Homecoming Weekend included games across all of Wheaton athletics, but the big weekend was highlighted by the official dedication of the Diane C. Nordin ’80 Athletic Field before the women’s field hockey team took on Springfield. The ribbon cutting ceremony included Diane C. Nordin ’80, who made a key donation to help fund the Nordin […]
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Lyons honored with Hall of Fame induction
On Friday, Oct 4, Emerson Dining Hall played host to the inaugural Wheaton College Athletics Yowell Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The physical display is located in the Haas Athletic Center, where you can find plaques honoring seven former Wheaton athletes, along with tennis coach Lynn Miller, former Executive Director of Athletics Chad Yowell, and […]
Come one come all to Wheaton College’s MakerSpace, the WHALE Lab, located in the Science Center room 1340! Wheaton’s MakerSpace is full of equipment for projects and prototyping, from designing intelligent robots, to making chainmaille, and building the next Facebook! The WHALE Lab, which is an acryonym for Wheaton Autonomous Learning Lab, is full of […]
This year, Wheaton faculty and students welcome Kelly Goff and Patrick Johnson to the college community. Professor Johnson is the instructor for both the film production and screenwriting classes, previously taught by Jake Mahaffy. Johnson hails from New Hampshire and graduated from Vassar College with a degree in film. He attended Boston University for his […]
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Potluck will fund refugees
As many students have heard already, especially those participating in clubs, on Oct. 19 there will be a potluck meal geared towards raising money for Syrian refugees living in a UNHCR Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. The idea stemmed from the Model United Nations club at Wheaton, specifically Julian Spector ’14. The money raised will […]
On weeknights, when the Balfour Hood Café winds down and the Davis Spencer Café has already closed, or on weekends when neither café is open at all, students may feel at a loss when they are looking for a late night snack. Luckily for them, the Lyon’s Den is open for business until at least […]
On Saturday Oct. 5, as part of the Homecoming Committee’s commitment to bring in unique in interesting speakers; John Quiñones host of ABC Primetime’s What Would You Do? was invited to answer a tough question: What is wrong with ethics in America today? Though not a scholar of the field, Quiñones was able to bring […]
This past Thursday, Oct. 3, poets Liz Ahl and Sandra Yannone ’86 presented a reading and conversation to Wheaton students featuring some of their most recent collaborative pieces. Yannone was invited back to Wheaton to attend induction into the Athletic Hall of Fame based on her field hockey achievements as a student. Upon hearing this […]
How did philosopher John Locke conceptualize personal identity and why has his ideas fueled so much debate? This was the topic under discussion on the evening of Oct. 1 with Professor Jessica Gordon-Roth ’03 from the City University of New York. In her talk “Locke on the Identity of Persons and Substances: A Textual Puzzle”, […]
You’re no dummy. You know the government has shut down. You know the National Zoo’s panda cam isn’t working; you just don’t know why. So here’s a quick explanation of why the government shut down, what specifically is happening, and how it will end. The government is shut down because Congress didn’t approve funding on […]