Wire Article Archive

Every article The Wheaton Wire has published.


Behind the Glass Menagerie

Tatyanna CabralApr 25, 2018

A production of The Glass Menagerie, written by playwright Tennessee Williams, was put on in the Weber Theatre in Watson Fine Arts. Directed by Professor…

Middle East Week, a retrospective

Tatyanna CabralApr 25, 2018

This past week, several students, including Jennifer Loveland-Rose ’20, Omar Almujahed ’18, Dalia Baban, Peter Honarvar and Matthew Ghattas, hosted the 2018 Middle East Week…

Review: Invasion of Privacy

Tatyanna CabralApr 25, 2018
Review: Invasion of Privacy

Cardi B, the enigmatic, authoritative stripper and Instagram star turned rapper, infiltrated  the air waves this summer with her aggressive, unavoidable hit “Bodak Yellow.” “Bodak…

The Truth of Wheaton’s Investments

Tatyanna CabralApr 11, 2018
The Truth of Wheaton’s Investments

Tax records and financial documents show that Wheaton has benefited from, or directly invested in, companies relating to timber, oil, factory farming, the Keystone Pipeline,…

“Astrology”

Tatyanna CabralApr 11, 2018

Scorpio | Oct. 23 to Nov. 21 If you sing “Let it Snow” one more time, your friends are going to think you control the…

Isle of Dogs: Movie Review

The latest Wes Anderson film, “Isle of Dogs”, is as strange as one might expect from the acclaimed director. This stop-motion animation has a major…

Guillermo Gómez-Peña visits Wheaton College

Tatyanna CabralApr 11, 2018

In the Watson Fine Arts Experimental Theatre on March 21, 2018, a solo tour production of El border brujo was performed by Guillermo Gómez-Peña. He…

Writing Tutors at Wheaton

Tatyanna CabralApr 11, 2018

Wheaton’s writing tutors are located in the Wallace Library, immediately to the left when entering from the main doors and next to the Scholar’s Lab.…

International Bazaar

Tatyanna CabralApr 11, 2018

The International Bazaar held on March 23, 2018, celebrated the diversity of the Wheaton College student body, faculty and staff. One of the event organizers,…

Passing on the Right: an academic necessity

Tatyanna CabralApr 11, 2018

Conservative demagogues have long argued the existence of institutional discrimination against conservative professors in the academy. This discrimination, they argue, occurs through the various forms…

The Unity Bowl: Readdressing the balance between athletes and non-athletes

Tatyanna CabralApr 11, 2018

On Friday, March 30, the men’s rugby team played a home game in the Unity Bowl against Curry College on the Turf Field. Having lost…

The Bollywood dance initiative brings culture and energy to Wheaton

Tatyanna CabralApr 4, 2018

If you haven’t heard of the Bollywood dance initiative at Wheaton, this may be because it hasn’t yet been established as a club on campus.…

Chapel Basement creates focus on first generation students

Tatyanna CabralApr 4, 2018

Many students have noticed the change of the Chapel Basement’s name from the Center for Service, Spirituality and Social Responsibility to the Center for Social…

Grant for Social Entrepreneurship

Tatyanna CabralApr 4, 2018

The Diana Davis Spencer Foundation provided Wheaton with a $10 million pledge toward the college’s initiatives in social entrepreneurship. One of the outright largest pledges…

Where is the Interest in Interest Houses?

Tatyanna CabralApr 4, 2018

For the past couple of weeks, the theme houses on campus have been heavily advertising their requests for applicants for the upcoming school year due…

America’s Nation-Building Dilemma

Tatyanna CabralApr 4, 2018

The phrase “nation-building,” in a vacuum, sounds positive. Building, after all, is constructive. Nevertheless, this phrase has become something with near universally negative associations in…