Highly recommended background for those (like me) in the “Power plant?!? What power plant??!?” category. Good read includes the FBI, private equity firms, the Attorney General, trash magnate/criminals and Tax Relief/AstroGlide,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/nyregion/08kleen.html
http://caterwauled.blogspot.com/2007/12/trash-talk.html
There will be a meeting tonight at 10 pm in Usdan to figure out how Wesleyan students can help and support Middletown residents affected by the power plant explosion. Come to figure out plans, logistics and future projects.
From Dave Wolovsky ‘10:
Five Animal Kung Fu is an aesthetic art as well as a devastating fighting style. Classes are on Tuesdays at 4:30 in the Fayerweather rehearsal rooms, and this week (02/09) is the last time to sign up. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn some different and exciting stuff. For more info, go to http://www.wesleyan.edu/weswell/classes/oncampus/five_animal.html.
Calling all rappers! How would you like to be part of a Top 40 Hip Hop Cover Band? All parts will be performed live and with attitude. Back up vocals needed too!
Contact Richard Border ‘10 (rborder@wesleyan.edu) ASAP for more information!
THANKS!
A reminder – come to Usdan 110 tonight (Monday 2/8) at 7:30 pm if you’re interested in this blog. Read this.
Date: Monday, 2/8
Time: 7:30 pm
Place: Usdan 110
Care about sustainability at Wes? Get involved in energy conservation – and win money doing it.
The Wesleyan Energy Conservation Showdown (the ECS-Prize) is currently looking for submissions. All submissions should develop innovative ways to conserve both resources and money at Wesleyan.
The winning group will receive $600, and two runner-up groups will receive $200 each.
For more details see this post from January 4th. And check out the WSA’s website for complete rules.
All submissions are due by March 1st.
Questions? Email bfirke(at)wesleyan.edu or wesecsprize(at)gmail.com.
Middletown Fire Department is reporting a power plant explosion at the Kleen Energy Plant this morning, causing at least five fatalities and a blast felt as far as 15 miles away. All three district fire stations have responded. From the Hartford Courant:
An explosion has occurred at the power plant on River Road in Middletown.
Dozens of ambulances and fire trucks raced to the scene of the explosion, and black smoke was visible for miles, witnesses said.
Details are few at this time, however, police are advising everyone to stay away from the area.
Houses shook as far away as Durham because of the explosion , witnesses said.
CNN: At least 2 dead in Connecticut power plant explosion
MSNBC: ‘Huge’ explosion reported at Conn. power plant
Hartford Courant: At Least 100 Hurt, and “Confirmed Fatalities” After Explosion
Wesleyan All-Campus Email:
Although there were reports that some campus residents felt the explosion, there has been no reported damage in the vicinity of the campus and there is no danger to the campus community. University officials have been in touch with local authorities to offer assistance if Wesleyan resources can be helpful in responding to the incident. There are reports of injuries and perhaps some fatalities at the power plant, and our thoughts are with those in the larger Middletown community who were immediately impacted by this event.
UPDATE- NYTimes: Officials suspended the search for survivors early Monday, fearing for the rescue workers’ safety
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The S&C is located at Alpha Delta Phi at 185 High Street. It costs 8 points for lunch, 10 points dinner. The first three freshman through the door eat free!
Monday Feb. 8th
Dinner –Green Salad w/ Garlic Vin, Roasted Chicken/Tofu w/ Caramelized Shallot Sauce, Garlic Mashed Potatoes and Roasted Veg.
