If you were to hop on either Spotify or Apple podcasts and look at the charts displaying the most listened to podcasts you would see that on both charts within the top […]
True Crime: A Deadly Obsession
(Political) (Not-so-Brief) Briefs by Ben
Last week on Nov. 2, 2021, it was my favorite day of the year, Election Day! Here are some particularly consequential races from near Wheaton College. These numbers are mostly based on […]
Count Your Lucky Stars Volume Six
We’re in the weird liminal space known as November. Scorpio • Oct. 23 to Nov. 21 Halloween may be over, but nothing is scarier than daylight savings time. Turn on all your […]
In the Mood for Love: Frames within Frames
Everyone lives within their own reality, their own frame. Sometimes that frame becomes a fantasy. Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love is an exploration of what happens when that frame, that […]
Meet our new Wheaton employees
In the midst of the Great Resignation, Wheaton has gained a number of new employees. Here are three new faces to recognize around campus this year. Leigh Kozak (she/they) Hometown: Sudbury, Massachusetts […]
Count your lucky stars volume five
Will your horoscope be a trick or a treat? Libra • Sept. 23 to Oct. 22 You’re a Reese’s Cup in a sea of Smarties. Scorpio • Oct. 23 to Nov. 21 […]
Briefs by Ben volume two
Wheaton Campus gets ready for Halloween and sees some large shake-ups Author’s Note: Skipping a week gives you more events to choose from. *Taps forehead* Wheaton’s Colleges Against Cancer group hosted a […]
Striketober explained
What do Alabama coal miners, Massachusetts nurses, Hollywood assistants, and Kellogg’s employees all have in common? If you said that they’re all-American workers who are striking in a collective effort to better […]
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: horror & humiliation, hypervisibility, and invisibility
Have you ever seen yourself through another’s eyes? What did it look like? Was it ugly, terrible, horrifying? Claudia Rankine’s book Citizen: An American Lyric, among other things, illustrates how a lens […]
Bridgewater State beats Wheaton in close season opener
The Wheaton Ultimate Frisbee (WULF) team lost fairly narrowly by a score of 12-15 in their season opener against Bridgewater State University (BSU). The game occured on Friday, Oct. 22 at the […]