This Is Sparta! Campus Gets Mashed Backcountry Cooking PAGE PAGE Faxon conquers insane obstacles 5 Students, administrators rock out 6 Recipes for the trail PAGE 11 Middletown, ConneCtiCut VoluMe Cliii, issue 4 Tuesday, septeMber 10, 2013 Since 1868 WesPartyMaps Wins Second Hackathon By Sofi Goode Arthur Burkart ’14. They created Contributing Writer HalfBagel, a website that allows stu- dents to navigate the General Room This weekend, computer Selection process more easily. science buffs participating in The second runners-up were WesHack2.0 found the solution to a Aaron Plave ’15, Brian Gapinski boring Friday night: they created the ’14, and Justin Raymond ’14 with mobile application WesPartyMap, WesHappening, an interactive map which helps students locate par- that tracks on-campus events. ties on campus. The winning team, Dietz, one of the WesPartyMap consisting of Sam Giagtzoglou ’16, creators, explained the purpose of Max Dietz ’16, and Jacob Lashner his team’s application. ’16, created the mobile application “The idea was that you’re here as part of the University’s first hack- on the weekend, and you hear about athon of the 2013-14 school year. three good parties, and it always They were one of three teams that happens that you turn up to one had 48 hours to create a Wesleyan- of them and then it sucks,” Dietz themed computer application. said. “So we created an iPhone and The first runner-up team con- Android app that you can download, TRISHA ARORA/PHOTO EDITOR sisted of Tyler Harden ’17, Cumhur Members of Gag Reflex perform at Friday’s Comedy Combo Show in the Nicolson Lounge. Korkut ’17, Wei Wang ’15, and HACK, page 3 Co-Op Grows Roots Comedy Combo Show: Wes Comedians Exite Audience Among Students By Dan Fuchs of every year—to tell the incoming where they do short games with very Arts Editor freshman, ‘Here’s an easy place for very clear rules,” Goodstein said. By Abbey Francis tions than to discuss the nuances of lo- you to go and see all comedy that “We do more scene building or story Executive Editor cal food politics or pass around recipes If you were at the Comedy Wesleyan has to offer, ’” said Taylor building or game building.” for Lacinato kale salad. Combo Show in the Nicolson Goodstein ’14, a member of Gag Desperate Measures, the only On a warm afternoon in early Yet the story of the Local Co-Op 6 Lounge on Friday night, you Reflex. “It’s one show and it kind of short-form improv group on cam- September, about 50 students gathered is a story of politics and community. It most likely were, like me, unable brings us all together.” pus, focuses more on specific in a leafy backyard on Home Avenue. started, according to Zimmer and Jon to breathe by the end of the show. At the Combo Show, each games, not unlike “Whose Line Is It Sitting in a loose circle, the students Lubeck ’14, with a hunger strike, or What you might not realize from group displayed its unique style. Anyway.” listened as a barefoot Will Curran- rather, the prospect of a hunger strike. the somewhat brief performances Gag Reflex, the University’s oldest “[The games] are generally a lot Groome ’14 and a long-haired Scott About three years ago, a now- from each group is just how deep improv group, for example, employs jokier and silly, and…shorter,” said Zimmer ’14 gave a brief introduction graduated student (Zimmer and the comedy scene at Wesleyan has a style of long-form improv comedy Jana Heaton ’14, a member of the of the Local Co-Op to those not yet in Lubeck differ on their accounts of who become. known as “The Armando,” where a group. the know. the student was) threatened to stop eat- With all six groups perform- word from the audience inspires a Games can include one where a Curran-Groome and Zimmer ing if she could not opt out of the meal ing their own unique styles of member of the group to tell a story word from the audience—on Friday rattled off the various shares avail- plan in order to purchase her own local comedy, the Combo Show was from hir own life—at the Combo night, “umbrella”—translates into a able through the co-op this semester. food. representative of the wide vari- Show, a story where Jell-O is re- scene that is forced to become short- Produce, dairy, meat, egg, bread, and “So, eventually, Bon Appétit ety that the comedy scene at the vealed to be congealed blood—that er and shorter, until the players have seitan and tofu have been consistently yielded and let her use half her points University has to offer. then inspires numerous scenes. a mere one second to complete the