The Wheaton Women’s Basketball team held a fundraising event on Feb. 4 called “Play 4 Kay” to help raise awareness and funds for women’s cancer research. The Lyons lost to Springfield in their fundraising game but, according to their donations page, were able to raise almost $580 for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund. Across the […]
Author: Andrew Schofield
On any weekend morning, it is a common sight to see Wheaton’s landscape ornamented by beer cans strung onto branches, or remnants of students’ trips to late-night Emerson scattered around campus. This past weekend, the sight was different. Numerous students signed a pledge of sobriety to raise awareness of alcohol misuse and abuse on campus. […]
“What is art history?” I asked myself a full month after signing up for an art history class for the spring semester. When I really thought about it, I realized that I did not know. I knew that ARTHive, the art history club, existed on campus and that the arts at Wheaton are a very […]
“La La Land,” starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, is the type of film that successfully honors the creative spirit simply by exercising it. Written and directed by Damien Chazelle, the film has captured the attention of critics and the public alike for its unexpected and wholly original take on the musical film genre. With […]
While the Office of Residential Life states that they are unable to comment on individual incidents that take place within residence halls, the Wire’s Demetra Edwards ’17 was able to stop by a recent staff meeting to ask a few questions regarding Res Life’s current policies and plans for the future. “If someone is written […]
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, airports overflowed with tension. President Donald Trump signed an executive order suspending refugees from entering the United States for 120 days on Jan. 27, 2017. The ban prevented entry of refugees from Syria indefinitely, and also barred entry of those with visas from Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Libya, Yemen for 90 […]
Wheaton College welcomed Harvard Professor Suzanne Preston Blier for its 9th Annual Mary L. Heuser Lecture in the Ellison Lecture Hall of Watson Fine Arts on Feb. 7. Professor Blier provided diverse possible sources, interpretations, history, significance and extensive research of the influential 1907 Pablo Picasso painting, “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”. Picasso’s “Demoiselles” is part of […]
“I dream of a Rwanda where being handicapped does not define a person’s capabilities. A day will come when all amputees will be able to afford a prosthesis that will allow them to perform wonders beyond their imagination,” reads Claudine Humure’s ’17 Linkedin profile. The Biology and Business major plans to open a prosthetic clinic […]
Mark Baumer ’06, a fiction writer, poet, and environmental activist who was walking barefoot across America to raise awareness and fight climate change, passed away on Jan 21, 2017. Baumer was walking westward along the shoulder of Highway 90 in Walton County, Florida when he was hit by an SUV. According to the New Yorker, […]
“The lows are really low, and the highs are really high,” said Na Young Shin ’17. I couldn’t agree more. Studying abroad is an experience in learning how to make judgements by yourself, and developing the self-confidence to do so. It is about finding ways to meaningfully communicate with strangers, sometimes (most times) without using […]