Category: News

  • Services extend hours to help seniors & I.S.

    With spring break a week away, thereís only one thing on the minds of all the Wooster seniors ó turning in their I.S. As students schedule their last meetings with advisors, work on finishing their final chapters and begin proofreading, the process surrounding binding, copying and turning in I.S. has kicked off into full swing.

  • Hale illuminates Viking ship past

    Although Professor of Anthropology at the University of Louisville John Haleís lecture on the Viking longships, held Tuesday morning at 11 a.m. in Scovel Hall, was billed as illustrated, the brightness of the morning and the snow outside rendered his slides all but useless.† Even without the illustrations, however, Haleís lecture, entitled ìDragons of the…

  • National Eating Disorder Awareness Week kicks off

    Do not be alarmed if you are in Cleveland next week and see over 50 women smashing scales with sledge hammers, bowling balls and baseball bats in the middle of a field.† The ìscale smashing” is the kickoff to a series of events open to the public hosted by The Eating Disorder Advocates of Ohio…

  • Shaya presents first Faculty at Large lecture

    Professor Gregory Shaya of the history department presented ìMan Bites Dog and Other News Fantasies: Sensationalism in Late 19th and Early 20th Century France” as the first Faculty at Large Lecture of the Spring semester on Tuesday, Feb. 16 in Lean Lecture Hall.

  • Wooster to host Witt, renew rivalry

    With wins this past week over Wabash College and Hiram College, the Wooster basketball team sewed up its sixth straight conference title and clinched home-court advantage throughout the NCAC Tournament. However, the Scots will have plenty to play for when the arch-rival, Wittenberg University Tigers visit the Timken Gymnasium to renew one of the fiercest…

  • Professor shows how Civil Rights is ever-current issue

    Valerie Smith, the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature and African American Studies at Princeton University, presented a lecture entitled ìCivil Rights Cold Cases” Wednesday, Feb. 10. Before she relocated,†† Smith taught at UCLA from 1994 until 2001, when she took up her present position at Princeton University in New Jersey.† She has been the fortunate…