From Live at the Loft events to Open Mic Nights at the Den, Wheaton makes sure to display brilliant and diverse talent, both on and off campus. Not only does the number of events and clubs on campus provide evidence for Wheaton’s thriving appreciation of the arts, the reception of many of these events is […]
Category: Abroad
Blog entries from students having studied abroad.
According to David L. Jaffe, a professor at Stanford University, academic cheating is defined as “representing someone else’s work as your own”. It can take many forms, including, but not limited to: sharing assignments, paying for completed assignments, and plagiarism. Cheating is an epidemic that infects learning institutions across the country. In 2013, the Joseph […]
Trigger Warning: This article discusses forms of domestic violence that may be triggering for some readers. Read at your discretion. October is Domestic Violence Awareness month, so it’s important for the Wheaton community to learn about this issue and work to end partner violence on our campus and beyond. Domestic violence is defined by the […]
Last week, five-time World Series champion and fourteen-time All-Star Derek Jeter retired from his twenty-year baseball career as shortstop with the New York Yankees. Being drafted directly out of high school, Jeter wasted no time in building his success, being selected as “Rookie of the Year” at the end of his first active season. Famously […]
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 […]
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 […]