Sitting in the Gebbie Special Collections and Archives, I leafed my way through the issues of the Wheaton News (the predecessor of the Wire) from the school year 1963-1964. I thought about how, in our brief four years here, we believe it is safe to assume that institutions such as Wheaton are static. However, as […]
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Standing at a podium in front of hundreds of people with trembling fingers and a wavering yet passionate voice, actress Ellen Page gave both us and herself something far more memorable than chocolates and teddy bears for this past Valentine’s Day. On Friday, February 14th, Page came out as gay at the Human Rights Campaign […]
Midterm elections are boring, especially compared to presidential elections. Rather than one nation-wide election between two well known candidates, midterms revolve around several state and district-wide elections between candidates most Americans don’t know. But despite being boring, midterm elections are usually important, since they decide which party controls the legislative branch of government. The upcoming […]
Starting on Jan. 20 and continuing until Feb. 26, the clean, bright, minimal Beard and Weil Galleries in Watson Fine Arts will be crawling with microbes. The galleries’ current exhibition, entitled Inner and Outer Space, is an exploration of the human desire to magnify that which we are too large to see, and to touch […]
On Monday evening, students piled into Ellison Lecture Hall in Watson Fine Arts to hear Todd Reisz present on widespread connotations and general misconceptions that currently surround the city of Dubai. Entitled “It Smells Like Dubai,” the lecture is a part of a series on professional development for Art History students at Wheaton. Reisz is […]
Editor’s note: Editorials represent a view supported by the Wheaton Wire as an entity. At this point in the school year, with the number of incidents that have occurred and the increasing animosity between Public Safety and students, it’s clear that something in the relationship between the two needs to change. The two questions that […]
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Letter from the editor 2/26/2014
What do you think of when I say Pussy Riot? Do you think I’m being crass? Have you heard of Pussy Riot? Do you like their music? Well, you might have answered “yes” to any of those. One you certainly don’t have in mind, though, is something like Oh, I heard their song on the […]
Yesterday morning, the Board of Trustees announced that the search for President Crutcher’s replacement has been concluded with the selection of President-Elect Dennis Hanno, currently the Provost of Babson College. In the coming weeks, there’s bound to be many details shared surrounding the search and appointment, but for now, lets take a look at Hanno […]
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One night, Carrie Slayton took the chance with Lauren Robinson to consciously steal a seat to a sold out concert of Arctic Monkeys so the two could be together in the audience and successfully tracked back to Wheaton in the snow at 1:30. The Arctic Monkeys have been a Rock ’n Roll sensation for almost a […]