Category: Features

Ippolito volunteered with La comunidad Inti Wara Yassi, an organization started by Bolivian environmentalist Juan Carlos. There are a total of four wildlife parks, and two smaller parks as well. The first was Parque Machia, which has a reserve that is primarily populated by monkeys. The area Ippolito lived and worked in was called Ambue…

This year, be sure to keep an eye out for the dinners that the campus religious group Hillel is offering for all Jewish students on campus as well as curious community members. Every other Friday in honor of the Jewish Sabbath (or Shabbat in Hebrew), Hillel will gather. On alternating weeks, they meet in Lowry…

College of Wooster Professor of Theatre and Dance Dale Seeds has spent his last three sabbaticals in Alaska. He has been studying indigenous Alaskan performance since 1994. Alaska is home to various indigenous cultures, some of which, Seeds says, have vivid memories of the first time they saw a “white man”. Many of the places…

As students and professors settle in to new classes and the habits of a new year, 515 new students are experiencing The College of Wooster for the first time – the members of the class of 2012. Most of the first-years arrived on campus Wednesday, Aug. 21 for First-Year Orientation. The theme this year was…

On Sunday, Sept. 7, Professor of Religious Studies Ishwar Harris organized a trip to Cleveland to see Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s grandson Rajmohan Gandhi speak at the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church. Many of the students who attended are currently enrolled in Harris’ class, “The Life and Thought of Gandhi.”

Every year on Scots in Service National Volunteer Day, students, alumni, family and friends of the College of Wooster from across the country participate in voluntary community service. This year the seventh annual Scots in Service day will be held on Sept. 28. Emmanuel Sterling ’07 has decided to continue the charitable works he began…