Help me compare Wesleyan and Tufts

marite
Wed, 03 Nov 2004 08:51:18 +0000

My S had the same experience as Garland’s D. Wes students tend to be a bit more out there in terms of their activism than Tufts students. My S stayed in a substance-free dorm in his sophomore year, and lived in an apartment in his senior year. Other than the room in his apartment was the size of a closet, he had no problem with the housing arrangements.

I did think that the chalkings were intrusive and deliberately provocative. They were intended to raise hackles under the guise of educating other students about queer identity. They indeed raised the hackles of not only the administration, but also of well-known liberal profs. I think the issue at stake was balancing the right to freedom of speech against the right to freedom from that speech, the right to speak implying the right not to listen.

As in any community, this issue attracted quite a bit of coverage in the student paper but did not affect the majority of students. I agree with Garland that an intellectually inquisitive and open-minded student will enjoy Wes.