildings sway. A…
Study abroad in spring 2020 was certainly not what any of our students expected. The Vassar-Wesleyan Program in Paris celebrated the end of its semester on April 24 with a reception, held, of course, on Zoom. Vassar Professor Vinay Swamy, who was Resident Director of the program for 2019-2020, provided some highlights for students who…
Peter C. Cherr, BA ’79. MALS ’80, put himself through Wesleyan, working as a security guard, in the dean’s office, the admissions office, and for the summer school, and majoring in philosophy and religion, one course short of a world music major and doing his thesis in film. At Wesleyan he learned to problem solve…
I’m Luke Pang, a 2010 Singaporean Freeman scholar. I double majored in Neuroscience and Psychology at Wesleyan, and upon graduating, decided to postpone my medical school studies to explore the culinary world. I worked in the kitchen in Convivio and Ciano in New York City for a year, and upon deciding to commit to the…
Don Fels, Wesleyan ’68, and father of Benjamin Fels ’06,was an American Studies major at Wes, one of the first two to graduate. He put together his major from English, History and Art. Half a century later, he still is very much involved with all three disciplines. A visual artist and writer, he is based…
My name’s Samantha Meagher. I’m from New Jersey. I’m a rising senior with a double major in Sociology and HISP. I wrote this poem because Wesleyan is a place that has allowed me to form deep connections and learn so much more about myself. It feels awful to be torn away from it so abruptly…
Katie Murray I’m from the class of 2019, my majors were Government and Hispanic Literature and Culture and I received an English Teaching Assistantship to the Canary Islands. It sounds like I’m exaggerating, but my experience was better than I had ever imagined. The best part for me was getting to know a…
