Author Archives: Ishuku

Commencement to be Ticketed (But you can still watch)

Better start buttering up your senior friends. From an email from Dean Mike:

Each senior gets 10 tickets that they can pick up in their Wesbox on Saturday
These tickets let your guests into the seating area on Andrus Field starting at 8am on Sunday
Additional guests are welcome to view the ceremony from other areas of Andrus [...]

Commencement to be Ticketed (But you can still watch)

Better start buttering up your senior friends. From an email from Dean Mike:

Each senior gets 10 tickets that they can pick up in their Wesbox on Saturday
These tickets let your guests into the seating area on Andrus Field starting at 8am on Sunday
Additional guests are welcome to view the ceremony from other areas of Andrus [...]

WES WE MOTHERFUCKING CAN

BARACK OBAMA TO SPEAK AT COMMENCEMENT
NYTimes has an article about it already:

“Ted and I talked about me filling in for him at Wesleyan University earlier this week,” Mr. Obama said in a statement. “Considering what he’s done for me and for our country, there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for him. So I’m looking forward to [...]

WES WE MOTHERFUCKING CAN

BARACK OBAMA TO SPEAK AT COMMENCEMENT
NYTimes has an article about it already:

“Ted and I talked about me filling in for him at Wesleyan University earlier this week,” Mr. Obama said in a statement. “Considering what he’s done for me and for our country, there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for him. So I’m looking forward to [...]

Prof. Potter’s comment

By request, here’s the comment that Prof. Claire Potter, aka Tenured Radical, wrote on Ed McKeon’s blog:
As a blogger myself who has often been criticized for responses to things that are too quick and idiosyncratic, I don’t want to come down too hard on you. But — allowing for the fact that students were drunk [...]

Prof. Potter’s comment

By request, here’s the comment that Prof. Claire Potter, aka Tenured Radical, wrote on Ed McKeon’s blog:
As a blogger myself who has often been criticized for responses to things that are too quick and idiosyncratic, I don’t want to come down too hard on you. But — allowing for the fact that students were drunk [...]

Updated report from WTNH

This is the 6am run-though.

Names and charges have been released on the WTNH website. In the meantime, we’re not posting them here.
Rashida Richardson ‘08 has a first-person account up at The Prereq. Excerpt:

“I called 911 telling them that students were getting injured and I was bit by a dog, and she said police were already [...]

Updated report from WTNH

This is the 6am run-though.

Names and charges have been released on the WTNH website. In the meantime, we’re not posting them here.
Rashida Richardson ‘08 has a first-person account up at The Prereq. Excerpt:

“I called 911 telling them that students were getting injured and I was bit by a dog, and she said police were already [...]

WTNH news story @ 5 and 5:30

Sorry it’s so quiet. Sleeping housemates.

—Edit (Justin, 5:50 AM): I’ve uploaded audio from the WTNH reports at 5:00 and 5:30. Recordings courtesy of Brian Jordan ‘10.
—Edit (Justin, 7:18 AM): WTNH has posted their story on their own website, with accompanying text and photos.
WTNH also allows users to comment on their story.

WTNH news story @ 5 and 5:30

Sorry it’s so quiet. Sleeping housemates.

—Edit (Justin, 5:50 AM): I’ve uploaded audio from the WTNH reports at 5:00 and 5:30. Recordings courtesy of Brian Jordan ‘10.
—Edit (Justin, 7:18 AM): WTNH has posted their story on their own website, with accompanying text and photos.
WTNH also allows users to comment on their story.

Corrections/elabrations from the liveblogging

News stations are giving the police weapon list as: tasers, dogs, rubber bullets and pepper spray. No batons
What we thought were paintballs were pepper balls (filled with pepper gas)
When the first shots were fired, it was blogged that pepper spray was being dispersed. I’m not entirely convinced it was pepper spray because it was this [...]

Corrections/elabrations from the liveblogging

News stations are giving the police weapon list as: tasers, dogs, rubber bullets and pepper spray. No batons
What we thought were paintballs were pepper balls (filled with pepper gas)
When the first shots were fired, it was blogged that pepper spray was being dispersed. I’m not entirely convinced it was pepper spray because it was this [...]

livebloggin’ from fountain

huge block party on fountain celebrating end of finals; psafe was hanging out for a while trying to clear people out of the road.
then 10 middletown police cars came
they’re lined up on the street now
(seriously! 10!)nice cop huddle going down, chatting with psafe. mpd is carrying huge paintball guns. everyone is just kind of standing [...]

livebloggin’ from fountain

huge block party on fountain celebrating end of finals; psafe was hanging out for a while trying to clear people out of the road.
then 10 middletown police cars came
they’re lined up on the street now
(seriously! 10!)nice cop huddle going down, chatting with psafe. mpd is carrying huge paintball guns. everyone is just kind of standing [...]

The Future of Wesleying, Part II

Holly and I wanted to co-author a goodbye post in Google Documents like the good ole days. However, as some of you might remember, when Blogger migrated to Google, Holly’s account somehow got inexplicably tied to the Wesleying account so now when you log in under Wesleying for anything Google-related, you end up under Holly’s [...]