Category: Features

  • Members of Moot Court advance to national competition

    Annie Sheneman Contributing Writer Six College of Wooster students will be heading to Moot Court Nationals this year. Moot Court is a simulated appellate advocacy exercise, in which students simulate advocating in front of the Supreme Court. During competition, participants work in groups of two to advocate their position, which addresses a question of constitutional…

  • Impeachment inquiry panel hosted at the College

    Maggie Dougherty Viewpoints Editor Beginning at 7 p.m. on Tues- day, Nov. 19, Wooster’s Political Science Club and History Honors Society co-hosted a panel on the current impeachment inquiry. The goal of the event was to give students the opportunity to learn more about the process of impeachment, specifically in relation to the ongoing inquiry…

  • New recycling initiative introduced to campus

    Rekik Ziku Contributing Writer Have you ever wondered why there are posters around this college telling you to recycle less? The Recycling Committee, a subcommittee of the Sustainability Committee at the College, is advocating for a change in the culture of recycling around campus to save the College from spending excessive amount of money. Even…

  • Student, professors present archival research in Hawai’i

    Zoe Carter Contributing Writer Every year, the College sends multiple students and faculty to present their research at conferences throughout the school year and summer. Though this achievement is always impressive, a Wooster team’s presentation of the “Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at Wooster: Past, Present and Future” digital history website at this year’s American…

  • Before the Underground, there was The Cage

    Megan Tuennerman A&E Editor The College of Wooster is unique in many ways: we wear kilts, hear bagpipes in our dreams, have a reverence and/or deep hatred for the squirrels on campus and have an on-campus bar. While areas like the Underground may be more common at big schools, Wooster is one of the only…

  • Annual SOAN lecture features urban criminologist

    Kaylee Liu Contributing Writer The Stieglitz Memorial Lecture is an annual talk hosted by the department of sociology and anthropology, made possible by Dr. and Mrs. Lewis N. Stieglitz of Concord, N.H. This year, the speaker, Patrick Carr, professor of sociology at Rutgers University and current director of the Program in Criminal Justice at Rutgers,…