It’s 11:50 on a Wednesday night in Taunton. The sound of skates stopping and sticks tapping can be heard as the Wheaton Men’s Ice Hockey club finishes the last ten minutes of their weekly practice. The Wheaton Whalers, who play out of Alexio Skating Arena in Taunton and compete as a Divison II team in […]
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The trip began with a luxurious flight from New York to Milan on Emirates. Then the Wheaton Men’s Soccer team traveled by bus to Cinque Terre, a beautiful area consisting of five villages on the coastline surrounded by luscious hills. The boys swam in the Mediterranean, ate Gelato, and drank espresso. Although jetlagged, the refreshing […]
Do you enjoy designing and critiquing art? Interested in collaborating on projects with peers and faculty members? If so, you should consider joining one of Wheaton’s newest academic clubs, Student Art League. The club is student-run and takes part in a wide variety of activities related to art and design on and off campus. A […]
The Arts department has once again put together a diverse and exciting calendar of events for the upcoming year. The popular staples of Arts at Wheaton, including the Wheaton College Dance Company, the Ten-Minute Play Festival, and Jazz Band, will continue to be hosted, along with a number of visiting artists and performers. This semester, […]
When I tell my friends that I am going to watch a movie, their expectation is that I am going to take out my laptop, open Netflix, and find a quiet spot where I can watch my movie in solitude. This new standard of personal screening consists of sitting alone and staring at the unremarkable […]
Wheaton’s Film and New Media Studies (FNMS) program is one of its newest — the first batch of seniors to graduate with the major walked at graduation this past May. Now that the new academic year has finally begun, it is easy to see that there are great things happening with FNMS here on Wheaton’s […]
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Student groups to import 1,000 condoms
In October, 1,000 Trojan condoms will arrive on the Wheaton campus. The Feminist Association of Wheaton (FAW) and the Sexual Health Advocacy Group (SHAG) were both chosen as winners of the Great American Condom Campaign, a project of the nonprofit Advocates for Youth. The goal of the campaign is to equip student groups with condoms […]
Summer has ended and the new semester has begun. For some of us, that means trading our bathing suits for book bags and our piña coladas for coffee. For the Class of 2018, the long awaited journey to the college years has arrived. It is a time when Wheaton gear can finally be worn around […]
Director of the Bhutan Nuns’ Foundation Dr. Tashi Zangmo addressed the obstacles facing Bhutanese women in a lecture in the Woolley Room in Mary Lyon Hall on Sept. 5. The lecture was entitled “Empowering Women and Girls Through Education.” Zangmo focused specifically on Bhutanese nunneries and her organization’s efforts to enrich the lives of young […]
The president’s house, previously host to stately dinners and receptions, will serve a new function this coming Halloween. President Dennis Hanno wants to make it haunted. In an e-mail, Hanno sketched the outline of an event that would “bring the Wheaton and Norton communities together,” and transform the house, which was built in 1829, into […]