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Students Protest for Palestine During Honors Convocation

Elsie CarsonMay 9, 2024
A student rollerblading around campus with a pro-palestine flag.

Shortly before Honors Convocation at 5PM, about a dozen students gathered in the Dimple, Some wore red, green, and white (the colors of the Palestinian…

The Most Important Student Printer is Gone

Sam FerlandMay 9, 2024
The Most Important Student Printer is Gone

The removal of the Meneely printer left most students in a playwriting class unable to submit their first assignment, leaving their professor aghast to start…

The Wheaton College Dance Company’s ‘Dimensions’ Showcase

The Wheaton College Dance Company’s ‘Dimensions’ Showcase

The Wheaton College Dance Company dazzled audiences with its annual performance, titled “Dimensions,” which ran from Thursday, April 18 to Saturday, April 20. Directed by…

Reflections with Interim Provost Karen McCormack

wheatonwireMay 9, 2024
Reflections with Interim Provost Karen McCormack

By Emma Kiernan and Moira Sankey  As this academic year comes to a close, Provost Karen McCormack is finishing her one-year interim provost position. After…

Wheaton Soccer wins the Cushing Cup

Sam FerlandMay 9, 2024
Wheaton Soccer wins the Cushing Cup

The Wheaton College men’s soccer team won the fourth annual Cushing Cup, defeating RogerWilliams University 1-0 in the final game of the tournament on Saturday,…

Phazed and Confused: An Exclusive Wheaton Woodstock Interview  

Venus AnaniMay 9, 2024
The Secret backside of the Woodstock '24 poster, from WheatonWoodstock instagram

How about Wheaton Woodstock, huh? Wasn’t that just a flurry of good vibes and excitement? If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Wow! Those music people…

Norton’s Old Library – New Beginnings

Ethan ParkMay 9, 2024
Norton’s Old Library – New Beginnings

The Old Library, previously Norton’s only library, was sold and is being renovated – and will hopefully be a business boom.  In 1886, Eliza B.…

My Salute to Emma Hayes, a Gem on and off the Pitch

My Salute to Emma Hayes, a Gem on and off the Pitch

Similar to your time at Wheaton, all good times do, eventually, in some way or another come to an end. Whether you like it or…

Wheaton’s Thirty-Third Annual Head of the Peacock

wheatonwireMay 9, 2024
Wheaton’s Thirty-Third Annual Head of the Peacock

By Emma Kiernan and Joshua Nangle On Friday, April 26 Wheaton held the thirty-third annual Head of the Peacock as part of Spring Weekend celebrations.…

The Lost Story of Blafan: The Creative Process of a Short Film

Emmett AndersonMay 9, 2024
Color Blocks, by Emmett Anderson

My creative process is in fact, messy. My photography professor has described my work as “organized chaos.” I make photographic work, I make short films,…

An Interview with President Whelan

wheatonwireMay 9, 2024
A photo of President Whelan.

By Emma Kiernan and Moira Sankey The end of this semester marks two years since President Michaele Whelan joined the Wheaton community, bringing with her…

On Birding and Paying Attention

Elsie CarsonMay 9, 2024

On a humid and gray day in late April, one of the sections of Jessie Knowlton’s ornithology class stands crowded around the edge of a…

Norton Experiences the Rumblings of an Earthquake and Glimpses a Solar Eclipse

Elsie CarsonApr 17, 2024
Wheaton College students gathered in the Dimple to watch the eclispe.

On April 5 at 10:23 a.m.,a 4.8 magnitude earthquake originated in Tewksbury, New Jersey. The earthquake sent tremors up the East Coast, from Maryland all…

SGA Crisis of Participation

Deren SozerApr 17, 2024
SGA Crisis of Participation

Wheaton’s Student Government Association (SGA) is currently going through a period of sparse student participation. In the most recent SGA elections held in March 2024,…

Wheaton’s Bathroom Issue

Keira WhitakerApr 17, 2024
A poster designed to promote bathroom tidiness.

On Friday, March 22, Residential Life Coordinator Kheldhe Bourque sent out an email to Clark Hall second-floor residents concerning reports from custodial staff regarding the…

On Violent Imagery and Civil War

Elsie CarsonApr 17, 2024
Alex Garland's 'Civil War' poster

I saw Alex Garland’s Civil War with my friends because the movie seemed like an entertaining, if self-serious warning about how America could descend into…