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On Saturday, April 6, Wheaton College Women’s and Men’s Outdoor Track and Field teams competed in a tournament in which they placed first and fourth overall respectively among their divisions, hosted by Amherst College. The teams are looking to finish strong in these last few weeks. Individuals and the team as a whole are looking […]
The women’s tennis team, now several weeks into Conference Play, is pushing the game courts from the enclosed space of Haas Athletic Center to the outdoor Clark Tennis Fields, located nearby Sidell Stadium, Wheaton’s baseball field. The Lyons are off to a 4-7 overall start and are 2-3 in Conference Play. “It’s been a solid […]
As of the Fall 2019 semester, Wheaton will have a new residence hall. Pine Hall has a 178 bed capacity and is located near Pine Street, adjacent to the Meadows complex and Young, McIntire and Clark (YMC). The target completion date is July 2019, with an opening planned for the 2019 fall semester. The Associate […]
For the first time ever, the Office of Residential Life is offering theme houses a chance to solidify their mission and goals through an initiative that is being referred to as a trial house or incubator suite. Lyndsey Aguilar, interim housing operations coordinator, credits the concept of this initiative to the Theme House Selection Committee. […]
The Wheaton Model United Nations (MUN) team hosted a high school conference on the Wheaton College campus on April 6. The WheaMUN Conference was attended by four different high schools including Gould Academy (ME), Rocky Hill School (RI), Foxborough High School (MA) and Weston High School (CT). The opening ceremony began with a couple of […]
Throughout the semester, the dean of library services, Megan Brooks, has been working diligently to improve the Wallace Library. Physicals changes include “lovely windows that let in the light from the stair tower – the atrium is much brighter than it used to be. The library worked with facilities to have several small windows, […]
Wheaton’s softball team is now over a third of the way through the season, and their story is monumentally different than that of one year ago. The Lyons stand at a strong 12-4 overall record as of March 26—compared to a record of 2-10 at the same time last year. Pitching has been an area […]
A single home run in the ninth inning by the Coast Guard Academy was not enough for them to prevail in the second game of their series against Wheaton College’s baseball team. In this two-game series, Wheaton’s 10-3 baseball team was able to outplay and outlast the Coast Guard Academy as they outscored them 5-0 […]
The Wheaton Tutor Outreach Program is one of Wheaton’s successful connections to the Norton community and other surrounding areas. It is a semester-long volunteer program that allows Wheaton undergraduates to assist teachers at several locations near campus including: the Norton Public Schools, Taunton Housing Authority and Head Start. Alumna, Cassie Peltola ’14, the assistant director […]
The Babe Lincoln magazine, Wheaton’s only student-run magazine that focuses on politics and culture, was created in 2015. As said by Faheem Dyer ’19, the magazine’s current Editor-in-Chief, “with the Wire‘s news focus, and Rushlight‘s focus on creative writing, but no publication dedicated primarily to commentary and criticism, Pia Parisi-Marcoux ’19—then a writer for […]