offered since fall 2012, while “preserved toward local food and brought up the “We do a combo show at “Long-form is basically the op- foods” was rolled out as a brand-new possibility that she also could spend least every year—at the beginning posite of ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway,’ LAUGHTER, page 8 option. The meeting was brief, and the rest of her money on a local co-op,” almost entirely focused on logistics— Lubeck said. more an opportunity to pass around an email list and answer burning ques- FOOD, page 11 Cupcakes You Can’t IgNoR(a): Shop Owner Talks Business By Eva Frieden posting the day’s cupcake menu on er of the establishment. Over the Contributing Writer the NoRA Facebook page. years, Carella shared with Ouellette “Social media has totally her dream of opening up her own Walk through NoRA changed the way we communi- cupcake business someday. Cupcake Shop’s bright pink door- cate with customers,” Carella said. In the summer of 2011, way and prepare to stare. Antique “We have just about 5,000 fans on Ouellette enabled Carella to carry couches, bamboo floors, and ori- Facebook!” out her dream. When a storefront ental rugs are only a few of the Carella sets her laptop down opened up across the street from quirky furnishings inside the on the toboggan-sled-topped coffee Eli Cannon’s, Ouellette approached store, which opened in December table and pulls her dark brown hair Carella and told her, “Now’s the 2011 on Main Street’s north end. into a messy ponytail. time to do something new. I’ll part- Vintage King Kong posters line Thirty-eight-year-old Carella ner with you, and we’ll do this to- the brick walls as three TVs play was born and raised across the river gether.” old rock-and-roll concerts. Nailed from Middletown in Portland, CT. Carella remembers the day up on a wooden board are the day’s Though she left the area to attend clearly. flavors: Irish Car Bomb, Adult college and graduate school in up- “He pushed me out the door, Twinkie, Apple Bourbon Pie, and state New York, Carella returned saying, ‘You’re stupid if you don’t other unexpected varieties. It’s not home in 1997 and started working take this opportunity,’” she recalled. your typical cupcake shop. at Eli Cannon’s Tap Room on Main Although she never attended Plopping herself down on a Street. She worked as the restau- culinary school, Carella said she gray suede couch, NoRA owner rant’s bartender, a position she held always loved baking with her dad. Carrie Carella opens her HP in New York throughout college and On nights when there was no des- Laptop. Dressed in faded jeans, graduate school. sert around, Carella’s dad would a black cotton zip-up sweatshirt, At Eli Cannon’s, Carella came ANDY RIBNER/FOOD EDITOR and black Vans slip-ons, she is to know Phil Ouellette, the co-own- NoRA, page 5 Vegetables from last fall’s first Local Co-Op delivery. www.wesleyanargus.com 2 THE WESLEYAN ARGUS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2013 The Wesleyan Argus established in 1868 Editors-in-Chief This is Why (Not) Lily Baggott Christina Norris BY CESAR CHAVEZ we discovered that our positions had as professionals from other countries serve. Production Manager been reposted with three times the hoping to earn a better living, but Reduce your trash to lessen the Michelle Woodcock I am writing this because I am amount of work per custodian. These were unable to validate their degrees. custodian’s untenable work loads. Executive Editors angry, I am alienated, and I want for workloads are unreasonable: for in- Others were unable to achieve high- When you see a custodian express Claire Bradach people to wake up and look around stance, one position required one er levels of education because they your words of gratitude. Ask them Olivia Horton them. I am writing this not as Cesar custodian to be in charge of clean- had to take care of their families. out to lunch, or join them in their Abbey Francis A. Chavez, Wesleyan University, ing the entire Butterfield Colleges. Everyday these workers sacrifice break hours at 200 Church or West- Class of 2015. I am writing this as Another position required one per- their health to keep Wesleyan clean Co. Stand in solidarity, demand that News Editors Miranda Katz Cesar A. Chavez, poor Hispanic son to be in charge of cleaning all of and running. And for what? So that our custodians be acknowledged as Tess Morgan male, age 19. I am writing this be- West College and Nicolson. We are they clean up after we throw wild members of our community. These Asst.