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Appreciate the outdoors
I was fortunate enough to find a job working on the Appalachian Trail this summer, a time that now seems terribly far in the past. For all you flatlanders, the Appalachian Trail allows the mildly psychotic to hike from northern Maine to Georgia, spanning five months and almost 2,200 miles. I worked on a section…
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Spotlight: Tanvi Sood Directs Summer Concert
Determined to get the most out of their summer and striving to push themselves creatively, Tanvi Sood ’13, a potential Theatre and Dance major, and several friends from home initiated one of the first dance-only concerts of its kind in Calcutta, India. Traditional dance and theatrical performances being the norm, their young adult group’s eclectic,…
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Pitching will be key to victory in MLB division series
This week, America’s favorite pastime will once again provide us with endless hours of entertainment as every baseball fan awaits the beginning of the Major League Baseball playoffs. First, the Texas Rangers play the Tampa Bay Rays. The Rangers enter the playoffs as the dominant team from a very weak division. Despite early season hopes,…
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Ashraf Ghani shares insight for future of Afghanistan Richard Tadd Pinkston
Former Afghan Finance Minister and Presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani gave the second lecture in this year’s Wooster Forum Series with a speech entitled “Afghanistan: Owning the Present; Building the Future” on Monday.† Ghani, who was named one of the 20 most influential global thinkers of 2009 for his work on fragile states, focused on the…
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President Cornwell signs contract for a greener campus
The College of Wooster has taken two giant steps in becoming a more environmentally friendly and sustainable campus in terms of one very hot political topic: energy. For those of you that thought the building alone of the new Scot Center was a progressive feat for the College, last Monday, Sept. 20, President Grant Cornwell…
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“Fish That Don’t Exist”: excerpts from a creative I.S.
For my senior Independent Study, I plan on writing and drawing a full length graphic novel, titled “FISH THAT DON’T EXIST” (FTDE). I hope to complete at least 100 pages. FTDE is about the adhesion of myth that binds science, religion and art. It is about the impossibility of human knowledge and of human faith.…
