Cisco Clean Access Agent got you down? It also got Joe Newman, Carmen Melillo, Thom Beckwith, and Lynn Favin down. So they got down with it - meaning, they wrote and performed a rap about it. Really.

Hopefully Cisco Clean Access Agent will let you watch it.

Watch Elisa Schine '09, composter extraordinaire, make the difficult trek across campus in her golf cart to take the compost to its ultimate destination. With cameo appearances by some fellow Wes students.

After Seth Cohen '07 told the Cynical Romantic that the location of the annual start-of-year a cappella concert would be in front of Usdan, he replied, "Usdan? More like ewwwwsdan." Seth retorted, "No, it's more like ooooze-dan. Like 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'"

While most normal people would let it end at that, Seth Cohen '07 and the Cynic

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"Please buy my t-shirts. I'll bake you a nice vegan pie!"
Here's what you've all been waiting for: Part 3 of the Three-Part Interview with Jon Kraus '04, where he dishes out pie- ahem, dishes out inside information on a few of his awesome designs. Also, stay through 'til the end because there's some Blog Audience Participation!

Links to Part 1...

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See? You can be a fashionable religious nurse!

It seems like everything Google touches turns to gold--except its horribly mismatched ads for the Wesleyan OTR blog. Maybe it's because, like the rest of the country, Google has no idea what Wesleyan University is. (It's an all girls school in Indiana, right?)

Consider a few recent ads:

• Churche...

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Here's Part 2 of 3 of the interview with Jon Kraus '04 about his Bleeding Hearts Club progressive t-shirt business, in which he describes the influences of other t-shirt types on his own company, as well as offering up his thoughts on Wesleyan. If you need to catch up, here's a link to Part 1.


Jon Kraus: I had an epiphany one day, in which I

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*Someone who is obsessed with getting the best mileage possible from a hybrid car.

Being the superficially environmentally conscious campus that it is, several students at Wesleyan have recently fallen prey to the latest hip green thing to do: buying a hybrid car. 

However, simply buying a hybrid isn’t enough if you really want to be eco-consc...

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Did you know that the oldest continuously operated amusement park in the U.S. is just minutes from the Wesleyan campus? It's called Lake Compounce, and it's awesome.

What's that you say? Six Flags New England is better?

Well consider this: Lake Compounce has shorter lines. It's closer (20 miles as opposed to 50). It's cheaper ($33.95 vs. $49

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If you've seen the view from the top of the Campus Center or Indian Hill Cemetery one too many times, and ache for a more natural vista, look no further than Mount Higby. Located just 4 miles west of campus off Route 66, the rocky cliffs of Mount Higby offer fantastic views over the lakes, hills, and forested suburbia west of Middletown. And don

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His name is Jon Kraus ('04). He runs a progressive t-shirt business called Bleeding Hearts Club, whose self-professed mission is "Restoring Legitimacy to the T-Shirt."

Following is part one of an interview in three parts, in which he describes the beginnings of the t-shirt business - a combination of deep thought and intramural basketball.

The...

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