It's happened again! A brand new episode of Argus News Radio.
Kicking off the show, it's new ANR host Piers Gelly '13 with headlines. Piers has a great radio voice, even on the internet.
This week we feature an exclusive interview with Dr. Doug Green '77, who spent several days in Haiti after the earthquake in January. ANR correspondent Laignee Barron '13 talks with Green about the conditions on the ground, and what people in the Wes community can do to help.
Also in store is our regular senior thesis spotlight segment. This week, ANR contributor Ben Soloway '13 sits down with Ezra Silk '10 to discuss his project on journalism and the changing media landscape.
Thanks to the two new ANR producers, Cora Engelbrecht '12 and Amy Block '13. Mary Longley '10 also contributed production help.
(This is an addendum to my Wespeak, "Congratulations, Vol. 2: Demerits")
1. The act of theorizing a sexual act or fetish creates a website dedicated to that sexual act or fetish.
1a. If it is possible to theorize a sexual act or fetish, then said sexual act or fetish exists on the Internet
2. It need not be possible to theorize a sexual act or fetish for an anime porn site to exist that is dedicated to it.
3. There is a porn film dedicated to any blockbuster movie.
3a. The closer the blockbuster movie moves towards the anime/sci-fi/fantasy genres, the more porn films will be dedicated to it.
4. The act of theorizing an object being inserted into a vagina/anus creates a website dedicated tyo the insertion of said object into a vagina/anus.
4a. If an object can be theorized going into a vagina/anus, then a website exists wherein said object is then inserted into a mouth.
5. The act of theorizing two animals having sex creates a website wherein two humans dressed as said animals engage in sexual acts.
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I’d like to use my first post of the new year to draw some attention to a momentous event that passed mostly unnoticed this week: on February 2, Fall Out Boy announced to little fanfare that they had broken up. Let’s not cry too hard, now: the band’s fifteen minutes were decidedly up, and, as I’ll discuss below, some good is likely to come out of this. I come to bury Fall Out Boy, not to praise them; but they deserve to be interred solemnly, not dumped in a ditch.
House Lions is Wesleyan's resident poetry podcast. To hear featured poets read their poems live and talk about their work, check out the House Lions weekly featured reader. Look for information about live recording sessions in the Shapiro Creative Writing Center, and a new featured poet every week. For more information, or to express interest in being on the show, shoot an email to sknittle@wesleyan.edu.
Note: On Monday, February 8th, House Lions will have its first live recording of the semester in the Shapiro Writing Center at 9 PM. Poets Alana Perino '11, Sarah Ashkin '11 and Camara Awkward-Rich '11 will be featured.
This Week's Poet: Josh Smith '11
Although Josh Smith's poetry bears obvious homage to hip-hop, it is distinguished by the degree to which it begets its origins in the work of poets such as Yusuf Komunyakaa and Thomas Sayers Ellis through careful attention to activity within the body of line and to an effort to echo both the emotional and rhythmic cores of the post-soul aesthetic. Smith's work is both explosive in its pacing and its careful deployment of fireworks of consonants wrought by a density of sonic repetition, and excruciatingly beautiful in its astute attention to the usage of visual detail through which it builds a series of singular atmospheres.
blog.pentagram.com The Grey Lady investigates the Kannam case.
In a 1,200 word piece in today's edition of the Times, education reporter Lisa Federaro delves into the increasingly nasty battle between Wesleyan and Tom Kannam (et al.).The story, which ran on page A14, doesn't break much new ground, though there are new and aggressive quotes from some of the defense attorneys. Federaro has an interesting analysis, highlighting sections of the lengthy complaint that the Argus and other publications chose to ignore. Overall, she found Wesleyan's case to be "an unusual airing of alleged ivory tower impropriety" that sought "to portray [Kannam] as a money-obsessed bureaucrat who exploited Wesleyan’s prestige and resources to boost his personal wealth." Though we were not as analytical in our own story, I personally found Federaro's characterization of the complaint to ring true. No summary can really do justice to the full panoply of sordid details that Wesleyan outlines in it's lawsuit--though most news outlets seem to agree that the story of the "Taj" is worth telling.
