Sustainability Office Gives Students the Green Light Faculty Approves Creation of College of East Asian Studies

— Middletown, Connecticut, since 1868 — THEWESLEYAN ARGUS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2013 VOLUME CLIII, ISSUE 24 WESLEYANARGUS.COM Students Face SJB Musical Ethics Sanctions for Activism By Miranda Katz gist.org prior to the hearing, the News Editor three students faced a fine of $5,245 for the degendering of all signs on Three students faced a Student campus after being identified in Judicial Board (SJB) hearing on Usdan with degendering materials. Wednesday, Dec. 4, for participa- Two of the five students involved tion in the degendering of campus at the time were not referred to the bathrooms over the past month. The SJB. SJB found the students responsible “Although other students may for removing signs from the Usdan have been involved in ‘de-gendering’ University Center (Usdan) on Oct. bathrooms across campus, these 15, determining that this action three students were confronted by constituted a property violation and Usdan staff while doing so,” wrote sanctioning a restitution of $451 to Vice President for Student Affairs be split between the three students. Michael Whaley in a statement. The SJB did not find the students “[...] During the hearing, the Board responsible for the degendering of received some evidence that two ad- other bathrooms on campus. ditional students may also have been According to a statement writ- involved, and an additional hearing ten by Mariama Eversley ’14 and EMMA DAVIS/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Ross Levin ’15 and posted on youn- SJB, page 7 Paul McCallion ’15, Jessica Perelman ’17, Lauren Langer ’16, Ryan Breen ’17, and Melanie Parziale ’16 will appear in “Broadcast,” directed by Dylan Zwickel ’14 and showing in the ’92 Students Object to Theater this weekend. See page 13 for the full story. Pomace Oil in Usdan Faculty Approves Creation of By Jess Zalph olive oil that was usually present at College of East Asian Studies Food Editor the salad dressing table was replaced with olive pomace oil in October. By Sofi Goode Chair of the East Asian Studies hopes that the new structure will bring A small but burgeoning protest Students raised their concerns Assistant News Editor Program Stephen Angle presented the fresh enthusiasm to the study. on campus is being raised against about this issue, citing studies proposal to the Educational Policy “Right now is a crucial moment Bon Appétit’s use of olive pomace done by the United Kingdom Food The University officially ap- Committee (EPC) at the beginning of transition for East Asian Studies at oil in its food preparation. On Nov. Standards Agency and the United proved a proposal to create the College of the school year. Wesleyan Student Wesleyan, in two different senses,” Angle 24, Wesleyan Student Assembly States Department of Agriculture. of East Asian Studies (CEAS) on Nov. Assembly (WSA) Academic Affairs said. “A bunch of long-time faculty (WSA) Dining Committee member These studies indicate that many 19. The new interdisciplinary college Chair Grant Tanenbaum ’15 sat on the members are retiring, and our long-time Angus McLean ’16 raised the issue brands of olive pomace contain po- will combine the current East Asian committee and believes the College will support from the Freeman Foundation is the presence of pomace oil’s at the tentially harmful levels of polycyclic Studies program, the department of strengthen East Asian Studies at the basically ending.” salad dressing table at the commit- aromatic hydrocarbons, which are Asian Languages and Literatures, and University. The Freeman Foundation, which tee’s meeting. carcinogenic. The quality of the oil the Freeman Center for East Asian “What was most exciting is that aims to strengthen ties between the Olive pomace oil is a relative is a result of the refining process that Studies. it looked like this solved a problem,” United States and the countries of the of extra virgin olive oil that has the manufacturer uses and the rela- The new CEAS major will be a Tanenbaum said. “These very related Pacific Rim, has given extensively to the been processed using high tempera- tive temperatures in these different three-year program that students ap- disciplines that were separated and made Center for East Asian Studies for de- tures and solvents, usually hexane. processes. ply to at the end of their first year. things more complicated for students cades. Houghton and Doreen Freeman, Students became aware of the po- Wesleyan Executive Chef Brian Major requirements for the College who were often taking courses in all of the foundation’s benefactors, passed tential issue when the extra virgin will only differ from the current East these areas.... [I]t was exciting to see a away in 2010 and 2013, respectively. OIL, page 15 Asian Studies major in that students proposal that addressed those short- “We are at a point