Standing at a podium in front of hundreds of people with trembling fingers and a wavering yet passionate voice, actress Ellen Page gave both us and herself something far more memorable than chocolates and teddy bears for this past Valentine’s Day. On Friday, February 14th, Page came out as gay at the Human Rights Campaign […]
Category: Opinion
Midterm elections are boring, especially compared to presidential elections. Rather than one nation-wide election between two well known candidates, midterms revolve around several state and district-wide elections between candidates most Americans don’t know. But despite being boring, midterm elections are usually important, since they decide which party controls the legislative branch of government. The upcoming […]
Editor’s note: Editorials represent a view supported by the Wheaton Wire as an entity. At this point in the school year, with the number of incidents that have occurred and the increasing animosity between Public Safety and students, it’s clear that something in the relationship between the two needs to change. The two questions that […]
Eight years ago, Ray Nagin was the popular mayor of New Orleans who rallied the city after Hurricane Katrina’s devastation. Now, Nagin is headed to federal prison after a jury convicted him on 20 charges of corruption. He accepted at least $200,000 from contractors who wanted the lucrative post-Katrina rebuilding contracts. Nagin’s sentence could be […]
Effective policies begin with recognizing reality, and a reality of life on college campuses is that students drink, usually in large groups and often to excess. This is as true today as it was in 1898, when Princeton University tried to ban alcohol for a few, unsuccessful years. Wheaton’s current policy is only a little […]
For more than two decades, the accusation of Woody Allen molesting his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow was swept under the rug, hardly a shadow to his success as a film writer, director, and comedian. His work had been acknowledged fondly for years, most recently depicted in his winning of the Cecil B. DeMille Award at […]
We have all heard the phrase, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Likewise, political scandal is in the eye of the beholder – its perception greatly depends on one’s party affiliation. Grabbing the headlines of newspapers, we hear about them, but they are often accompanied by the predictions of various analysts. It is […]
In the annual State of the Union address, held in front of members of Congress last Tuesday, President Obama urged members of both parties to work together and to regain the trust of the American people. “The question for everyone in this chamber,” said Obama, “is whether we are going to help or hinder this […]
It is becoming difficult to get through a month, or even a week, without seeing some sort of tragedy break on the front pages. Even as I write this on Friday evening, I’m seeing reports about a shooting in the Los Angeles Airport, leaving one TSA officer dead and at least two others wounded. In […]
It’s been a bad few weeks for America. Between a meaningless government shutdown and a disastrous start of the Obamacare health exchanges, the government confirmed our worst fears about partisanship and incompetence. Hardline conservatives led the Republican Party on a suicide mission to shut down the government and threaten not to raise America’s debt limit […]