February 26, 2010 – 12:13 PM
[ February 27, 2010 10:00 PM to February 28, 2010 1:30 AM. ] Jordan Lewis ‘12 writes in about a sweet Westco show this Saturday:
Wesleyan affiliated band Ishmael will be playing live music at the Westco Cafe on Saturday, February 27. Ishmael is Jordan Lewis and Andy Werle, along with Aaron Silberstein of NYU and Nick Otte of the New School. We will be playing at least two [...]
February 25, 2010 – 4:47 PM
WestCo has a mascot, guys!
Just in time for the application deadline, the presidents have unveiled…
Panda’s debut features a cute comic strip in which he/she explains the WestCo application process in adorable detail. Check it out after the jump.
January 27, 2010 – 7:27 PM
[ January 27, 2010; 9:30 PM; 9:30 PM; ] Westco open mic night is back!
Lovely music, lovely people, fun times.
Date: tonight, Wednesday Jan. 27
Time: 9:47 pm (sign up to play at 9:30)
Place: Westco Cafe
November 15, 2009 – 4:44 PM
[ November 18, 2009; 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM. ]
Ian Pylvainen ‘10 writes:
Westco and Farm House present a film screening of the documentary Food Fight, with a talk to follow by the director Chris Taylor! (‘P13)
Food Fight is a fascinating look at how American agricultural policy and food culture developed in the 20th century and how the California food movement has created a counter-revolution [...]
November 11, 2009 – 4:33 PM
[ November 11, 2009 9:30 PM to November 12, 2009 12:00 AM. November 11, 2009 9:30 PM to November 12, 2009 12:00 AM. November 11, 2009 9:30 PM to November 12, 2009 12:00 AM. November 11, 2009 9:30 PM to November 12, 2009 12:00 AM. ] Get through Hump Day (hump night?) by listening to some sweet tunes:
WestCo’s Weekly Open Mic is co-hosted by WestCo and Music House this week. We will be providing free coffee to accompany our delicious bake sale that will help fundraise for our fall festival “The 8th Day of the Week” this Saturday November
14th. [...]
November 10, 2009 – 1:17 AM
[ November 11, 2009; 8:00 PM to 8:30 PM. 8:00 PM to 8:30 PM. ]
Jake Schofield ‘12, whose last name is suspiciously similar to mine, wants to laugh and do yoga with you. Not necessarily in that order.
Come join in our semi-weekly laughter meetings in the Westco Lounge, this Wednesday from 8–8:30 p.m. We practice a very loose form of laughter yoga, and general silliness, that is guaranteed to [...]
November 5, 2009 – 1:07 AM
[ November 5, 2009 9:30 PM to November 6, 2009 10:00 PM. November 5, 2009 9:30 PM to November 6, 2009 10:00 PM. ]
Okay, quick question: how the hell has Wesleyan managed to go 178 years without a yodeling club? I have no answers, but the newly formed Yodeling Club is here, finally, to rescue this distinguished institution of higher learning from its depraved, yodel-free savagery:
First ever Yodeling Club meeting! Can you yodel? Do you want to yodel? [...]
November 3, 2009 – 9:08 PM
From Westco prez Sam Long ‘12:
WestCo hosts its weekly open mic on every Wednesday at 9:42 in the WestCo Cafe. The open mic night is open to the entire Wesleyan Campus and we encourage a diverse range of acts. For the next two weeks we are holding a bake sale in order to fundraise for [...]
October 15, 2009 – 10:31 PM
Aural Wes, Wesleyan’s unofficial but well-pedigreed music blog, has a very pointed editorial by senior contributor “O)))”, a.k.a. Max Lavine ‘10, who is pissed about Public Safety’s enforcement of the Code of Non-Academic Conduct in shutting down a show last weekend, and generally disappointed in a perceived decline in both the administration’s attitude and students’ [...]
October 7, 2009 – 4:48 PM
[ October 7, 2009; 9:30 PM; ] Open Mic night tonight! From Sam Long ‘12:
WestCo’s open mic returns to the WestCo Cafe tonight at 9:42. Past open mics have featured poetry, music, dance, and interpretations of Glenn Beck’s Twitter. Come sign up for a spot at 9:30. Hurry, spots fill up fast.
Where: Westco Cafe
What: Anything
When: 9:42 (9:30 for sign-ups) TONIGHT
Who: Everyone
September 29, 2009 – 7:01 AM
[ September 30, 2009; 9:00 PM; ] Need less alcohol and more music on your Wednesday nights? From Sam Long ‘12:
Come to open mic night at 9:00 on Wednesday at Buddhist House featuring Silvia Ryerson and Wes Alum Laura Goldhamer. If you have witnessed the talented performers at open mic night in the WestCo cafe this co-program between Buddhist House and WestCo [...]
September 25, 2009 – 9:30 AM
[ September 26, 2009; 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM. ]
Westco courtyard is the place to be on Saturday night.
Wesleyan’s own Buru Style, one of the most reliably excellent live acts on campus, is throwing an open release party for their new album, “The Crab”. Which means three hours of sweet, sweet funk and reggae beats in the open air.
They’ll be tearing it up with [...]
