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Wooster excels at math and scientific modeling competition
Ben Taylor Staff Writer A group of Wooster students that competed in an annual mathematical and scientific modeling competition after finished in the top 45 percent of the prestigious competition. Both teams placed well at the international event held in February against thousands of teams from schools like Harvard and Princeton. The teams gained honorable…
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Upcoming Campus Event: Stomping the Violence
On April 27, the Brothers of Diversity (BOD) will host their second annual “Stomp the Violence” in the Oak Grove to help raise awareness of sexual, domestic and gender based violence. In years past, the Women’s, Gender, and Sexual Studies Department has hosted the annual event “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes,” in which male…
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McGaw Chapel myth uncovered
Dan Grantham Viewpoints Editor If you toured Wooster during your college selection process, your tour guide probably told you that the 42-year-old McGaw Chapel was supposed to be built entirely underground. “The school should have listened to the geology department,” the tour guide probably said, pointing to the seven towers as the only thing that…
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Environmental Tip of the Week: 4.19.13
Happy EarthFest! I hope you’re ready for it. Of course, you’ve been “doing it in the dark,” turning off lights and unplugging electronics all week so that your residence hall will win the energy competition (ending on Monday). Maybe you’ve even started spring-cleaning and tossed some stained shirts and torn shoes into the yellow Planet…
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Woo Student Union campaigns for tuition transparency
Brooke Skiba Features Editor Over spring break, many students and parents were alarmed to receive a letter about yet another tuition hike for the next school year. Though this 4.6 percent raise to $51, 600 a year caused financial complications for many students and families, some felt they did not have an outlet to express…
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A father’s story of his wordless daughter’s journey
Robert Rummel-Hudson, author of “Schuyler’s Monster: A Father’s Journey with His Wordless Daughter,” gave a talk on Tuesday evening in Gault Recital Hall. Rummel-Hudson is the father of a girl with a rare condition called Bilateral Perisylvian Polymicrogyria, a complicated disease characterized by a certain amount of small gyri (convolutions in the surface of the…
