On Feb. 9, Missouri defensive end and NFL prospect Michael Sam came out as gay in an interview with ESPN. Standing at 6 feet 2 inches tall and 255 pounds, Sam is poised to become the first openly gay player to play in the NFL. Amidst all the controversy over the Olympics and Russia’s anti-gay […]
Month: February 2014
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 […]
It is very unusual to see the campus crawling with students at 9:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning. It is even more unusual to see these students sharply dressed in business attire. However, this was no ordinary day, but that of the Sophomore Symposium for the Class of 2016. Dean of Advising and Academic Success […]
Valentine’s Day can be an easy time of year to question our lives, in terms of present and future relationships, social standing and generally what we think of ourselves. Self-doubt can be in the air as often as amorous thoughts are. The dreaded question, “Do you have plans for Valentine’s Day?” hangs heavy for those […]
Eight years ago, Ray Nagin was the popular mayor of New Orleans who rallied the city after Hurricane Katrina’s devastation. Now, Nagin is headed to federal prison after a jury convicted him on 20 charges of corruption. He accepted at least $200,000 from contractors who wanted the lucrative post-Katrina rebuilding contracts. Nagin’s sentence could be […]
Had the above headline been a link on your Facebook newsfeed, a simple click would direct you to a witty sequence of Leslie Knope and Beyoncé memes. Because of this, I’ll let you know in advance: I do not have a fierce picture of Queen B anywhere in this article. Nor do I have a […]
By 10:05 p.m. on Feb. 6, the Loft had to close its doors due to overcapacity and the door stayed closed for that reason until a little after midnight. While the Loft may have closed its doors, Wheaton’s first ever Live at the Loft Talent Show opened the eyes of students to all the talent […]
Effective policies begin with recognizing reality, and a reality of life on college campuses is that students drink, usually in large groups and often to excess. This is as true today as it was in 1898, when Princeton University tried to ban alcohol for a few, unsuccessful years. Wheaton’s current policy is only a little […]
For more than two decades, the accusation of Woody Allen molesting his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow was swept under the rug, hardly a shadow to his success as a film writer, director, and comedian. His work had been acknowledged fondly for years, most recently depicted in his winning of the Cecil B. DeMille Award at […]
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Letter from the editor 2/19/2014
As Thomas Holmes pointed out in our paper this week, Michael Sam will, in all likelihood, become the first openly gay football player to be drafted into the National Football League. This isn’t the type of story that needs a drawn out lede or a hyperbolic introduction. It is a milestone that stands on its […]