2008 Woodie Awards
Some Wheaton students had exciting summers; others had relaxing ones, but Nadia Elsayed '10 had a life-changing one. She made a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, called the Hajj in Islam. "There is so much proof of God over there," says Elsayed. "It changed who I was.
The Holman Room was filled to capacity on the evening of Monday, September 22, in anticipation of Mary Evelyn Tucker's lecture, "The Emerging Alliance of Religion and Ecology." The 20th annual Martin Lecture in Religion questioned the ethics of a society that exploits the earth with no consideration for immediate or eventual consequences.
Whether the Wheaton Democrats are putting up life size cutouts of Barak Obama, signs and banners in Balfour encouraging students and faculty to vote, manning voter registration tables in Emerson and Chase, handing out Rock the Vote stickers all over campus, or knocking on doors and making phone calls--they are all about trying to swing the vote towards Barak Obama.
When your playlists are exhausted, Pandora is overworked and your CD's are at home, an alternative can be found in the new and old beats drifting over the airwaves from WCCS 96.5 FM, Wheaton's radio station. It seems with the advancement of technology and monopolization of stations, local voices are getting harder to tune in to, yet, as WCCS business manager Sean Penchoff '10 notes that still, "some people don't know that we have a radio station.
So you're daydreaming about that cute guy you met last night and all of a sudden, you're jerked back to reality with a shocking tingle in your jeans. It's been a whole 15 hours since you last saw him and finally, a text message! It reads, "Lunch at Chase in 10? From: Sarah.