— Middletown, Connecticut, since 1868 — FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2014 VOLUME CLIV, ISSUE 9 WESLEYANARGUS.COM “A La Ronda” “Raise the Cap Fund” Increases Aid Limit By Tess Morgan “[Before the fund], if you were News Editor to donate to financial aid [or] the en- dowment for financial aid it wouldn’t At the senior class reception actually do anything to increase the on Thursday, Feb. 27, University amount of financial aid given out Relations announced the creation next year or any year, because we have of the “Raise the Cap Fund” for fi- a capped financial aid budget and a nancial aid donations. The fund will capped discount rate,” Trexler said. allow donors to contribute directly Trexler worked with other stu- to raising the cap on the amount of dents to bring the issue to the atten- funding that the University allocates tion of the administration and nego- to financial aid each year. After the tiate the creation of the fund. University has reached its goal in do- “The administration’s argument nations for the Annual Fund, donors was that we don’t have the money we will be able to begin contributing to need to give out what we’ve already the fund. committed, and therefore donations Vice President of the Wesleyan to financial aid need to be budget- Student Assembly (WSA) Andrew relieving rather than budget-incre- Trexler ’14 explained the restrictions mental,” Trexler said. “But it was my ANDREW RIBNER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER that existed prior to the fund’s cre- Helen Handelman ’16 experiences the loss of the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo in “A La Ronda.” ation. FINANCIAL AID, page 3 To learn about the full production at the ’92 Theater, see page 8. Israeli Apartheid Swim and Dive Week Sparks Debate Women Eighth, Men Tenth in ’CAC as Slevin Qualifies for Nationals By Millie Dent [the week also serves] to capture the at- News Editor tention of students who have maybe never By Brett Keating eight championship race. Gaston had the Wesleyan men’s heard of this issue, who don’t really know Sports Editor Billy Hepner ’16 also had some only “B” cut of the meet, when Around the world, the week of Feb. much about the politics of the region or solid races for his team. He took he swam the 200 fly in 1:53.85. 24-28 is recognized as Israeli Apartheid the history, [and] to basically introduce the The swim and dive teams 16th in the 200-yard individual The “B” cut qualifies swimmers Week, a pro-Palestine awareness event. struggle to them as one of many struggles competed in the NESCAC medley before snagging 14th in the for Academic All-American and Wesleyan Students for Justice in Palestine against colonialism and imperialism and Championships over the past two 100 breast, six-tenths of a second gives them a chance to be cho- (WeSJP), a group that promotes jus- generally against oppression and for free- weekends, with the men going to ahead of his teammate Bazile, who sen for Nationals. Additionally, tice, human rights, and liberation for the dom and self-determination and human Brunswick, Maine and the women came in 16th. He then grabbed a 12- Gaston put his name in the Palestinian people, has sponsored a version rights.” traveling to Williamstown, Mass. to spot in the 200-yard breaststroke. Wesleyan record books for the of this awareness week at the University. Russell stated that WeSJP has tried compete in their final meets of the Erik Yan ’15 saw some nice im- first time in his career, establish- “Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is to recreate some of the primary symbols season. provement from the morning swim ing a new standard for the 200 an international series of events that seeks of the Israel-Palestine conflict to promote The men traveled up to to the evening swim in the 50-yard butterfly. Gaston also took 13th to raise awareness about Israel’s apartheid Israeli Apartheid Week. Bowdoin to compete in the LeRoy butterfly, moving from 15th in the in the 200-yard free race earlier policies towards the Palestinians and to “We built a mock separation wall, Greason Pool, where they took 10th preliminary seeding round to 12th in the meet. build support for the growing Boycott, loosely based off of the separation wall be- of 11 teams. in the championship swim. Though the Wesleyan men Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) cam- tween the West Bank and Israel and just Jacques Bazile ’16 earned points Perhaps the most impressive might have hoped for a higher paign,” the official website reads. tried to put some similar graffiti as to what for Wes in his first swim of the meet performances came from James finish, this season’s results cer- Harry Russell ’17, a member of is on the wall around Bethlehem especial- in the breaststroke sprint, but saw a Gaston ’15, who