Wesleyan in Doonesbury

Colleges & Universities Wesleyan University
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<p>Today’s strip (November 29, 2010) may be archived by the time you read this but just keep clicking “previous” until you get Zonker’s call from Zipper. He gets the name wrong, but, even that seems in character:
[Doonesbury</a> Strip](<a href=“http://doonesbury.com/strip]Doonesbury”>http://doonesbury.com/strip)</p>

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<p>Hotlink direct to the full-sized image: <a href=“http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/b70fbcc0da32012da5c400163e41dd5b?width=900[/url]”>http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/b70fbcc0da32012da5c400163e41dd5b?width=900&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>(Still not necessarily going to work for all of eternity, but maybe for today and tomorrow…)</p>

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<p>naturally, this will never make it to the official wesleyan website ;)</p>

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<p>For copyright reasons, right? ;)</p>

<p>I’m told that the holiday dates to a Grateful Dead performance at Wesleyan where the band was compensated with the “orange sunshine” that a chemistry professor had created.</p>

<p>I’m fond of the headline for the story of ResLife pulling the funding in 2008: “Blunt refusal: ResLife says no to funding Zonker Harris Day”</p>

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<p>Not to throw cold water on a nice bit of apocrypha, but, I’m pretty sure the Grateful Dead concert took place in May, not April.</p>

<p>The headline is a classic.</p>

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<p>Actually, it did make it on to a Wes site! [ATTENTION</a> WESLEYAN: Read Doonesbury – Wesleying](<a href=“http://wesleying.org/2010/11/29/attention-wesleyan-read-doonesbury/]ATTENTION”>http://wesleying.org/2010/11/29/attention-wesleyan-read-doonesbury/)</p>

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<p>I attended several Grateful Dead concerts while at Wesleyan, and the most memorable was the May 3, 1970 one, the night before the Kent State shootings, which led to the student strike that ended classes for the semester. That concert actually was recorded by some sociology students who were doing a class project, and there is a copy available on the internet. The Dead came to Wes so frequently in part because John Barlow, a member of the class of 1969, was one of their song writers.</p>

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<p>Wesleying is not associated with, nor funded by, the university. The cartoon making it onto that site is not of note.</p>