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		<title>Tonight on WESU: Documentary Trolls Premiere</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 02:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ May 24, 2013; 12:00 AM to 2:00 AM. ] 

The Formidable Mickey Capper '13 needs no snarky introduction:
The first ever WESU Radio Documentary Trolls special will air tonight on WESU Middletown 88.1fm and wesufm.org online. Join us for experiments in audio storytelling! Musical weapons on the subway! Roommate drama in the old folks home! More encounters between people, art, sounds, love, and each other. Don’t [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">The Formidable <span style="color: #800000;"><strong><a href="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/421354_10150570821981733_1719013638_n.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800000;">Mickey Capper &#8217;13</span></a></strong></span></span> needs no snarky introduction:</p>
<blockquote><p>The first ever WESU Radio Documentary Trolls special <a href="http://wesufm.org/documentary-trolls-premiere-midnight-tonight/" target="_blank">will air tonight on WESU Middletown 88.1fm and wesufm.org online</a>. Join us for experiments in audio storytelling! Musical weapons on the subway! Roommate drama in the old folks home! More encounters between people, art, sounds, love, and each other. Don’t miss it!!!</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Date: </strong>Tonight (tomorrow morning?) at midnight<br />
<strong>Time: </strong>12:00 a.m.<br />
<strong>Place:</strong> WESU Middletown 88.1</p>
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		<title>Unlocked Magazine is For Sale and NSFW</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 20:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
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Miriam Olenick &#8217;13 writes in about the campus publication most likely to elicit amusing reactions from your parents this weekend (yes, that&#8217;s the cover pictured above):
Unlocked, Wesleyan&#8217;s art and sexuality magazine, is HAWT off the press and ready for purchase. Copies are $5 a piece, but if you can show me where your work/sexy modeling [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Miriam Olenick &#8217;13</strong></span> writes in about the campus publication <a href="http://wesleying.org/2009/03/11/unlocked-makes-courant-feel-sexy-is-on-gawker/" target="_blank">most likely to elicit amusing reactions</a> from your parents this weekend (yes, that&#8217;s the cover pictured above):</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://wesleying.org/tag/unlocked-magazine/" target="_blank">Unlocked</a>, Wesleyan&#8217;s art and sexuality magazine, is HAWT off the press and ready for purchase. Copies are $5 a piece, but if you can show me where your work/sexy modeling is you get a free copy!</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Sam Maldonado &#8217;13</strong></span>, <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Stefan Skripak &#8217;13</strong></span>, and I will be selling copies from our respective homes until we get kicked out of this place on Monday. If you&#8217;re not here for senior week, Unlocked will be selling again at the beginning of next semester. We&#8217;re sorry for the delayed gratification &#8212; we had a bit of a struggle with our printers.</p>
<p>For now, contact me at (917) 371 8501, Sam at (413) 328 5406, or Stefan at (215) 527-9002 and we&#8217;ll figure out a time/place to get you a copy.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Contact:</strong> <strong><span style="color: #800000;">Sam Maldonado &#8217;13</span></strong>, <strong><span style="color: #800000;">Stefan Skripak &#8217;13</span></strong>, or <strong><span style="color: #800000;">Miriam Olenick &#8217;13<br />
</span><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #000000;">Cost: </span></span></strong><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #000000;">$5 an issue</span></span></p>
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		<title>BandCampWes: Robert Don ’15 Begins Summer With &#8220;Liriope&#8221; EP</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 16:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabe</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Who is Robert Don &#8217;15?&#8221; would be a question asked by somebody who hasn&#8217;t been at Wesleyan for more than a minute. Depending on which show you&#8217;ve showed up to, he&#8217;s either the frontman of solo project vehicle Robert&#8217;s Don or the St. Louis-based Since 1902. If you&#8217;re confused about the difference between Robert Don singular and Robert&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;Who is <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Robert Don &#8217;15</strong></span>?&#8221; would be a question asked by somebody who hasn&#8217;t been at Wesleyan for more than a minute. Depending on which show you&#8217;ve showed up to, he&#8217;s either the frontman of solo project vehicle <a href="http://wesleying.org/2013/05/08/roberts-don-releases-newest-ep-at-buho-tonight/">Robert&#8217;s Don</a> or the St. Louis-based <a href="http://wesleying.org/2013/01/28/bandcampwes-since-1902-drops-new-album/">Since 1902</a>. If you&#8217;re confused about the difference between Robert Don singular and Robert&#8217;s Don possessive, you&#8217;re not alone— even Don acknowledges it&#8217;s &#8220;an awful band name, trust me, we know.&#8221;</p>
<p>But ignore all of that. Don&#8217;s latest EP, <a href="http://robertdon.bandcamp.com/album/liriope"><em>Liriope</em></a>, is the reason why you shouldn&#8217;t throw up your hands in exasperation. In fact, the four songs and ~20 minutes of music here are the perfect beginning to summer, reminding you that, even after school ends, you will never escape the Wesleyan music scene. Half-recorded in Don&#8217;s <a href="http://wesleying.org/2012/07/13/bandcampwes-don-15-launches-solo-career-from-the-butts/">now-famous room in the Butts</a>, and half-recorded at his home in St. Louis (with production by Since 1902&#8242;s Justin Enoch), <em>Liriope </em>expands on some of the excellent anti-folk he experimented with on his debut <em><a href="http://robertdon.bandcamp.com/album/honestly-honesty">Honestly Honesty</a> </em>and adds a little blues-rock into the mix.</p>
