Over Spring Break, Wheaton Women’s Soccer took a trip to Buenos Aires to play some of the top teams in the Argentine Women’s Soccer League. This was the first time that the Wheaton Women’s Soccer program had traveled to South America. The last two trips were to Europe, Spain and Portugal respectively. All of these […]
Projects for Peace, a foundation established by Kathyrn Wasserman Davis, is intended to encourage students to create plans for upholding peace and provides winners with $10,000 to implement a plan of their own design. This year, Becca Rosenzweig ’19 won the grant for her plan to teach vocational skills to villagers living on the border […]
Wheaton’s Middle East Club organized a five-day long Middle East Week from Monday, April 4 to Friday, April 8. Other Wheaton institutions, including the Educational Council, the Intercultural Board, the Speaker Fund, the Senate Fund, the Venture Fund, the Marshall Center for Intercultural Learning, the Political Science Department, the Center for Global Education, the […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) conducted a compliance review of Wheaton’s response to sexual assault and harassment under Title IX. On April 5 and 6, the DOJ representatives held confidential meetings in the Merrill Room at the Wallace Library for students who wanted to talk about their experiences with Wheaton’s training, policies, procedures and resources […]
The third annual iHeartRadio Music Awards was a night of bright lights and big lungs. The night honored musicians at the top of the charts at The Forum in Los Angeles. Despite its newness, the star-studded guest list included Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake who entertained fans with numerous performances and […]
Students are coming together to plan an International Court of Justice (ICJ) conference for the Wheaton community to be occurring next fall semester. As a branch-off of Wheaton’s existing Model United Nations club, the real ICJ is the primary judicial branch of the United Nations. The ICJ debates and decides cases of international law as […]
If you happen to take a course with Professor Matthew Gingo, you might want to avoid fabricating excuses for late assignments; Gingo knows all about lying. This is because he studies deception through the lens of social and moral development – in other words, when children choose to lie and how they justify their lies. […]
As the days get warmer and the trees begin to bloom, only one thing remains to bring a day to ideal excellence: the perfect song. Here to serve as the soundtrack to nature’s glorious rebirth is a spring playlist. 1) “Pocketful of Sunshine” by Natasha Bedingfield There is no need to explain this choice. 2) […]
Roxy Azari, a Wheaton college alum and founder of iSpeak, performed at the Lyon’s Den as the last event of Middle East Week on April 8. Azari is an Iranian-American poet, performer, writer and educator raised in New York City. During her time at Wheaton, she was able to create iSpeak and land the new […]
The light– literally and figuratively– never dims at Wheaton’s interdisciplinary production of The Servant of Two Masters. Every performance is different, as actors use audience participation to improvise on a plot that already features estranged lovers, impersonation of a dead brother and a foiled double suicide. A kick-off to the 25th academic festival, The Servant […]