Category: Top Stories

  • CreateHER hires students to serve as ambassadors

     Bijeta Lamichhane News Editor  This year, createHER is hiring students from the College to join the program as ambassadors. The ambassadors will fulfill the roles of Social Media Specialist, Event Planning Specialist, Community Engagement Specialist and Advocate Engagement Specialist. The positions — which are paid — will require a time commitment of four to six…

  • Students bring international climate strike to campus

     Wooster Environmental Justice Coalition is organizing the strike on Sep. 20 as a part of the Global Climate Strike movement  Waverly Hart Editor in Chief On Friday, Sep. 20, a group of passionate students are bringing an international environmental movement to The College of Wooster campus.  “The climate crisis is an emergency that has already…

  • Power struggles abound on Ivory Coast

    by Ramsey Kincannon, Senior Staff Writer In November 2010, five years after a delayed democratic election due to a bloody civil war, many Ivorians thought they had finally found peace. There had been significant United Nations forces attempting to keep peace for years now and many were excited for Ivory Coast to finally become self-reliant.…

  • Jazz Ensemble performs excellent tribute to Pastorius

    Despite the icy weather in February delaying their performance for three months, The College of Wooster Jazz Ensemble and Italian professional† electric bass guiatrist Maurizio Rolli put forth an excellent show in tribute to legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius last Friday in McGaw Chapel.

  • The Art of Independent Study

    by Margaret Donnelly, Editor in Chief The senior studio art majors’ Independent Study exhibitions opened last week in the MacKenzie Gallery at the Ebert Art Center with the works of Will Santino ’11 and Nick Ouellette ’11, whose exhibitions explored Biblical concepts of creation myths, language and the Tower of Babel. Santino showed drawings from…

  • Zurko and Milligan astonish at the faculty art shows

    Kicking off The College of Wooster’s 2011 art show season, professors Bridget Milligan and Walter Zurko debuted and spoke about their respective projects, “Fireside Tales” and “ÖA Matter of Time,” which they each made during their most recent sabbatical from the College. Milligan worked with photography and digital art techniques, while Zurko made sculptures.