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<p><iframe style="position: relative; display: block; width: 400px; height: 100px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/track=3970484463/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/" height="100" width="400" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p>&#8220;The General&#8221; runs on a laid back riff, with Don singing in his gravely baritone: &#8220;Like a general, sending off his troops to never return / That&#8217;s what I am, a creature of guilt.&#8221; Following the verse, Don plays off that guitar riff, and hits sweet harmonics before devolving into a very <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ5B-U6LwaA">Fleet Foxes-like</a> exposition. The tune is the most straightforward on the EP – dare I say radio ready? – because once it&#8217;s over, <em>Liriope </em>devolves into something else entirely with &#8220;Backwater Yeast Infection 2&#8243; (Do we know where the first backwater yeast infection was? No we do not. It&#8217;s an unresolved mystery).</p>
<p>&#8220;BYI2&#8243; begins as a jumble of guitars, although an enjoyable one at that, before melting into an Animal Collective-esque gloop— although you can always hear the melody through the mess. It&#8217;s a multi-part song, and by the end its violin plucks and bell rings sound like a zen resolution. Things pick up again for &#8220;Crooked Bow / Ocean Floor,&#8221; which benefits immensely from the gorgeous violin of <strong><span style="color: #800000;">Siri Carr &#8217;15 </span></strong><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #000000;">and some well-placed drums coordinating with a very rhythmic guitar.</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><br />
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<p><iframe style="position: relative; display: block; width: 400px; height: 100px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/track=2497302154/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/" height="100" width="400" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p>Closing out <em>Liriope </em>is the 8-minute-long &#8220;Appalachia Mountain Love Song,&#8221; which sounds just as gorgeous as it&#8217;s titled. Acoustic guitars and a lot of harmonics make this one of the sweeter songs I&#8217;ve heard this side of <a href="http://kingatbay.bandcamp.com/">Mel Hsu and Jess Best</a>— and you can be sure that&#8217;s one of the best compliments this writer has ever given out. And the parallel to Fleet Foxes continues here as well, as &#8220;Appalachia&#8221; spreads out, fully realized as maybe even more than a single song. Talk about music to relax in the sun to.</p>
<p>Liriope, if you&#8217;re curious like me but too lazy to look it up, is &#8220;a genus of low, grass-like, flowering plants from East Asia,&#8221; more commonly known in the US as &#8220;monkey grass&#8221; or &#8220;spider grass.&#8221; I hope that didn&#8217;t ruin the mystique for you.</p>
<p>If this music (or the music of any of Don&#8217;s other projects) pulls your heartstrings, and you happen to live around Missouri, Don might be coming your way. Feel free to blame him for continuing to confuse his two bands, but you should be happy to just get Robert Don in any form you can:</p>
<blockquote><p>This semester, I&#8217;ve gotten to play with two great musicians in Robert&#8217;s Don (an awful band name, trust me, we know) — <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Dylan Awalt-Conley &#8217;15</strong></span> on drums and <strong><span style="color: #800000;">Matan Koplin-Green &#8217;15</span></strong> on bass/vocals. We&#8217;ve had an awesome semester together — played a bunch of very fun shows. Possibly (but don&#8217;t hold me to it) we may be able to get a tour together at the end of this summer in the Northeast, potentially as Since 1902 with some members from St. Louis.</p></blockquote>
<p><em>Liriope</em> is available to download for <a href="http://robertdon.bandcamp.com/album/liriope">whatever price you wish to pay on Bandcamp</a>, along with <em><a href="http://robertdon.bandcamp.com/album/honestly-honesty">Honestly Honesty</a> </em>and the entire discography of <a href="http://since1902music.bandcamp.com/">Since 1902</a>. If there ever was a time to go full-on obsessive into the world of Robert Don, this is it.</p>
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		<title>First Times: An Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tuna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing the trend of my former roommates&#8217; undertaking cool extra-curricular projects, Maxwell Bevilacqua &#8217;12 has plans to publish First Times, a collection of short pieces on firsts (not just of the sexual variety &#8212; though sharing those stories is strongly encouraged). Good news if you missed the deadline the last time we featured this project: [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Continuing the trend of <a href="http://wesleying.org/2013/05/13/postwes-dont-fear-the-bubble-burst/">my former roommates&#8217; undertaking cool extra-curricular projects</a>, <strong><span style="color: #800000;">Maxwell Bevilacqua &#8217;12</span></strong> has plans to publish First Times, a collection of short pieces on firsts (not just of the sexual variety &#8212; though sharing those stories is strongly encouraged). Good news if you missed the deadline <a href="http://wesleying.org/2013/04/24/max-bevilacqua-wants-to-know-about-your-first-time/">the last time we featured this project: he&#8217;s still seeking submissions.</a> Want more details? Here&#8217;s a brief gchat interview I held with Max last week.</p>
