Wheaton Athletics recently received great news, as the department learned that Luke Finkelstein ’15 will join the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL) this summer as a member of the Real Boston Rams. Finkelstein, who plays the midfielder position for the Lyons, had an incredible second season at Wheaton and is now being recognized […]
Month: April 2013
Pond race sends Lyons into the wild
As the sun peeked through the clouds over Peacock Pond, the Head of the Peacock race was on full display. Students from all over campus flocked to the event in anticipation of a great display of craftsmanship, school spirit and many laughs. With 18 boats and over 100 students participating, the regatta certainly lived up […]
As both the event organizers and eventual winners, Together We All Prosper (TWAP) house certainly had the odds in their favor during the first annual TWAPathon. From 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Chapel Field on April 20, a number of theme houses at Wheaton competed as teams in a sack race, relay race, round […]
Head Start, a pre-school program founded in 1965 for low- income families, is currently looking for help at Wheaton College. To find out how you can be of assistance, please contact Deb Doucette, the Education Specialist at Norton Headstart, at ddoucette@selfhelpinc.org. Headstart’s mission is to help foster the development of children from ages three to […]
The Office of Service, Spirituality and Social Responsibility (SSSR) on Apr. 14 held their second annual Best Buds Softball Game. The game was a match-up between faculty and staff and the Best Buds and their “Buddies” with the Best Buds winning 5 to 3. The game was a friendly event held on Chapel Field to […]
The series titled “Thought Leaders: An Ongoing Conversation on the Future of the Liberal Arts,” is an attempt to discuss and think about how liberal arts colleges, like Wheaton, can adapt and evolve along with a rapidly changing world. Beginning this semester, Wheaton has invited guest lecturers and speakers to join this discussion with all […]
Letter from the Editor Issue 11
After the Boston Marathon bombings, I had an instant feeling of shock. I remember feeling sick as I watched video of the tragedy on television. I remember sitting in complete silence next to a friend for what felt like an hour, and hugging afterward because we didn’t know what else to do. Shock quickly morphed […]
Students were invited to celebrate the Cambodian New Year in Balfour Hood Atrium on Fri., Apr. 12. The event was complete with games, traditional food and blessings from Buddhist monks. Organized by the student club Campaign for Cambodia, the event was designed “to bring Wheaton students, staff, faculty and residents in the community together” and […]
Wheaton College has begun registration for its newly announced Summer Session, an intensive four-week program of summer courses at the college. According to Associate Provost Gail Sahar, many Wheaton students already take summer classes and around 700 credits have been transferred to Wheaton from summer courses over the past nine years. Sahar and other faculty […]
In front of an eager crowd in the Balfour-Hood Center on Thursday evening, Joseph Campbell ’14 was elected as 2013-2014 Wheaton College Student Government Association (SGA) President. The current SGA Treasurer will lead an almost entirely new SGA Executive Board next semester. “I feel that my past three years in student government have truly prepared […]