Category: Viewpoints

Travis Marmon I understand that we have had a vandalism problem at this school recently. I get that drunken students trash Mom’s on a regular basis and that an underage student winds up in the Wellness Center with alcohol poisoning seemingly every week. But even with all these problems, I can’t look at the concept…

Jai Ranchod The average Wooster student receives more in scholarship money per year than a year of college would have cost 25 years ago. That is a testament to the amount of money Wooster sets aside for financial aid, but it is also an alarming statement about the cost of college education in general. The…

Ellen Skonce At this time next week, most of us will be at home. With finals long forgotten, we’ll be out doing our holiday shopping, baking an early batch of Christmas cookies, reading some of those novels that we hadn’t gotten the chance to touch during the semester or simply laying under our blankets, watching…

R Taylor Grow It started the same way that everything seems to start for me: I was waiting in line at a McDonald’s. I had ordered French fries and two apple pies; my companion had requested a Big Mac meal; and a distant acquaintance, coincidentally present, was waiting for three McChickens. My years of McExperience…

Lauren Breck I must admit, before I came to Wooster, I had not experienced any diversity. Growing up in Medina, Ohio, a town just 35 minutes away from Wooster, I went to a dominantly white school. Of course there was a small percent of African Americans that attended the school and lived in the city,…

Jesse Tiffen Last week on the phone with one of my friends, he jokingly made a racially charged comment to describe his roommate. Largely because of his position of privilege I immediately called him out. “I was mostly joking, dude. It’s not like I had truly malicious intentions!” he responded. Interactions like this seem to…