WSA discusses optional summer semester tonight

Tonight, the WSA will discuss possibilities for ways Wesleyan could use its facilities to bring in revenue during the summer. One idea would be to offer the option of an abbreviated summer semester where students could take 3 classes in exchange for lowered tuition. Come to the WSA tonight to discuss this idea and others as we brainstorm possibilities for how Wesleyan can deal with its current financial woes.

What: WSA General Assembly
When: 7pm
Where: Usdan 108

Drum Major Institute for Public Policy Summer Program

The Drum Major Institutes DMI Scholars program takes 14 politically active students, trains them for careers in public policy at an intensive two-week Summer Institute in NYC, provides ongoing training during the school year, and places them in paid full-time policy internships.

Sophomores and Juniors are eligible to apply to the DMI Scholars program. The deadline is February 1, 2009. You can find the application and more details about the program here.

A little bit of Wes in the summertime

Want to awkwardly help awkward prefrosh feel more comfortable about Wesleyan (and maybe meet some alums, school administrators, etc., too? Hey, networking is always good)?

Find a summer sendoff near you - there will be sendoffs in Boston, MA; Boulder, CO; Chicago, IL; Cleveland, OH; Houston, TX; London; Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis, MN; Nantucket, MA; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Rye, NY; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; and Washington, D.C. For details info about each of these sendoffs check out the Wesleyan website.

Join members of the Class of 2012, new transfer students, and their families for a casual summer social as they prepare to head to campus. This is an opportunity to meet others new to Wesleyan, as well as some current students and their families, alumni and friends of Wesleyan. If you have any questions about Summer Sendoff, please contact us at sendoffs@wesleyan.edu or by phone at 860/685-3756.

WesPeople Summer Tour

If you are in any of the towns listed below at the specified dates this summer, you probably want to stop by at the specified places at the specified times to see WesMusicians Ben Seretan '10 (Mute With Stupefaction), Jacob Milstein '09 (Jacob Quinn), and Max Horwich '08 (Sewing Machines) perform during their collaborative tour around the eastern half of the U.S., in a vague triangle encompassing Massachusetts, Georgia, and Wisconsin.

Ben Seretan says they're "playing solo shows, backing each other up, and playing all together depending on the gig".

The schedule, according to MySpace. Sorry you missed it, Cambridge:

Upcoming Shows

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Jun 21 2008 2:00P	Make Music Cambridge @ 2 Bow St, at the corner of Mass Ave and Bow St near OONAS, from 2-3 sharp!	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jun 23 2008 8:00P	GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY, with Mute With Stupefaction and Sewing Machines	Brooklyn, New York
Jun 24 2008 11:00P	REHAB (formerly Club Midway), group show with Mute With Stupefaction and Sewing Machines at 11!	New York, New York
Jun 25 2008 8:00P	RACHEL HOUSE, with Mute With Stupefaction and Sewing Machines	Briarcliff Manor, New York
Jun 26 2008 8:00P	KOENIG, with Mute With Stupefaction and Sewing Machines	Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Jun 29 2008 8:00P	SPAZZATORIUM, with Mute With Stupefaction, Sewing Machines, Quiet Life, and more	Greenville, North Carolina
Jul 3 2008 8:00P	LITTLE NORMAN, with Mute With Stupefaction, Sewing Machines and Floorboards	Savannah, Georgia
Jul 4 2008 8:00P	JOHN EARLE'S PATRIOT PARLOR, with Mute With Stupefaction and Sewing Machines	Decatur, Georgia
Jul 7 2008 8:00P	THE CINEMAT, with Mute With Stupefaction, Sewing Machines, more TBA	Bloomington, Indiana
Jul 8 2008 8:00P	SWING STATE, with Mute With Stupefaction and Sewing Machines	Lake Villa, Illinois
Jul 9 2008 8:00P	THE RADISH PATCH, with Mute With Stupefaction, Sewing Machines, and Psychic Attack of the Psyduck	Chicago, Illinois
Jul 12 2008 8:00P	THE MOLEHILL, with Mute With Stupefaction and Sewing Machines	Madison, Wisconsin
Jul 14 2008 8:00P	SILVIE'S LOUNGE, with Mute With Stupefaction and Sewing Machines, more TBA	Chicago, Illinois
Jul 16 2008 8:00P	UNDERGROUND LOUNGE, with Mute With Stupefaction, Sewing Machines, Nathan Xander	Chicago, Illinois

Check TheirSpaces for more details:
myspace.com/mutewithstupefaction
myspace.com/jacobquinnmusic
myspace.com/sewingmachines

Hughes Summer Film Series

Around for the summer? Every Thursday night is the Hughes Summer Movie Series - this week it's PCU, the story of a poor prefrosh having an interesting time on an overnight visit to Port Chester University (aka Wesleyan). Check it out:

When: Thursday, June 12th at 8:30 pm

Where: 107 Shanklin

Summer Eatinz: Usdan opens June 20th

Shoutbox activity has alerted us to the fact that the Bon Appetit website now has information about summer meals. Don't worry, these wouldn't possibly be the prices for meals next year - just for the summer.

Starting June 20th, the Marketplace will be open for the following hours at the following prices:

Monday – Saturday:

Breakfast 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM - $7.35 per person
Lunch 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM - $10.50 per person
Dinner 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM - $12.70 per person

Sunday:

Brunch 10:00 AM -12:00 PM - $10.50 per person
Dinner 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM - $12.70 per person

Expensive, but easy.

WESU is summerified

That's right, WESU is going all summer long. Some of the hosts are Wes students, some are Middletown community members, and all are awesome.

The summer schedule started this past Monday. Check it out here.

As always, you can listen to WESU either streamed online at http://www.wesufm.org/ or on any radio tuned to 88.1 FM around Wes.

I'm excited for tonight's:

Jim's Greasepit and Cocktail Lounge with (Death in) Jim - [Tire-meltin', upright-bass-slappin', beer-swillin', greasy haired, low-brow rock 'n roll at its finest. At least one Elvis song per show guaranteed. Tip Darlene or she'll spit in your coffee next time.]

Yeah Elvis.

Help out at Long Lane Farm

Long Lane Farm invites you to spend Saturday noon time at the farm! Dig,rake, plant or lie in the hammock. The farm needs your labor, we'regetting the ground ready for the summer season, it'll be a great time. 11to 3 every saturday, come for ten minutes or a couple hours. We're so incredibly flexible.

If you have any questions or need directions to the farm feel free to email Renae at rwiddion@wesleyan.edu.

Can't Get to Work Today?

Y'all kids in the city know what I'm talking about:
ARRGGGHHHH
When I walked into the E86 Street station this morning, my first thought was "wow, it's like Foss Hill on 4-20!" Only... Not. I saw one woman push her way into the train by yanking another woman out by the hair. WTF, New York?

Wow. Hunter. Without Words.

So Hunter King '08 officially wins the award for having ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH HIS SUMMER for collecting 100 of youtube's best videos starring monkeys doing silly things.

Yeah. Seriously. Here's a video of some alcoholic monkeys sneaking drinks from tourists I would never otherwise have seen:

Wesleyan is no longer Wesleyan

Most bizarre walk to work ever.