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Leonardo DiCaprio finally lands Oscar win during 88th ceremony

The Oscars is easily the most glamorous night in Hollywood. The most successful people of the year in the film industry come together under the Dolby Theatre roof to celebrate the achievements of both familiar and foreign names. This year, controversy surrounded the 88th ceremony. When Oscar nominations were announced in January, the Hollywood community […]

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Winternships give students a taste of potential careers

Most students view the time between fall and spring semesters as a period to catch up on sleep, see old friends and unwind for a whole month while their studies are temporarily put on hold. However, some Wheaton students choose to take on the task of completing winter internships while they are away from school. […]

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Prospective students get a taste of Wheaton culture

If you noticed a recent influx of confused, wide-eyed youths around campus, worry not; this is no munchkin invasion, nor have new freshmen just spawned out of nowhere. What you have most likely observed are prospective students, a species not uncommon around this time of year, as college applications are in and the first round […]

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Katherine Mooney ‘17 Cooks Award Winning Chili

This past October, Programming Council hosted a Chili Cook-Off. The competitors each cooked a batch of chili using the recipe of their choice, and the judges chose the chili they thought tasted the best. In the end, it was Katherine Mooney ’17, who cooked the award winning chili and came away from the contest with […]

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Entrepreneurship Club gets approved and sparks innovation

A few weeks ago, Wheaton’s newest club was approved by the Student Government Association. Entrepreneurship Club, a club aimed at sparking innovation and discussion about social entrepreneurship on campus, hopes that its new presence can help fill a gap its president Michael Sadowsky ‘18 believes to currently be present on campus. Sadowsky first conceived the […]

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HNMUN: A crash course in diplomacy

Wheaton’s Model United Nations team (MUN) a club dedicated to replicating the experience of the United Nations, recently attended Harvard National MUN in Boston. The team had been preparing for the conference for months and a great deal of work went into making sure they were ready to participate in the event. Several weeks ago, […]

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Student profile: James Wegener ’18

If you’re a Wheaton student, you’ve probably heard James Wegener ’18 whistling around campus. Hailing from Falmouth, Maine, this New Englander plans on majoring in History (European) with a minor in biology. You can also catch him as a Resident Advisor in Young Hall, watch him play frisbee with WULF (Wheaton Ultimate Lemony Fresh), or […]

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Svetlana Alexievich wins the Nobel Prize in Literature

  On Thursday Oct. 8, Svetlana Alexievich was the fourteenth woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature by the Swedish Academy. An adamant journalist and prose writer, Alexievich, 67, is also the sixth Russian to win the award, the last being Ivan Bunin in 1933. She resides in Belorussia, and writes of politics and […]

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Don’t Panic: An advice column (week 2)

Dear Audrey and Emily, My neighbor makes a lot of noise having sex with her significant other every night around 2 a.m. She’s driving me crazy. I can’t sleep and have to get up at 8 a.m. everyday for class. Should I politely tell her to stop or continue to be sleep deprived?  -Annoyed  Audrey:  […]

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Hannah Zack ’18 writes about living with a disability for Huffington Post

Hannah Zack ’18 recently had her work published in the well-known online news aggregator, The Huffington Post. Her article, “Why We Need to Reshape What It Means To Be A Person With a Disability,” describes her own struggle living with partial paralysis and how her disability has affected others’ views of her. However, this is […]