Graduation is not only a big time for students, but also a chance for a school to display its culture and tradition. It is usually a big deal for colleges or universities, because it doesn’t only give a formal occasion of looking back and reflecting on the past year, but more importantly, it opens up […]
Month: May 2014
To say the least, we were all well informed that Chance the Rapper was unable to appear at Wheaton this past Spring Weekend. With his lack of appearance came the slow downward trickle of the hype that surrounded the rapper on campus. The quick replacement of Chance with Chiddy Bang was both impressive and necessary […]
With several successful programs of all sports in Division III, Wheaton has an Athletic Department on the rise on both regional and national levels. However, not many speak about one of the most decorated teams our community currently possesses, Wheaton Synchronized Swimming. At 1,600 or so students: the words Top Tier powerhouse and Wheaton don’t […]
Well, it’s over. Spring Weekend, likely the catalyst for all kinds of sex, is ending. Some of it was pretty public (read: people streaking through Chapel Field) and hopefully some was gloriously private, or as private as college gets (read: paper thin walls). Sex over Spring Weekend can be surprisingly hard to accomplish, largely because […]
I must say I was little confused when I first spotted the red spray paint scrawled across a column of the gazebo in the number “413.” It looked like the sort of haphazard marking systems used by construction companies to remind you to call before you dig. It was not nearly the caliber of expression that […]
Oh, Netflix. I can’t live with you, but I can’t live without you. Just as soon as I finish binge-watching one of your shows, I find myself trapped in the first episodes of another. I hate it, but I love it. Why must you hurt so good? The rise of online streaming has certainly changed […]
Thursday afternoon, Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture Cynthia Becker from Boston University visited Wheaton’s Art History course “Resistance, Memory and Hope in African Arts” to deliver her lecture on contemporary Moroccan art. Becker specializes in the works of the Amazigh in Northern Africa. According to Professor Kim Miller, who teaches the Wheaton […]