Category: Features

  • COWBelles hosts annual benefit concert for OneEighty

    Kaylee Liu Contributing Writer This past Wednesday, Feb. 26, an important event for women’s health and reproductive rights was held on campus — We Can’t Keep Quiet: A Benefit Concert for OneEighty, hosted by the all-treble a cappella group COWBelles. The concert itself was nothing short of show stopping, but what’s even more amazing about…

  • SOAN department hosts annual alumni panel

    Olivia Proe Features Editor Two Wooster graduates returned to campus on Monday, Feb. 17 for the tenth annual Hochhauser Alumni Panel. Students and faculty gathered in Babcock Formal Lounge to hear from guests Dr. Aaron Lane-Davies ’90 and Elena Soyer ’17, former members of the anthropology and sociology departments, respectively. Both Lane-Davies and Soyer discussed…

  • Latinas Unidas hosts presentation and discussion

    Olivia Proe Features Editor On Wednesday, Feb. 5, Latinas Unidas (LU) hosted the event “Cafe Con Leche.” Held in the new Latinx Lounge in Armington Hall, board members Annays Yacamán ’22, Mia Villavicencio-Eschinger ’22 and Margie Sosa ’20 led a discussion about colorism in the Latinx community. “Latinas Unidas was inspired to hold our Café…

  • Deviance and Criminology teaches academics and empathy

    Kaylee Liu Contributing Writer The “prison course” isn’t the friendliest nickname for a class, as one may be inclined to think of dreary and depressing lectures about the broken criminal justice system. At Wooster, however, the “prison course” refers to professor Anne Nurse’s Deviance and Criminology course that aims to bridge the gap between the…

  • Wooster alumni running for United States Congress

    Samuel Casey News Editor Did you know that some pretty famous politicians have graduated from Wooster? A governor of Idaho, deputy director of the FBI, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and more have all walked these hallowed grounds with “Scotland the Brave” ringing in their ears. Most recently, Eugene DePasquale ’93, who has been…

  • Hillel hosts events to honor Int’l Holocaust Memorial Day

    Ellie Kahn Features Editor Observed each year on Jan. 27, International Holocaust Memorial Day serves as both an acknowledgement of the lives lost in the Holocaust and as a stark reminder to recognize and prevent similar acts of genocide today. In observance of the day, Religious and Spiritual Life (RSL) collaborated with Hillel, a Jewish…