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WCCS Fall Playlist

A playlist to soundtrack the fall semester – Brought to you by WCCS, your campus radio station. (wheatoncollegeradio.com)

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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 that is already so well-known and loved. You would be hard pressed to find […]

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Arts and Culture

Resurrecting the Artist

A response to “The Death of the Artist.”

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Film

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 dark comedy, Bottoms. The film follows highschool students PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo […]

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Arts and Culture Theme Houses Wheaton

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 Haus. One didn’t actually have to get naked or get out, but these words […]

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Arts and Culture Film

The Movie Industry’s Franchise Obsession

Jurassic Park, Terminator, Mission Impossible, James Bond, Fast and Furious, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, The MCU, The DCU, Transformers, Lord of the Rings, the number of major movie franchises seems to grow larger and larger with each passing year. Stale ideas being remixed and recast until the final product has only a small […]

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Arts and Culture Fashion

Spring 2023 Fashion Trends on Wheaton Campus

Spring has always been seen as the season of floral dresses, light clothing, and pastel color palettes. However, our Spring feels currently like an extended winter with sporadic, short-lived warm days in Norton. In light of the erratic weather, here are Wheaton’s must-haves and trends. 1. Leather Leather, either faux or genuine, has been seen […]

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Arts and Culture Wheaton

Reflecting on Embodied Labor: Care and Control

The Motherless by Elihu Vedder – Wheaton College Massachusetts Its gold frame warmly hugging the subject within, Elihu Vedder’s small oil painting depicts a young girl sitting in a barn looking over three baby chicks. The implication is that she is not just watching them, but caring for them. The title “The Motherless” applies not […]

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Arts and Culture TV

The Inevitable End of Succession’s Social Satire

Succession. The struggle for power and lasting influence that each member of the fictional Roy family faces can be neatly summed in the show’s one word title. And what a struggle it is.  The Roys are the family that sits at the center of Succession and are essentially the show’s fictional equivalent of the real […]

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Arts and Culture Film

What Kind of Man is Indiana Jones? 

There’s a point in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Rene Belloq, the film’s villain, claims that he and Indiana Jones are distorted mirror images of each other, that all it would take would be one bad day to turn the film’s morally-ambiguous hero into a villain. This scene, to a certain extent, is the […]