Last month, I ventured to my favorite restaurant in the greater Norton area for a little St. Patrick’s Day brunch. I’m going to withhold from mentioning their name for two reasons: One, it’s hard enough to get a table at 10:30 on a Sunday without the sweaty, hungry hordes of Wheaton College students swarming the […]
I was asked to write something about Super Tuesday and the current Presidential race, and I’m afraid I don’t exactly have anything helpful to say. I was asked to write something because I served as the official Norton vote reporter for Edison Research on Tuesday. They gave me pizza, I wrote down some numbers, and […]
Located on the first floor of Balfour-Hood, tucked in between Pappas Fitness Center and the Lyon’s Den, lies The Vlad, the on-air radio studio for the Wheaton College Communications Station (WCCS). As a WCCS Executive Member and self-appointed custodian of The Vlad, I’m in charge of training new radio hosts on how to use the […]
By Michael Kanyongolo and John Morris To listen to more of Michael and John’s favorite music, tune in to “No Static At All” on Thursdays from 7-8 at wheatoncollgeradio.com Michael’s Winter Picks Here Comes the Moon – George Harrison If Here Comes the Sun is the perfect soundtrack for a sunny summer day, Here Comes […]
A playlist to soundtrack the fall semester – Brought to you by WCCS, your campus radio station. (wheatoncollegeradio.com) By John Morris and Michael Kanyongolo John’s Fall Picks “Summer Breeze, Pts. 1&2” – The Isley Brothers It’s hard to cover a song that is already so well-known and loved. You would be hard pressed to find […]
It’s a simple decision: you either walk right out of your dorm door every morning or you stop to lock it behind you. Either way, it’s nothing more than a reflex. It simply is what you do. Personally, I haven’t locked my dorm door since the bizarre first few weeks of my freshman year during […]
In Apocalypse Now, Captain Willard is called back to Vietnam and given a secret mission in a smoke-filled room. His mission is to terminate, “with extreme prejudice”, the command of Colonel Kurtz, a former US colonel who has gone insane and is leading a commune deep in the jungle. Upon meeting Kurtz, as well as […]
For the next feature in our “Unsung Heroes of Wheaton” series, we chose Sungsook Charpentier, one of the many underappreciated custodians on campus. Many of you will know her as the cheery woman who gives out candy in the Madeleine Clark Wallace Library, or gave, rather, as her shift was recently switched over to the […]
There’s a point in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Rene Belloq, the film’s villain, claims that he and Indiana Jones are distorted mirror images of each other, that all it would take would be one bad day to turn the film’s morally-ambiguous hero into a villain. This scene, to a certain extent, is the […]
In an extreme coincidence, I found out that David Crosby died while holding his haunting 1971 debut solo album “If I Could Only Remember My Name” in a record store. My reaction to the news of his untimely passing was, strangely enough, laughter. I couldn’t believe it. David Crosby was a 1960s and 70s folk/rock […]