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College raises funds for new life sciences facility
Stephen Lumetta Senior News Writer The College of Wooster is drawing up plans for a new life sciences building. This new facility will be in the site where John Gaston Mateer Hall is currently located. At the most recent Board of Trustees meeting, the trustees selected three architecture firms as finalists from a group of…
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Students turn class project into living wage movement for hourly workers
Brandon Burkey Contributing Writer Will Turner ’15, along with seven other students on campus, is attempting to shed some light on the issue of living wages at The College of Wooster. The combined efforts of Turner and other students and faculty have brought this issue into the fray of the ongoing budget discussions. Turner defines…
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TEDx talks return to Wooster with student speakers
Brandon Bell Contributing Writer This year’s TEDx event at Wooster will take place in Scheide Music Center on Saturday, Nov. 8, focusing on the theme of pushing boundaries and limits. TEDx, a local version of TED talks, came to Wooster’s campus three years ago through the efforts of Christina Haupt ’13. The first event was…
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SGA searches for organization to host charter
Maddi O’Neill Editor-in-Chief The Student Government Association (SGA) has abandoned plans to be chartered under the Board of Trustees only days after passing a resolution to do so. Instead, the organization is considering alternative routes to re-charter independently of Campus Council (CC). The SGA resolution, passed unanimously at a meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 22, declared…
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College operating under new sexual assault policy
Mariah Joyce News Editor Additional reporting by Senior News Writer Mary Jeffries As of Oct. 1, the College is operating under a new sexual assault policy fashioned after the “One Policy, One Process” model policy the College received courtesy of the Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA) in the spring of 2013. Among other things,…
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Greenhouse urges trustees to fill sustainability coordinator position
Mariah Joyce News Editor Last Thursday, Oct. 23, the Student Development Committee of the Board of Trustees held a meeting with several student organizations on campus. Alissa Weinman ’15 and Sylvia Krebs ’17 attended as spokespersons for Greenhouse, the sustainability group on campus. Weinman read a statement to the trustees emphasizing the necessity of having…
