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Consent is not sexy
Gareth McNamara Grassroots campaigns to combat sexual assault are gaining strength on college campuses across America. In recent years, Wooster has seen students taking action against rape culture on campus in a variety of ways, from public displays and discussions to an overhaul of the first-year orientation program. Especially when we consider the jaw-droppingly tasteless…
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The future of the Republican Party
Alex Downs The purpose of this opinion piece is to present an argument for a viable and sustainable revitalization of the Republican Party. As cumbersome as it may be, the current American political system has come to wholly rely upon a two-party system. Further, the resulting force this presents is one that the Republican Party…
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Calm down about marriage
Gina Christo If you have access to the Internet, you have probably seen articles like “23 Things To Do Before Marriage” or the response “23 Things I Can Still Do After I Get Married at 22.” You have probably seen the Instagrams and status updates about new engagements and the subsequent tweets by people tired…
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It’s time to discuss the climate
Jacob Brotman Global warming is real, it’s terrifying and it must be stopped. The science is not only “in” but has been for the past 40 years. Svante Arrhenius was the first to propose a basically correct mechanism for the greenhouse effect in 1896. Greenhouse gases, the chief offender being carbon dioxide, refract Earth’s infrared…
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A classless college
Jacob Malone When I look back at my college career, I always come back to my introductory weeks as a first year. It was a terrifying time of anxiety between new classes, strange people and an alien party scene. I was completely out of my element. But, of everything I was anxious about, one thing…
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Burden of proof: show the logic
Ben Taylor Unfortunately for the continued promotion of intelligent thought, a pandemic of something nigh unto catastrophic proportions has dominated everyday discourse for quite some time now. It is the utterly preposterous, outright fallacious notion that individuals are entitled to their opinions, irrespective of whether they are well-formed, well-based or neither. Jamie White, author of…
