Last spring, the Lyons marched all the way to the NCAA Division III College World Series game, and this year the team finds itself in a similar position across the landscape of the sport: the very top. Wheaton’s baseball team is ranked first overall according to multiple preseason polls, making them early favorites to capture […]
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For the past two weeks, Wheaton has had the privilege of hosting two on-campus dance group performances: The Festival of Dance and the annual Trybe Gala. Featuring the latin dance group Paraiso Latino, tap dance group Tap Out Loud and the multi-faceted dance ensemble Trybe, both events were impressive and memorable. Perhaps the most impressive […]
Most Wheaton students can relate to feeling a strong yearning for a nice plate of General Tso’s chicken. Luckily, if Chinese cuisine is what you seek, you do not have to roam far to satisfy your craving. In fact, the array of options for Chinese food in Norton can be overwhelming. Jade City, Tsang’s Chinese […]
Relentless Celtics go on without Rondo
When the final whistle blew at the TD Garden on Jan. 27, all star forward Paul Pierce, the rest of the Boston Celtics organization, and fans across New England were in sheer ecstasy. The Celtics had just upset the defending champion Miami Heat 100-98 in a double overtime thriller. Kevin Garnett and the other Celtic […]
After four years of sorting through the financial wreckage left behind from the housing bubble, the Department of Justice has decided to bring a five billion dollar civil suit against McGraw-Hill because their rating department, Standard and Poor (S&P), allegedly defrauded investors by giving nearly perfect ratings to subprime mortgage bundles destined to default. In […]
After years of living under a rock, I’m pleased to announce that the Wire is now on the internet at www.wheatonwire.wpengine.com. Hallelujah. The website was designed with David Caldwell, a former employee at the Wheaton College Communications Office, with sites like the Wheaton Quarterly in mind. Like the Quarterly, it features a nifty picture widget […]
On Feb. 13, the Office of Service, Spirituality and Social Responsibility (SSSR) held the OxFam Hunger Banquet, an event intending to raise awareness on hunger and suggesting what Wheaton students can do to help combat it. As students entered the event, they were placed via lottery into either a low, middle or upper income slot […]
In a world that is ever more technology based, it is of little surprise just how quickly the Snapchat fad has taken off. A handy app for smartphones, Snapchat allows users to record both still shots and videos that can be sent to friends and viewed for only a sender-specified period of time (often a few […]
While many Wheaton students relish the school holidays that result from winter storms or hurricanes, the Wheaton administration faces the difficult task of making the campus as safe a place as possible for students and essential staff members during a storm and its immediate aftermath. Such clean-up operations tend to go unnoticed, but have […]
Having had conversations with Carl Sagan, studied with a future Nobel prize winner in college, and spent time researching at NASA, Professor Tim Barker’s life and interests are just as exciting as the astronomy he studies. Barker started teaching at Wheaton in 1974 when the college had only one small telescope. Things have changed a […]