Month: April 2014

For some it can be intimidating thinking about what life will be like after college. On Tuesday April 8, the Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities and the Film and New Media Studies program co-sponsored LEAPS (Liberal Education and Professional Success) which brought several alumni back to Wheaton to talk about their involvement in film […]

Ten presenters and ten ideas drew an at-capacity crowd to Hindle Auditorium on Thursday, April 3. WheaTalks was based off of the concept of TEDTalks, brief presentations by speakers from a variety of fields on “ideas worth spreading.” Wheaton’s chapter of the Roosevelt Institute, a policy think tank with participating colleges nationwide,  organized the event, […]

As a part of the Violence Against Women Symposium, students in the class  Alexandra Natale ‘16 and Kate Gannon ‘16 hosted the first in a series of two talks about Wheaton’s sexual assault and misconduct policy on Monday night in Meneely 102. 14 women attended the discussion. Much of the discussion consisted of the participants […]

The Public Safety Log from 4/7/2014 through 4/14/2014, courtesy of Charles Furgal, Director of Public Safety, can be found here: 04.07_04.14.14

On Thursday April 11 at 8 p.m. in the Cole Memorial Chapel, the Feminist Association of Wheaton (FAW) and Latin Students Association of Wheaton (LSA) hosted the group Sister Outsider, consisting of the current two top slam poets in the world, Denise Frohman and Dominique Christina. Before the performance, the poets hosted a workshop at 6 […]

On April 7th at 6:00 p.m. in the Mary Lyon room, Round 2 of SGA speeches began. First to speak were those running for SGA Senate and began with freshman Kweku Ampem-Darko, running for Senator at Large. In his time here, Ampem-Darko says that he has “grown as an individual and as a member of […]

The Public Safety Log from 3/31/2014 through 4/7/2014, courtesy of Charles Furgal, Director of Public Safety, can be found here: 03.31_04.07.14

How long have humans been around on Earth? We set up camp on this planet a while ago, and we’ve evolved and grown alongside all kinds of critters and wildlife. But no matter how long we’ve been around, we still keep discovering new species that were somehow overlooked. And the most recent one is a […]

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This semester’s Student Government Association (SGA) Speech Night for class councils started off with SGA Vice-President Floriane Borel at the podium in the Balfour Hood atrium addressing a handful of spectators and most of the class council members. Richard Jenkins, candidate for class president of 2015, was first to speak. This is his last re-election. […]