Online WSA election hopes for larger turnout
		While Wesleyan is famed as a politically active university, only one in ten students voted in the Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) general elections last spring. In an attempt to change this dismal statistic and to expedite the voting and counting process, the WSA voted last October to put the elections online.... More

	Where to direct some of Wes’ activism
		The WSA and the student body both need to take major steps in sparking student interest in the upcoming elections. Although elections are at the beginning of next week, it’s probably safe to say that relatively few Wesleyan students know, care or plan to vote. Voter apathy will not be altered by a quick, simple solution like online voting; it is a pervasive and deeply-trenched phenomenon.... More

 
 

	Column: this must be the place  Stagefright
		I sent a really embarrassing poem into a contest once, in tenth grade, and ended up technically winning. It was a love poem contest sponsored by Lancome Makeup to find the poem that would be used in advertising their new Poeme perfume. Mine apparently won out of 35,000 other high school students and I was awarded with a pretty good lap top... More

	Weekly Wes Celeb Tom Konieczko ’01
		So, what exactly did you do for this project of yours? Well, it was for an installation art class and I basically stapled myself under a white sheet outside the bay windows of Zilkha during the thesis shows. Where did you get the idea to do it? I’ve been wanting to do an endurance performance for a while, with my body as well as the artwork.  More

	From childhood to industrial decay
		From a child’s vision of Mariah Carey to a decaying Middletown factory, this week’s senior theses exhibition presents a diverse selection of subjects. Andrew Bancroft ’00 collaborated with Gabriel Filer, a young tutoree of Bancroft’s in the creation of his thesis. "I’ve really enjoyed his [Filer’s] artwork and children’s artwork in general," Bancroft said.... More

	Women’s lacrosse strugagles offensively, falls to Conn. College
		Hoping to snap a four-game losing streak, the Wesleyan women’s lacrosse team traveled to New London Tuesday to take on the Connecticut College Camels. With the Camels’ attack in step, however, and Wesleyan’s offensive engine struggling to get started, the Cards came up short, losing the contest 13-4.... More