where East Asian will be required to complete three comings.” Studies could wither away unless we get years of a foreign language instead of The planning for the College and Progress for Women’s Basketball two. proposal began several years ago. Angle CEAS, page 5 Sustainability Office Gives Students the Green Light By Jenny Davis the Environmental Studies Program,” products, are recyclable or composta- Assistant Opinion Editor Royer said. “Sustainability isn’t the ble. The cold cups are plastic, but they explicit focus, but a lot of the material are not being recycled because people When the 2009 end-of- we cover is directly related to it. We don’t realize and put them in the trash.” semester environmental sci- don’t just pay lip service to the fact that Elliott and Max will propose a ence symposium was postponed, Environmental Studies is broad. One mug-sharing system that could oper- Associate Professor of Earth and overarching theme is climate: energy, ate in one of two ways. Their first idea Environmental Sciences Dana Royer fossil fuels, food, and global warming.” would make reusable mugs just as con- was forced to think of a new idea Projects this year ranged from venient to use as paper cups. for his class’ final project. What he conserving water to reducing off-cam- “We think that people who care devised was rooted in practicality: pus air travel. Royer allows students will continue to bring their reusable students were tasked with submit- to work in teams of no more than mugs to Pi Café and get the discount,” ting a four-page proposal to boost two. One such pair, Lizzy Elliott ’16 Elliott said. “But it’s the convenience Wesleyan’s sustainability, and Royer and Sonia Max ’17, took advantage of of single-use cups—not wanting to would select the top several for Royer’s efforts to encourage collabora- carry them around and not wanting consideration by the Sustainability tion. Elliott and Max decided to focus to clean them—that makes people use Office. This project proved so suc- their project on doing away with sin- them. With mug-sharing, we would cessful that Royer recycled the as- gle-use cups, both plastic and paper. get the benefit of using non-disposable signment three times. “Our idea behind the project mugs while also maintaining the con- “‘Introduction to is that we’re trying to reduce hot and venience factor. People would use the SHANNON WELCH/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Environmental Studies’ is designed cold disposable cups,” Elliott said. “We mugs and then put them in bins in The women’s basketball team defeated Worcester State as a gateway to the Earth and still haven’t determined if the hot cups, University 56-34. See page 19 for more. Environmental Sciences major and which are made from post-consumer E&ES, page 9 ACCESS “Family Frenzy” Imaginary Tracks Murphy on higher ed reform 7 Diecke talks writing, reform 13 Davis explores trains, fantasies 16 2 THE WESLEYAN ARGUS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2013 The Wesleyan Argus WESPEAKS established in 1868 Apply for The Editors-in-Chief Keeping Textbooks in Lily Baggott Christina Norris Production Manager Morgenstern-Clarren Michelle Woodcock The (Student) Loop Executive Editors By alEx KEllEy It may not be convenient Claire Bradach for you to hold on to your books Olivia Horton Prize for Social Justice Hi everyone, Alex Kelley here— for a summer, and at the end of Abbey Francis I graduated last spring. I majored the semester you may want to get News Editors Miranda Katz in English and now live in Oakland some quick cash for them at Broad Tess Morgan working as a namer at Catchword. Street. But in doing that, you are Work! Asst. News Editors Sophie Zinser During my senior year, there was forcing a different student next se- Sofi Goode By Joshua Krugman careers or career interests and people Features Editors Rebecca Seidel a lot of campus kerfuffle about need- mester to BUY a book from Broad blind admissions. And, now that my Street at a much higher price. who are out of work; and lastly, by Adam Keller Current sophomores and ju- serving as an example of the possible Asst. Features Editors Gabe Rosenberg friends and I are having to start pay- Everyone knows how little you get ing back our student loan bills, I have when you sell back a book, and niors, roles a farm can play in a community, Rebecca Brill I’m writing to encourage you and by promoting further experi- Food Editors Andrew Ribner been thinking once again about how how expensive it is to buy from expensive school was. there! Don’t force other students to apply for this year’s Morgenstern- mentation in this vein at other col- Jess Zalph Clarren Award for social justice leges, in other cities, and beyond. Asst. Food Editors Erica DeMichiel There were parts of the need- to buy from BS! Even if a student blind admissions fight that I remem- only makes $100 more in selling work.

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