Most Title IX investigations at Wheaton are conducted and adjudicated in-house by volunteer staff members, according to Title IX Coordinator Diane Padilla. After the Title IX office received the complaint against Blackmon in November 2019, however, the Title IX Office commissioned an outside firm, Aequitask, to investigate the allegations. According to the firm’s website, Aequitask employs contractors to perform workplace and campus investigations. In the Wheaton case, CEO and founder Bruce Melt

If you want to understand the economics of the climate crisis, look no further than France and Germany. Despite its projected $580 billion investment in renewables by 2025, Germany records ten times higher greenhouse gas emissions than France. Meanwhile, French households spend only 59 percent of what German households spend on electricity.

Next summer, some fortunate Wheaton students will embark on a four-week tour of Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland as a part of the Center’s inaugural International Study Program. ISP succeeds the Iron Sharpens Iron study abroad experience, which over the last decade took Wheaties across the globe to study international political and economic systems in Southeast Asia, Central Europe, Latin America and Africa. The study abroad program has been rechristened in honor of the 50th anniversary of i

In October 2019, a parish priest in South Carolina denied Joe Biden communion over Biden’s support for abortion rights, making national news. Amid the hot takes on whether priests should refuse communion on political grounds, the real question went unasked: Why are we so surprised when a church expects members to abide by its doctrine?

On a warm December morning in Sarasota, Florida, people throng the local Wawa, pouring coffee, ordering breakfast and exchanging morning pleasantries. The only evidence of a pandemic are plastic shields in front of the cash register and the ignored “masks required” sign at the entrance. 1200 miles away, at my Chicago-area college, pandemic consciousness pervades every aspect of life. It’s a tale of two countries in one union: in one state, maskless congregants fill the pews on Sunday, and restaurants bustle with activity. In another, students wear masks on campus, even when walking outside; at the store, every checkout aisle has hand sanitizer and employees clean carts with antibacterial wipes between use.

President Ryken emailed the campus this afternoon announcing that the weekend testing concluded with only one positive result. The four students in the positive test pool are quarantined while awaiting the results of a re-test. Ryken congratulated the campus on cooperation with the “COVID-Safe, Thunder-Strong procedures” and urged continued precautionary measures “especially since Chicagoland winter

Wheaton students favor former Vice President Joe Biden over President Donald Trump by eight percentage points, according to a poll conducted by the Record. 48 percent of respondents indicated they would vote for Biden, 40 percent for Trump and 12 percent for an independent or write-in candidate. Between Oct. 27 and Nov. 1, the Record surveyed 764 Wheaton undergraduates about the 2020 presidential election. The poll was conducted by Qualtrics and distributed to the student body through an email

After a temporary judicial ruling preventing the city of Chicago from limiting free speech in Millennium Park, Wheaton’s Chicago Evangelism Team (CET) returned to the park on Friday, Feb. 21. Judge John Robert Blakey ruled in a 32-page opinion memorandum that “the City’s restrictions prohibit reasonable forms of expression in large areas of the Park.” A status hearing is scheduled for March 4 to discuss how the case will proceed. Though the students have won the right to return to Millennium Pa

On Feb. 19, Senior Class Co-President Joshua Franker posted a laminated notice on the forum wall in Lower Beamer stating that all anonymous posts would be taken down at the end of the day. In response, senior Leo O’Malley began collecting signatures to hold a referendum on all 2019-2020 Student Government (SG) proposals. After a day of encouraging students to join his cause in Lower Beamer and other areas of Wheaton’s campus on Thursday, O’Malley says that he now has 103 “signatures and commitme

This semester marks the debut of the Student Voter Education (SVE) series, a collaboration between Student Government (SG) and politically involved campus organizations aimed at informing the student body on the hows and whys of civic engagement. The series kicked off on January 15th with a talk by Assistant Professor of International Relations Timothy Taylor and Dean of Social Sciences Bryan McGraw on “Why Your Vote Matters.” “Your vote matters, but maybe not for the reasons you think it does,