<p><b>Wesleying:</b> So, Max, what&#8217;s this I&#8217;ve been hearing about something called First Times? Does it have anything to do with Wescam?</p>
<p><b>Maxwell Bevilacqua:</b> Wescam might have something to do with first times but First Times, a collection of short stories I&#8217;m putting together, probably has nothing to do with Wescam</p>
<p>(I can still be found as a graduate student btw)</p>
<p><b>W:</b> A collection of short stories you&#8217;re putting together, huh? Sounds like Stethoscope Press. Is that true? I should add that I&#8217;m not exactly sure what Stethoscope is.</p>
<p><b>MB:</b> This is not a stethoscope press publication (though the wonderful <strong><span style="color: #800000;">Piers Gelly ‘13</span></strong> gave me some great advice) but it is an independent, supa creative, trendy thing I&#8217;m doing just like Stethoscope Press</p>
<p>and hey &#8211; you should see a doctor for that!! <span id="more-103748"></span></p>
<p><b>W:</b> Groan. Where did you get this kooky idea?</p>
<p><b>MB:</b> I was sitting around with a couple of friends and we were sharing our &#8220;first time&#8221; (in the classical sense) stories</p>
<p>1. they were hilarious and 2. I had no idea about some of the most amazing stories from people I knew very well</p>
<p>and i think that these stories are hidden in our memories and sometimes kept out of normal conversations</p>
<p>so I am simply trying to unearth them</p>
<p><b>W:</b> But, Max, surely you don&#8217;t envision a collection of purely sex stories! I&#8217;ll wait for Unlocked, thank you very much!</p>
<p><b>MB:</b> I am so glad you mentioned this misunderstanding</p>
<p>while the collection was inspired by my friends&#8217; early sexual experiences, I am looking for any first time experience &#8212; in fact, some of the most wonderful submissions have nothing to do with sex at all</p>
<p><b>W:</b> <em>Nothing to do with sex at all?</em></p>
<p><b>MB:</b> You heard me: something at wesleyan that doesn&#8217;t have to do with sex at all!</p>
<p>that being said</p>
<p>a good story about tugging the towboat is absolutely encouraged</p>
<p><b>W: </b>What&#8217;s so special about these stories? Just because they&#8217;re dormant doesn&#8217;t mean they need release&#8230;right? RIGHT?</p>
<p><b>MB:</b> I think there are many dormant thingies that need release</p>
<p>but you are right it is not their dormancy that makes their release necessary or exciting</p>
<p>it is the fact that they are (and future submissions can be) moving stories from people in our community (and beyond)</p>
<p>the fact that they don&#8217;t get heard is just adding insult to injury</p>
<p>i also think it is a wonderful exercise for wesleyan students for two reasons</p>
<p><b>W: </b>Please enumerate them.</p>
<p><b>MB:</b> 1. i think that it is hard for many wesleyan students to submit something less than perfect</p>
<p>I think submitting to First Times (deadline pushed one more time to May 31st from May 15th because I would really love to get more submissions) is a great opportunity to just write the way that you would verbally tell a story and not worry about craftsman/womanship &#8211; and focus on pure content, which can then be fun to craft</p>
<p>and 2. I think that wesleyan students are insecure about their writing</p>
<p>but some of the most imperfectly written still convey unique voices that sound great paired with and in the context of/other stories in the collection</p>
<p><b>W: </b>I&#8217;d really be interested to know how your time working as RHAF (Russell House Arts Fellow) has influenced you in terms of wanting to undertake a project like this.</p>
<p><b>MB:</b> please don&#8217;t take letters off of my title: it’s actually SCRHAF</p>
<p><b>W</b>: Gesundheit.</p>
<p><b>MB:</b> Basically I have gotten to work with a lot of professional and student writers</p>
<p>and I have been inspired by the former to draw on the latter and to create a capstone project of my own creation as I wrap up this fellowship</p>
<p><b>W: </b>What form will this collection take? Published online, in print? When can we expect the finished product? These are the tough logistical qs.</p>
<p><b>MB:</b> I am designing and laying out the book with an online publishing site in order to produce physical copies</p>
<p>in short these will be real books</p>
<p>i hate to extinguish any <em>kindling</em> of excitement you had for an online version</p>
<p>if that&#8217;s your <em>nook</em></p>
<p>then this is not your book</p>
<p><b>W:</b> [Speechless]</p>
<p><b>MB:</b> finally</p>
<p>amiright readers ;)</p>
<p><b>W:</b> Anyscrhaf&#8230; can we graduating seniors expect to see a copy before shipping off to such exotic locations as home for the summer?</p>
<p><b>MB:</b> that all depends on how many submissions (less than 1000 words to <span style="color: #000080;">firsttimes2013@gmail</span>) I can get!</p>
<p>again I have extended the deadline to May 31st in order to have a more <i>voluminous</i> volume &#8211; it is therefore more likely that they will be available in early June. However, there are many ways to get your hands on them even if you are far away, like ordering a copy from the online publisher. More on this at a later date.</p>
<p><b>W:</b> Okey doke. Well, that about does it for us here. Anything you&#8217;d like to add?</p>
<p><b>MB:</b> thanks to wesleying! To everyone else: share your stuff by May 31st!! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TCxE0bWQeQ">And watch this.</a></p>
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		<title>The Trustees Are Coming, The Trustees Are Coming</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 22:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s how to contact them to talk about your feelings or whatever.
Pictured: Joshua S. Boger &#8217;73, chairman of Wesleyan&#8217;s Board of Trustees.
