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Issue #5 February 28th, 2024
Volume LVI

A Lesson on Voice

Allow me to start by saying that I am a Digital Media and Communications major with a double minor in English and Journalism. My entire life revolves around words in the form of essays I…

WCCS Fall Playlist

A playlist to soundtrack the fall semester – Brought to you by WCCS, your campus radio station. (wheatoncollegeradio.com) By John Morris and Michael Kanyongolo John’s Fall Picks “Summer Breeze, Pts. 1&2” – The Isley Brothers It’s hard to cover a song…

Renaissance Painting

Resurrecting the Artist

“The Death of the Artist” by William Deresiewicz approaches art as a kind of misfit star child. Art is an outsider to the real world, a world run by corporations, competing careers, and ultimately, money. Art in this context, must struggle…

Shots ‘FIRE’d at Wheaton’s Freedom of Expression Policy

Shots ‘FIRE’d at Wheaton’s Freedom of Expression Policy

By Silver Melendez and Emma Keirnan. The Chicago Statement was created by the University of Chicago to ensure “free and open discourse.” Many colleges have adopted the Chicago Statement to build a learning community that allows students to engage in conversations…

The College Bubble: Befriend or Break?

Note: The following interviews and information was collected in the fall of 2021 Standing on a well-maintained patch of grass in a corner of campus, a curious first-year student, I found myself on Oct. 9, 2020, with approximately 70 Wheaton College…

Julie Ertz leaves the game of soccer a beloved trailblazer 

Julie Ertz leaves the game of soccer a beloved trailblazer 

Some leave the sport they love quietly. Others fade due to injury or simply age out of the game. Julie Ertz, the now former USWNT midfielder/defender did neither. Ertz departed the sport that she began playing professionally on her own terms,…

Bernardy is Prepared to Build on the Success of the Swim and Dive Program 

Bernardy is Prepared to Build on the Success of the Swim and Dive Program 

Elizabeth Bernardy, an individual who once roamed the hallways on campus returned this summer to take the reins of the Lyons’ Men’s and Women’s Swimming teams. The former All-NEWMAC Second Team swimmer as a breaststroker seized control of the program after…

Lost Heirlooms and Free Expression

Lost Heirlooms and Free Expression

By Elsie Carson and Lily Maguire “Get naked or get out!” Those five words were bright and bold on the Art Haus wall in their living room for years. First painted on in 2019, the words became the motto for Art…

Emma Seligman’s Bottoms

Emma Seligman’s Bottoms

With 2023 coming to an end, it’s easy to assume that a lot of the year’s heavy-hitter film releases have already come and left theaters. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth thanks to the release of Emma Seligman’s sophomore…

On This Day at Wheaton

On This Day at Wheaton

September 27, 1930. On this day in 1930, the Wheaton News published their September 27th issue recounting a spectacle at the tennis courts earlier that week, where a raised boxing ring had been erected and several juniors play-fought opponents from different…