According to David L. Jaffe, a professor at Stanford University, academic cheating is defined as “representing someone else’s work as your own”. It can take many forms, including, but not limited to: sharing assignments, paying for completed assignments, and plagiarism. Cheating is an epidemic that infects learning institutions across the country. In 2013, the Joseph […]
Month: October 2014
Last Friday Wheaton had the pleasure of officially celebrating the start of Dennis Hanno’s tenure as Wheaton’s eighth President. As part of the inauguration’s focus on a commitment to service, Deogratias “Deo” Niyizonkiza was selected as the 2014 recipient of the Otis Social Justice Award. I had the pleasure of attending an informal roundtable discussion […]
Late last month, Provost Linda Eisenmann put out a call for poster proposals showcasing student internships, service projects and research that fall under the theme of “changing lives, strengthening communities.” The plan was for the posters to be displayed at the luncheon after Dennis Hanno’s inauguration as Wheaton College’s eighth president. Come Saturday morning, those […]
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Wheaton welcomes eighth president
In a small ceremony in a chapel filled with sunlight, Dennis M. Hanno was inaugurated as Wheaton College’s eighth president on October 17. His inaugural address encouraged students to build up the Wheaton community by engaging in innovative public service, a call to “more strongly link learning and doing.” The title of the address was […]
If you mention his name to anyone on the campus of Wheaton College, you are bound to provoke an interesting response. He is the charismatic, passionate, and red-haired, Patrick Crane ’14. A double major in Psychology and Anthropology during his time at Wheaton, Crane was a driven student-athlete who devoted plenty of his time to the […]
Addressing an excited audience on Sept. 30, Viswanath Kaladharan said, “Kathakali means story play: ‘katha’ meaning story, ‘kali’ meaning play.” That Tuesday night, the intimate space of Kresge Experimental Theatre was filled with students and faculty for “An Evening of Kathakali.” Kathakali is an Indian dance style originating in Kerala, with a centric focus on […]
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Influential Art Internships
Several Wheaton students spent the past summer engaging in engaging off-campus internships. Two students, sophomores Audrey Spina ’17 and Liam Grace-Flood ’17, completed fun, insightful and enlightening art-related internships last summer. Although currently undeclared, Audrey Spina ’17 plans to major in art history as well as minor in studio art. During her internship at the […]
Sophomores and juniors are beginning the process of looking into studying abroad, attending the study abroad fair a few weeks ago as well as the ongoing information sessions for individual programs. Among the recent information sessions, one was specifically dedicated to studio art programs. These programs include: Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, Burren College […]
This just in: it’s beautiful, it tells a story, and it makes your ‘wanna-be-hipster’ even more convincing. Wait for it … it’s a record player. And it is hip hopping its way back into style. The timeless machine (the phonograph) that Thomas Edison first invented in 1877 has become increasingly popular over the past few […]
Sophomore year is a time when students can really get involved with Wheaton to leave a legacy, develop a program or be a leader,” said Dean Denyse Wilhelm, Sophomore Class Dean, of Sophomore Symposium, which took place on Sept. 27. The half-day event was held in Watson and Meenely and its goal was to remedy […]