Category: Viewpoints

The Bat Hello. I’m a longtime resident of the town, with a family history here that goes back generations. My great-great-great-grandfather was the first to settle here, and ever since, there’s been a member of my family living in Wooster. I am also a bat. When I was young, I grew up in the family…

Pretentious Chap On the night of March 21st, I realized that I had yet to visit McDonald’s over Spring Break. I had yet, with a purchase of a Big Mac or McChicken, to put my hands on a lovely McWaist and smother the restaurant with my red-lipstick affections. I resolved to visit my muse on…

Greek life: reflections on an insurmountable social boundary Tyler Hoff A liberal arts education refers to an education that is better rounded than what one might find at a trade school or public university. Students at The College of Wooster and many other small liberal arts schools around the country are history or chemistry or…

Mariah Joyce There is a dangerous trend sweeping the nation: using ‘she/her/hers’ as generic pronouns. In classrooms across America, young women are being fed the incendiary notion that they are just as important as men; that they, too, matter. Obviously, this is a feminist plot, and it must be stopped. In sixth grade, I started…

Gareth McNamara More than a month of term has passed. In these six to seven weeks, we are expected to have learned enough to be able to pass midterm exams for the majority of our courses. Are you feeling prepared? Got it all down? Confident and ready to ace those tests? Don’t be ashamed to…

Timothy Duhon The Olympics are intended to be an event of world unity in which all nations put aside their differences and come together to compete in a friendly and peaceful manner. This means allowing athletes to compete and citizens to watch these events in a manner that does not inflame tensions, but instead promotes…