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English department I.S. presentations engage, excite
James May Chief Copy Editor For nearly a decade, the English department has hosted an annual series of I.S. presentation panels, showcasing a selection of theses in progress and forcing seniors to a point of comprehension with their projects. This year’s series kicked off yesterday with “Literature Against Erudition,” featuring presentations by seniors Leah Zavaleta,…
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Fight! Fight! Fight!
I shamelessly love three things in this world: eating large wheels of brie cheese alone, singing Cher’s “Believe” in the shower and keeping up on every single unnecessary ego-fueled online fight between rappers. The following are highlights from real-life arguments from the last week; with any luck, someday I’ll reach a point in my life…
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New club plans to break barriers and breakdance
Michael Hatchett A&E Editor If you happen to stumble upon a group of young men and women in tank-tops on the ground, it’s not the former cast of Jersey Shore looking for a lost contact, it’s a meeting of the Wooster Breakdance Club (WBC). Founded by Noah Megregian ’16, the WBC is one of the…
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Black Artists Matter is powerful example of art’s societal power
Caroline Andrews Staff Writer Friday night, the Black Student Association hosted a poetry slam titled “Black Artists Matter” in Douglass basement. Around quarter to seven, Chadwick Smith, the president of BSA, got up and introduced the event. He said it was being hosted by BSA alongside the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) and Word…
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Required reading: pop culture for the Pope
Michael Hatchett A&E Editor Dear Pope, What’s good? How ya been? I hope you’ve enjoyed your stay in the United States. I know you’ve been tirelessly schlepping around this great country, comforting the sick and making speeches. Good for you. No offense, Frank, but you do have more important stuff to be doing. It’s my…
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2015 albums that mix perfectly with a fall road trip
Mel Griffith A&E Editor To Pimp a Butterfly (hip hop) To Pimp a Butterfly is a political, musically genius work of art. A modern classic party banger, “King Kunta” is perhaps the most referenced song from this album — but every single song is deliberately assembled in this incredible hip hop album. Not an album…