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Corporation of Wooster?
Dan Grantham In the four years I have spent at the College of Wooster, I have witnessed a dramatic change in the school’s administrative culture. Like the administrations of many other schools, both public and private, across the country, Wooster’s administrative bodies have increasingly betrayed the school’s fundamental virtue of being a not-for-profit liberal arts…
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Racial identity not socially accounted for
Seonna Gittens Racial identity defines who I am by physical appearance, but that identity also engenders characteristics of where I have come from, my socio-economic status in a 21st century capitalist economic order, the history and culture of my family, and the language surrounding me. Racial identity is a part of how I and every…
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Letter to the Editor: 2/8/13
The death by suicide of Aaron Swartz is indeed tragic, as Ian Benson writes in his January 25 “Viewpoints” column. An overly-zealous prosecutor in the U. S. Department of Justice clearly targeted him, not because he downloaded JSTOR articles in violation of JSTOR’s acceptable use policy, but because she saw him as a leader of…
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You break it? You should buy it
Laura Merrell On my return back from a relaxing month long break, I was greeted by an unpleasant email. All the residents in my hall were being charged for various and ridiculous damages I had nothing to do with. Yes, the fee was under five dollars for everyone, but it was the principle that annoyed…
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College’s Shack treatment unfair
Raphael Gunn Early last week I was eating at The Shack which happens to be one of my favorite local spots in Wooster. During my meal, the owner Candy brought a clipboard with a petition over to my table. Imagine my surprise when I was told that the College of Wooster was attempting to buy…
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My sincerely “unironic” love for Pledge Week
As a God Damn Independent, I am a lover of all things flannel and chill-wave. But most of all I have a love, an unbridled passion really, for all that is ironic. As such, my favorite annual event here at the College of Wooster is of course the beloved, respectable and most ironic tradition of…