was swimming in tainly bode well for the team WeSJP, stated that the week is a time to en- ly,” Russell said. “We placed infographics tough break when he came up just his first NESCAC Championships in the future. Individual meet courage campus dialogue about the Israel- and facts, and every day we’re replenishing one spot short of a podium, finish- since transferring to Wes after a se- wins over Trinity and Brandeis Palestine conflict. the folder with articles.” ing ninth in the preliminary round ries of surgeries prevented him from “[It is] for…students who are already Becca Caspar-Johnson ’15, director and keeping himself out of the top- swimming the past few seasons. SWIMMING, page 11 familiar, who come from Jewish back- of J Street U at the University, stressed that grounds or Palestinian backgrounds, or she does not find the event to be a positive who are just interested in history and post- Research Takes on New colonial movements,” Russell said. “But APARTHEID, page 2 Dimensions with 3D Printers By Jenny Davis Institute of Technology, that allowed new printers extensively as an un- Assistant Opinion Editor him and his colleagues to experiment. dergraduate at Wesleyan; the name Since the University’s purchase of its of his prizewinning talk was “Using Associate Professor of Physics own 3D printers, Voth has been work- 3D Printing and Stereoscopic Greg Voth reached onto his desk and ing with students to conduct research Imaging to Measure the Alignment grabbed a small plastic cylinder. Inside, using this technology. and Rotation of Anisotropic tiny purple snowflakes made of plastic “The things we’ve been print- Particles in Turbulence.” were settled in liquid. Voth shook the ing recently are all differently shaped Assistant Professor of tube, and the snowflakes began to spi- particles,” Voth said. “Four-armed Mathematics Ilesanmi Adeboye ral. objects. Helices. Most experimental agreed that the introduction of “A lot of people use the 3D print- research projects have students focused the 3D printer has transformed er to visualize their molecules because on doing them. I organize my group as the ways his students think about having it in their hand is different than students spearheading individual proj- shapes. seeing the abstract model on the com- ects.” “We look at 3D printing as puter,” Voth said. “That’s not the case Three-dimensional printing has a continuation of visualization,” with physicists. We need precise mod- certainly influenced Voth’s students’ Adeboye said. “The first level of vi- els.” work. Just last fall, Guy Geyer Marcus sualization is the blackboard, which Three years ago, before the ’13 won the 2013 American Physical is limited to artistic skill. The sec- University acquired its modest collec- Society LeRoy Apker award for his work ond level is computer graphics. But tion of 3D printers, Voth became in- studying particles in turbulence, which with the printer we’ve been able to terested in the prospect of printing in is also Voth’s area of expertise. Now a look at interesting models of spaces TRISHA ARORA/PHOTO EDITOR three dimensions. He found a group at graduate student at Johns Hopkins A wall erected in recognition of Israeli Apartheid Week stands in the Yale, and later one at the Massachusetts University, Marcus worked with the 3D PRINTER, page 5 Exley Science Center. “Kiln” it Beck and Call Fraternity Reform The legacy of ceramics at Wes 4 Morning Phase delivers 7 Response to The Atlantic 9 2 THE WESLEYAN ARGUS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2014 The NEWS Wesleyan Argus New Report Summarizes Campus Discourse established in 1868 By Matt Shelley-Reade Farias applauded Updegrove for Editors-in-Chief Staff Writer pioneering a movement for substan- Miranda Katz Adam Keller tive change in the University setting. During the fall semester of 2013, “For students, it might feel like Production Manager Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) Groundhog Day, and it is, because Michelle Woodcock President Nicole Updegrove ’14 cre- every four years the team changes and ated and organized a five-part series of you lose corporate memory,” Farias Executive Editors forums titled Privilege and Policy at said. “Corporate memory stays in Abbey Francis Wesleyan, which covered a wide range the institution through the faculty, Olivia Horton of topics on campus, including class, Christina Norris through the staff, through the admin- race, ability and wellness, gender and istration, but in the student body it religion. News Editors Millie Dent regenerates every four years. The wave Tess Morgan On Thursday, Feb. 2, Updegrove sort of moves on and we start from Asst. News Editor Sofi Goode released a report synthesizing over anew. That, I think, is what Nicole Features Editors Gabe Rosenberg two hundred student and student is doing….