Ohio Wesleyan University

Wesleyan actively recruits students who are engaged in their own education, community, and the world around them. Over eighty-five clubs and organization operate on campus. The university schedules speakers, stages plays and other performances on campus throughout the year.

Student organizations at Wesleyan include ProgressOWU; Pride (serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community), and The Babbling Bishops, an improvisational comedy troupe. OWU's The OWL, is one of the nation's oldest college literary magazines.

Students operate WSLN Radio 98.7 FM - (aka "The BISHOPeration") from its studio in Slocum Hall. The 15 watt station has a three mile broadcast range and primarily serves the student and local population. The station is under the supervision of the journalism department.

Ohio Wesleyan University has an on-campus house capacity of 1,600 students. First-year students are required to live on campus for the first two semesters at Ohio Wesleyan; upperclass students are placed in dormitories through a lottery system. Tompson, Bashford, Stuyvesant and Smith Halls are traditional dormitories on campus. Welch Hall is designated as a "quiet" dorm for honors students. Hayes Hall is the all-female living center.

Other on campus living options include single-sex, coed, small living units and cooperative housing where student participate in the food and housekeeping chores.

Small Living Units (SLUs) are small co-ops for groups of 15 students. The co-ops are organized to promote awareness on various social issues, which usually determine the co-op name: The Peace and Justice House, The Tree House, The House of Black Culture, The Creative Arts House, The Women's House, The Modern Foreign Languages House, The House of Thought, The International House and The House of Hope.

Fraternities, sororities and off-campus living are also available.

Laundry facilities, social rooms, kitchens, and storage areas for personal belongings and bicycles are accessible to all students living on campus.

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.

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.

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.^{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.}

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. ^{Iraq with partial funding from the Wesleyan Chaplain's office. Mark Huddleston, during his own college year years, was frequently caught in the middle of student protests. As of 2005, Ohio Wesleyan offered 38 different majors:}