Help me compare Wesleyan and Tufts

searchingavalon
Tue, 02 Nov 2004 20:02:25 +0000

I’m sorry to say that we visited Wes yesterday and were unhappy with certain aspects. If we understood it all correctly: there’s a minority house; a bi/gay/lesbian/transgendered house; a house for people creative in the arts (and it’s voted on whether you can live there in your sophomore year), etc. These different houses, to us, seemed to be a way to fracture the community and undo the value of diversity. Unfortunately, D’s interviewer agreed that this was a problem. Also, we came in the middle of something that’s happening on campus that we didn’t understand, but the college newspaper kept mentioning hate crimes and some reason that chalking has very recently been outlawed, and people who had wanted to chalk anonymously because they were afraid of “being attacked.” I hope I’m not offending anyone, but this was all quite a shock to us after reading such wonderful things about Wes and wanting very much to love it.