In his State of the Union address on Feb. 12, President Barack Obama urged Congress to look past party lines to push the nation further on the road to recovery. Obama started his speech by invoking one of American politics’ most iconic figures: “Fifty-one years ago,” said the President, “John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber […]
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If you wandered through the Balfour-Hood Center on Feb. 15 at 7 p.m.you may have been hit by lettuce streaming from the mouth of a dragon. It is apparent that Wheaton’s Asian American Coalition (AAC) pulled out all the stops to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Lunar New Year is a more encompassing name for […]
Last spring, the Lyons marched all the way to the NCAA Division III College World Series game, and this year the team finds itself in a similar position across the landscape of the sport: the very top. Wheaton’s baseball team is ranked first overall according to multiple preseason polls, making them early favorites to capture […]
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Relentless Celtics go on without Rondo
When the final whistle blew at the TD Garden on Jan. 27, all star forward Paul Pierce, the rest of the Boston Celtics organization, and fans across New England were in sheer ecstasy. The Celtics had just upset the defending champion Miami Heat 100-98 in a double overtime thriller. Kevin Garnett and the other Celtic […]
On Feb. 13, the Office of Service, Spirituality and Social Responsibility (SSSR) held the OxFam Hunger Banquet, an event intending to raise awareness on hunger and suggesting what Wheaton students can do to help combat it. As students entered the event, they were placed via lottery into either a low, middle or upper income slot […]
In a world that is ever more technology based, it is of little surprise just how quickly the Snapchat fad has taken off. A handy app for smartphones, Snapchat allows users to record both still shots and videos that can be sent to friends and viewed for only a sender-specified period of time (often a few […]
While many Wheaton students relish the school holidays that result from winter storms or hurricanes, the Wheaton administration faces the difficult task of making the campus as safe a place as possible for students and essential staff members during a storm and its immediate aftermath. Such clean-up operations tend to go unnoticed, but have […]
There are currently over 1 billion smartphones in use around the world today. Applications, commonly known as “apps,” cover topics from entertainment, to reference, to organization. A recent addition to this industry is an app that was created specifically for Wheaton students. A Wheaton Computer Science team, consisting of Anthony Castellani ’13, Richard Neal ’15, […]
The Educational Policy Committee voted last week to approve and distribute a proposal for the creation of a new major in Business and Management. If approved, Wheaton will join an increasingly long list of small liberal arts schools that have chosen to incorporate majors in Business, marking a changing trend in what has normally been […]
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Are professional sports too dangerous?
Almost one year ago the world was shocked to learn that former NFL linebacker, Junior Seau, had committed suicide. Though initial reports were unclear as to why he committed suicide, recent findings have suggested that Seau suffered from a type of brain damage called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which can cause depression. CTE has been […]