Studying abroad? Yea, it’s a little bit terrifying at first. You’re basically signing up to start over at a new university, and we all remember the first days of freshman year. Nevertheless, I’m used to traveling by myself and not knowing what exactly I’m getting myself into, so I figured studying abroad couldn’t be much […]
Dear Audrey and Emily, My neighbor makes a lot of noise having sex with her significant other every night around 2 a.m. She’s driving me crazy. I can’t sleep and have to get up at 8 a.m. everyday for class. Should I politely tell her to stop or continue to be sleep deprived? -Annoyed Audrey: […]
Chemistry Professor Emerita, Dr. Bojan Hamlin Jennings (1920-2015), passed away on Sept. 8 of this year. A member of Wheaton’s Chemistry faculty from 1943-1946 and 1950-1985, Jennings had a passion for encouraging female students to study and work in science related fields. She inspired over 150 chemistry majors over the course of her four decades […]
The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity”, said Emmy Award winner Viola Davis last Sunday night. We could only expect so much from someone who is the first black woman to win an Emmy Award. She is now, more than ever, one of the most influential women of our time. […]
On Sept. 16, President Dennis Hanno sent out an email informing the Wheaton community that Provost Linda Eisenmann would serve as provost until June 30, 2016 and following a sabbatical, would assume a faculty position at the start of the 2017-18 school year. Eisenmann, a professor of history and education, is interested in the social […]
If you google “Shonda Rhimes memes,” the results are endless. Scrutinized for killing off a major character in one of her hit dramas, Grey’s Anatomy, last spring, this writer/director/producer is a dynamite, regardless of millions of comments claiming that she is a “life-ruiner.” Thursday nights on ABC are courtesy of Rhimes’s imagination. The night starts […]
In their highly anticipated follow-up to 2013’s Settle, the British brothers largely stick to the same formula that made them famous, although they don’t execute it quite as well. 90s house-influenced dance songs with pop song structures. A host of cool and up-and-coming featured artists. And what’s a Disclosure album without Sam Smith singing about […]
Defunding Planned Parenthood is a political game and if House Republicans were successful, we’d all be losers. On Thursday, the Senate voted to reject a bill to defund Planned Parenthood. Shortly after, John Boehner announced that he would be resigning as Speaker of the House, most likely due to conservative pressures to shut down the […]
Hannah Zack ’18 recently had her work published in the well-known online news aggregator, The Huffington Post. Her article, “Why We Need to Reshape What It Means To Be A Person With a Disability,” describes her own struggle living with partial paralysis and how her disability has affected others’ views of her. However, this is […]
Beard and Weil galleries in the Watson Fine Arts Center are currently home to three exhibitions entitled “Unsettled: One Hundred Years of War and Resistance,” “Johannesburg in Print” and “The Planetarium of Black Indian Constellations.” Each exhibit tells a historical story or takes a stance on a current social issue through the use of diverse […]