![]() ![]() “I think there were voices on the staff that thought maybe it was too casual, too funny, but we’ve grown into the name. The name Babe Lincoln came from Parisi-Marcoux’s desire to be both intellectual and disarming. She applied for funding through Wheaton’s chapter of the Roosevelt Institute to create a publication that would showcase the kind of thoughtful writing she wanted to do, and fit right in with the campus think tank’s mission. Parisi-Marcoux, a double major in Hispanic studies and political science, had started writing opinion pieces for the student newspaper, The Wheaton Wire, and found the size of that section “wasn’t conducive to the sort of debate and discourse that I had in the classroom.” Launched in fall 2015, the magazine was created to give space to intellectual discussion and debate. A sampling of article titles from the 2019 issue: “Looking Towards the End of Neoliberalism,” “The American Dusklands: What We Can Learn About Empire from JM Coetzee,” “What Putin Really Wants,” “Exploring Chinese Identity at the Movies” and “The Myth of the Apolitical Text.” The entirely student-written and produced magazine features 38 pages of student essays divided into four sections: U.S., World, Science and Tech, and Culture. It’s something that you can hold in your hands, and you can see it in the library, and you can pick it up and read it when you’re just sitting around. “I wanted to do print because it’s physical. “I think I wanted people to actually read it,” she says, of why she didn’t put Babe Lincoln online. In an increasingly digital world, it may seem unusual for students to get so excited about paper, but Parisi-Marcoux says there’s something special about seeing the result of months of hard work and creative effort in print. Magazine founder and layout editor Pia Parisi-Marcoux ’19 takes the first copy off the top and smiles broadly, as enthusiasm takes over her voice. The third issue of Babe Lincoln has arrived. A round of “oohs,” and the scent of freshly printed ink fills the room. Using a borrowed set of keys, he breaks the tape on the box and lifts the flaps, revealing the contents. “Do we all have a good angle?” Senior Faheem Dyer ’19 asks, as a few around the table hold up their phones to capture the moment. It’s Thursday, the second-to-last day of spring semester finals, and a dozen Wheaton students are gathered around a plain brown box in the New Yellow Parlor in Balfour-Hood. Student-run magazine Babe Lincoln showcases intellectual discourse
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