Category: Features

Ama Addo Contributing Writer Poet Nin Andrews will share some of her poems with The College of Wooster this Tuesday, Feb. 9, in Kauke 305. Since her last visit in 2012, she has published Why God is a Woman, a series of poems in which she creates a world that switches existing gender roles so…

Theresa Dunne Features Editor Every week, each of the 12 students living in Hider House spend a few hours volunteering at West View Manor, a nursing home and senior care provider that has served the Wooster Community for over 50 years. The 50 students’ tasks vary week-by-week and range from helping with a game of…

Laura Leventhal Contributing Writer Meet one of the environment’s greatest degraders: the meat industry. The food industry is a well-known contributor to carbon emissions, but meat production and transportation is also a particularly large offender. The meat industry produces carbon emissions through the raising and maintenance of livestock, preparation for market and transportation to the…

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Emma Woods Lowry can be rough. We all know this. We’ve all had those days where the only thing that looks good is peanut butter on toast. So if you’re struggling to find something to eat this winter, here is a burrito recipe straight out of my mother’s kitchen (well, out of the…

Theresa Dunne Features Editor Every year since 1981, The College of Wooster has partnered with the local Wooster community to put together the Great Decisions Lecture Series. The overarching goal of the series is to promote continuous education among both Wooster students and area residents. Each year, the series focuses on a current global affairs…

Erika Purdy Contributing Writer This past summer, Annette Hilton ’17 spent 10 weeks researching a topic that was, quite literally, otherworldly. Through a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) funded and run by the National Science Foundation, Hilton, a geology major, worked with Juliane Gross, a former NASA scientist, to decipher the mystery and composition of…