In the late afternoon of Friday, April 4 there was a light sprinkle of rain outside of Haas Athletic Center as friendly faces greeted my teammates and I. Wearing matching blue t-shirts, the Relay for Life 2014 Walk for Cancer committee were so enthusiastic to see Mac Attack in our purple, hand-made shirts from Michael’s, […]
Category: Opinion
During the weekend of March 29th, I, along with ten other Women’s and Gender Studies majors and Feminist Association of Wheaton (FAW) members, attended the 10th annual National Young Feminist Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. It was a weekend of critiques, empowerment, and more critiques. As an out lesbian and open member of the queer […]
As with many liberal arts colleges, Wheaton claims a specific pride of allowing its students “expand their horizons” and limit course requirements in order to fulfill intensive major and minor requirements. This was something that I had taken completely to heart. I believed the title of a liberal arts school would cure all of my […]
There we were at 5:00 am, groggy, hungry, and cold. We all met at Peacock Pond before the sun had come up to get the waters and equipment ready before our departure for lacrosse practice, because as every athlete knows, early is on-time. The seven of us freshmen hardly said a word as we each […]
If Ms. Grace Kirkpatrick is a NARP, then I must define myself as a non–NARP. But, honestly, I’d rather define myself as a student–athlete of Wheaton. This is a response to her op–ed, “Examining coexistence of sports and academics.” In this op-ed, Kirkpatrick generalized athletics as a whole, failing to see this “dilemma” from both […]
I wrote “Examining the coexistence of academics and athletics” not because I thought people would agree; it is an op-ed, not a news article. Rather, I wrote this in order to spark a campus-wide conversation about a topic that I believe people frequently avoid (largely for social reasons). As a sister of a former Wheaton athlete, […]
I’m a NARP, a non-athletic regular person. It’s not something that I thought would really be considered as a defining characteristic in college. After all, though our majors may vary across diverse fields, we are here in a common pursuit of higher education. However, I have realized that Wheaton, like many other small colleges, is […]
Jammed into Weber Theatre like a monstrous pack of a hundred sardines, the anticipation of Wheaton’s annual gala show run by TRYBE, hosted from Thursday, Feb 20 through Saturday, Feb 22, left the audience stirring in their seats. I was glad that we had arrived early, as there were many people waiting or searching for […]
If a vagina voices its opinion in the middle of Cole Memorial Chapel, does it make a sound? According to the reception of the Vagina Monologues on February 28 to March 1 at 7 p.m., it surely does, and a loud one at that. The Vagina Monologues is a play that was written by Eve […]
On Saturday, Feb. 22, Dennis Hanno was appointed the eighth president of Wheaton College, being officially welcomed by the community for the first time on Tuesday Feb 25 in Cole Memorial Chapel. This is, I’m sure, something only few of you have heard about. Not only is the Wheaton website plastered with information and news […]