The Wesleyan Argus
The Wesleyan Argus is the student newspaper of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. It was founded in 1868 and covers news, features, arts and culture, opinion, and sports.
The paper is published biweekly. Tuesday print issues include a satirical Ampersand column, and Thursday issues feature an archival column called From The Argives. The Argus does not publish during exam periods and has paused for wartime and COVID-19 disruptions. It is named after Argus Panoptes, the many-eyed giant from Greek mythology.
Notable moments in its history include:
- 1975: The Argus ran its first advertisement for a campus queer group.
- 2015: An opinion piece about tactics of the Black Lives Matter movement sparked debate; the president of the Wesleyan Student Assembly urged defunding, but school leaders defended free speech and funding was not cut.
- 2020: The Argus created the Argus Voices Fund to boost racial diversity in the newsroom, funding five paid reporting positions for low-income students of color with support from alumni. In 2025, the fund expanded to add three more positions and open to students of color with any demonstrated financial need.
In 2024, a student filed a Title IX complaint against John B. Frank, then-chair of Wesleyan’s Board of Trustees, alleging inappropriate touching at a university-sponsored event. The Argus reported that Frank asked President Michael S. Roth whether he should resign, and Roth advised him not to. That same semester, Wesleyan announced the Public Affairs Center would be renamed in Frank’s honor.
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