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BREAKING: Music House Moving into Eclectic’s House Starting Fall 2016

Last semester, students campaigned against Eclectic’s history of enabling racism and sexual violence with images like this.

NOTE: Updates are provided at the bottom of the post.

Thursday night, we received knowledge that Fran Koerting, Director of Reslife has reached out to the residents of Music House offering the program house the space of 200 High Street, home to Eclectic Society since 1906, for the 2016-2017 academic year. Koerting confirmed this at 12:15PM today and said that an announcement email will be sent around early this afternoon.

The residents of Music House, after discussion, decided that they would accept Reslife’s offer for the space, which the University has owned since the 1970s when Eclectic alumni sold the house to Wesleyan for $1. When asked about offering the space of 200 High Street, Fran Koerting stated:

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Eclectic in the 90s (feat. An Electric Chair)

“A place where strange people can come together and do strange things,” says radical (but still chill) dudebro Benjy while sitting on a giant red velvet chair. Benjy is a member of Eclectic duh.

A friend showed me this video today, and I couldn’t help but think that this is some ridic Wesleyan episode of MTV’s The Real World from 1994. The first 2 minutes of this random ass video are dedicated to 90s Eclectic for some reason. But, anyways, this has inspired me to “let my freak flag fly” and will thus be adopting this aesthetic for the next 2 weeks:

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Responding to Eclectic’s Problematic Application for New Members

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This past week, news broke that Eclectic’s paper application for new members had a page asking people to complete fill-in-the-blanks with racial slurs.

Ocean Gao ’19 wrote a post on her blog about her feelings on Eclectic’s app, and she has given us permission to repost her thoughts here. We have also included the official apology that Eclectic issued after receiving backlash from many students regarding the application’s contents. We will not be including images of the Eclectic application in this post, but one can be found above on Gao’s blog.

Additionally, we understand that students (both Eclectic members and non-members alike) have written many statements on social media about the incident. If any of those students are interested in sharing their pieces on this post, feel free to email us at staff(at)wesleying(dot)org.

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Cameraphone: An Exhibition of Mobile Photography

From Albert Tholen ’15:

Calling all photographers and visual artists—even if you haven’t thought of yourself as one until now! The Arts Collective is curating an exhibition of photos that rarely escape our screens into the material world.

All submissions must have been captured and processed, or created, on a mobile phone. Individual photos, as well as series, will be considered so submit as many or as few photographs as you’d like.

The exhibition will take place on the afternoon of May 10th in Eclectic and will be accompanied by music, refreshments, and millennial optimism.

Please send submissions and direct any questions to atholen@wes. Submission are due May 4th.

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Swim Team @ Eclectic

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From David Elkin-Ginnetti ’18:

A new presence in the new york electronic underground, SWIM TEAM just put out their first collaborative release in november, spanning the realm of dance musics from leftfield juke to jersey bangers. come to eclectic this saturday night to experience their phresh club workouts. starting out the night will be a joint DJ set of jamz from wesleyan’s very own SAARIM (Saarim Zaman ’16) and DIN//VOID (David Elkin-Ginnetti ’18).

9 – 10 :: saarim b2b din//void
10 – … :: swim team

come turn up with us.

Date: Sat, Feb 21
Time: 9 PM
Place: Eclectic

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WESU Freakers’ Ball

From David Whitney ’16:

Join the staff of WESU 88.1 FM this Thursday for a celebration of 75 years of alternative radio! DRESS CODE IS “FREAK”

Tickets $5 
This is a fundraiser! Tickets will be sold in Usdan Monday 11/17 through Thursday 11/20 from 12PM to 1PM, and 5:30 to 6:30PM Weds/Thurs. Attendance is capped at a maximum capacity of 285; any unsold tickets will be available at the door.

Coat Check
This is a dance party! Casually leaning against walls will not be tolerated. Toward this end, we will be providing a limited coat check (100 spots) available on a first-come first-serve basis.

Dance-Off 11:00PM
Jonathan Toubin will be running his well known ‘Soul-Clap’ dance-off; winner blows out the candles on WESU’s 75th birthday cake. Wear your dancing shoes.

JONATHAN TOUBIN // 10:00PM-12:00AM
Chosen by the Village Voice editors and in their readers choice poll for the title of “Best Club DJ NY 2014,” Toubin spins obscure soul and rock ‘n’ roll LP’s with a sound that is ideal for freaks of all stripes. Rock/Soul/Freak

LORD LEWIS // 9:00PM-10:00PM
WESU’s own Lord Lewis of “The Rumpus Room”, which airs every 1st, 3rd, and 5th Monday of the month from 8:00-9:30 pm. Funk/Mojo/Freak

Date: Thursday, November 20th, 2014
Time: 9PM-12AM
Place: Eclectic
Cost: $5

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VIO/MIRÉ/Daniel Fishkin’s DEADLION/Rachel Connor’s Photo Show

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From Angus Macdonald ’16:

VIO?MIRÉ:

“From the swell of cello to the ripple of pump organ to the baronial flight of trombone to those voices – soaring, too, on surging wings of their own design – Vio/Mirè is a band destined to be many things. But first and foremost, when you hear the hum and thrum of their music, and can even see it come into view, over the treetops or rising from the earth, what they are is a band borne of the land, sea, and mountains jutting into canyons of sky.”

Daniel Fishkin’s DEADLION
romantic oscilloscope music fuck u hell yay

Rachel Connor’s Photo Show
Also a band, not an exhibit

Date: Today
Time: 8 pm
Place: Eclectic

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Salon Loves Our Sex Parties, But Is Salon Liberated and Free?

 The first image that came up when I googled “hispter party.”  C/o The Peanuts Gang

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Benjamin Winterhalter ’07 really wants you to know that he’s cool—but not, like, Pitchfork-Modest-Mouse-hipster-on-a-bicycle cool. No, he was cool before cool even knew it was cool. That, I assume, was the point of his Salon article “What I learned at the hipster sex party,” which asks important questions in its subtitle, like, “The place was so hip even the guy from MGMT was there. But were we liberated and free? I guess so.”

He explains up-front what he’s about to share with us: “What follows is my best reconstruction of the events of a party that took place in 2003 on the campus of Wesleyan University, one of the most hipster colleges in America.” Actually, not according to the Huffington Post, or Her Campus, or College Magazine. We’re still getting over the rejections. “It’s a good illustration of certain facets of hipster culture.” Fascinating. “It involves a minor brush with fame.”

I don’t feel like recounting what he says in this story. Read it, or don’t. It’s fun to note, though, that the author was a Philosophy and French double major, did crew, and wrote his honors thesis on The Edge of the World: Facts, Solipsism, and Self-Knowledge in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.

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