Bracket busted? Dealing with crushing disappointment? I understand. It’s the reason I made an oath to give up participating in March Madness four years ago, and why you should consider doing the same. While not an avid college basketball fan, I followed along, enough to know who was good this year, who was underachieving, who […]
Online registration for Wheaton’s 2014 Summer Session opened this morning at 8:30 a.m. Although the Summer Session began last year, it only offered three courses, one of which was taught online. This summer, Wheaton will offer 27. The courses offered are from an impressive variety of different departments in 16 different fields. They include several […]
“The road to Nationals is never easy,” said National Champion Ashante Little ’14. “Every day that you come into practice you have to be conscious of the fact that every other competitor is working just as hard as you. You have to work harder.” This past Saturday, the Wheaton College women’s track and field team […]
As the investigation continues into the fate of Malaysian Airline flight 370, theories, both plausible and impossible, have arisen. The things that we know for sure: Ten days ago, on March 8th, a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing seemingly disappeared, losing contact with air control and failing to show up on radar. The number […]
Hungry students filed into Emerson’s Faculty Dining Room on February 27 at 5:30PM for the Oxfam America Hunger Banquet. Sponsored by The Office of Service, Spirituality and Social Responsibility (SSSR), Hungry Lyons, and Aramark, this simulation in hunger awareness brings the Wheaton Community closer through an understanding of hunger problems facing the United States. Oxfam’s […]
In an email sent to all students, staff and faculty this morning, President Ronald Crutcher outlined a number of initiatives that were presented to the Board of Trustees at their last meeting on February 21. The initiatives included a renovation of Emerson and Chase that is expected to cost millions of dollars. The Student Government […]
The Public Safety Log from 3/3/2014 through 3/17/2014, courtesy of Charles Furgal, Director of Public Safety, can be found here: 03.03._03.17.14 .
The Sochi Olympic games were potentially the last time National Hockey League (NHL) players will participate in the Olympics. Concerns with injuries and scheduling have led to some rumblings that the league will not permit players to compete in 2018. If Sochi is indeed the swan song of the NHL’s participation in Olympic hockey, it […]
Students packed into Weber Theater to watch TRYBE, Wheaton College’s Multicultural Dance Company and first student-run dance group, present their annual gala. Titled “Versus,” the show ran Thursday, Feb. 20 through Saturday, Feb. 22. TRYBE is made up of Wheaton students who not only respect each other’s cultural knowledge and differences, but also come together […]
One mark of a good play is its ability to touch the audience even when its trimmings – save for chair and a handful of props – are stripped away, leaving only space, people, and words. Students participating in Wheaton’s New Plays Festival on Feb. 22 and 23 did not have the luxury to hide […]