Anonymous commenters, shoutbox-ers, ACB-ers: You want Wesleying not to crash every Finals Week (or other sporadic moments throughout the year). You want Wesleying to be more user friendly. You want to be able to sort through posts easier. You want aesthetic changes to be made quicker. You want it? You got it — That is, of course, if you can help us make that happen. 
Our server contract ends this year, and we are hoping to upgrade so Wesleying.2011 can be better, faster, stronger. With your fund$ we can:
While Wesleying may not give you a sweet tote bag like NPR does, here are some reasons you should support us: 
So if you are so inclined, make your donation to Wesleying’s PayPal account whether you’re a student, a parent, an alum, or just someone who googled “sex party.” You can donate any amount you wish, and show some class pride by adding your class year in cents (i.e. Michael Roth ‘78, donate $100.78! Poor alum ‘10, donate $1.10!). At least join the facebook event and spread it to your friends.
With love,
All of us at Wesleying
[Thanks to David Shimomura '13 for photoshopping the awesome 'Uncle Roth' image for me for this post.]
Ever stare endlessly into the Wesleying tag cloud and think, “wow, the positioning of these tags make it seem like Wesleying focuses on a lot of weird concepts?”
Hopefully for your sake, you haven’t. Truth be told, we do talk about a lot of weird things but this tag cloud might make it look even weirder if you can’t tell that some of these things are separate tags. Party police? Stage Sex? Queer ResLife? I don’t even know when the last time eclectic had an election was.
I really had to resist “facebook film” and there are some others if you look closely.
Now stop procrastinating. Finals are calling.
Hey yall, it’s April. Do you like our new banner? Now Wesleying looks as fabulous as it feels.
In other news, it seems that there’s been a change in our commencement speaker.
From a campus-wide WSA email just now:
To the Student Body:
As your WSA leaders, it is our responsibility to, among other things,
provide information to students as we are made aware of it. We were very
recently informed that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper ‘74, who was
invited to be our Commencement Speaker, has commitments and
lacks the flexibility in his new schedule to attend.Fortunately, we were told that a new speaker will be coming in his place.
Our new 2010 Commencement Speaker was recently selected and is none
other than New York Times bestselling author and 2008 VP nominee Sarah Palin.
Like our friends in Alaska, we will now be able to enjoy the wit and candor of
Sarah. You betcha!Sincerely,
WSA Executive Committee
Mike Pernick, President
Becky Weiss, Vice President
Cordelia Blanchard, AAC Chair
Ben Firke, FiFaC Chair
David Goldman, SAC Chair
Charlie Kurose, Treasurer
Sylvie Stein, COCo Chair
Meherazade Sumariwalla, Coordinator
WTF I don’t agree with her politics!!!
Hey everybody, we’re having weird technical issues related to our site upgrade this past week. Sorry if things move more slowly as a result. NOSTRA CULPA if any events are overlooked over the next few days, we’ll try to keep getting them posted regardless.
Hope to get everything fixed up ASAP, but say hello again to the Cardinal until then.
You may have noticed that Wesleying looks a little different, and I’m here as a simple guide. First off, I should note that there aren’t really any new features on the site, more just a reshuffling of visual mumbo jumbo. You’ve no doubt immediately noticed the new header which does not have a silly looking cardinal on it nor childish handwriting. Furthermore, there is now information both above and below the header image. Above you will see the featured posts, with pictures and titles, both of which link to the articles. Underneath the new header you see a menu which has replaced what was formerly at the top of the right hand sidebar. This menu includes the filters (events only and non-events only), the submission pages, as well as the RSS feeds for Wesleying (for posts and comments). Finally, at the top of the righthand sidebar you now see the upcoming events, followed immediately by the weather.
Of course, not all of the changes made might be considered for the better, or they could be improved upon. There are also bound to be bugs, even though I spent a lot of time making sure there wouldn’t be any. If you have feelings on the matter, please feel free to give your opinions in the comments or send me an email at griffindy[at]gmail[dot]com.
UPDATE: The new menu bar does not appear to be working for most users, a problem that I had not come across in my testing. I have removed the menu bar and put its content. back into the sidebar. In looking at everyone’s advice from the comments I have also attempted to resize the featured posts at the top to a more reasonable size.
Dearest Readers,
I would like to call your attention to 2 important new features of this site that should make your Wesleying experience a little better. The first is the Featured Posts section of the sidebar. Here you’ll find the 5 latest non-event posts without having to scroll through a page of event posts to get to them. We have also added 2 filters, which you can find at the top of the sidebar. As you can see for yourself, you now have the option to view either only event posts or non-event posts instead of them all mixed together as in the default setting. These two changes are part of our efforts to make Wesleying just as much about student voices as it is student events. Hopefully, these changes and the ones to come will make it easier for you all to access the content you want to see, while also encouraging our writers to write more original content and our readers to join in on ensuing discussion.