Wesleyan&#8217;s Board of Trustees will be arriving on campus tomorrow for their annual three-day Buffy marathon Senior Week meeting, which traditionally takes place in the days leading up to Reunion &#38; Commencement. Got a [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Here&#8217;s how to contact them to talk about your feelings or whatever.</em></p>
<div id="attachment_103739" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 701px"><a href="http://i1.wp.com/wesleying.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/bogerman.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-103739" title="Pictured: Joshua Boger '73, chairman of Wesleyan's Board of Trustees." alt="" src="http://i1.wp.com/wesleying.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/bogerman.jpg?resize=625%2C417" data-recalc-dims="1" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Pictured: <strong><span style="color: #800000;">Joshua S. Boger &#8217;73</span></strong>, chairman of Wesleyan&#8217;s Board of Trustees.</p></div>
<p>Wesleyan&#8217;s Board of Trustees will be arriving on campus tomorrow for their annual <del>three-day<em> Buffy</em> marathon</del> Senior Week meeting, which <a href="http://wesleying.org/2012/05/25/today-trustees-debate-end-to-need-blind-admissions/" target="_blank">traditionally takes place in the days leading up to Reunion &amp; Commencement</a>. Got a concern that you&#8217;d like the Board to address? Want to talk to them about your feelings? Just curious who is on that committee that makes all those decisions about campus in the first place? You can access a full list of the names, class years (nearly all are alumni), home states, and job titles of the Board members <a href="http://www.wesleyan.edu/about/trustees.html" target="_blank">here</a>, but unfortunately no contact information is provided, which is kind of weird when you really think about it. We&#8217;ve taken the liberty of amassing the Board members&#8217; names and email addresses so you can contact them with thoughts or requests in advance of their meeting, which begins tomorrow:<span id="more-103738"></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000;">K. Tucker Andersen &#8217;63, P&#8217;95</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;">, Owner, Above All Advisors, LLC, </span><span style="color: #003366;"><strong><span style="color: #000080;">moneymanag(at)aol(dot)com</span></strong><br />
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<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Carlton B. Barnswell &#8217;83, P&#8217;14</strong></span>, Physician/Urologist, Advanced Urology Centers of New York,<span style="color: #000080;"><strong> cbarnswell(at)imppllc(dot)com</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Joshua S. Boger &#8217;73, P&#8217;06, P&#8217;09</strong></span>, Founder and CEO (Retired), Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>joshua.boger(at)gmail(dot)com</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Phoebe C. Boyer &#8217;89</strong></span>, Executive Director, Tiger Foundation, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>phoebe.boyer(at)gmail(dot)com</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>James M. Citrin P&#8217;12, P&#8217;14</strong></span>, Senior Director, Spencer Stuart, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>jcitrin(at)spencerstuart(dot)com</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Elizabeth &#8220;Beezer&#8221; Clarkson &#8217;94</span>, </strong>COO &amp; Managing Director, SAP Ventures, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>eclarkson(at)mba2000(dot)hbs(dot)edu</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Robert J. Donaldson II &#8217;93</span>,</strong> Associate Professor of History, University Of South Carolina, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>bdonaldson(at)sc(dot)edu</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Geoffrey M. Duyk &#8217;80</strong></span>, TPG Growth, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>geoff(at)dyuk(dot)com</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Diana Farrell &#8217;87</strong></span>, Director and Head, McKinsey Center for Government, McKinsey &amp; Company, <strong><span style="color: #000080;">dianamfarrell(at)gmail(dot)com</span><br />
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<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>John B. Frank &#8217;78, P&#8217;12</strong></span>, Managing Principal, Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>jfrank(at)oaktreecapital(dot)com</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Karen J. Freedman &#8217;75, P&#8217;05</strong></span>, Executive Director, Lawyers for Children, Inc., <strong><span style="color: #000080;">kfreedman(at)lawyersforchildren(dot)org\</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Irma V. Gonzalez &#8217;78, P&#8217;09</strong></span>, Zoen Resources, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>irmavgonzalez(at)gmail(dot)com</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Miguel Guadalupe &#8217;98</strong></span>, Director, Gartner Inc., <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>miguel.guadalupe98(at)gmail(dot)com</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Joyce Y. Hall &#8217;78</strong></span>, Executive Director, Federation of County Networks, Inc., <strong><span style="color: #000080;">Jyhall.assocs1(at)verizon(dot)net</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Darryl B. Hazel &#8217;70, P&#8217;03</strong></span>, Senior Vice President (Retired), Ford Motor Company, <strong><span style="color: #000080;">1dhazel0(at)gmail(dot)com</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Ellen Jewett &#8217;81</strong></span>, Managing Director, BMO Capital Markets, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>ellenjewett1(at)gmail(dot)com</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"> </span><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Daphne Kwok &#8217;84</span>, </strong>Executive Director, Asians &amp; Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>daphne522(at)hotmail(dot)com</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Michael S. Lewis &#8217;03</span>,</strong> Senior Managing Director, Teach for America, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>michael.lewis(at)teachforamerica(dot)org</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Frederick C. Maynard III &#8217;80, P&#8217;11</strong></span>, Managing Director, HarbourVest Partners, LLC, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong><span style="color: #000080;">ereidy(at)harbourvest(dot)com</span></strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Hirut M&#8217;cleod &#8217;00</span>, </strong>Management Consultant, World Bank Institute, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>hirutmc(at)me(d0t)com</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Donna S. Morea &#8217;76, P&#8217;06</strong></span>, President, U.S., Europe and Asia (Retired), CGI, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>dsmorea(at)gmail(dot)com</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Linda E. Rappaport &#8217;74</strong></span>, Partner, Shearman &amp; Sterling LLP, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>lrappaport(at)gmail(dot)com</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>David L. Resnick &#8217;81, P&#8217;13</strong></span>, President, Third Avenue Management, LLC, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>dlresnick11(at)gmail(dot)com</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>David L. Rosenblum &#8217;75</strong><span style="color: #000000;">, Principal, NMD-Consulting Corporate Development, Deloitte Consulting LLP, <strong><span style="color: #000080;">drosenblum75(at)gmail(dot)com</span></strong><br />
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<p><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Michael S. Roth &#8217;78</span>, </strong>President, Wesleyan University,<strong><span style="color: #000080;"> mroth(at)wesleyan(dot)edu</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Amy Schulman &#8217;82, P&#8217;11</strong></span>, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Pfizer, Inc., NY, <strong><span style="color: #000080;">awschulman(at)gmail(dot)com</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Jeffrey Shames &#8217;77</strong></span>, Executive in Residence, MIT Sloan School of Management, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>jeffreyshames(at)gmail(dot)com</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Frank V. Sica &#8217;73</span>, </strong>Managing Partner, Tailwind Capital, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>frank.sica(at)menemshacpl(dot)com</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Shonni J. Silverberg &#8217;76</span></strong>, Professor of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>sjs5(at)columbia(d0t)edu</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Warren &#8221;Renny&#8221; C. Smith Jr. &#8217;78</strong></span>, Managing Partner, Staley Capital Management, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>rsmith(at)staleycapital(dot)com</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Adam Usdan &#8217;83</strong></span>, Founder, President and General Partner, Trellus Management Co., LLC, <strong><span style="color: #000080;">ausdan(at)trellus(dot)com</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Bradley Whitford &#8217;81</strong></span>, Actor/bad guy in<em> Billy Madison</em>, <span style="color: #000080;"><strong>whitfordb(at)mac(dot)com</strong></span></p>
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		<title>Senior Voices Ceremony</title>
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Imam Adeel Zeb, Wesleyan&#8217;s Muslim Chaplain, writes in about the annual Senior Voices ceremony:
Dear Seniors,
Please save the date of May 25th 6PM for an integral part of the graduation weekend.
