Students trap Bennet in office, demand to be heard By Katharine Hall While President Doug Bennet stayed locked in his South College office, over 250 students gathered outside the building and later blocked the stairwells to protest a long list of issues related to a lack of student voice in recent Administration decisions. Standing for over four hours in the rain, students spoke out on an open mic and tried to bargain with Bennet to address their concerns with the whole community. |
editorial Seize the momentum This week’s events were a powerful demonstration of solidarity between disparate campus groups, a clear display of the palpable anger some students feel toward the Administration and an example of the power of grassroots activism. The students also successfully used the media to their advantage; at least two local TV news channels broadcasted hundreds of students blockading Bennet’s office and issuing demands. |
FoRC rescues food from trash, donates it to local shelter By Sandra Manzanares Much to the chagrin of Lee Grodin ’05, each day leftover food from Wesleyan dining areas is wasted. Unlike many other students, though, Grodin decided to do something about it. With Bay Love ’05, she formed the Food Recovery Coalition (FoRC) in an effort to rescue this wasted food. |
Energetic Worlds of Dance concert draws large crowd By Emily Einhorn Jazz, Tap, Indian, Javanese: these are just some of the styles of dance taught at Wesleyan and performed last Sunday at the Worlds of Dance Concert. The World Music Hall was at maximum capacity even before the scheduled start time of the concert on Sunday. About 50 students and family members milled around Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. until they entered Crowell Concert Hall for the second portion of the concert. Only the Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble and Javanese Dance class, two exceptionally talented groups of students, actually performed in the World Music Hall. |
Women’s basketball sinks Cadets for sixth straight win By Marri Coen After overcoming the gated security of the Coast Guard Academy’s entrance, an opponent with a red-hot three-point percentage and a 17-point deficit, the women’s basketball team squeaked by Coast Guard Tuesday to extend its winning streak to six.
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| President Bennet negotiated with
protestors in the stairwell of North College for over an hour on Tuesday
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| “I’m not a lawyer, I’m a
medieval historian.” —President Doug Bennet, at Wednesday’s forum
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