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ResLife Creates New Regulation Governing Program Houses’ Abilities to Host...

After confusing deliberations between the administration and ResLife student staff, program houses can now host only as many concerts and parties as it hosts program-specific events. The Office of...

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Film Series: Dheepan

2015. France. Dir: Jacques Audiard. With Antonythasan Jesuthasan. 115 min. Three Strangers pose as a family to flee war-torn Sri Lanka, but the Parisian projects where they settle become another...

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Wes Students Join Area Residents in Action Against Dakota Access Pipeline

“Our politicians are turning a blind eye to the protesters and to the native peoples as a new tyranny of oil is taking over our government” – Josh Nodiff ’19 On Friday, September 9, Dragonfly Climate...

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Film Series: The Room

2003. USA. Dir: Tommy Wiseau. With Wiseau, Greg Sestero. 99 min.  Wiseau plays Johnny, a successful banker whose life gets torn apart when his fiancee Lisa starts seeing his best friend, Mark; Wiseau...

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Queer Community Open Forum

From José Luis Sánchez ’18: We want to hear what you envision the Wesleyan queer community to look like for the 2016-2017 school year. We want to know your expectations and concerns. Queer spaces?...

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Film Series: Le Havre

2011. France/Finland. Dir: Aki Kaurismäki. With André Wilms. 93 min. 35mm print In this urban fairytale, a failed author takes under his wing a young illegal immigrant from Africa. With European...

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Interactive Media Workshop w/ Cardinal Pictures and Eko!

Emily Feher ’17 writes in: Do you like digital storytelling?? Do you like $$$??? Eko is pioneering a new form of media in which video responds to a person’s actions and interests in real time. Come to...

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Rosh Hashanah

Lila Levinson’18 writes in:  Welcome in the Jewish new year with song, Torah, and apples and honey! Rosh Hashanah schedule is as follows: Sunday, October 2nd (Erev Rosh Hashanah) 6:00 pm – Services in...

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Film Series: In a Foreign Land (En Tierra Extraña)

2014. Spain. Dir: Iciar Bollain. Documentary. 72 min. Since Spain’s economic crisis began, over 700,000 Spaniards have left othe country in search of a better life, Spain’s highest profile female...

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Film Series: Dr. Strangelove (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the...

1964. UK/USA. Dir: Stanley Kubrick. With Peter Sellers. 94 min. 35mm print. When a trigger-happy general orders a nuclear attack on the USSR, the POTUS and his advisors race against the clock to...

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“Wesleyan Student Starter Pack” Memes: A Compilation

I forgot to include “I have an all male team for my thesis film and the department is paying me money to do it” On Monday morning, I woke up to find that a meme I had created had been posted to...

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Ajùa Campos Presents: Convocation 2016

Lauren Salazar ’17 writes in: Join Ajúa Campos as we jumpstart Latinx Affirmation Month 2016 “Making Latinidad: Affirming Our Intersectionalities” Come to our first event, Convocation, which will...

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Artist talk by Nancy Ottmann Albert –“Documents in Black and White”

Nancy Ottmann Albert (MALS ’94) will speak about her photographic exhibition “Documents in Black and White,” currently on display in the Special Collections & Archives exhibit cases. The works are...

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Halloween Costume PSA + a Playlist to Exorcise Your 2016 Demons

Alright, look, I know orange palm trees aren’t the same as pumpkins but… It’s that time of year again – Halloween! Are you ready to stuff your face with chocolates? Carve pumpkins with your confused...

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Home Demolitions, Susya, and You

Anna Fox ’19 writes in: Susya is a Palestinian village in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank that is currently under threat of demolition in order to expand the Israeli settlement next door. Join...

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Film Series: Hamilton’s America

2016. USA. Dir: Alex Horwitz. Documentary. 84 min. You’ve watched Lin-Manuel Miranda on SNL, sung along to the cast album a little too loudly at parties, and (if you’re lucky) seen the Broadway smash...

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Film Series: Moonlight

2016. USA. Dir: Barry Jenkins. With Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp. 110 min. ““Moonlight” is both a disarmingly, at times almost unbearably personal film and an urgent social document, a hard look at...

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Film Series: A Place in the Sun

1951. USA. Dir: George Stevens. With Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor. 122 min. 35mm print. An ambitious pauper with remote ties to wealth stretches his identity to the breaking point when his...

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Film Series: Juice

1992. USA. Dir: Ernest R. Dickerson. With Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur. 95 min. Dickerson’s Harlem-set crime drama may be almost a quarter century old, but its focus on the issue of police brutality in...

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Why Collaborate?—Why Fukushima? Dance, Photography, History

A cool presentation happening tomorrow: In this presentation, Visiting Artist in Dance and the College of East Asian Studies Eiko Otake and Professor of History, East Asian Studies, Science in...

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