Dessert – Brownies
Tuesday Feb. 9th
Lunch – Grilled Flank Steak or Soy Honey Tofu w/wilted Napa Cabbage and Bok Choy over Baby Greens
Dessert – Chocolate Chip Cookies
Dinner –Green Salad w/ Balsamic Vin, Lasagna w/Beef and Sweet Italian Sausage Ragu or Marinara
Dessert – Chocolate Cake
Wednesday Feb.10th
Lunch- Grilled Chicken/Tofu Enchiladas
Dessert- Mango Yogurt
Dinner- Green Salad w/ Carrot Ginger Vin, Masaman Curry w/ Chicken/Tofu
Dessert- Banana Cream Pie
Thursday Feb 11th
Lunch- Corn and Salmon or Corn and Shitake Chowder w/ Herb Focaccia
Dessert- Strawberries w/Cream and Balsamic Reduction
Dinner- Green Salad w/ Curry Dressing, Tadka Dal w/Chicken/Tofu and Basmati Rice
Dessert- Butter Scotch Bars
From Allegra Stout ‘12:
Come learn and practice American Sign Language! And have some snacks… All skill levels welcome, including complete beginners. Don’t worry if you don’t know any signs yet; we’ll teach you!
Every Monday at 5 for the rest of the semester.
Date: Feb. 8
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Place: Sign House: 64 Lawn Ave. (behind Exley)
Can you cook? Want to become an Iron Chef champion? UCAB wants you! We are looking for three teams of 4 to compete February 21st at the Usdan Cafe. The theme is soul food in honor of Black History Month. There will be celebrity judges (Wesleyan staff and Bon Appetit chefs) as well as great prizes for each contestant.
To sign your team up email lchow@wes by February 12th.
Date: Feb. 7 – Feb. 12
Time: 12:00 AM – 11:30 PM
Place: Your computer
Wesleying,
The premier of Speak Your Piece, a new student-produced show on WESU, is airing so soon! At 4:00! There will be a podcast later in the week, but this is the way you’re SUPPOSED to listen to the show. This week’s theme is anachronistic technology, and features Dan Levine, Mike Rosen, Zully Adler, Matt Larkin and Aaron Izakowitz. Tune in at 88.1 FM or stream from wesufm.org. Piece out!
-the speak your piece staff
ps if you want to leave feedback during the show, please call in at 860-685-7700
Tai Chi is meditation in motion. Shaolin arts emphasize the
From Ali Patrick ‘13:
Valentine’s Day is coming up!
Buy baked goods, chocolate vagina-pops (vajollypops ;p), Valentine’s Day cards and carnations for your friends, secret crushes and valentines (or for yourselves) to support campaigns to stop violence against women!
We will be selling items in Usdan during meals from the 8th to the 14th.
Date: Feb 8 – Feb 14th
Time: Lunch & Dinner (11 am – 2 pm)
Place: Usdan
Like your cold, hard, bitter geopolitical realities coupled with something warm, liquid and possibly sweet? Me too. Come to Earth House to drink tea and hear about Josh Levine ‘12’s two weeks working with the Sierra Student Coalition at the COP15 Climate Conference in Copenhagen. Afterward, we’ll discuss how to move forward with climate policy on a local, national, and international level.
Date: Feb 10th
Time: 8am-12noon
Place: Earth House
Come to Earth House to drink tea and hear about Josh Levine '12's two weeks working with the Sierra Student Coalition at the COP15 Climate Conference in Copenhagen. Afterward, we'll discuss how to move forward with climate policy on a local, national, and international level.
Sure The Jersey Shore made more waves than NJ recently passing ish on medical MJ, but what’s happening in CT? Paul Blasenheim ‘12 scribes:
“Please join Wesleyan Students for Sensible Drug Policy (WesSSDP) for a panel discussion with leading Connecticut drug policy reform advocates to examine the current state of drug policy reform in CT. If you would like to know how to actively and productively engage in efforts for sensible and compassionate drug policy reform as a student, please come to this meeting! This will serve as a launching point for Wesleyan’s SSDP Chapter to begin statewide outreach and organizing to change CT drug laws. All are welcome, and those who are new to the issue of the War on Drugs are encouraged to attend!”
Date: THIS TUESDAY — February 9
Time: 7 – 8:15 in the P.M.
Place: Woodhead Lounge (Exley Science Center, Room 184)
House Lions, Wesleyan’s Poetry Podcast is having its first set of live recordings to be featured on the Blargus.
