This year, the Wheaton Wire will publish articles covering current events around COVID-19 and stories on how students and campus organizations are changing their procedures to help support each other during this global pandemic.
It has been an intense, creative, insane, and ridiculously wild road this year. As a Junior, I reach the end of this year with excitement and trepidation for what next year will bring. Exam weeks close in with the beautiful sun and the gorgeous atmosphere of Spring we get glimpses of from Library windows as […]
As a paper, we pride ourselves on not only observing the Wheaton community but engaging in it as we work within the experience. With Spring Weekend all wrapped up, one on the list of many events taking place this April as the semester concludes. With a heavy roaster, the Wire staff is working to balance […]
At this time a year ago, Wheaton was plunged into darkness. In its second blackout of the year, students flooded the Library and Science Center. Now as emails are sent out warning of high winds and anything from hard rain to a full snow storm is around the corner, I hope that we can prepare […]
Hello again readers, February’s flying by and the semester seems to be in full swing. As we continue Black History Month, I thought I’d muse on one of my personal idols, Ida Bell Wells. Wells was a woman who, regardless of risk or threat, wrote about what was important and fought about what was right […]
Welcome back! It’s the start of a new semester and two weeks in, can be said that a lot has happened already. From classes beginning to the conclusion of the McIntire incidents, this is already turning out to be an eventful semester. Hopefully, in the coming weeks, we address building back of safety and community […]
As finals season comes into full swing, all are beginning to feel the stress. Be it a final paper, quiz or presentation, college has a funny way of making everything due within the same small frame of time. As deadlines come closer and closer, there is a need to push everything back to the latest […]
In the week after elections, there are always elements of celebration, frustration, and hope. For either side or rather all sides, there are wins and losses. Watching these midterm elections has been fascinating to me as we’ve seen extreme voter turnout and history-making results. But most interesting to myself has been that in a way, […]
Voting. While I’d love to write a whole article on Halloween and its lore (trust me I would), we should discuss what’s on everyone’s mind, as fast approaching ballots are due and every station is tuned to policy discussion and hearings. For college students,it is an especially complicated discussion when it comes to home and […]
Hello readers! We are arriving in the third week of the semester and already I feel at least four months behind in my work. Thankfully we survived the storm without any outages thus far, and as I write this I hope the lights stay on so I can finish not only my readings, but also […]