Category: Features

Behind the scenes at the College of Wooster, members of the Physical Plant and Campus Sustainability Committee are working together to make every building on campus a little more environmentally friendly through energy savings. According to Peter Schantz, director of the Physical Plant and Co-Chair of Campus Sustainability Committee, this could come to fruition a…

When we think of Ireland, we generally picture the beautiful rolling hills of green, rainbows, pots of gold and leprechauns, red hair and freckles Ö but I think thereís one stereotype Iím forgetting. Oh yes ó drinking.† The picture of the Irish is incomplete unless there is a drunken Irishmen with a Guinness in hand…

For Ken Bogucki, executive chef and general manager, The Wooster Inn has been a place he can call his home. For the past six years, while working at the Inn, Bogucki has gotten to know most of the people that have stayed or dined there, and even parents that come to watch their childís graduation.…

When I first heard of Jim Spires I pictured a homey older gentleman that had made pottery his life. I wasnít expecting anything too elaborate ó I was wrong. Jim Spires was born and raised seven miles east of here in Dalton, Ohio.† His family didnít have much and Spires worked with a potter after…

Contrary to what many students and faculty believe, recyclable items are not separated from non-recyclable items as part of the Collegeís recycling program. If recyclable items are not placed into a specific recycling dumpster, all items will be sent to a landfill. With the Collegeís previous recycling service, Landmark Disposal Ltd., dumpsters used to be…

Growing up a teenager with worries about how much hair is left on your head and how much energy you would have the next day is an experience most cancer patients have. For Eric Babbitt í10, this was just the beginning of the biggest obstacle he would ever face. Babbitt, a two-time cancer survivor, is…