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AUDITION FOR WESLEYING!!

Hey, hey, hey…psst….we’re back…

Join Wesleying, Wesleyan’s least absorbent campus publication! ~~So, basically, we’re the paper towels that sporadically show up on campus!!~~

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Wesleying has been going strong for more than a decade. We were founded in 2006 by Holly and ishuku just as the internet was becoming more of a thing, and they wanted to tell everyone where the parties were, and ask the hard, irreverent questions that no one too close to the administration wanted to ask. I’m also totally stealing wilk’s article right now, because YA’LL *kind of* missed auditions (it’s the Internet’s fault; our site was down for the past couple days).

We’ve also been financially and ideologically and just generally independent from the institution since we were founded in 2006, and we’re planning on keeping it that way. And in order to keep going strong, we need YOU.

If you’re a Wes student and can ~~kind of~~ write sentences, we want you. If you feel like your voice isn’t heard on campus, we want to change that. This goes double if you’re queer, trans/nonbinary, a student of color, first gen, low income, or an international student. If you have even a fraction of enough time to have opinions about what happens on our campus, or on the Internet, or in the even-vaguely-Wes-related rest of the world, share them with us and our readers.

We will have another meeting ~~eventually,~~ in two weeks (Sunday, March 4th at 3PM in Boger 114). Please come if you are interested in blogging about things and putting them on this website. If you want to join but can’t make it to this meeting, please (please!) email staff[at]wesleying[dot]org with the subject line “Recruitment” and tell us about yourself and why you want to join Wesleying.

More about us after the jump:

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We Want You to Join This Thing Called Wesleying

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Note: This is a near carbon copy of Maya’s recruitment post from the Fall.

Wesleying has been going strong for ten and a half years. We were founded in 2006 by Holly and ishuku just as the internet was becoming more of a thing, and they wanted to tell everyone where the parties were, and ask the hard, irreverent questions that no one too close to the administration wanted to ask.

The blog has taken on a lot of different forms and styles since it was created in 2006, and that’s what keeps it interesting for me. Wesleying is a platform for literally anything that you want to write about. We’ve also been financially and ideologically and just generally independent from the institution since we were founded in 2006, and we’re planning on keeping it that way. And in order to keep going strong, we need YOU.

If you’re a Wes student and can write sentences, we want you. If you feel like your voice isn’t heard on campus, we want to change that. This goes double if you’re queer, trans/nonbinary, a student of color, first gen, low income, or an international student. We want to put up with asshole commenters who will try to shut you down. If you have even a fraction of enough time to have opinions about what happens on our campus, or on the Internet, or in the even-vaguely-Wes-related rest of the world, share them with us and our readers.

Our next meeting is this Sunday from 2-3 PM in Bougie Hall, room 112. Please come if you are interested in blogging about things and putting them on this website. If you want to join but can’t make it to this meeting, please (please!) email editors[at]wesleying[dot]org with the subject line “Recruitment” and tell us about yourself and why you want to join Wesleying.

Date: Sunday, February 12
Time: 2-3 PM
Place: The Artist Formerly Known As 41 Wyllys (Boger Hall), room 112
Why: Our Blog Could Be Your Life

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Are You Wesleying? Come to a Meeting to Find Out!

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Wesleying has been going strong for ten whole years. We were founded in 2006 by Holly and ishuku just as the internet was becoming more of a thing, and they wanted to tell everyone where the parties were, and ask the hard, irreverent questions that no one too close to the administration wanted to ask.

Our first recruitment meeting is this Sunday from 4-5 PM in Booger-Boo Hall, room 112. Please come if you are interested in blogging about things and putting them on this website. I’ll be giving what will probably be a very awkward presentation about what Wesleying has been, is, and could/should be. If you want to join but can’t make it to this meeting, please (please!) email editors[at]wesleying[dot]org with the subject line “Recruitment” and tell us about yourself and why you want to join Wesleying.

