Howard Street: A Soap Opera The racing track squirmish of the 1930s was short-lived, confined to its time, and largely unknown. The soap opera that is Howard Street is the more well-known town and gown issue that persists to this day. Wheaton, in many ways, has built itself as a self-sufficient institution, not needing to […]
Author: Madison Morin
When I asked long-time Norton residents about examples of past conflict between Wheaton and Norton, a few mentioned greyhound racing in the 1930s. While none were alive for the debate itself, they still considered it a notable example of a town issue that Wheaton became involved in. Understandably, none could name the technicalities of the […]
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Letter From The Editor
Dear Readers, In this issue of The Wheaton Wire, you will find stories of poetry, movies, car accidents, and… student feet. I hope you had a fulfilling and eventful Halloweekend; it seems that the rain spared us until Monday. Fall is fleeting and we are on the tail end of it, I have been soaking […]
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Letter From the Editor
With great pleasure, I present to you this semester’s second copy of the Wheaton Wire. In this issue, you will find stories of artificial intelligence, inflation, water polo, and much more. I hope your October break was rejuvenating. I personally got COVID-19 for the second time but enjoyed the comforts of home in Maine. Being […]
Growing Up in Higher Education
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The College Bubble: Befriend or Break?
Note: The following interviews and information was collected in the fall of 2021 Standing on a well-maintained patch of grass in a corner of campus, a curious first-year student, I found myself on Oct. 9, 2020, with approximately 70 Wheaton College students. On the other side of East Main Street, standing on the Town Common […]
Wheaton Accessibility is technically back in business, but students with accommodations still feel the aftereffects of a rocky start to the semester. By law, all established colleges and universities in the U.S. are required to meet all students’ accessibility needs. The Americans With Disabilities Act (1990), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (1973), and President […]
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An Ode to The Spoon Theory
In 2003, college student Christine Miserandino uploaded a post to the blog, “But You Don’t Look Sick” titled The Spoon Theory. In the article, Miserandino makes an analogy of her life as a chronically ill individual with Lupus to help a friend understand her daily life. Today, the internet-born term is well known among the […]
The 1960s and 70s were undeniably formative periods for women’s fashion. I figured, what better place to do a case study on fashion than a historically women’s liberal arts college? Enjoy this curation of scans from the Wheaton archives.
Warning: Spoilers of the films Last Night in Soho (2021) and Midnight in Paris (2011) Have you ever felt nostalgia for a time you never lived through? In the 2011 Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris, Owen Wilson plays Gil Pender, a writer infatuated with the 1920s, helplessly nostalgic to breathe the Parisian air that […]