Log In

Home
    - Create Journal
    - Update
    - Download

LiveJournal
    - News
    - Paid Accounts
    - Contributors

Customize
    - Customize Journal
    - Create Style
    - Edit Style

Find Users
    - Random!
    - By Region
    - By Interest
    - Search

Edit ...
    - Personal Info &
      Settings
    - Your Friends
    - Old Entries
    - Your Pictures
    - Your Password

Developer Area

Need Help?
    - Lost Password?
    - Freq. Asked
      Questions
    - Support Area



so_long42 ([info]so_long42) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2009-03-25 01:58:00


Previous Entry  Add to memories!  Tell a Friend!  Next Entry
Wesleyan University Wank
So, there's this group on the campus of Wesleyan University (in CT) called Eclectic. They used to be a fraternity, but went co-ed, and subsequently were forcibly separated from their alumni association when they burned "fuck the alums" into the lawn of their house. They are famous for having sold all of their furniture for cocaine, and also for throwing awesome concerts and large sweaty all-campus dance parties (which themselves are famous for the MDMA present).

Naturally, a place like that is going to cause some problems. Namely, they have been shut down for the semester. The reason this is exciting is because Wesleyan is a very web 2.0 campus, with both an active student run blog (linked above) and a super-active Anonymous Confession Board, the latter of which has a lot to say. A TON. Opinions. Conspiracy theories.
Jokes.

There is of course a segment of campus that is outraged, and a
petition is circulated. Even people who claim to be unassociated have strong pro-Ecletic, anti-student government opinions.
However, people are skeptical that Eclectic is in the right. They remain unconvinced weeks later.

Eventually, outrage dies down and the zeitgeist shifts, so the Sound Co-Op, which provides cheap PA systems and setup for the whole campus (and is populated primarily by Eclectic members), decides that they be boycotting the ENTIRE CAMPUS until Eclectic is served justice (i.e. reopened without consequence). General sentiment is that this is ridiculous and calculated. Meanwhile, there is a lot of very deep-cut Wesleyan handwringing about our reputation as an "activist" status.

ETA: And the petition is now closed due to "spam," ie trolling (no, I'm not concerned that it was anyone here).


(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)


[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-03-25 08:05 am UTC (link)
Y'know, I expect this kind of thing from my alma mater, the U of O (in lovely Hippieville Eugene, Oregon), or the People's Republics of Berkeley and Massachussets. But Connecticut? Really?

(Reply to this)(Thread)


[info]deliciouschaos
2009-03-25 08:24 am UTC (link)
Sadly, I am completely unsurprised.

I live for the day when I can truly divest myself of residency of that state.

(Reply to this)(Parent)


[info]kookaburra
2009-03-25 09:54 am UTC (link)
*lives in Eugene*

I kept having to read it again to make sure it wasn't the U of O. The anti-establishment B'AAAAAAAAAWWW ing fits the campus perfectly.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)


[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-03-25 10:22 pm UTC (link)
Me too, about a dozen blocks from campus. ^_^

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)


[info]darthtall
2009-03-26 01:31 am UTC (link)
Me three! Though I'm a transplant from North Dakota originally. :D

(Reply to this)(Parent)


[info]kookaburra
2009-03-26 04:17 am UTC (link)
Now if only had been more, "WAAAAH why can't we turn over cars and pull down a goalpost because we won a football game!" it would have been campus twins!

(OK, so I actually live out east of Springfield, but nobody ever knows where that is.)

(Reply to this)(Parent)


[info]da_angel729
2009-03-26 04:08 pm UTC (link)
This. *attends UO*

(Reply to this)(Parent)


[info]your_face
2009-03-26 03:57 am UTC (link)
But Connecticut? Really?

It's Wesleyan. They're well-known here for being kind of a hippie weirdo school (says the person who went to the school known for being kind of ghetto.)

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)


[info]your_face
2009-03-26 03:58 am UTC (link)
Failing at closing tags FTL.

(Reply to this)(Parent)

Ghetto school in CT...
[info]muppetfromhell
2009-03-27 02:43 am UTC (link)
Yale?

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: Ghetto school in CT...
[info]your_face
2009-03-27 07:16 am UTC (link)
Yale?

Heh, no (but I'd love to hear someone say that to some of the Yale students I knew when I was in college.) Same city, though. I went to Southern Connecticut State University. Regular old state school, but looks kind of crummy next to all the fancy schools down the road. For some reason UCONN studentspeople always looks sympathetic when I say I went there.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: Ghetto school in CT...
[info]muppetfromhell
2009-03-27 02:20 pm UTC (link)
Well, if you want to, you can tell them it's the prevailing joke about Yale at the other Ivies...

(Reply to this)(Parent)


[info]queencallipygos
2009-03-26 11:28 am UTC (link)
Shoot, I grew up in a Connecticut community that was once -- and perhaps still is -- a major trading post for heroin users and dealers. This almost seems quaint.

(Reply to this)(Parent)


(Read comments) -

 
   
Privacy Policy - COPPA
Legal Disclaimer - Site Map