Date: Sunday, September 18
Time: 4-5 PM
Place: The Artist Formerly Known As 41 Wyllys (Boger Hall), room 112
Why: Our Blog Could Be Your Life

We’re also going to be sitting at the WSA student group fair today looking incredibly antisocial, but this is just our default face, so please come talk to us! We can answer any specific or general questions about what we do and what it’s like to do what we do. But, we’ll have a more prepared recruitment pitch when we’re together again, or for the first time.

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Are You Wesleying? Come Find Out!

we’re more welcoming than we look, we promise.

Last Sunday, I’m sure you went to the student groups fair absolutely yearning to join Wesleying, a “campus” “life” “blog.” Maybe you were put off by the experimental wind/brass (does it count as brass when it’s a multicolored plastic trumpet?) duo sharing the Fayerweather stairwell alcove with us. Maybe you got there after I’d decided I’ve been at Wesleyan long enough to warrant giving up on certain kinds of experimentation and had moved upstairs to a corner of a table that was meant for Planned Parenthood. (They’d left already.) Maybe you were still going to talk to us but were discouraged by our earbud-wearing and frowning over homework, or you saw Maya‘s book about hating positive thinking. Maybe you saw me inelegantly eating a chickpea sandwich from downstairs Usdan and are reconsidering this whole joining-a-blog-run-by-weirdos thing.

Don’t reconsider! I’m here to apologize for the shit job we did at mid-year recruitment–it’s February, everything sucks right now–and say that there’s another chance! (There are actually infinite chances–we take new people throughout the school year.)

If you’d like to become a part of this, my personal favorite “weird, irreverent, and colorful media space,” come to our next meeting, this Sunday, February 14 at 2PM in 41 Wyllys [insert booger joke here] room 112. We’ll probably bitch about commercialized holidays and also ~love~. Maybe I’ll get inspired and bring y’all pretzels.

If you can’t make it to this meeting but would like to be involved in some way, email staff[at]wesleying[dot]org with the subject line “Recruitment” and tell us about yourself. Check after the jump for some more info about Wesleying from old recruitment posts.

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Argus Recruitment Meeting

Jess Zalph ’16 writes in:

Interested in writing? Layout? Taking photos? Copy-editing? Web design? Snacks? There’s a place for you! Come out to the Argus information session on Sunday (1/24) in Usdan 108 at 4 PM to learn more about the paper.

New things this semester include:

New opinion column featuring submissions drawing from personal experiences, ranging from narratives to artistic forms of expression

New features column profiling staff and faculty around campus, ranging from Public Safety to North College

Expansion of web design

New position involving outreach to a variety of groups on campus

And more…!

We are looking for new voices, fresh opinions, and inquisitive reporters!

Date: Sunday, January 24 — today!
Time: 4-5 PM
Place: Usdan 108
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JOIN WESLEYING

Wesleying is recruiting new bloggers. We really need you. Like, a lot.

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Hey there. Usually our recruitment posts take the form of funny, relatively wordy essays about why you should join Wes’s “sassiest and most WordPress-savvy online singing group,” and you should read those too if you want, but I think this is going to be short. Hopefully sweet. But mostly, to the point.

The blog has taken on a lot of different forms and styles since it was created in 2006, and that’s kind of what keeps it interesting. For me, anyway. Wesleying is a platform for literally anything that you want to write about. We do opinion pieces, often about pressing campus issues, sometimes ones submitted to us. We cover many of the important things that happen here, as well as the great deal of weird shit that happens here. We liveblog campus tours (and other things, occasionally inebriated). We do write-ins and interviews. We like bad Photoshop and memes, but we also like photo galleries and longer posts. The options are endless.

Wesleying could and should be a lot better than it is, in a lot of different ways. But it’s also hard to maintain with a staff of about seven people. If we’re truly about “real students, real student-life at Wesleyan University,” there needs to be more of us, with more diverse voices. That’s where you come in.

If you’re a Wes student and can write sentences, we want you. If you feel like your voice isn’t heard on campus, we want to change that. This goes double if you’re queer, trans*, a student of color, first gen, low income, or an international student. We want to put up with asshole commenters who will try to shut you down. If you have even a fraction of enough time to have opinions about what happens on our campus, or on the Internet, or in the even-vaguely-Wes-related rest of the world, share them with us and our readers.

