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Issue #6 April 4th, 2024 Volume LVI
Tracy Wear ‘24 on Their Small Business Making Masks
Tracy Wear ‘24, a first-year majoring in Women and Gender Studies and Sociology, has a small business making masks. They first began to sell them when they realised that some of their friends were having…
Resolution from SGA in Response to the Podcast
Dear Dean Irish, President Hanno, DEAL Co-Chairs: Stephanie Daniels, Shaya Gregory-Poku, and Raquel Ramos; and Title IX Coordinator Caraline Mulholland, We call upon you, members of the administration, to clarify the ambiguity of the clause “hostile environment” for bias incidents. The…
Top Ten Locker Combinations
Warning: This article is written for the LIAR issue, a satirical issue printed annually by the Wire. The best locker combinations ranked! A definitive analysis of what all of the best locker combinations share. Please see the attached video as a…
The First-year Social Disconnect
Image Credits: Upsplash With a half-baked closure of high school and a hybrid kickoff of college life, the class of 2024 has been left socially stunted and stressed. During the fall of 2020, 42% of students who accessed the Wheaton Counseling…
Wheaton Student Government Advocates for Repercussions after Student-Run Podcast Expressed Controversial Opinions
Corrections have been made to this article on April 9, 2021. Two Wheaton College students, Yawanathan Joseph ‘22 and Onyx Mussa ‘22, recently asserted that women should be able to provide “sex, sandwiches, and silence,” when required, during the tenth episode…
Wheaton Students Share Opinions on the First Break Day of the Spring Semester
In lieu of a Spring Break for the Spring 2021 semester, Wheaton administration opted to offer students two break days, one on Mar. 10 and the second on April 30. In an email preceding the first break day, the Dean of…
Dennis Hanno’s Commencement Announcement Sparks Discussion, Hope for Class of 2021
In a recent update to the campus, President Dennis Hanno announced that a cross-campus committee had been exploring multiple options for our 2021 Commencement, with the possibility of an in-person aspect to the ceremony. The email mentioned restrictions to follow the…
Wheaton College Admissions Office Adapts to the Spring 2021 Semester Restrictions
With the hybrid spring 2021 semester, the Admissions Office is attempting to adapt to allow prospective students to make the best possible decision while ensuring that students on campus are safe. “The Admission Office is doing our best to offer quality,…
States Are Moving To Ban Transgender Athletes
Across the country, states are banning transgender girls from competing in sports. The banning of transgender girls from athletics started last year with Idaho. Since then, Mississippi has become the latest state to file such a motion. The latest string of…
Change
Credit: Patrick Currier Every passing year, every month, week, day, hour, minute, second, or millisecond, even the smallest possible measurement of the manmade construct of time contains change. Whether it is the angle of a flicker of a candle or the…