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Dear Readers, In this issue of The Wheaton Wire, you will find stories of poetry, movies, car accidents, and… student feet. I hope you had a fulfilling and eventful Halloweekend; it seems that the rain spared us until Monday. Fall is fleeting and we are on the tail end of it, I have been soaking […]
New is merely a synonym for exciting. With the knowledge of a pool already a central part of campus, Wheaton Athletics expanded into a completely new aquatics sport, Water Polo. Even with small numbers on both the men’s and women’s sides at the moment, the team is led by a coach who is not afraid […]
Amongst film discourse, it’s somewhat of a running gag that successful, gory, low budget horror movies are nearly always turned into massive cash cow franchises. This is regardless of how convoluted and unnecessarily stretched out their stories become. At the end of the day, if you throw the name Halloween, Friday the 13th, or A […]
Some leave the sport they love quietly. Others fade due to injury or simply age out of the game. Julie Ertz, the now former USWNT midfielder/defender did neither.
What better person to lead Wheaton swimming than someone who has been a part of the success of the past?
It’s a simple decision: you either walk right out of your dorm door every morning or you stop to lock it behind you. Either way, it’s nothing more than a reflex. It simply is what you do. Personally, I haven’t locked my dorm door since the bizarre first few weeks of my freshman year during […]
Even going to a school that does not compete in the Division I NCAA Tournament, it is hard not to notice its effect on everyday news in the month of March. While college basketball has delivered with the competition between the white lines, a coaching carousel in one of the country’s most competitive conferences has […]
With graduation looming ominously close for the class of 2023, seniors are all overwhelmed with a range of emotions including fear. We are leaving the nest, our little Wheaton bubble that has managed to protect us from the world for four long years. Now we have to fly or try our hardest, at least. I […]
The extent in which political polarization has influenced the state of politics across the United States, for better and for worse, has become the topic of numerous political conversations for quite some time now. But what most of these heated conversations fail to address is the prevalence of an individual’s political attitudes being impacted by […]
There is not a story in the world of soccer today that is much larger than what is happening with Canadian soccer, specifically the women’s national team. Before the defending gold medalist came up short against the United States in the Sunshine State in the SheBelieves Cup opener, captain Christine Sinclair and the rest of […]