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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 […]
On March 22, the 2019 service awards were given out during an annual event that recognizes employees’ services to Wheaton and presents the Staff Excellence Awards. A performance of two songs by Voices United to Jam (VUJ) began the afternoon and was followed by a reception by President Hanno and four division officers that honored […]
From Feb. 21-25, the 53 members of Wheaton’s swimming and diving teams took to the water in their single most important competition of the year: the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference Championship (NEWMAC). NEWMAC was held at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, roughly an hour away from Wheaton College. The event consisted of four exhilarating […]
There are few more compelling thought experiments in the current professional sports world than figuring out what’s going on with the Boston Celtics. Pre-season expectations were exorbitant. The team had their top dogs back in Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward, both of whom had their seasons cut short the previous year. Young studs on the […]
WheAccess calls upon Wheaton College students for support of the club’s mission to improve accessibility across campus. The club is currently working with the campus administration to improve the many flaws in the infrastructure of the college. According to the accessibility coordinator on campus, Autumn Grant, Wheaton College follows regulations put in place by the […]