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Husband and wife create art from opposite views

Starting on Jan. 20 and continuing until Feb. 26, the clean, bright, minimal Beard and Weil Galleries in Watson Fine Arts will be crawling with microbes. The galleries’ current exhibition, entitled Inner and Outer Space, is an exploration of the human desire to magnify that which we are too large to see, and to touch […]

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Todd Reisz presents a lecture on the modernization of Dubai

On Monday evening, students piled into Ellison Lecture Hall in Watson Fine Arts to hear Todd Reisz present on widespread connotations and general misconceptions that currently surround the city of Dubai. Entitled “It Smells Like Dubai,” the lecture is a part of a series on professional development for Art History students at Wheaton. Reisz is […]

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Opinion

On Public Safety-student relations and rules

Editor’s note: Editorials represent a view supported by the Wheaton Wire as an entity. At this point in the school year, with the number of incidents that have occurred and the increasing animosity between Public Safety and students, it’s clear that something in the relationship between the two needs to change. The two questions that […]

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From the Editor

Letter from the editor 2/26/2014

What do you think of when I say Pussy Riot? Do you think I’m being crass? Have you heard of Pussy Riot? Do you like their music? Well, you might have answered “yes” to any of those. One you certainly don’t have in mind, though, is something like Oh, I heard their song on the […]

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Getting to know Wheaton’s new president Dennis Hanno

Yesterday morning, the Board of Trustees announced that the search for President Crutcher’s replacement has been concluded with the selection of President-Elect Dennis Hanno, currently the Provost of Babson College. In the coming weeks, there’s bound to be many details shared surrounding the search and appointment, but for now, lets take a look at Hanno […]

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Public Safety Log 2/17/2014 through 2/24/2014

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Arts and Culture

Need a Good Night? Go See the Arctic Monkeys Live!

One night, Carrie Slayton took the chance with Lauren Robinson to consciously steal a seat to a sold out concert of Arctic Monkeys so the two could be together in the audience and successfully tracked back to Wheaton in the snow at 1:30. The Arctic Monkeys have been a Rock ’n Roll sensation for almost a […]

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Dennis Hanno named Eighth President of Wheaton College

Dennis Hanno has been named the eighth president of Wheaton College, according to an email sent out to students and staff at 10 a.m. by Thomas Hollister, the chair of the Wheaton College Board of Trustees. “I’m thrilled to have this opportunity to lead one of the true gems of higher education in the U.S.,” […]

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Wheaton’s President-Elect Dennis Hanno: A Cheat Sheet

In the next few weeks campus will be inundated with information about our eight president, but if you want to be ahead of the curve, we’ve got you covered. You can follow him on twitter here. Wheaton’s coverage of the Presidential Transition. Babson students wished he was their president. Read Babson students’ “Dean Hanno stories” […]

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Sports

Wheaton Women’s Ice Hockey hits the ice in 2014

As the Wheaton Women’s ice hockey team dropped the puck for their most recent game, they accomplished a feat that no other Wheaton women’s ice hockey side has done in recent years.  It was the first time in team history that the women’s ice hockey program has hosted a game at their home rink in […]