Mostly, the article confirms that the defense will be taking the basic position first elaborated by co-defendant Ralph Gill in an extended comment on our original story. Gill made a number of claims, but his main argument seemed to be that Michael Roth was using the lawsuit to deflect blame for the falling endowment onto Kannam. Gill claimed to have inside information that Roth was not fundraising to the satisfaction of the Board of Trustees, though he provides no evidence or sources for that assertion.
In Federaro's story, the Belstar Group's attorney, Martin Stein, makes a similar argument.
But Mr. Stein, the lawyer for Belstar, said that he believes that Wesleyan was “looking for a scapegoat” for its recent endowment losses.“There’s no claim that because Kannam was spending so much time on Belstar and others, that he did not do his job properly and or that Wesleyan lost money because of that,” he said. “Wesleyan’s silence on these things speaks very, very loudly. It’s a real hatchet job.”
Basically, the defense appears to be acknowledging that Kannam was spending time working on his outside entrepreneurial ventures, a fact that seems to be conclusively proved by the emails in the complaint. But they are challenging Wesleyan's accusation that spending time on these ventures detracted from Kannam's work for the University, or that it constituted a violation of the conflict of interest clause in his contract. Stein's argument that Wesleyan never directly connects Kannam's outside ventures to a decline in the endowment is interesting. Consider this line from the complaint: Read »
Do these types of Facebook statuses look familiar?
Max is thank god that's over.
Lindsay hates drama.
Jake wishes things could be simple again.
In case you were looking for a nice catch phrase to describe dramatic yet unspecific statuses, Urban Dictionary has got you covered:
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The Blargus has teamed up with Wesleyan's chapter of the Roosevelt Institute and will begin featuring political Op-Eds written by Roosevelt members . This first installment in the Roosevelt series was written by Amy Blume '11.
At 9:00pm last Wednesday, I sat in Usdan with a small group of Wes students and watched President Obama deliver his first State of the Union address. The last time I watched Obama on TV in Usdan, I was surrounded by a jubilant mass of students celebrating Obama’s victory over McCain. I was struck by the contrast between the triumphant crowd that night and the small group quietly watching the same man speak candidly about the economy, health care, clean energy sources, and the Iraq War.
Check out the latest installment of Argus News Radio! This week we focus on student-run Haiti relief efforts on campus, in an interview with Sabine Vilsaint '10 . She'll talk about the Haiti Relief Action Team, and her own experiences with Haiti. We also have a senior thesis spotlight featuring Meera Bhardwaj '10 , who is writing an Art History thesis on early Indian art.
Thanks to Cora Engelbrecht, Laignee Barron, and Ezra Silk for making this week's show possible!
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The way the screen has depicted love between a man and a woman (Heteronormativity! Oh heavens!) has changed—some may say evolved—over the years, but one type of love has survived history with minimal changes: The Bromance. While the portmanteau term is a relatively new linguistic phenomenon, the Bromance has been a part of the filmic psyche, so to speak, since movies were first made. From Abbot and Costello to Bob and Bing to Bill and Ted, two guys spending nearly all their time together, going on adventures, and making sexual innuendo is a staple of cinematic relationships that isn't going anywhere any time soon. But out of so many films about Bromance, five truly stand out, at least for me. So if you ever need a paradigm, something to fill in the spaces when you tell your friend that ze is the X to your Y, here are the Top Five Ultimate Bromance Movies. DISCLAIMER: This list is almost entirely personal opinion. Please don't kill me. Read »
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The ancient world is gone, and the views on life our ancestors had have almost disappeared from our collective conscious. Our ancestors, who hypothesized more than they experimented, did not know the advanced science known to mankind now. The current day is as reliant on mass media and on assorted gadgets in the same way that Ancient Civilization relied on an agricultural center to thrive.
It is in no way surprising that the way they thought and the way we think are fundamentally different from the foundation upwards, and the growth of science and of knowledge is the primary contributor to this state.
But while religion has also been impacted by the development of the sciences, the most important shift of religion occurred independently of science. Read »
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