On Feb. 21 in the Ellison Lecture Hall, the 11th annual Mary L. Heuser lecture in art history took place. The talk featured Christa Clarke, Ph.D., the Board President of the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) and the AAMC foundation. Clarke is an associate with Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research […]
Culture shock, a foreign language, and you still have to go to class? The prospect of studying abroad can be daunting for many students. After all, college life is already stressful enough, even when accompanied by a carefully cultivated routine. Could completely uprooting one’s self just for a change of scenery really be worth it? […]
Every semester, students travel across the world to places like Spain, Ireland, Bhutan, and many more. But what about the students who cannot afford to go abroad, who don’t feel comfortable traveling that far, or who want a more local experience? For myself and others, the answer was the Semester in the City (SITC) program. […]
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 […]
The early 90s brought third wave feminism to America and with it, came the founding of Wheaton’s Emerson House. The feminist theme house was founded in 1994 with the intention of paying homage to Wheaton’s all-women history and to spread the message of feminism and intersectionality on campus. On March 30, the theme house will […]
The Lunar New Year celebration, sponsored by the Asian Student Association (ASA), was held on February 8, 2019. It included performances by several groups. The ASA invited two groups from Boston: The Boston Korean Traditional Dance Group as well as The Hung Gar Kung Fu and Lion Dance academy to perform Korean Fan and Drum […]
Hidden deep within the clandestine halls of the old science center exists one of Wheaton’s many on-campus hidden treasures. Officially titled Lab 213, the workshop more commonly known as The Makerspace, is just as the name would allude, space for students to flex their creative muscles through the use of modern technology. I sat down […]
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 […]
Molly Covarrubias ‘20 is a Sociology and Hispanic Studies double-major and a lacrosse player. On top of both, she is also the creator of coloring books for children separated from their families at the United States border. For the past 8 months, she has been creating, printing, selling, and sending people these bilingual – Spanish […]
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 […]