Hear 2011 poets:
Sarah Ashkin ‘11
Camara Awkward-Rich ‘11
Alana Perino ‘11
Read their work. Each reading will be followed by a live interview.
Date: Monday, February 8th
Time: 9 PM
Place: The Shapiro Center, 3rd Floor of Albritton. Then your Radio, but more likely your Computer, as the readings will posted on the Blargus site.
Slate has a fantastic clip of Superbowl trailers for film majors and football enthusiasts alike. It’s the Superbowl, as directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino and others. Apparently Warner Herzog is a fan of da Bears.
Friday night, and w
hat to do? Why not come to Psi U for a great concert for a great cause. Student bands Duchampion, Fly Machine (formerly Soul Kat Too) and Linus (formerly Friendsome) will be rocking out to raise money for Partners In Health in Haiti. If you come, you can rock out too!
Date: Friday, February 5th
Time: 10PM
Place: Psi U
Cost: $3
Stephanie Quainoo ‘10 writes:
submit your work for the spring issue of:
HERMES
Wesleyan’s Magazine of Critical, Political, & Creative Thought
Featuring the activism timeline!
we accept:
essays / commentary / photos / editorials / poetry / reportage / creative nonfiction / academic papers / drawings / artwork
The deadline for submissions is Monday, February 15th!! Send submissions to wesleyanhermes(at)gmail(dot)com
Date: Feb. 5 – Feb. 15
Mica Taliaferro ‘11 writes:
Hey Wesleyan, let’s start a street theater troupe this semester! If this sounds like a good idea to you, come to the first meeting. Artists of all mediums as well as writers, thinkers and shouters should find something to contribute here as well as something exciting. You don’t have to be a “theater” person to engage with people in the public space in a way that’s conscious of its performative aspects. What’s exciting about this medium is that such a wide variety of skills, knowledge and perspectives can make up a part of what we end up doing. I’m also hoping this will run like a collective. For more information, join the Facebook group.
Date: Feb. 7
Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Place: Rehearsal Hall 003
Jan Marie ‘11 writes:
Step 1) Learn to blues.
Step 2) Learn to mix that blues with tango.
Step 3) Learn fun lifts, dips, and tricks.
Step 4) Look sly as heck on a dancefloor.
WESwing & Blues is sponsoring tango-infused blues dance workshops with guest instructors Shawn Hershey and Amanda Gruhl of Boston. Shawn is like Gumby, but with a better sense of humor. Amanda wore a corset to her own birthday party. You will love them.
The set of three workshops cost $15, or $5 each. But they’re FREE FOR NEW DANCERS!!!
Date: Feb. 7
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Place: Beckham Hall
Cost: $15
Wesleyan’s own bluegrass band, The Church St. Revue (Nick Jackson ‘11, Eli Hetko ‘11, Michael Vitale ‘11, and Sam Werbalowsky ‘11) will be playing at Red and Black Cafe this Monday. Come check out some of your favorite country tunes from the 30’s through today. And don’t forget about the awesome food.
Date: Feb. 8
Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Place: Red and Black Cafe
We all remember Janet’s Super Bowl fiasco. Let’s face it – not every year can be that exciting.
But you CAN watch Super Bowl XLIV on a BIG SCREEN with lots of friends and delicious FREE FOOD!
Whether you’re looking forward to watching the Saints and the Colts fight for the title or just love the multi-million dollar beer commercials, come out this Sunday for UCAB’s annual Super Bowl Party.
There will be plenty of delicious FREE wings, sandwiches, mozzarella sticks, and more – so bring your friends and neighbors!
Date: Feb. 7
Time: 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Place: Usdan Cafe
This one’s pretty self-explanatory.
Super Bowl Party at the Cardinal’s Nest all day this Sunday.
Drink Specials all day and a FREE buffet at halftime.
Go Colts/Saints!
