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Opinion

Crunchy Cheetos vs Cheeto Puffs

The crunchy, cheesy, classic snack food that will leave an orange residue on your fingers after you eat them: Cheetos. What do you picture when you think of a Cheeto? This week, I turned to the members of the Wheaton community with the questions: When you picture a Cheeto, do you imagine crunchy Cheetos or […]

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Opinion

Is The Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie?

Is The Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie? What classifies a movie as either Halloween or Christmas themed? This week, I turned to Wheaton community members to figure this out.  Out of the 10 students that responded, four said that it is a Halloween movie, four said that it is both […]

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Opinion

What Color is Nothing?

Article by: Alyssa Myers ’23 What color is nothing? Does nothing even have a color at all? This week, I turned to members of the Wheaton community asking the open-ended question: what color is nothing? I got varied responses ranging from nothingness is subjective, to the color of nothing is clear, to the claim that […]

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Opinion

How many Birthdays are There in the World?

“Happy Birthday to you!”  Of the nine Wheaton Community members that responded to this question, five people, (56 percent), said that there are 366 birthdays, two people (22 percent), said that there are over 7.5 billion birthdays, and the remaining two people (22 percent), said that it depends on how you view the question. Some […]

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Politics and Economics

Wheaton College Debate: Is Defunding the Police Critical to Racial Reconciliation?

The Diana Davis Spencer Foundation is sponsoring a Wheaton College debate series, with notable guest debaters, in conjunction with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. The discussion topics and speakers for all of the debates are determined by a group of Wheaton student organizations, the College Conservatives, College Democrats, House of REPS, Roosevelt Institute, and the Wheaton […]

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Features

Is a Pop-Tart a Ravioli?

What can one classify as a ravioli? A Pop-Tart? Uncrustables? Anything with two ends of dough and some sort of filling? Or solely one pasta envelope filled with a combination of meat and cheese? I turned to the Wheaton community to answer the question that started as a 2018 internet meme—“Is a Pop-Tart a ravioli?”—with […]