When I was in high school, I had a big dream: I wanted to go to the movie theater regularly. Crazy, huh? I’m from rural Maine. Trekking to the theater was an endeavor reserved only for the biggest films that simply couldn’t be seen anywhere other than the silver screen — the silver screen at […]
When I was waiting in line for my order at dinner time, the steady influx of students at Chase threw the staff member making our orders for a loop. The staff member, who requested to be anonymous, was incredibly tired, missing orders and asked for our patience. I struck up a conversation with them, where […]
Deep in the Wheaton archives lie the personal letters of professor Helen Wieand Cole describing her experience at Wheaton during the Spanish influenza of 1918. “The 1918 pandemic, strangely, left little mark on the campus,” wrote Mark Armstrong, Wheaton’s archivist and records manager. Cole’s letters to her sister are the only accounts Wheaton has of […]
There has been a substantial decline in college applications for the 2021-22 academic year according to universities across the U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on high school students and changed many students’ future plans. An article by USA Today looks at data showing that fewer low-income students are applying for college amid COVID-19 […]
Whether you’re just discovering self-pleasure or consider yourself an expert, there’s always more to explore when it comes to masturbation. In the last issue of the Wire, you heard from SHAG VP, Victor Trepanier about the basics of sex toy use. Well, today we want to dive deeper into the myths and facts surrounding the […]
Although sex education varies from school to school and state to state, there always tends to be a lack of pleasure focus in the curriculum at any school, and again, puts abstinence on a pedestal and ignores focusing on sex as something that should be pleasurable.
History is in the making! NASA is targeting Sunday, April 11, for the Ingenuity Mars helicopter’s first attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet.
Wheaton’s chapter of the Roosevelt Campus Network will be hosting the Eleventh Annual WheaTalks event on April 8 this year. WheaTalks is Wheaton’s annual TedTalk-like event. Roosevelt @ Wheaton describes the event as their attempt to gather the most dynamic and engaging speakers at Wheaton to offer them 10 minutes on stage presenting their bold […]
It’s been a year since we all went home. With the pandemic still going, hookups put on hold are still not super safe. And what about those of us who aren’t really interested in sex with another person? With more time in (when not buried in papers and readings) how should we spend it? For […]
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 trouble finding masks at the store or online, and offered to make them for two dollars? at the time. After […]