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21 Savage and the Paradox of Identity

On Feb. 3, the Music Industry woke up to discover that popular rapper She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, best known by the public as 21 Savage, had been arrested by American immigration officials. With this arrest, came a larger revelation about the rapper and his past. Despite being associated with the Atlanta rap scene, Abraham-Joseph is not […]

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Award Culture

Kicked off by the Emmy’s in September, the six months which constitute “Award season” bring in a  constant wave of viewing parties, betting pools, and the explosion of Twitter. From Oscars to Grammy’s, worth is dolled out in the entertainment industries by who wins which award and how many they get. The audience sees an […]

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Sustainability: Is Wheaton doing enough?

Anyone who eats at Chase – practically the entire campus – passes by this giant, interactive screen daily, a majority of us disregarding it without a second thought. Facing the main entrance head on, this board holds a lot of information regarding the school’s efforts to improve the campus’ carbon footprint; efforts that often go […]

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The Importance of Local Politics

Former Speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill, is best known in our time for his adage that “All Politics is Local.” The statement itself is quite simple, but carries with it a call to action and a statement on the nature of the ‘local.’ It is quite easy to get caught up in the grand […]

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Wheaton Finals: You Got This

As finals season comes into full swing, all are beginning to feel the stress. Be it a final paper, quiz or presentation, college has a funny way of making everything due within the same small frame of time. As deadlines come closer and closer, there is a need to push everything back to the latest […]

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Superficial Diversity

I love going home for Thanksgiving break. However, there is one thing I always dread when going home for Thanksgiving break: the many hours that will be spent watching Modern Family, a family favorite. Modern Family, for those who have never heard of it, is a family-friendly sitcom about an extended family. The show has […]

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Potential Corrections to Wheaton’s Curriculum

Students on campus may have heard that Wheaton is in the middle of reviewing their curriculum. Meaning some of the requirements may be done away with, or, at the very least, changed to fit a new academic goal. I have found two overarching issues with the curriculum as it stands: connections and foundations. It’s easy […]

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Midterm Elections: Complicated Success

I have spent every day since election night writing, deleting, and then re-writing this article, as I have attempted to determine what the proper takeaway from 2018 politics was. There is very little unity even within the Democratic Party about what narrative we sell, and what game-plan we run for 2020 (Believe me, the invisible […]

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Be Counted: The State of Voting

One of the foundational myths of the United States is that to be a citizen is to be counted by the State. The truth is that the only formal way the population is counted is through the census that is conducted every 10 years. The census always represents in some part the biases expressed by […]

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An Oxford Education isn’t Enough, But Neither is Liberal Arts

In light of Wheaton’s current curriculum review, I’d like to offer an alternative to our current class structure by advocating the incorporation of the tutorial system. 36 essays. 36 tutorials. 24 weeks. This brief list most succinctly summarizes my academic year studying abroad at Mansfield College, part of the University of Oxford in England. As […]