Senior voices is a ceremony in which a faculty member elected by members of the senior class, delivers a short talk addressed directly and specifically to graduating [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Imam Adeel Zeb</strong>, Wesleyan&#8217;s Muslim Chaplain, writes in about the annual Senior Voices ceremony:</p>
<blockquote><p>Dear Seniors,</p>
<p>Please save the date of May 25th 6PM for an integral part of the graduation weekend.</p>
<p>Senior voices is a ceremony in which a faculty member elected by members of the senior class, delivers a short talk addressed directly and specifically to graduating seniors. This year, we are delighted that Professor Elvin Lim has agreed to speak. In addition, three graduating seniors (<span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Glenn Stowell ‘13</strong></span>, <strong><span style="color: #800000;">Jacob Eichengreen ’13</span></strong>, and <strong><span style="color: #800000;">Isaiah Sypher ‘13</span></strong>) will share their experiences before ending their Wesleyan career and beginning a new chapter of their lives. They will reflect, share and recap some of their unique and transformative moments from their years at Wes. Olivia May &#8217;13, will be performing as well. Seniors will receive a red rose as a parting gift.</p>
<p>The event will take place in Memorial Chapel and will conclude by 7PM. This event is non-ticketed.</p>
<p>Please share this with friends and families as they will enjoy being part of the celebration as well.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Date: </strong>Saturday, May 25<br />
<strong>Time: </strong>6:00 p.m.<br />
<strong>Place: </strong>Memorial Chapel<br />
<strong>Cost: </strong>Free</p>
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		<title>Guest Post: Wesleyan Needs To Be On The Correct Side of the Climate Change Fight</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For almost 40 years I have been so proud of Wesleyan students and alumni. But I am not seeing the level of activism that is necessary for this existential fight.”
Pictured: Lauren Steiner &#8217;79 speaks at the Los Angeles Tar Sands Blockade Solidarity Action in March, 2013.
Several weeks ago, members of a student group calling themselves Wes, [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;For almost 40 years I have been so proud of Wesleyan students and alumni. But I am not seeing the level of activism that is necessary for this existential fight.”</em></p>
<div id="attachment_103705" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 778px"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7QzBuFT9E" target="_blank"><img class=" wp-image-103705  " title="Pictured: Lauren Steiner '79 speaks at the Los Angeles Tar Sands Blockade Solidarity Action in March, 2013." alt="Pictured: Lauren Steiner '79 speaks at the Los Angeles Tar Sands Blockade Solidarity Action in March, 2013." src="http://i0.wp.com/wesleying.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/lauren.jpg?resize=625%2C418" data-recalc-dims="1" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Pictured: <strong><span style="color: #800000;">Lauren Steiner &#8217;79</span></strong> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7QzBuFT9E" target="_blank">speaks at the Los Angeles Tar Sands Blockade Solidarity Action</a> in March, 2013.</p></div>
<p>Several weeks ago, members of a student group calling themselves <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WesDivest?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts" target="_blank">Wes, Divest!</a> put together a <a href="https://www.change.org/petitions/president-roth-and-board-of-trustees-divest-from-fossil-fuels-2" target="_blank">petition</a> calling on <strong><span style="color: #800000;">President Roth</span></strong> and the Board of Trustees to divest from fossil fuels. The petition has since amassed more than 250 signatures, many with accompanying messages of support. President Roth hasn&#8217;t yet publicly responded. When asked about the possibility of divestment at a <a href="http://wesleying.org/2013/03/05/wsa-tables-vote-on-tobacco-resolution-entertains-the_real_mroth/" target="_blank">WSA meeting in March</a>, he suggested that it was highly unlikely—and argued that Wesleyan&#8217;s endowment shouldn&#8217;t be a &#8220;vehicle for social change.&#8221;</p>
<p>As the push for divestment first starts to heat up at Wesleyan (as it <a href="http://wesleying.org/2013/04/05/video-pro-divestment-student-group-interrupts-tufts-information-session/" target="_blank">already has at Tufts</a>, Amherst, and <a href="http://inthecac.com/2012/12/28/coal-divestment-in-the-cac/" target="_blank">much of the &#8216;Cac</a>), we&#8217;re presenting a guest perspective by <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Lauren Steiner &#8217;79</strong></span>, an environmental activist and Wes alum who urges all Wesleyan students to take up the fight now, before it&#8217;s too late:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Plant trees, create recycled art, tour a chestnut orchard, work on an organic garden and much more during Earth Month at Wesleyan!&#8221; So reads the first sentence of an <a href="http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/04/01/earthmonth2013/" target="_blank">article in the latest edition of <em>The Wesleyan Connection</em></a> emailed to me in April. As an environmental activist who attended the first Earth Day celebration 33 years ago at age 12 and who planned an LA solidarity rally to the D.C. <a href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename=forwardonclimate" target="_blank">Forward on Climate Rally</a> this past February, I found this quite dismaying. When I was at Wesleyan between 1975 and 1979, when we hadn&#8217;t even heard of climate change, we were actively protesting threats to the environment and human health. In 1976 and 1977, activists from Wesleyan joined the Clamshell Alliance protesting the construction of the Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire. Where is that activism now when environmental threats are so much worse?</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>It is estimated that we have warmed the planet beyond the point of no return. Even if the developed world stopped using fossil fuels this minute, we could not reverse the change we have started. And we could hardly convince China and India, who are modernizing at a rapid pace, to prohibit their citizens from having new cars and refrigerators and all the other consumer products we have. The environmental NGOs inside the Beltway have done precious little to combat climate change, which is why a mild-mannered professor at Middlebury College named Bill McKibben founded <a href="http://350.org/" target="_blank">350.org</a> in 2007. Through thousands of events all over the world, people spread the message that we needed to reduce carbon emissions 80% by 2050. As McKibben said at the Forward on Climate Rally, where over 50,000 of us froze our butts off, he wants to start a &#8220;grassroots movement for the environment.” For it is only when you have masses of people behind a cause, like the Civil Rights movement, can meaningful change really occur.</p>
