The Wheaton Wire

Category: News

  • Wheaton welcomes eighth president

    In a small ceremony in a chapel filled with sunlight, Dennis M. Hanno was inaugurated as Wheaton College’s eighth president on October 17. His inaugural address encouraged students to build up the Wheaton community by engaging in innovative public service, a call to “more strongly link learning and doing.” The title of the address was…

  • Patrick Crane ’14 continues with lacrosse overseas

    If you mention his name to anyone on the campus of Wheaton College, you are bound to provoke an interesting response. He is the charismatic, passionate, and red-haired, Patrick Crane ’14. A double major in Psychology and Anthropology during his time at Wheaton, Crane was a driven student-athlete who devoted plenty of his time to the…

  • Sophomore Symposium, now in two parts, helps ease transition to the second year

    Sophomore year is a time when students can really get involved with Wheaton to leave a legacy, develop a program or be a leader,” said Dean Denyse Wilhelm, Sophomore Class Dean, of Sophomore Symposium, which took place on Sept. 27. The half-day event was held in Watson and Meenely and its goal was to remedy…

  • In Hong Kong, students lead reform push

    Students have been leading a huge and well-organized campaign of peaceful protest in Hong Kong, threatening to take over government buildings and calling for the resignation of C.Y. Leung, the Beijing-appointed chief executive of the city. Protesters blocked 3,000 government workers from going to work in the city’s executive office building on Friday, according to…

  • Business lecture series kicks off with first guest

    Some of the country’s biggest businesses have been born in college dorm rooms and garages, from the minds of students.  To help tap into that potential, and to provide help and information to students here at Wheaton looking to enter the business world, Professor of Business and Management Brad Sago created the Business and Management…

  • Newest Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellows enhance teaching bona fides

    Over the course of ten years, Wheaton has helped dozens of Brown University graduate students acclimate to teaching. This year is no exception, as the Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellows Program has expanded to allow four Brown graduate students to teach at Wheaton this year. Three of them will teach this semester. Gail Sahar, Associate Provost and…

  • Public Safety Log Sept. 21 through Sept. 28

    Here: 9.19.14_9.28.14

  • Off-field issues plague NFL season

    A few weeks into what has been an entertaining NFL season, the focus hasn’t been on the games. Instead a maelstrom of controversy has made its way around the league all the way up to the commissioner’s office. In particular, the domestic violence incidents associated with star running backs Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson have caused…

  • Wheaton Cross Country clears a path for advancement

    Cross Country season is back and relocated to Haas Athletic Center! And yes, the team now practices out of Wheaton’s main athletic center as opposed to the Clark Center, just one among many changes in the 2014 season. Currently, both the men’s and women’s teams are preparing for their third meet of the season, the…

  • West Nile bites Mass. Norton remains virus-free

    Massachusetts has experienced three confirmed cases of West Nile Virus this fall, according to the state’s Department of Public Health. In a campus-wide email on Sept. 15, Student Health Services Coordinator Cynthia Maricle informed the Wheaton College student body that several cases of West Nile Virus (WNV), a mosquito-borne illness, have again been confirmed in…