Ever since I was young, I adored Emma Watson. Although I was not keen on the Harry Potter fanbase, her presence was always somewhere behind the vast amounts of media I consumed as a child. For me, she became the backbone of my appreciation for actresses, and led me to begin reading Harry Potter in […]
Category: Opinion
This past fall, I had the fortune of landing a job as a Collection Assistant for the Wheaton College Permanent Collection. After about a week of working for Professor Leah Niederstadt, who serves as Curator of the Permanent Collection, I began to grasp how large the Collection is compared to the relative size of our […]
Recently, there has been a lot of news coverage about sexual assault on university campuses, but it has been a problem for centuries and still continues to be. Wheaton is one of the many colleges around the globe that shares this particular horror. Just this semester there was a reported assault that took place before […]
Robin Thicke’s past year, to state it in the kindest way possible, has been pretty rough. Last Monday during a discussion with his lawyers, he admitted to being “drunk and high” every time he stepped into the recording studio. He also admitted to lying in interviews about his participation in the writing of “Blurred Lines,” […]
In starting the new year and becoming acquainted yet again with the looming heralds of trees, I am always reminded with crisp clarity that “I am here to love and to work and to love what I work”. Wheaton has had a profound impact on the way that I view individuality and the importance of […]
They’re not the same. Early this week various feminist news outlets broke the news of Joan Rivers’ death. Many celebrated her life, and the gains she made as a female comedian in a traditionally male dominated field. The comments sections of these articles were … conflicted, to say the least. I don’t mean to understate […]
The ongoing discussions involving the dining halls and meal plan have created quite the buzz already on campus this Fall. With the coming renovations of Chase round and square, one can only hope that improvements are on the way. But what does this mean for students that have already become disenchanted with dining services on […]
While my first semester at Wheaton has barely begun, I feel like I’ve met so many people and learned so much about this great campus already. I know I have so many more people to meet and so much more to learn, and I hope that you will continue to help me with this. Everyone […]
Hey everyone! I hope you are all settling in well as we start off the year. I’m pleased to report that your Student Government Association (SGA) Executive Board has been meeting since early August as a group and with administrative officials, such as President Hanno and Dean McCaffrey, about what we wish to accomplish this […]
To say the least, we were all well informed that Chance the Rapper was unable to appear at Wheaton this past Spring Weekend. With his lack of appearance came the slow downward trickle of the hype that surrounded the rapper on campus. The quick replacement of Chance with Chiddy Bang was both impressive and necessary […]