<p>That is why the Sierra Club, for the first time in its 120-year history, changed its policy against civil disobedience. And that&#8217;s why thousands of activists all over the country <a href="http://www.newson6.com/story/22107761/two-arrested-at-oklahoma-work-site-for-keystone-xl-pipeline" target="_blank">have gotten themselves arrested</a> by blocking the bulldozers constructing the southern half of the Keystone XL Pipeline in Winnsboro, Texas, and chaining themselves to the speakers at a pipeline conference in Dallas; and thousands of people young and old locked arms around the White House &#8212; all of them protesting the northern half of this same pipeline which will transport dirty tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to Koch Brothers&#8217; owned refineries in Port Arthur, Texas. As tar sands oil is far more carbon intensive than regular crude, releasing it will be &#8220;game over for the environment,&#8221; according to foremost NASA climate scientist James Hansen. Further, we will despoil our environment and threaten human health for no reason. Permanent jobs will be few once the pipeline is built, and the oil will be sold to the highest bidder on the open market, which will most likely be China. So this won’t even contribute to energy independence.</p>
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<p>There were about 59 actions during Tar Sands Blockade Action Week in mid-March, including <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7QzBuFT9E" target="_blank">one I spoke at here in L.A</a>. I don&#8217;t see any stories in <em>The Wesleyan Connection</em> about students or alumni joining this brave fight against the Keystone XL pipeline, although I’m sure there must have been some. And I didn&#8217;t see anything about the new Wesleyan chapter of 350.org&#8217;s latest campaign where students <a href="http://wesleying.org/2013/04/05/video-pro-divestment-student-group-interrupts-tufts-information-session/" target="_blank">try to get their college to divest from fossil fuel companies</a>. In fact, when I was at Wesleyan last December, I ran into <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>President Roth</strong></span>, who attended Wesleyan with my graduating class, and asked him what he thought of the likelihood of Wesleyan doing this. His reply was very dismissive. Not only did he not see Wesleyan divesting, he also questioned the efficacy of the campaign during our era <a href="http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1049&amp;context=middletownpapers" target="_blank">to get Wesleyan to divest from companies that did business with South Africa</a> when I broached the analogy. He said he didn&#8217;t believe that campaign was responsible for bringing down the apartheid system. Well, maybe it was not entirely responsible. And maybe if every college divested from fossil fuel stocks, that would not make a significant dent in the use of fossil fuels in the U.S. But like all divestment campaigns, it would lend credence to the moral argument that we can no longer support the extraction of every last natural resource from the planet in increasingly dirty and unsafe ways, especially when there are renewable technologies we can invest in instead.</p>
<p>It bothers me that our current president seemed so apathetic to the most crucial issue of our day. And it troubles me even more that two of our most illustrious alumni, both of them Democrats, are actually on the wrong side of this issue. Alumnus <strong><span style="color: #800000;">Michael Bennet &#8217;87</span></strong>, who is the <a href="http://wesleying.org/tag/michael-bennet/" target="_blank">junior senator from Colorado</a> (and Wesleyan&#8217;s <a href="http://wesleying.org/2012/05/27/a-graduates-thoughts-on-michael-bennett/" target="_blank">2012 Commencement speaker</a>, as well as the son of former president <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Doug Bennet &#8217;59</strong></span>), just voted with all the Republicans and 16 other Democrats in favor of a non-binding GOP amendment tacked onto the budget bill, which supports the construction of the KXL Pipeline. It was said that the other Democrats who voted for this come from oil producing states and face tough re-election fights. Apparently that is not the case with Bennet. So why would he do it? Maybe it&#8217;s the same reason why our other distinguished alumnus from Colorado,<a href="http://wesleying.org/?s=hickenlooper" target="_blank"> <strong><span style="color: #800000;">John Hickenlooper &#8217;74</span></strong></a>, the state&#8217;s current Governor (and Wesleyan&#8217;s <a href="http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/05/23/hickenlooper-74-tells-of-beating-expectations-on-the-way-to-success/" target="_blank">2010 Commencement speaker</a>), would sue the city of Longmont (and threaten to sue the city of Fort Collins), Colorado, after they voted to impose bans on hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as fracking, within their city limits.</p>
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<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t know, fracking is a relatively new process that has devastated towns in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado, West Virginia. and New Mexico, among others. Companies inject a mix of water, sand and toxic chemicals into the ground at high pressures to release natural gas or in some cases oil. Anyone who has been following this issue knows that these chemicals, the identities of which are unknown due to former VP Dick Cheney <a href="http://www.independentwatertesting.com/education-center/148-what-is-the-halliburton-loophole.html" target="_blank">exempting the fracking industry from the Safe Water Drinking Act</a>, can leech into the aquifers. Anyone who has seen the movie <em>Gasland</em> watched people who live near fracked wells turn on their tap, light a match, and set their drinking water on fire. Farm animals all over the country are getting sick and many have died from the contaminants which have leeched into the soil.</p>