September 15, 2009 – 7:34 PM
[ September 18, 2009; 10:00 PM; ]
From Mike Ullman ‘12:
Rave in the WestCo Café, featuring all WestCo DJs:
DJ Bastille – Mike Ullman ‘12
DJ Procrastination – Tobias Butler ‘13
DJ ??Guido Suave! – Ethan Cohen ‘13
Date: Friday, Sept. 18
Time: 10:00 PM – 2:00 AM
Place: WestCo Café
Cost: FREE
Facebook event
Also, here’s a track for free download:
Cold As Ice (Bastille Shortened Edit) – [...]
September 3, 2009 – 9:30 AM
Zach Valenti ‘12 has entered a contest to become a college intern for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, with a self-produced and self-animated video explaining why he’s good for the job.
Zach plays up his familiarity with the Wes music scene (note the Wesleying screenshots), along with his involvement in the zany WestCo lifestyle and promoting [...]
[ April 18, 2009; 12:00 PM to 8:00 PM. ] The music/art festival formerly recognized officially as Zonker Harris Day is this Saturday, April 18th, 12-8 pm in the Westco courtyard. Zonking up the campus will be the likes of Buru Style, Captain Coconut, and Red Wire Black Wire.
Come for the music, the spontaneous art, the food. Stay for all the fools on the hill.
Scheduled [...]
In the introductory post to the new site I failed to mention our new header.
We thought we’d change it up for a few reasons. One is that the new site has a much wider layout than Wesleying did on Blogspot. The old header image could only fit here by scaling it up, which didn’t work [...]
October 7, 2008 – 11:25 PM
Alex Ketchum ‘12 writes:
If you have a film that is under 12 minutes in length—or about that length—now is your chance to show it! We will be projecting student films at the upcoming WestCo festival on Saturday, Nov. 8. Submissions are due by Nov. 2.
If you are interested, contact Alex at aketchum@wes.
October 7, 2008 – 10:25 PM
Alex Ketchum ‘12 writes:
If you have a film that is under 12 minutes in length—or about that length—now is your chance to show it! We will be projecting student films at the upcoming WestCo festival on Saturday, Nov. 8. Submissions are due by Nov. 2.
If you are interested, contact Alex at aketchum@wes.
Bowing to intense pressure from an angrily motivated student body, the administration has announced that it will not use the Student Activities and Leadership Development Board to ban Zonker Harris day. Earlier restrictions on raising money from RA’s to fund the embattled festival will also be eased, though the $1000 annual guidance budget will still [...]
Bowing to intense pressure from an angrily motivated student body, the administration has announced that it will not use the Student Activities and Leadership Development Board to ban Zonker Harris day. Earlier restrictions on raising money from RA’s to fund the embattled festival will also be eased, though the $1000 annual guidance budget will still [...]
February 23, 2008 – 6:11 PM
Current WestCovites invite you to check out WestCo, my freshman home (aww, hellz yeah, Up 2)! Ivan Maulana ‘11 writes:
OpenCo is happening tomorrow, for the benefit of rising sophomores who are curious about WestCo living. Some rooms will be open tomorrow from 3-5pm, just drop in at the lounge and follow teh arrows. You can [...]
February 23, 2008 – 5:11 PM
Current WestCovites invite you to check out WestCo, my freshman home (aww, hellz yeah, Up 2)! Ivan Maulana ‘11 writes:
OpenCo is happening tomorrow, for the benefit of rising sophomores who are curious about WestCo living. Some rooms will be open tomorrow from 3-5pm, just drop in at the lounge and follow teh arrows. You can [...]
February 18, 2008 – 3:17 AM
Ivan Maulana ‘11 writes:
We would like to invite every rising sophomore cat to come apply to live in westco next year. it’s not quite programme housing and not quite dormitory living but “community-based rocking”. we could wax about the perks of living in westco, but winter it is too cold and the bed looks warm. [...]
February 18, 2008 – 2:17 AM
Ivan Maulana ‘11 writes:
We would like to invite every rising sophomore cat to come apply to live in westco next year. it’s not quite programme housing and not quite dormitory living but “community-based rocking”. we could wax about the perks of living in westco, but winter it is too cold and the bed looks warm. [...]
February 9, 2008 – 7:48 PM
This Sunday, February 10th, the first iteration of the WestCo Guest Lecture Series will be delivered by Ben Bernstein ‘10. Ben will be giving a “cultural, social, and artistic critique of the lolcat phenomenon, complete with pictures, which makes a lot of sense, because the lecture’s on lolcats. It will take place in the WestCo [...]
February 9, 2008 – 6:48 PM
This Sunday, February 10th, the first iteration of the WestCo Guest Lecture Series will be delivered by Ben Bernstein ‘10. Ben will be giving a “cultural, social, and artistic critique of the lolcat phenomenon, complete with pictures, which makes a lot of sense, because the lecture’s on lolcats. It will take place in the WestCo [...]
January 29, 2008 – 12:07 AM
Last semester, Ben Seretan ‘10 started a program in WestCo called the Guest Lecture Series, which ran biweekly throughout the fall. The Guest Lecture Series is, umm, a series of lectures delivered by anybody who wants to give one. The program in the fall had lectures on the basics of anarchism, the ecology of the [...]
January 28, 2008 – 11:07 PM
Last semester, Ben Seretan ‘10 started a program in WestCo called the Guest Lecture Series, which ran biweekly throughout the fall. The Guest Lecture Series is, umm, a series of lectures delivered by anybody who wants to give one. The program in the fall had lectures on the basics of anarchism, the ecology of the [...]
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