Ohio Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University (also Wesleyan or OWU) is a private coeducational liberal arts college located in Delaware, Ohio.

Recent Activism

The past few years have proven that campus activism is not dead on the Ohio Wesleyan campus. OWU students continue to face many of the issues other political mobilizers are dealing with ? intellectual bickering, issues of war and social justice, apathy from their peers, and sometimes hostility from the authorities. However, the college is known for its left-leaning students and administration?s permissive attitude.

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On March 17, 2005 the Student Union on Black Awareness (SUBA) and College Democrats organized a protest on Sandusky Street in Delaware, Ohio to stand firm against racial injustice on campus and the country. University president Mark Huddleston also participated in the protest.

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2005 - Delaware, Ohio - Mark Huddleston

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Ohio Wesleyan University Against the War had no trouble getting more than a hundred students to come out for the Oct. 5 and Nov. 17, 2004 peace rallies in front of the Delaware, Ohio city hall.{{ref|wesleyanagainstwar}}

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2004 - Delaware, Ohio

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The summer of 2003 and the academic year 2003/2004 was marked with yet another controversy. Protests from international students and alumni against the old college president Thomas Courtice took place on the issue of the status of the campus international student advisor, Ann Quillin, an administrator who was forced to leave under unclear circumstances. The issue caused hundreds of alumni and students to protest against the president's office via various forms including picketing and culture jamming.

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2003 - Thomas Courtice - Protest - Picketing - Culture jamming

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In April 2002, about a hundred Ohio Wesleyan students gathered in the Mall in Washington, DC in the second day of a weekend of protests for an array of causes, including the Middle East crisis, but also to denounce lending policies of The World Bank that they believed harmed the environment and hurt the world's poor. {{ref|wesleyanagainstWB}} In February 2003 approximately 100 OWU students travelled to New York City to protest the war in Iraq with partial funding from the Wesleyan Chaplain's office. {{ref|wesleyanIRAQ}}

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2002 - The Mall - Washington, DC - World Bank - Iraq

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The new president Mark Huddleston, during his own college year years, was frequently caught in the middle of student protests. {{ref|OWUHuddlestonprotest}}

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