As the new school year approached, the Attleboro Sun Chronicle talked with Emily Firment ’11 about how she won her post as the president of the Student Government Association while she was abroad in Egypt her junior year, and what she learned from the experience.

“Without being cliché, I must say that running from abroad was a true test of dedication to something that has completely transformed my experience at Wheaton,” she said. “Through the long hours of campaigning, I learned the importance of resolve and focus in order to succeed.”

Ted Worcester ’12 and a former high school classmate are developing a web site that would provide a research tool for high school students to explore East Coast colleges—liberalartscolleges.com.

Articles in the Morning Sentinel (Waterville, Maine) and the Attleboro Sun Chronicle about the business venture noted that their web site would showcase about 30 liberal arts colleges, including Wheaton, through video tours, interviews with professors, students and admissions officials. It would generate revenue through advertising sales.

It would be easier to name the media outlets that didn’t make note of NBC “Today” show anchor Ann Curry’s Commencement gaffe.

The fact that she named graduates from the “other” Wheaton College during our big day went viral just hours after the fact, starting with Twitter and Facebook.

And it was covered by just about everyone, including the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, and U.S. News & World Report.

By the end of the week of merriment at her expense, Curry (who sent a letter of apology to the Wheaton community) recovered and poked fun at her own mistake on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”

She redeemed herself by giving us a national shout-out and naming some of our own famous graduates. Her words of advice for avoiding such mishaps? “Never Google drunk,” she jokingly told the audience.

The good news is that everyone now knows exactly where we are located.