Investigative Journalism

As I was googling myself out of boredom again, I found this trio of curiosity that was part of my Wesleyan past. This was, I think, the only article I wrote for the Argus during my Wesleyan tenure. This was the context, it was during the whole Asian/ Asian-American conflict during my sophomore year, and I was eating dinner with Bobby Zelliger, the editor for the Argus, and he broached the subject of me writing an article. I asked if I can write about anything, and he dais as long as it's well written. I think he was hoping I'd write a piece about the A/AA scandal, but I jokingly suggested a few unrelated topics. One of which was the garish green new plastic cups the dininghall recently adopted. He said, if I write a good article, he'll print it. So I guess another joke turned into a realistic challenge, and I did some investigative reporting about these new cups. As I read the original article, I was surprised what great lengths I went to, including interviewing actual campus managers and representatives about the topic, as well as quoting friends and acquaintances. I must have asked Bobby what he thought of the cups at the time, and even quoted him right there. Regardless, the article was surprisingly funny: Campus Center Rejoices in Reusable Cups. Well, the joke didn't end there, and there were two articles of aftermath. First was a letter to the editor I wrote in response to the editing done to my story. Two non-sequitors were added to the piece in jest, and I responded in mock indignity: Letter to the Editor. The other was even more unbelievable because someone actually wrote a response to my piece, condemning the very same garish cups. Whoever this David Harvey is, he indeed was a worthy archnemesis. Campus Cups Badly Designed. Anyway, I never met or ran into David Harvey, but there is an epilogue to this story, in that a month or two after these articles, the campus center stopped using these cups. Aaron Gilary would often quip that it was because of my articles, but I doubt that was the truth.