Date: Sunday, February 7
Time: All Day
Place: Cardinal’s Nest
Will Schragis ‘12 invites us all to see Daniel Levine-Spound share his thoughts on Issac Deutscher’s speech, “The Non-Jewish Jew”:
Can one still be a non-Jewish Jew when a nation exists which claims to represent all Jews? What does Zionism mean for the radical universalist Jewish tradition dating back to Spinoza? We will examine several works by Marx, Freud, and Woody Allen with the goals of both delving deeper into Deutscher’s thoughts, and re-examining the meaning of his thesis in a contemporary context.
Date: Tonight, February 5th
Time: 8:00Pm
Place: PAC 002
Root for the Cards this Saturday! Put on your red and black and come to Freeman this Saturday, February 6th. That’s right, Wes Pep is bringin’ you another round of cheering, athletics, and fun, this time while watching the basketball teams face off against Conn College. The women will play at 2pm, and the men at 4pm.
Don’t have the right Cardinal-rooting attire? Wes Pep will be taking orders for shirts so you can make that Wes Spirit of yours look its best.
Now that they’re no longer on the wrong side of the law, Food Not Bombs meets every Sunday this semester to serve free meals to people in Middletown:
Come cook and share food this Sunday with Middletown Food Not Bombs! FNB is an anti-authoritarian association dedicated to the principles of cooperation, mutual aid and direct action against hunger, militarism and social inequality. Food is made available to everyone, rich or poor, drunk or sober. People serve themselves and anyone can contribute.
FNB will be sharing a free, hot vegetarian feast and distributing produce and groceries on the corner of Liberty and Main Street at 12:45 this and every Sunday. Cooking begins around 11 in the kitchen of the First Church (just a block and a half down Court Street from High). And don’t worry, they don’t arrest us anymore!
Date: Sunday, February 7 (and every Sunday this semester)
Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Place: First Church (190 Court Street)
EDIT: (Formerly titled Toyota Prius Zipcar Out of Service)
The Toyota Prius Zipcar is back in service and should be returned to the Zipcar lot very soon. We were asked to take the car off the road because it was believed to be a part of the Toyota recall. We have just been informed that it has not been recalled and is fully functional and safe.
If you had signed up to use the car and were unable to do so because of this notice, please call Zipcar’s Member Services at 866-4ZIPCAR. I’ve been informed that if you explain the situation, you should be able to work out a refund. If for some reason this turns out not to be the case, please contact the WSA at wsa@wesleyan.edu and we will find a solution.
[And thanks to the alum who corrected me on brake! Apparently my mind is on a beach somewhere...]
The WSA and Public Safety have recently learned that our Toyota Priusis is part of the Toyota recall. Due to potential brake safety issues, we cannot have this car on the road until it is repaired.
We are currently in the process of identifying those individuals who have rented the car over the next few days and will be in touch personally. These individuals should make alternative plans unless otherwise notified. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
Becky Weiss ‘10
WSA Vice-President
So you think you can listen?
JOIN US! 8-to-8 is your student-run, on-campus, non-directive listening service, operating every night from 7pm to 7am, and we’re looking for new members. If you derive an unreasonable amount of enjoyment from being on the phone, or want to be there for your peers when they need you, come to our information sessions this week to find out what we’re all about.
Friday, February 5th 12-1 PM Usdan 114
Saturday, February 6th, 2-3 PM Usdan 104
* Note: actual listeners may not be this cute.
Date: 1) Feb. 5 + 2)Feb. 6
Time: 1) 12 pm- 1pm + 2) 2pm- 3pm
Place: 1) Usdan 114 and + 2) Usdan 104
Buy tickets for the fundraiser in Beckham Hall this Saturday. The many perks will include:
Live Band
DJ -with the best kompa, soca, reggae, and R&B
Haitian appetizers and refreshments
It’s a semi-formal so come in your second best attire!
$10 Entry Fee-Tickets sold at Usdan (lunch and dinner)
Get your tickets before they sell out!
Date: Saturday, February 6
Time: 9 pm – 1:30 am
Place: Beckham Hall
Check out the Facebook event here.
: Does anyone know why the WesHub might be down? Is it for other folks?
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