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 flag), and held signs that read “Free Gaza,” “Ceasefire Now,” “Stand Against Genocide,” and “Divest Now.” One person began roller-blading around the Dimple, waving a Palestinian flag. Their numbers quickly […]
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 pond in Caratunk Wildlife Refuge in Seekonk, MA. Most people’s binoculars are pointed towards a tree in the distance, some murmuring excitedly, others standing silently in concentration, almost everyone holding […]
Last week Norton saw two rare natural phenomena: an earthquake and a solar eclipse. Neither were very showstopping, but they certainly provided an interruption from daily life, if not a mild sense of awe.
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 a civil war. The trailer featured cool shots of the White House getting blown up, and as Vulture film critic Bilge Ebiri said in his review “Americans sure do love […]
Oliver La Du, 22, a former lacrosse player for Wheaton College, has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting and choking a Wheaton women’s lacrosse player during September of 2021. According to The Boston Globe La Du “entered his plea in Attleboro District Court to two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person aged […]
When Emmett Anderson ‘24 walked downstairs into the basement of his residential hall after spring break, his jaw dropped. He had spent the weeks before toiling with the laundry machines: a faulty washer meant that his clothes had been locked in the machine, soaking wet, for several hours. But no more — there, in the […]
Wheaton announced changes to its postering policy on Tuesday amidst a wave of controversial and politically charged posters being put up around campus. The change in the postering policy draws attention to the question of how free expression should function on college campuses, something that universities and colleges across the country are grappling with in […]
A short snapshot of Wheaton students on the first snow day of the year
One of my favorite reads this year was Claire Dederer’s searching book, part memoir and part piece of cultural criticism. She examines our post Me Too society, but looks more deeply at the question of “can you separate the art from the artist?”, instead interrogating what it means to live in an age where we […]
2023 has proven to be another pivotal year for labor in the United States, with major actions by SAG-AFTRA, WAG, UPS, and UAW changing the landscape of the labor movement in the United States. People have dubbed last summer “Hot Labor Summer” due to the number of strikes, and there seems to be somewhat of […]