We understand some of the frustration with how slow progress is in revamping the site, but please understand that we are students like you. We have all sorts of things to keep us busy and finding time for cosmetic changes and such is difficult. Still, we feel the same way as you all about how much there is to improve and I promise that all the things you find ugly/annoying/user-unfriendly are just as irritating to us. We’re working on it!
As for this no-longer-funny joke of a header, it is soon gone. I am deathly afraid of commitment but I’m gonna commit to this: there will be a new header by the end of next week. I’ve been looking at that thing for way too long and the time has come for change– change we can believe in!
Love,
Whatshername/Wesleying
PS- Because we all tend to focus on what needs to be improved and negativity isn’t always so helpful, I’d like to know:
What do you like about Wesleying? What do you want to see more of or hope stays the same?
*If no smartass commenter responds to this post with “it can’t get no worse,” I’ll be really disappointed.
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
As I grow increasingly aware of the few short months that lie between now and graduation, I look down at my navel and think about my time at Wesleying.
In my first semester at Wes, Wesleying was a fresh experiment, an increasingly poorly kept secret that the girl down the hall consulted to corral our motley crew of Butts freshmen to weekend destinations – Wine and Cheese at WestCo, Psi U parties, shows at Eclectic.
Now, four years later, Wes is minus one Mocon and plus one Usdan, without Presidents Bennett or Bush but with Roth and Obama, and has weathered too many other changes to reduce to a few trite clauses. Wesleying has moved from one blogging platform to another, developed an audience larger than anyone could have hoped back in 2006, and grown into a significant enough part of the Wesleyan media (such as it is) that often enough, the Argus gets tips from us.
I still feel a surge of pride when people sitting ahead of me in class refresh Wesleying on their Macbooks, flattered that their minds wander here during lectures instead of FailBlog or LATFH. I think how strange it is that so many Wes administrators keep tabs on this site, when Wesleying was far enough under the radar back in the day that nobody got crap from the SJB about people holding beer cans in photos here. And it feels even stranger that so many administrative departments now have their own blogs, whereas four years ago I was still getting over my high-school Xanga/Livejournal (like many in my generational cohort), and a “Bennett Blogs” would have been highly improbable to see linked on the University homepage.
So while I and the other seniors on board brush our shoulders off and look ahead to THE FUTURE, it’s time to refresh.
Without a whole lot of people on the team, Wesleying would be just a few hypercaffeinated individuals with deteriorating posture and creeping Carpal tunnel syndrome, writing successively more solipsistic rants and rarely posting your events on time.
Luckily, enough people express their love of Wesleyan through blogging that we’re somehow consistent enough to keep you all coming back. But this is the last semester for a bunch of us, and as bittersweet as it is, we will not be blogging here once we graduate. In fact, some of us are trying to focus more right now on figuring out life after Wes than we are on blogging. The site must go on, so we’re looking for new contributors to help keep this thing going stronger than ever this semester, and next year.
If you want to express your Wesleyan love through the Internet, click on for details.
In the holiday spirit of thanking people and making toasts, here’s a toast to our very own Sheek! Recently named WesCeleb, Sheek has been holding down the fort and keeping Wesleying interesting for two years now, and hey, it’s only fitting that he get some recognition.
So thanks, Sheek, for keeping us on our toes, posting great content and making Wesleying more of a family. If you haven’t checked it out yet, here’s the interview in the Argus.
If you haven’t been satisfied with our blog posts and Facebook updates alone, never fear! Wesleying is now on Twitter!
Follow us @wesleying for updates in a neat, 140-character package.
(But don’t expect a ton of updates, because we’re really just trying to get a mention from @THE_REAL_SHAQ.)
Because we want your help in making Wesleying a better place, we’re having an open call for header submissions.
Both our most recent one and the Wesfest-hippie-bus one before that were meant to be temporary (and the current one most definitely is), but, well, life happens and we don’t have much time to improve on them. So we’re crowdsourcing!
If you’ve got any knack for graphic design/Photoshop/MS Paint/whatever and think you can do better than what’s up now, send us a design and it just might become our new masthead. If you check Wesleying often enough to care and have some time on your hands, this could be your chance to get your work seen by ~3,000 people per day.
Be as creative as you want to – add personality, make it conceptual, showcase whatever style you want to see at the top of this site. Or keep it neat and minimal. All we require is that:
No set deadline, but try to get whatever you come up with to us by the end of Fall Break (October 28th). Feel free to send as many as you’d like, and email all submissions to staff(at)wesleying(dot)org.
: too hippie for the website?
: but, what do you want? It's the calendar section, fwiw.
: The future is not what it used to be. WTF?!
: Accepting Points
: http://congratulations.whoismgmt.com/
: Is williams a "new" ivy? Wes only 8th Most Political College?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/24/the-new-ivies-10-schools-_n_692223.html#s128862 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/28/the-most-political-colleg_n_697826.html#s129203
