Category: Features

  • Garden House brings locally grown produce to Lowry

    Tristan Lopus Senior Features Writer Have you ever eaten a tomato in Lowry that tasted just a little bit fresher than the others? As though it been picked earlier that day from somewhere just down the road? It may very well have been. Tomatoes are one of several vegetables that the garden program house (Garden…

  • Philosophy speaker to examine the future of whiteness

    Dabo Li Contributing Writer   Linda Martín Alcoff, invitee for the Philosophy Department’s Ninth Lindner Lecture in Ethics, will speak on the future of whiteness at the College next week. Originally from Panama, Martín Alcoff now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She holds degrees from Georgia State University (B.A. and M.A.) and Brown University (Ph.D.)and…

  • Students experience life in the big city with City Trek: Cleveland

    Sanjana Kumbhani Features Editor For a lot of college students, one of our biggest fears is the question, “So what happens after graduation?” It’s important for us to start thinking about what we plan to do with our lives, especially our career and graduate school opportunities. Another vital component of this plan is location —…

  • Leadership essentials: talks, visits and case studies about leadership

    Drew Maakestad Contributing Writer Drew Maakestad participated in the Leadership Essentials Workshop and is writing from her perspective. What do a center for the arts, a hospital, a technology manufacturing company and the City Hall of Wooster, Ohio all have in common? One key thing, which makes a world of difference: leadership. But then, what…

  • Investment manager to visit Wooster

    Sanjana Kumbhani Features Editor As college students who often struggle handling even a couple hundred dollars of flex, it is close to impossible to imagine someone who has been successful in handling more than nine billion dollars. This year, Managing Member of Gardner, Russo and Gardner Thomas Russo will present a lecture on “Global Value…

  • Coffee: Make it better!

    Lily Iserson A&E Editor Coffee and espresso, the impetus of the modern undergrad. And why not? Apart from its obvious benefits for the sleep-deprived, studies show that coffee can improve even the most harried I.S. student’s focus and creativity. More impressive yet, a Harvard study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine argued that coffee…