On Sunday, Feb. 22, Wheaton’s Presidential Search Committee selected current Provost and Vice President of Babson College Dennis Hanno to become Wheaton’s new president, effective July 15. Hanno will be Wheaton’s eighth president. In Cole Memorial Chapel the following Wednesday, the Wheaton campus warmly welcomed Hanno to the community. As only the eighth president in […]
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Public Safety Log 2/24/2014 through 3/3/2014 courtesy of Director of Public Safety Charles Furgal located here – 02.24_03.03.14.
Wheaton Words, a series of monologues written by Wheaton students and alumnae, will be held on March 20, March 21 and March 23. The monologues are centered on various subjects such as sexuality, relationships and identity. The monologues are directed by Blair Davis ‘14 and Luke Demers ‘14 and produced by Sophie Howard ’14. Emily […]
Programming Council (PC) Chair Bailey McWilliams ’14 and Wheaton’s Student Government Association (SGA) have announced that independent hip-hop artist Chance The Rapper will be headlining this year’s Spring Weekend, which is officially billed as “Spring Weekend 2014: Out Of This World.” According to McWilliams’ announcement and an accompanying video shot by Gabe Bornstein ’14, Wheaton […]
Dennis Hanno, Wheaton’s president-elect, came to the Student Government Association Senate meeting on Tuesday, March 4, to discuss what he wants to accomplish in his tenure as the school’s eighth president. Several senators who participated in the meeting had reactions to the president-elect’s talk. Senator-at-large Michael Ratliff ’16 approved of Hanno’s focus on supporting students […]
The Wheaton community congregated in the Chapel Tuesday afternoon to welcome Wheaton’s President-Elect, Dennis Hanno. President Crutcher opened the ceremony, recalling his own Presidential Welcome. He emphasized his pride for Wheaton’s “warm, welcoming, and friendly” community. Nancy Pearlstine Conger, the chair of the Presidential Search expressed her excitement for Dennis Hanno to take office. The […]
On the same date as the announcement of Wheaton’s President-Elect Dennis Hanno, Together We All Prosper (TWAP) House also elected Juwan Mimes ‘15 as president. TWAP is an all-male theme house at Wheaton whose “primary goal as a house is to build strong, educated men for the future” and “hope to develop a mutually-beneficial relationship […]
The UEFA Champions League round of 16 has kicked off this past week with largely anticipated contests between some of the best European soccer clubs of our time. Every remaining team in the tournament has the same goal: to be crowned the best team in Europe at the tournament final in Lisbon, Portugal come May. […]
Sitting in the Gebbie Special Collections and Archives, I leafed my way through the issues of the Wheaton News (the predecessor of the Wire) from the school year 1963-1964. I thought about how, in our brief four years here, we believe it is safe to assume that institutions such as Wheaton are static. However, as […]
Midterm elections are boring, especially compared to presidential elections. Rather than one nation-wide election between two well known candidates, midterms revolve around several state and district-wide elections between candidates most Americans don’t know. But despite being boring, midterm elections are usually important, since they decide which party controls the legislative branch of government. The upcoming […]