Our first recruitment meeting is THIS SUNDAY, September 27, from 1-3 PM in 41 Wyllys, room 112. Please come if you are interested in blogging about things and putting them on this website. I’ll be giving what will probably be a very awkward presentation about what Wesleying has been, is, and could/should be. If you can’t make it to this meeting but would like to be involved in some way, please (please!) email staff[at]wesleying[dot]org with the subject line “Recruitment” and tell us about yourself.

However, this isn’t the only time we’re going to be recruiting! We’ll always be looking for new people who want to talk about the things they’re passionate about, whether that’s by reaching out to other student groups, putting up bad flyers, or approaching random people in Usdan, like weirdos.

But we’re also going to be working on being a better blog. And I hope you can help us be that ~better blog.~

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[LIVEBLOG] Student Groups Fair

wesleying: we’re good at lots of things but not really tape

HELLO WESLEYAN. I’m here at table 39 (jointly with Aural Wes) for this year’s Student Groups Fair, sponsored by the Wesleyan Student Assembly! It’s maybe 90 degrees out here in the courtyard outside Beckham. Unfortunately I have no baked goods, but I do have an email list! I promised the staff a bad sign, and I really did make a bad sign — this is an old joke from a couple years ago, and it might be moderately misleading but it is a joke. We don’t sing.

My computer might overheat so I won’t be online the whole time BUT swing by and I’ll tell u about this here blog

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Wesleying Wants YOU to Code for Us

“Interested in auditioning for Wesleying, Wesleyan’s “sassiest and most WordPress-savvy online singing group”? Scroll on, dear one. Our blog could be your life.”

To our glorious readers,

As we move into the final stretches of the school year and as we wait for all this fucking snow to go away, Wesleying is looking for new staff members to fill our ranks, and especially for someone competent in WordPress and HTML to help us manage the ~*~technical~*~ side of our website. If you have compsci experience and if you wanna help with one of the most-read publications on campus, read on!

If you’re willing and able to help with things like updating the points calc and helping us when the website crashes, or just blogging in your underwear, email staff[at]wesleying[dot]org with the subject line “Comp Recruitment.” Tell us about yourself, your skill set, and why you want to join Wesleying.

If you’re interested in joining as a non-tech member of staff, we love you too! Email us with a the subject line that mentions recruitment in some way and let us know if you have any prior blogging experience, what you’re interested in writing about, and maybe even what Wesleying means 2 u. In the immortal words of The Great Sheek, “All you need is Internet access, the ability to string sentences together coherently, and an interest in life at Wesleyan as it is, was, and might be.”

Wesleying is currently run by about fifteen people, a good number of whom will be graduating this May. Students of all class years and of all levels of experience are welcome, but especially underclassmen. Help us photoshop Roth’s face onto everything, root through the Argives, and spend all of our time on the Internet. More info on what we are after the jump.

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Argus Recruitment Meeting

From Gwen Rosen ’15:

The Argus is looking for writers, copy editors, social media editors, photographers, layout staff, and members of the advertising committee. Join us at our all-staff meeting this Sunday!

Date: Sunday, August 31st, 2014
Time: 5PM
Place: The Argus office (above Broad Street Books)

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Join 8-to-8!

8-to-8 Listening Service is recruiting!

Interested in joining 8-to-8, Wesleyan’s non-directive, confidential, anonymous, peer-run, and all-around amazing listening service? Come to one of our information sessions!

Meetings are Sunday at 1:00 in 41 Wyllys Room 113, Monday at 12:30 in the Usdan Multipurpose Room, and Wednesday at 4:15, also in the Multipurpose room (the basement of Usdan).

We’ll discuss our listening philosophy and mission statement as well as the interviewing/training process for interested applicants. If you can’t make the info sessions but are still interested in applying for the service, email us at eight2eight[at]gmail[dot]com.

When: Sunday, February 16th, 1pm; Monday, February 17th, 12:30pm; Wednesday, February 19th, 4:15pm.
Where: Sunday – 41 Wyllys Room 113; Monday and Wednesday – Usdan B25 Multipurpose Room.


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