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On Sept. 16, President Dennis Hanno sent out an email informing the Wheaton community that Provost Linda Eisenmann would serve as provost until June 30, 2016 and following a sabbatical, would assume a faculty position at the start of the 2017-18 school year. Eisenmann, a professor of history and education, is interested in the social […]
Defunding Planned Parenthood is a political game and if House Republicans were successful, we’d all be losers. On Thursday, the Senate voted to reject a bill to defund Planned Parenthood. Shortly after, John Boehner announced that he would be resigning as Speaker of the House, most likely due to conservative pressures to shut down the […]
On Sept. 15, the administration at Wheaton held a meeting open to students to discuss the details of the Department of Justice’s investigation of a supposed breach in Title IX on campus regarding sexual assault policies. Title IX warrants that all colleges provide equal rights and opportunities despite gender. Many students showed up to the […]
Last Saturday, September 12, Programming Council put on its semi-annual Roller Rink event in Haas Athletic Center. Students from every grade stopped by to eat and skate around with friends. The leaders of Programming Council blasted “Dancing Queen” and various other quintessential disco songs. Haas was decorated with multi-colored, rotating lights that transformed the athletic […]
Wheaton Field Hockey has had an incredible start to their 2015 season with a 5-1 record, undefeated in their first five competitions up until their most reason contest against nationally ranked Wellesley. This has been one of the best starts in program history for the Lyons in their third season under head coach Cara Reese. […]
On the weekend of September 11 and 12, Wheaton had its annual service weekend projects under the title “Wheaton Cares.” It was a success with 8 projects and approximately 100 student and alumni participants. The Wheaton Cares program was initiated after 2009, when President Obama declared that the day of September 11 be a National […]
The RAD self-defense program is taught in almost all colleges and universities in the United States. In the following weeks, a number of Wheaton students will be attending RAD self-defense classes taught by dedicated Wheaton Public Safety officers who are also certified RAD instructors. The RAD program has been running since the 1980s and offers […]
Continuing conversation on campus about the hate flyers put up on two floors on Meadows West on September 5 have so far led to campus meetings with students, faculty and staff, and some policy proposals. President Hanno’s Council on Inclusion and Diversity, or CID, met on September 15 to discuss the incident, and presumably also […]
On Thursday, Sept. 17, sociologist David Grusky delivered a lecture entitled ‘The Death of the American Dream?’ to a full audience in the Hindle Auditorium as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars program. Grusky, director of Stanford’s Center on Poverty and Inequality, presented evidence from his recent study to reveal how America’s increasing […]
Years after graduation, we might pull out our yearbooks to take a sentimental journey through time, likely asking ourselves on multiple occasions as we flip pages, “Did I really do this?” Without a staff to produce the Nike yearbook, it would be all but impossible to preserve such college memories. Student organizations occasionally experience downtime […]