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 raper on campus. The quick replacement of Chance with Chiddy Bang was both impressive and necessary […]
Month: April 2014
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Letter from the Editor
This is it—my last letter as Editor-in-Chief of the Wire. Whoa. First off, I am thrilled to introduce Alex Butcher-Nesbitt as the next Editor-in-Chief of our paper. Alex will helm the Wire after three years of experience as a writer and editor. He’s an immensely talented journalist and a lovely person, someone who is poised […]
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Spring Weekend 2014: Out of this World
On Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Wheaton students were giddy with excitement as they traversed the campus in shorts, t-shirts, and rain jackets. Even as a steady mist fell on the Dimple, people excitedly traversed from food in Emerson, to food trucks in the field in front of the library and to the various activities […]
The Public Safety Log from 4/21/2014 through 4/28/2014, courtesy of Charles Furgal, Director of Public Safety, can be found here: 04.21._04.28.14
To paraphrase Kid President, “What are you going to do to make Wheaton more awesome?” The Wheaton College Better Together Festival, B2G, celebrated on Thursday, April 10, proved that the Wheaton Community is only what we make it. The festival was a collaborative effort designed to bring students, faculty, staff, and local communities together to […]
Young artists, especially musicians and actors/actresses, have begun to exponentially rattle the expectations of quality, artistic content throughout the past few decades by questioning where it must come from. As is constantly relevant in the mainstream music industry, independent skill and originality isn’t exactly the main selling point for many producers. I have heard the […]
This past week, for the Violence Against Women Symposium, I organized a review of the sexual assault and misconduct policy. During our conversations, we began to realize that the sexual assault policy and the Honor Code had something in common: it seemed as though we talked about both at Orientation, and then never again. In […]
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Wheaton hosts Sister Outsider
Most people don’t want to be an outsider, but for Dominique Christina and Denice Frohman, it seems to have worked out pretty well. The two, who happen to be two of the top three female slam poets in the world, make up Sister Outsider, an unbeatable duo of poets and activists. Wheaton was lucky enough […]
I had the chance to talk to Senior Long Stick Midfielder Patrick Crane’14 about Wheaton Men’s Lacrosse team’s season so far. The Lyons have gone 4-8 as of April 18th, in what’s been a season of breathtaking wins and close losses. The first part of the interview was done before the team’s game against Massachusetts Maritime […]
Everyone has heard the expression “time flies,” but no one person actually grasps its true meaning until that person is a senior about to graduate from college. For the seniors at Wheaton, this is the last time you will be thinking about the Honor Code. This is the last time you will actually consider swimming […]