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 […]
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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 […]
Mechanical Trades VIDEO While not as picturesque as the Kangamangus Highway Nadeau biked on his Harley Davidson with his wife, David Nadeau’s office window offers a pleasant, palliative view of Peacock Pond. This view is a stark contrast with the bottom floor of the Boiler Plant, where noisy boilers and colorful pipes pierce through the […]
My dream is to be featured on the Wheaton College webpage. I have been doing everything in my power to get on that homepage; I have jumped in the background of people taking professional looking photos (that got awkward around prom season), I have… well, okay, that is all I did. But recently I attempted […]
Wheaton Athletic Mentors are pleased to present the Second Annual Student-Athlete Alumnae/i Reception. This reception will take place on February 28, 2013, from 6:30-8:00 pm, in the Davis Spencer Café of the Mars Center for Science and Technology. The goal of this reception is to help facilitate communication and networking among Wheaton’s former and current […]
There are currently over 1 billion smartphones in use around the world today. Applications, commonly known as “apps,” cover topics from entertainment, to reference, to organization. A recent addition to this industry is an app that was created specifically for Wheaton students. A Wheaton Computer Science team, consisting of Anthony Castellani ’13, Richard Neal ’15, […]
The Educational Policy Committee voted last week to approve and distribute a proposal for the creation of a new major in Business and Management. If approved, Wheaton will join an increasingly long list of small liberal arts schools that have chosen to incorporate majors in Business, marking a changing trend in what has normally been […]
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Are professional sports too dangerous?
Almost one year ago the world was shocked to learn that former NFL linebacker, Junior Seau, had committed suicide. Though initial reports were unclear as to why he committed suicide, recent findings have suggested that Seau suffered from a type of brain damage called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which can cause depression. CTE has been […]