<p>In California, where they frack for oil, they are fracking in the middle of L.A. The Inglewood oil field is the largest urban oil field in the country. There is a cancer cluster there as well as increased incidences of asthma and other respiratory diseases. Citizens are bravely fighting back here and all over the country. We are working to get a ban on the fracking in California before it ramps up. They just found 15 billion barrels of oil under the Monterey Shale. Due to pressure from fractivists, the State of New York just extended its existing moratorium on fracking another two years. And another illustrious alumnus, <a href="http://wesleying.org/2011/09/04/shumlin-79-protecting-vermont-repping-wes-since-2011/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Peter Shumlin &#8217;79</strong></span></a>, Governor of Vermont, just signed that state&#8217;s ban on fracking. But former oil and gasman John Hickenlooper seeks not to support his constituents in their efforts to protect the environment, health, and livelihoods but to arrogantly defy local decision-making by threatening lawsuits. He has even <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/feb/12/colorado-gov-hickenlooper-i-drank-fracking-fluid/" target="_blank">bragged about drinking frack fluids</a>.</p>
<p>For almost 40 years I have been so proud of Wesleyan students and alumni. I attribute much of my zeal for activism to what I experienced at Wesleyan both in the classroom and out. But I am not seeing the level of activism that is necessary for this existential fight. I have two sons, one in high school and one in college. And I have seriously considered advising them not to have children. That is how dire I think the situation is today. It&#8217;s all well and good to plant trees and grow organic gardens. We&#8217;re certainly going to need them when conditions really deteriorate and we can no longer grow and ship food the way we currently do. However we can&#8217;t grow enough trees to counteract the degree to which we are destroying the ability of the planet to sustain human life.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time to take to the streets, people. In the next edition of <em>The Wesleyan Connection</em>, I want to read about the progress of the divestment campaign. Maybe they’ll revive the old Wesleyan tradition of sit-ins in the administration building until Roth agrees to recommend that Wesleyan sign on to the campaign. I want to ask students and alumni in Colorado who are reading this to flood Bennet and Hickenlooper&#8217;s offices with calls expressing dismay with their actions and a request to be good environmentalists like their fellow Wesleyan alum Peter Shumlin. In fact, everyone should look into the voting records of their representatives and make their voices known. But most importantly, we need people out in the streets organizing their neighbors, protesting, and practicing peaceful civil disobedience now, before it&#8217;s too late.</p></blockquote>
<p><em>Stay tuned for a Wesleying feature on Wes, Divest!, the student group calling on Wesleyan&#8217;s administration to divest from fossil fuels companies. In the meantime, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WesDivest?fref=ts" target="_blank">like the group on Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/WesDivest" target="_blank">follow them on Twitter</a>, and <a href="https://www.change.org/petitions/president-roth-and-board-of-trustees-divest-from-fossil-fuels-2" target="_blank">sign their petition</a> if you agree. Also, read about <a href="http://wesleying.org/2013/04/05/video-pro-divestment-student-group-interrupts-tufts-information-session/" target="_blank">similarly minded activist efforts at Tufts</a> and other schools.</em></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/wesleying.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/P1100226.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-103712" alt="" src="http://i1.wp.com/wesleying.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/P1100226.jpg?resize=480%2C637" data-recalc-dims="1" /></a></p></blockquote>
<p><em>Related:</em><br />
<a href="http://wesleying.org/2013/05/02/wes-divest-garden-party/" target="_blank">Wes, Divest! Garden Party<br />
</a><a href="http://wesleying.org/2012/12/13/middlebury-students-send-fake-administrative-email-to-encourage-divestment/" target="_blank">Middlebury Students Send Fake Administrative Email to Encourage Divestment</a><a href="http://wesleying.org/2013/05/02/wes-divest-garden-party/" target="_blank"><br />
</a><a href="http://wesleying.org/2013/04/05/video-pro-divestment-student-group-interrupts-tufts-information-session/" target="_blank">Video: Pro-Divestment Student Group Interrupts Tufts Information Session</a><a href="http://wesleyanargus.com/2013/04/04/we-must-divest-from-dirty-energy/" target="_blank"><br />
<em>Argus: </em>We Must Divest From Dirty Energy<em><br />
</em></a><a href="http://wesleyanargus.com/2013/02/25/students-initiate-fuel-divestment-campaign/" target="_blank"><em>Argus</em>: Students Initiate Fuel Divestment Campaign</a></p>
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The editors of Pyxis write in about their latest issue:
Pyxis, Wesleyan&#8217;s student-run humanities journal, is proud to announce the release of our Spring 2013 issue! Pyxis presents student academic writing in the humanities, covering a variety of fields to shed new light on a topic and create engaging conversation and inquiry. Last Fall&#8217;s issue centered [...]]]></description>
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<p>The editors of Pyxis write in about their <a href="http://pyxisjournal.com/spring-2013/2013/5/12/cover" target="_blank">latest issue</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Pyxis, Wesleyan&#8217;s student-run humanities journal, is proud to announce the release of our Spring 2013 issue! Pyxis presents student academic writing in the humanities, covering a variety of fields to shed new light on a topic and create engaging conversation and inquiry. Last Fall&#8217;s issue centered around the idea of &#8220;bodies&#8221;, and this semester&#8217;s issue offers fresh perspectives on &#8220;memory&#8221;. These essays, carefully selected and peer-reviewed, explore tradition, history, trauma, psychology, and postmodernism, among many concepts.</p>
