This winter has brought a staggering amount of snowfall to the New England area. The amount of snowfall has affected transportation to and from Wheaton College, which has been challenging for both faculty and students. These unfavorable conditions have resulted in a reduced schedule of the Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional transit Authority (GATRA) buses to […]
Wheaton Softball is quickly approaching the annual Rebel Spring Games in Winter Haven and Kissimmee, Florida, where the team will open their 2015 season with 10 competitive games in just six days. The Lyons finished last year’s stretch at the Games with a 9-1 record and began there season on a tremendous high. They’ll look […]
You’ve seen them wandering around campus with your friends once or twice a semester. They’re usually a little dazed and confused, but pretty much always full of doe-eyed excitement. They’re the newest group of accepted and prospective Wheaton students. “Overnights are a great way for prospective students to get a feel for what it is […]
Buckle up, folks, it’s going to be yet another llama and dress article. It’s going to start fun, then get serious, followed by an optomistic ending. Here we go. It seemed a fairly normal end to the week: I was wrapping up some work and getting excited about the release of the new season of […]
On Feb. 24th and 25th, Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie was brought to life on Wheaton’s campus, courtesy of Roxbury Repertory Theatre. The show left me, and many others, less than thrilled. A few loved it, some hated it, and most were just confused. The acting was not very good, and many of the artistic […]
Servando Gomez, a school teacher turned powerful drug lord, was arrested in Morelia last Friday. This arrest followed months of work by Mexican Intelligence in the Michoacan region, where Morelia is located. The Mexican police seized Gomez’s properties and arrested many of his associates prior to his arrest. Gomez, also known as ‘El Profe’ (referring […]
On Feb. 19, some of Wheaton’s aspiring poets were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to hear readings by the distinguished poet and writer, Mira Rosenthal. Her visit was courtesy of the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program, which brings various artists to campus every year, including musicians, visual artists, writers, and dancers. Rosenthal […]
From a quest to find the forgotten burial location of one of Wheaton College’s founders, to placing birthday flowers underneath Eliza Baylies Chapin Wheaton’s portrait 205 years after her birth, Zephorene Stickney of Marion Gebbie Archives embodies the definition of dedication to Wheaton College and its history. Stickney earned a history degree from Wheaton’s sister […]
On Wednesday, March 4, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the Loft, Molly Galler ’06 will speak at a new event series called Happening Hour on the topic “Is There a Graduation Emoji?” The Alumnae/i Relations Office is hosting this appropriately named event, as its name is a play on the words “Happy Hour.” Food […]
Readers, This weekend I had the pleasure of taking in the entirety of the New Plays Festival, put on each spring by the departments of English and theatre and a collection of young writers and actors. I was involved in several of the plays this year, directing one and acting in two others. But as […]