Category: Features

  • Sex Ed Week educates, promotes sex positivity on campus

    Ellie Kahn Contributing Writer This past week, The College of Wooster engaged in “Sex-Ed Week,” a biannual week full of activities and discussions centered around sexual education, respect and consent. The week is sponsored by k(no)w, the College’s sexual advocacy and anti-rape culture group on campus, who collaborated with organizations such as Queer People of…

  • Wellness Center motivates students with new, unique challenge

    Lexi Riley Staff Writer Starting Sept. 18 and going through Nov. 30, The College of Wooster’s Longbrake Student Wellness Center will be holding their first annual “The Mind/Body/Green Challenge.” The event includes four separate challenges each focusing on one of the themes of the contest: mind, body and healthy eating. Rachel David, health education coordinator…

  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to give Q&A with Wooster community

    Allie Deyhle Staff Writer On Tuesday, Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Scot Center’s Timken Gymnasium, renowned NBA star and speaker on various social issues, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, will be addressing The College of Wooster at the Annual Mortensen Lecture. The community-wide conversation with Abdul-Jabbar will be guided by selected questions submitted by students under…

  • Wooster grads impress at symposium

    Robyn Newcomb Features Editor The growing strength of Wooster’s Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) department was reflected by the presentation of nine recent College of Wooster graduates’ Independent Studies at the Alexander Graham Bell Listening and Spoken Language Symposium this summer. These nine Wooster alumni comprised more than half of the 15 accepted submissions at…

  • Wooster featured again in renowned college guidebook

    Ellie Kahn Contributing Writer Once again, The College of Wooster has made its way into the 2018 version of the renowned Fiske Guide to Colleges guidebook, an extremely helpful and thorough resource for those taking part in the college search process. Fiske Guide highlights around 300 of the “best and most interesting schools” in the…

  • Students study in Italy over the summer with College program

    Sally Kershner Features Editor This past summer, students from The College of Wooster traveled all the way to Europe to experience the Wooster Summer In Tuscany (WSIT) program. This program offers two history credits for students. Living in Italy for a month, students studied the medieval history of Europe, specifically Tuscany, earning half of a…