The Cynical Romantic (Wesleyan University)

The Cynical Romantic

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Cisco Clean Access Agent: A Rap Ropera

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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.
Latest comment by Anonymous: @ Anonymous: Thanks! Sadly, the 'Fro is no mo'. Look for more awesomeness on the way!

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Where Does All That Compost Really Go?

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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.
Latest comment by Anonymous: I did this with Elisa once. It was a lot of fun riding around in that golf cart, even if the compost was kind of smelly.

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How to Incoporate USDAN into Everyday Speech--Without Anyone Noticing!

How to Incoporate USDAN into Everyday Speech--Without Anyone Noticing!
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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Cynical Idealism in T-Shirt Form: Interview with Jon Kraus, Part 3

Cynical Idealism in T-Shirt Form: Interview with Jon Kraus, Part 3
"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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Interested in Religion? Nursing? Fashion? Indiana? Then Wesleyan is the College for You!

Interested in Religion? Nursing? Fashion? Indiana? Then Wesleyan is the College for You!
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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Latest comment by Anonymous: that'a just factually incorrect. Wesleyan university is one of the top schools in the country. Ohio wesleyan is not even considered a particularly good school. I agree the Wesleyan University has a fair amount of drug use a

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Cynical Idealists & Bleeding Hearts, Read On: Interview with Jon Kraus, Part 2

Cynical Idealists & Bleeding Hearts, Read On: Interview with Jon Kraus, Part 2
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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Are You a Nempimaniac?*

Are You a Nempimaniac?*

*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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Latest comment by Anonymous: fantastic.

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Cool Spots Around Campus: Lake Compounce

Cool Spots Around Campus: Lake Compounce
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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Latest comment by Anonymous: wheee! I love boulder dash! And Six Flags Jersey can bite it.

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Cool Spots Around Campus: Mount Higby

Cool Spots Around Campus: Mount Higby
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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The Cynical Romantic Meets The Cynical Idealist: An Interview with Jon Kraus, Part 1

The Cynical Romantic Meets The Cynical Idealist: An Interview with Jon Kraus, Part 1
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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