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Issue #6 April 4th, 2024 Volume LVI
Wheaton College Reopens for the Spring Semester, Asks that Returning Students Abide by the Following Community Commitment
As members of the Wheaton community, we all share the responsibility of ensuring that “we may have life and have it abundantly.” In the midst of COVID-19, this means actively working to stay safe and…
‘Better Dead Than Co-Ed’: Wheaton Alum Organizes Reprinting of Protest Shirts
Following the popularity of a post in a college Facebook group of a Wheaton College student in front of Cole Memorial Chapel in a shirt bearing the motif “Better Dead Than Coed,” Katherine Mooney ’17 began to organise the reprinting of…
Part 2 of Policing Scenarios: An Educational Read on Policing & The Criminal Justice System
Scenario 1: Black man Scenario 2: White man (Read the scenarios again in Part 1!) “Abolish the police,” became a rallying cry around 1988. Prior to this, the creation of the police was to maintain law and order. The word comes…
What you missed in 2020
Though the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the year 2020 more than anything else, there have been many life-changing events that have been overlooked due to the overarching attention the pandemic has stolen from news industries around the world. Natural Disasters The…
Wheaton Lays off All Public Safety Officers Except Two, Employs Private Security Firm
All but two members of Wheaton College’s on-campus police force, Public Safety, were recently laid off by the administration and replaced with a private security firm. On Jan 11., Public Safety partnered with the Securitas Security Company, described as “a national…
Public Safety Report: Summarized
A copy of the 2020 Wheaton College Annual Security and Fire Safety Report was made available on Monday of this past week by Public Safety. The report includes statistics for 2017, 2018, and 2019 calendar years. It includes statistics on crimes…
Wheaton College President, Dennis Hanno, stepping down in Late 2021
Wheaton College President Dennis Hanno will step down late in the calendar year of 2021. Hanno, the eighth president of Wheaton College was appointed to the post in February of 2014. President Hanno was previously at Babson, where he served as…
Horoscopes for the Week of 12/6 – 12/13
Aries (March 21 – April 19) It’s finally time to get your home in order, Aries. Now that school is done for the semester, you can focus on getting organized! Don’t worry about the stuff that you don’t get organized, just…
Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse announces he will not seek re-election
Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse (D) will not be running for a fifth term in the city’s 2021 election, he announced in a statement issued Tuesday morning. Morse said in the statement he originally intended to serve for ten years. “When I…
Horoscopes for the Week of 11/29-12/5
Aries (March 21 – April 19) Have you been putting off your schoolwork, Aries? Take a minute to think about your goals. Is procrastination helping? No. Only one more week then it’s break time! The sooner you get your stuff done, the…