Category: Viewpoints

Craig Firestone Mr. Firestone has been a long-time janitor of the Holden Annex. He is writing to reminisce about some of the better memories he has from his time working there. This is taken from a guy from the inside out. I think the Annex has really stood the test of time! Over the years…

Dabo Li This article hopes to convince you, the student or the professor, that essay grading rubrics — of the sort purposed toward illuminating why grades are what they are by aggregating hierarchical values — do not make a good substitution for traditional, written feedback. This is not to dismiss these well-crafted rubrics as entirely…

Janet Zahorsky I will never forget the advice my aunt offered to me as I was preparing to leave for college. “I would tell you not to do anything that I wouldn’t do, but that gives you too many options of things you shouldn’t do,” she said. What I respect most about her words is…

Luke Tonat It is time for us, the students of The College of Wooster, to find our voice in the Wooster community. On campus, our discourse grows more constructive and robust by the day. Yet, in regard to the city and the county that surrounds us, our voices remain largely silent, our ideas unheard, our…

Dabo Li It has become trendy to express one’s thoughts with the banal phrase “I find it interesting that,” but such redundant throat-clearings compromise the quality of intellectual discussions and invite unnecessary confusion. This is not to say that popular turns of phrase like this should be made taboo. “I find it interesting (IFII)” may…

Kim Palagyi Last year I developed a long-term joke where I tried to direct the table-talk conversation back to Little House on the Prairie as often as possible. Though this endeavor panned out only to include three or four references to instances such as the long winter of 1880-81 or that time when Ma treated…