Sean O’Se, one of Ireland’s great tenors, will perform in concert at Cole Memorial Chapel on Saturday, September 29.

Wheaton has joined a nationwide initiative that launches today to provide college-bound students and their parents with concise, Web-based consumer-friendly information on individual private colleges and universities.

Andries van Dam, professor of computer science at Brown University, will give a lecture entitled When is the pen mightier than the keyboard? on Wednesday, September 26 at 5:30 p.m.

Ronald Richard, president and CEO of The Cleveland Foundation, will receive the Otis Social Justice Award on Thursday, October 18 at 7:30 p. m. in the Hindle Auditorium.

Wheaton welcomed 440 new students to campus in August. Nearly 4,000 high school students applied for spots in the Class of 2011–the most applications Wheaton has ever received–and only 39 percent were offered admission.

The Wheaton College greenhouses are open for tours and repotting clinics four times each academic year. The next open house is scheduled for Monday, October 8, 2007, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

One recent Saturday morning 100 first-year Wheaton students spread out to do everything from washing walls and flipping mattresses to cleaning ovens and raking courtyards for residents who welcomed the extra hands. The effort was all a part of the Season of Service sponsored by the Office of Spirituality, Service and Social Responsibility. The work began this month and will continue into October. Students will work with a dozen social service and educational organizations at 25 local sites.