Wire Article Archive

Every article The Wheaton Wire has published.


Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: horror & humiliation, hypervisibility, and invisibility

Kavita PremkumarNov 8, 2021

Have you ever seen yourself through another’s eyes? What did it look like? Was it ugly, terrible, horrifying? Claudia Rankine’s book Citizen: An American Lyric,…

Bridgewater State beats Wheaton in close season opener

Kavita PremkumarNov 8, 2021
Bridgewater State beats Wheaton in close season opener

The Wheaton Ultimate Frisbee (WULF) team lost fairly narrowly by a score of 12-15 in their season opener against Bridgewater State University (BSU). The game…

The Velvet Underground: How we Remember the Dead

Madison MorinNov 8, 2021
The Velvet Underground: How we Remember the Dead

Memoir-turned-film Prozac Nation shows the story of Elizabeth Wurtzel during her college days, a girl clinically depressed, and perpetually obsessed with Lou Reed. The book…

The Wire Podcast Ep. 1: Can We Say That?

Kavita PremkumarOct 7, 2021
The Wire Podcast Ep. 1: Can We Say That?

You didn’t ask us for it, but here you go. The Wire Podcast Episode 1 is now live! Join Delaney and myself, Abram, as we…

Essential Skills for College Students

Delaney BeaudoinMay 11, 2021
College student writing on a desk

College students today are in a high-stress environment and under pressure 24/7. Though there are many ways college students learn to cope with the active…

Essential Skills for College Students

Delaney BeaudoinMay 11, 2021
College student writing on a desk

College students today are in a high-stress environment and under pressure 24/7. Though there are many ways college students learn to cope with the active…

Wheaton Wire Wake Up

Delaney BeaudoinMay 6, 2021
The Wheaton Wire Wakeup News podcast by The Wire

~ A Weekly Morning Podcast ~ It’s time to wake up with The Wire! Modeled after the likes of Up First and The Daily, listen…

Students Struggle to Learn With a Time Difference

Delaney BeaudoinMay 4, 2021
College student asleep on his computer

The COVID-19 pandemic forced many college students across the world to switch to online learning. This online education model gave students the ability to go…

Fluctuating College Drinking Habits Due to COVID-19

Delaney BeaudoinApr 29, 2021
student wearing a mask during pandemic

About half of the current college students in the U.S. drink alcohol and about one-third of those students binge drink. According to the National Institute…

Wheaton Wire Wake Up

Delaney BeaudoinApr 29, 2021
The Wheaton Wire Wakeup News podcast by The Wire

~ A Weekly Morning Podcast ~ It’s time to wake up with The Wire! Modeled after the likes of Up First and The Daily, listen…

Letters Reveal 1918 Pandemic’s Effect on Wheaton

Madison MorinApr 29, 2021
Portrait of Dr. Helen Emma Wieland Cole, Professor of Classics 1932

Deep in the Wheaton archives lie the personal letters of professor Helen Wieand Cole describing her experience at Wheaton during the Spanish influenza of 1918. …

Horoscopes for the Week of 4/25 – 5/1

Delaney BeaudoinApr 26, 2021
Horoscopes

Aries (March 21 – April 19) Don’t get stuck in other people’s drama, you have your own to worry about. Taurus (April 20 – May…

Environmental Policy: An Earth Day Celebration

Delaney BeaudoinApr 24, 2021
A small green tree sitting within a glass container

At an Earth Day event at Wheaton College, students participated in a Q and A about the importance of staying active in environmental policymaking. The…

Wheaton Wire Wake Up

Delaney BeaudoinApr 22, 2021
The Wheaton Wire Wakeup News podcast by The Wire

~ A Weekly Morning Podcast ~ It’s time to wake up with The Wire! Modeled after the likes of Up First and The Daily, listen…

Campus Safety Incident in Young Dorm

Delaney BeaudoinApr 21, 2021

An unidentified man attacked a female Wheaton student in a bathroom in the Young Dormitory Tuesday afternoon at approximately 2:30 p.m. The man was reported…

Students Stressed About Finances Over Applications

Delaney BeaudoinApr 20, 2021
Student writing in a notebook

There has been a substantial decline in college applications for the 2021-22 academic year according to universities across the U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked…