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Student newspaper of Wesleyan University, Connecticut, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wesleyan Argus is the student newspaper of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1868, The Argus is the nation’s longest-running twice-weekly college newspaper, and is published every Tuesday and Friday throughout the school year. Each issue of The Argus includes the news, features, arts and culture, opinion, and sports sections, while Tuesday issues also include articles from the satirical Ampersand section.
Type | Student newspaper |
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School | Wesleyan University |
Editor-in-chief | Caleb Henning ’25 Carolyn Neugarten ’26 |
Managing editor | Phoebe Robinson ’25 |
Founded | 1868 |
Headquarters | 45 Broad Street Middletown, CT |
Website | www.wesleyanargus.com |
The Argus was founded in 1868 and has been published bi-weekly since. The Argus does not run in exam periods and has paused publication during wartimes and the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]
The Argus is named after Argus Panoptes, a many-eyed giant in Greek mythology.[1]
In 1975, The Argus ran its first advertisement for a campus queer group.[2]
In 2015, The Argus made headlines after a student wrote an opinion piece questioning the tactics of members of the Black Lives Matter movement.[3] In response to student outrage, the President of the Wesleyan Student Assembly called for The Argus to be defunded.[3] However, school leaders defended the right of students to freely write in The Argus and funding was never cut.[3]
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