<p>Featuring essays from:</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Zach Schonfeld &#8217;13</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800000;">Peter Myers &#8217;13</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800000;">John Schmidt &#8217;13</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800000;">Nick Myerberg &#8217;14</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800000;">Christina Ermillio &#8217;13</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800000;">Kyra Sutton &#8217;13</span></strong></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>And art and photography from:</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Tiffany Gerdes &#8217;13</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800000;">Piers Gelly &#8217;13</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800000;">Dat Vu &#8217;15</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800000;">Zach Fischman &#8217;13</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800000;">Aria Danaparamita &#8217;13</span></strong></p>
<p>Read this year&#8217;s issues <a href="http://pyxisjournal.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. And look for a print compilation of these issues soon!</p></blockquote>
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Last night I profiled the first ever Senior Week Hackathon. Today, after presumably &#8220;catching up&#8221; on some &#8220;shut-eye,&#8221; Julian Applebaum &#8217;13 writes in to remind you about voting:
The community vote for the Senior Week Hackathon is open. The three apps people built are:

Team Music Map
Team WesMaps+
Team WesPeople

The link to vote is here. It&#8217;s also on weshack.com, [...]]]></description>
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<p>Last night I profiled the first ever <a href="http://wesleying.org/2013/05/19/group-of-huge-nerds-holds-slumber-party-in-exley-137-meet-the-senior-week-hackathon/" target="_blank">Senior Week Hackathon</a>. Today, after presumably &#8220;catching up&#8221; on some &#8220;shut-eye,&#8221; <strong><span style="color: #800000;">Julian Applebaum &#8217;13</span> </strong>writes in to remind you about voting:</p>
<blockquote><p>The community vote for the <a href="http://wesleying.org/2013/05/19/group-of-huge-nerds-holds-slumber-party-in-exley-137-meet-the-senior-week-hackathon/" target="_blank">Senior Week Hackathon</a> is open. The three apps people built are:</p>
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<li><a href="http://wesmusicmap.com/" target="_blank">Team Music Map</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wesmapsplus.com/" target="_blank">Team WesMaps+</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wespeople.com/" target="_blank">Team WesPeople</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The link to vote is <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/wesleyan.edu/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&amp;formkey=dGFsY0NCNzBlY0FrbWxOY25PTDVpc3c6MQ" target="_blank">here</a>. It&#8217;s also on <a href="http://weshack.com/" target="_blank">weshack.com</a>, the Hackathon&#8217;s official website. It&#8217;s only available to people with a Wesleyan email address.</p></blockquote>
<p>So yeah. Here&#8217;s the <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/wesleyan.edu/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&amp;formkey=dGFsY0NCNzBlY0FrbWxOY25PTDVpc3c6MQ" target="_blank">link </a>again. Read about the Hackathon <a href="http://wesleying.org/2013/05/19/group-of-huge-nerds-holds-slumber-party-in-exley-137-meet-the-senior-week-hackathon/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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Because we haven&#8217;t posted enough chalking-related updates from the past few weeks, an anonymous tipster writes in to let you know about an amusing (or frightening, depending on who you are) happening on Church Street late last week:

I have a tip for Wesleying but would like to remain anonymous.  Earlier today someone wrote the names [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Because we haven&#8217;t posted enough <a href="http://wesleying.org/2013/05/14/if-you-hate-chalk-keep-scrolling-or-dont-wsa-passes-chalking-resolution/" target="_blank">chalking-related</a> <a href="http://wesleying.org/2013/05/13/chalk-de-franzia-lands-on-wesleyan-sidewalks" target="_blank">updates</a> from the past few weeks, an anonymous tipster writes in to let you know about an amusing (or frightening, depending on who you are) happening on Church Street late last week:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">I have a tip for Wesleying but would like to remain anonymous.  Earlier today someone wrote the names of the Mystical 7 &#8212; a Wesleyan student secret society &#8212; out in chalk on the sidewalk on Church St near Olin.  Later in the day, a bunch of the people whose names had been written were seen standing over the writing, looking fairly panicked, and then after that someone crossed the names out with more chalk.  Here&#8217;s a photo of the names crossed out.  FUCK SOCIAL HIERARCHY!!!!</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">According to one Wesleying staffer, &#8220;It&#8217;s intact in at least two places right now (beginning of CFA path and College Row near Zelnick).&#8221;<span id="more-103684"></span> According to another Wesleying staffer fifteen minutes later, &#8220;Not anymore.&#8221; Hmm.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Anyway, I heard a rumor the Board of Trustees are coming later this week, as they <a href="http://wesleying.org/2012/05/25/today-trustees-debate-end-to-need-blind-admissions/" target="_blank">typically do during Senior Week</a>. Does anyone want to chalk all their names outside the Tomb with me??</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Read Wesleying&#8217;s five-part retrospective on the Chalking Moratorium <a href="http://wesleying.org/tag/a-decade-without-chalking/" target="_blank">here</a>.</em></p>
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