Wabash College has an admissions brochure that is famous among prospective and current students. “It won’t be easy,” it says of the Wabash experience, “but it will be worth it.” The mailing, received by hundreds upon hundreds of prospective students each year, is brilliant in its salesmanship.

Probably the most publicly visible and most often criticized duty of the student government at Wabash is the dispersal of the vast sums of money allocated from the students each semester via the “Activities Fee”, which, over the course of the year generally adds up to around a half-million dollars. These funds are allocated to the more than fifty clubs recognized by the Student Senate through its Audit and Finance Committee, which must prepare the budget spreadsheets, handle all rela-tive affairs with the Business Office of the College, and operate under the policy guidelines set by the Senate as a whole.

The Admissions Department plays a vital role in recruiting, admitting, and maintaining a student body that represents our best ideals of Wabash. In two separate pieces, Luke Blakeslee and Austin Rovenstine examine the department’s success and shortcomings, and offer their advice on how to move forward after the school’s painful fall semester.

by Sean Clerget ‘09
Oh the Gentleman’s Rule, how
often art thou referenced. Much is
made of the rule, especially for freshmen,
who hear a great deal about it
during orientation. Lauded by many,
yet inevitably criticized at least once a
semester as being “dead”, the Gentleman’s
Rule creates at Wabash a kind of
experiment, an environment of constant
learning. Such an experiment,
however, has both [...]