The Wheaton Conservatives’ first guest speaker event was scheduled for Monday, Oct. 30, but was canceled due to the power outage on campus. The event was meant to feature Massachusetts State Senator and Minority Whip Patrick O’Connor. O’Connor serves as the district representative for Plymouth and Norfolk county, representing nine different cities in the region. […]
Author: Tatyanna Cabral
This coming January, a few Wheaton students will leave American shores behind, traveling and researching with professors in Ghana, South Africa and Trinidad. Professors Hyun Kim and James Freeman will be hosting the trip to South Africa, President Hanno will be leading the trip to Ghana and Professor Julie Searles will be conducting the trip […]
On November 9, Wheaton faculty hosted a Teach-in on cultural appropriation, after a series of recent club events sparked by the Halloween blackface incident. The Teach-in covered four topics: the history of blackface, privilege, intersectionality, and the ongoing topic of cultural appropriation. The event was held in the chapel, with every bench packed to capacity. […]
Members of SGA have started working with Wallace Library staff this year in the hopes of making textbooks more affordable for Wheaton students. Textbooks are one of the main expenses that college students incur during their time at Wheaton. Since 2007, SGA has funnelled $5,000 a year to the library for a program that purchases […]
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Let’s Talk about Women of Color
If a woman of color needs a place to vent, to feel safe or to simply be surrounded by like-minded women of color, one of the many places she can go on Wheaton’s campus is to the club Distinguished Women of Color Collective (DWOCC). DWOCC is a student-led organization where women of color—though everyone is […]
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The Remarkable Story of Robert Katende
This past Monday, Nov. 6, Robert Katende and Phiona Mutsei visited Wheaton. The college has recently awarded Katende the Otis Social Justice Award. Last year, Disney made a film, “Queen of Katwe,” about their life; it follows Mutsei’s life growing up in Katwe, one of Uganda’s largest slums. As a child, Mutsei could not attend […]
Recently, Disney and 21st Century Fox have been talking about a possible acquisition. According to David Faber of CNBC, Disney wants to purchase most of Fox’s assets, excluding Fox News and any sports coverage. Disney would buy the rights to all of Fox’s media franchises; however, it would not buy Fox’s sports programming assets because […]
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Fake Astrology
Scorpio | Oct. 23 to Nov. 21 “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter Sagittarius | Nov. 22 to Dec. 21 “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through […]
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Art Fest success
Art Fest, an annual event held in Cole Memorial Chapel, is designed to raise money for the arts program at Norton High School (NHS). This year, the event raised $1,300 with a combination of ticket sales for the a cappella competition and raffle tickets for the art gallery. It was hosted by Mary Margaret Yancey […]
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Blade Runner 2049 – Review
“Blade Runner 2049” is a film spectacle I have yearned for, for so very long, as very few films in theaters today are able to pull off what this movie has accomplished. This is especially true for science fiction films of the modern era, which usually feature an hour-and-a-half-long onslaught of CGI action with little […]