Holly Wood

"There's like this Ivy League hostility to the fact that we're a small liberal arts school, and we've done something better than them," says Holly Wood, a Wesleying editor with a sweet name.

Wood and a friend launched Wesleying over the summer, but it's grown rapidly since the launch.Wood started the blog as a place to post campuswide events--"sort of like a Facebook event thing, only people actually read it," Wood says.On a cliquey campus, the service was welcome."A lot of people who have an event and want lots of people to come to it don't know enough people outside their social circle to [invite]," Wood says.

The blog has expanded its scope since, breaking news and acting as a cheerleader for Wesleyan's proudly "weird" culture.Wood and company covered the administration's surprise decision to paint over years of graffiti on an underground tunnel system seven days before the campus bi-weekly, the Argus.Wesleying jumped into the fight, too, siding with a popular Facebook group called "Keep Wesleyan Weird" and endorsing a graffiti artist's declaration that the administration had wiped out "decades" of history.

That same month, Wesleying christened a new campus tradition: a game called "Zombies Vs.Humans", which became very popular."It consumed people's lives, to the point where they weren't sleeping," Wood says."Their roommate would be a Zombie and they would be a Human, and they just couldn't go to sleep because they would be tagged in the middle of the night."Nearly 300 people played, according to Wood.The Argus said 250.But then, who trusts the mainstream media, anyway?

"The glory of being a blogger is that you don't necessarily have to have journalistic integrity, because you don't have editors," Wood says.