Category: Features

  • “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.…

  • First-Year Insight

    Are you familiar with that feeling you get when something feels just right? Call it intuition, a chance, inspiration, comfort or simply indescribable. Well, I believe that is what can seal the deal on making the final college decision. This was definitely the final factor in my decision to come to Wooster and I think…

  • Traces of the Trade: slavery’s hidden past

    St. James Episcopal Church hosted a screening of the documentary film, “Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North” last Thursday. The film was presented in collaboration with Wooster’s Department of Africana Studies and the Center for Diversity and Global Engagement. The documentary was shown as part of a series on PBS, featured…

  • ISA hopes to bridge the gaps between cultures

    Wooster’s International Student Association held their first dinner in the Lowry Ballroom on Monday.† The theme was “travelization” (student travel abroad) and four American students, Jeremy Bervoets ’11, Brittanny Lee ’11, Hannah Haas ’12 and Akosua Grimanis ’12, spoke of their experiences abroad to Sweden, Malawi, Peru and Ghana, respectively.

  • Dance-based Zumba craze arrives in Wooster

    The Latin American dance-based workout craze called Zumba has reached the College of Wooster.† In its inaugural year, students and faculty will now have the opportunity to take Zumba classes taught by Grace Lundergan ’11. The classes are held on Sundays in the Armington Physical Education Center, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. for students,…

  • Mohican Pow Wow provides entertainment

    Last Saturday afternoon, a group of 30 Wooster students traveled about 30 miles southwest to the Mohican Valley near Loudonville, Ohio.† The bus followed Rt. 3 through the drying golden cornfields and huge grain silos, past the agronomics advertisements along endless fields of corn monocrops.