Valentine’s Day can be an easy time of year to question our lives, in terms of present and future relationships, social standing and generally what we think of ourselves. Self-doubt can be in the air as often as amorous thoughts are. The dreaded question, “Do you have plans for Valentine’s Day?” hangs heavy for those […]
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Letter from the editor 2/19/2014
As Thomas Holmes pointed out in our paper this week, Michael Sam will, in all likelihood, become the first openly gay football player to be drafted into the National Football League. This isn’t the type of story that needs a drawn out lede or a hyperbolic introduction. It is a milestone that stands on its […]
At several of the more recent Olympic games, journalists have been struck by the idea that when you take some of the world’s fittest, most attractive people and put them in a village together under high stress for a short period of time, a lot of sex happens. Countries hosting the Olympic games, however, thought […]
TOUCH OVER THE INTERNET,” the advertisement for Durex’s latest “durexperiment” proclaims. The online video ad is for a sophisticated, expensive pair of underwear (for both sexes) that allows people in long distance relationships to stimulate each other over the internet. It’s called “Fundawear,” and in true 1950s fashion it is “the foreplay of the future.” […]
So, I’ll begin with a simple statement of truth: I don’t hate Macklemore. Far from, actually. I enjoy Macklemore’s music pretty much the same way I enjoy other radio staples nowadays–in an ephemeral, listen-as-the-trees-whiz-by sort of way. What makes Macklemore a little different, in my eyes, is the song “Same Love” and its unequivocal support […]
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The eternal question: house, or dorm?
If you’re a Wheaton student, there’s a good chance that at some juncture, you lived in one of our great institution’s dormitories. You may live in one now! Some of you may be second-semester freshman, whose Facebook photos from this year exist in an album titled “MEADOWS,” while others may be in the full throes […]
This year Wheaton welcomes Mona Damluji, a Mellon postdoctoral fellow, to the Art History department. Damluji was selected from a large number of candidates who applied for the Mellon postdoctoral fellowship in Art History and looks forward to teaching Middle Eastern studies here. The grant provides Damluji with a teaching position at Wheaton for the […]
Professor Adam Irish has been accepted this year as a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in Political Science and International Relations. The program seems to be a perfect fit for the professor, who claims that he is “just as much as teacher as I am a researcher”. Irish, who grew up in Michigan, knew from a young […]
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Peacock Pond Days #10
The birds look forward to November every year. It is a beautiful month; all the trees have turned colors, some shed their leaves entirely, but it is still just warm enough for ducks to stay up north without freezing their wings off. It is also means the equivalent of Thanksgiving for the duck nation, Quacksgiving. […]
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Is a new dorm in Wheaton’s future?
For the past few years, Wheaton has gradually increased the number of students accepted to its incoming classes. As many students have already experienced, housing, for first year students especially, has become slightly overcrowded as a result. The college’s design capacity with its current residence halls is around 1,500, yet the number of students at […]