Partying as a form of community service? Maybe freegans, people who try not to participate heavily in the economy by using minimal resources, are onto something...

From the alums who brought NYC the Freegan Fashion Show comes Surreal Estate, a new community space planned for 15 Thames Street in Brooklyn, NY. The project includes several recent alums of Wesleyan.

Check out their Myspace page:

www.myspace.com/surrealestate

From their Myspace page: 

SUR

If you find yourself in Nebraska this summer for some inexplicable reason, be sure to check out Car Henge. Better yet, save yourself the gas money by taking a video tour of it here.

Sophista-Funk is a project started by Jillian White and Tala Bouzarjomehri, both members of Wesleyan's (finest) Class of 2008. Their blog, sophista-funk.blogspot.com/, is a fun mix of fashion, art, and (of course) random songs, videos, and posts related to the Olympics. In other words, it's a pretty li

Wesleyan has finally found a good use for the huge, abandoned building in the center of campus, home to the previous campus center before that monstrosity Usdan came along last year. The Davenport Campus Center is slated to become Wesleyan's new Center for Social Justice. Last semester an

Mufaro Dube '08, his parents Dudzai and Pilot Dube, and their friends are organizing a tag sale at Wesleyan as a benefit for Zimbabweans who have fled their country due to political violence and economic strife. (If that sounds familiar to you... I'm assisting with the sale and made a flye

Did you know that Wesleyan has a student-organized English as a Second Language program that pairs student-tutors with Wesleyan's workers? 

Check out the information available on the group's website (needs some updating, but it's really cool to learn more about the recent histo

MGMT.

Even the frat boys of Beta were blasting MGMT songs at their parties over the last week (although their MGMT picks were hideously mismatched with their "I'm a white boy from the suburbs and I consume mainstream rap to feel like a rebel" musical choices). Enough about the crowd. Everybody's a fan. E

Get your work-study spots quick! It's that time of year and picking the right work-study job can be as important as picking your classes. Don't take working while in school lightly. College jobs are a great way to gain valuable work experience, especially in the areas of education, lite