The Wheaton Wire

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Issue #6 April 4th, 2024 Volume LVI

Husband and wife create art from opposite views

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,…

Todd Reisz presents a lecture on the modernization of Dubai

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…

On Public Safety-student relations and rules

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…

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…

Getting to know Wheaton’s new president Dennis Hanno

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…

Need a Good Night? Go See the Arctic Monkeys Live!

Need a Good Night? Go See the Arctic Monkeys Live!

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…

Dennis Hanno named Eighth President of Wheaton College

Dennis Hanno named Eighth President of Wheaton College

Dennis Hanno has been named the eighth president of Wheaton College, according to an email sent out to students and staff at 10 a.m. by Thomas Hollister, the chair of the Wheaton College Board of Trustees. “I’m thrilled to have this…

Wheaton’s President-Elect Dennis Hanno: A Cheat Sheet

In the next few weeks campus will be inundated with information about our eight president, but if you want to be ahead of the curve, we’ve got you covered. You can follow him on twitter here. Wheaton’s coverage of the Presidential…

Wheaton Women’s Ice Hockey hits the ice in 2014

As the Wheaton Women’s ice hockey team dropped the puck for their most recent game, they accomplished a feat that no other Wheaton women’s ice hockey side has done in recent years.  It was the first time in team history that…