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Issue #6 April 4th, 2024 Volume LVI
Exciting fall arts events planned
The Arts department has once again put together a diverse and exciting calendar of events for the upcoming year. The popular staples of Arts at Wheaton, including the Wheaton College Dance Company, the Ten-Minute Play…
Drop Netflix! Go to a movie, argues Trout ’17
When I tell my friends that I am going to watch a movie, their expectation is that I am going to take out my laptop, open Netflix, and find a quiet spot where I can watch my movie in solitude. This…
Film and New Media Studies Program gains traction, new courses
Wheaton’s Film and New Media Studies (FNMS) program is one of its newest — the first batch of seniors to graduate with the major walked at graduation this past May. Now that the new academic year has finally begun, it is…
Student groups to import 1,000 condoms
In October, 1,000 Trojan condoms will arrive on the Wheaton campus. The Feminist Association of Wheaton (FAW) and the Sexual Health Advocacy Group (SHAG) were both chosen as winners of the Great American Condom Campaign, a project of the nonprofit Advocates…
New first-year students settle in to life at Wheaton
Summer has ended and the new semester has begun. For some of us, that means trading our bathing suits for book bags and our piña coladas for coffee. For the Class of 2018, the long awaited journey to the college years…
Dr. Tashi Zangmo: Educating and empowering Bhutanese women
Director of the Bhutan Nuns’ Foundation Dr. Tashi Zangmo addressed the obstacles facing Bhutanese women in a lecture in the Woolley Room in Mary Lyon Hall on Sept. 5. The lecture was entitled “Empowering Women and Girls Through Education.” Zangmo focused…
President’s house to be haunted this Halloween
The president’s house, previously host to stately dinners and receptions, will serve a new function this coming Halloween. President Dennis Hanno wants to make it haunted. In an e-mail, Hanno sketched the outline of an event that would “bring the Wheaton…
President Hanno on Wheaton: “It’s Great to Be Here!”
While my first semester at Wheaton has barely begun, I feel like I’ve met so many people and learned so much about this great campus already. I know I have so many more people to meet and so much more to…
SGA President J.P. Carando on goals for new academic year
Hey everyone! I hope you are all settling in well as we start off the year. I’m pleased to report that your Student Government Association (SGA) Executive Board has been meeting since early August as a group and with administrative officials,…
Public Safety Log, Aug. 28–Sept. 3
LARCENY-THEFT From Buildings Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014 at 08:43 Location : POTATO CELLAR Summary : Larceny of electrical supplies. Deposition : Closed MEDICAL Medical Incident Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014 at 19:55 Location : MEADOWS HALL EAST Summary : AC called for…