Category: News
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Wheaton Welcomes President-Elect Dennis Hanno
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…
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TWAP elects new house President in Juwan Mimes
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…
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UEFA Champions League is back with round of 16 play
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.…
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Fifty years later: Wheaties still trying to find something to do on weekends
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…
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You Know He’s Right
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…
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Husband and wife create art from opposite views
Starting on Jan. 20 and continuing until Feb. 26, the clean, bright, minimal Beard and Weil Galleries in Watson Fine Arts will be crawling with microbes. The galleries’ current exhibition, entitled Inner and Outer Space, is an exploration of the human desire to magnify that which we are too large to see, and to touch…
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Todd Reisz presents a lecture on the modernization of Dubai
On Monday evening, students piled into Ellison Lecture Hall in Watson Fine Arts to hear Todd Reisz present on widespread connotations and general misconceptions that currently surround the city of Dubai. Entitled “It Smells Like Dubai,” the lecture is a part of a series on professional development for Art History students at Wheaton. Reisz is…
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Getting to know Wheaton’s new president Dennis Hanno
Yesterday morning, the Board of Trustees announced that the search for President Crutcher’s replacement has been concluded with the selection of President-Elect Dennis Hanno, currently the Provost of Babson College. In the coming weeks, there’s bound to be many details shared surrounding the search and appointment, but for now, lets take a look at Hanno…
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Dennis Hanno named Eighth President of Wheaton College
Dennis Hanno has been named the eighth president of Wheaton College, according to an email sent out to students and staff at 10 a.m. by Thomas Hollister, the chair of the Wheaton College Board of Trustees. “I’m thrilled to have this opportunity to lead one of the true gems of higher education in the U.S.,”…