Category: Viewpoints

  • Turf intensifies play

    I think I can speak on behalf of our field hockey program when I say that we absolutely love playing on the new turf. The game is quicker and the atmosphere from the stadium increases the intensity in our play. It allows our game to become faster and better prepares us for teams that normally…

  • To the Editors:

    Health care should remain a capitalist business.† No matter who pays for it, health care is a service.† You donít get something for nothing ó there are exceptions, but health care is not ó and should not be ó one of them.† The only exceptions are services that the Constitution instructs the government to provide…

  • Body Monologues appropriate and in good taste

    As one of the organizers of this yearís Body Monologues and participant of the last two, I canít help but be jarred by the Voiceís criticism of the event (ìBody Monologues funny, but fail to provoke much thought,” April 24). In your article, you make sure to emphasize the ìsomewhat cheap penis jokes” that several…

  • Differential rates unfair to house residents

    It is high time to break the silence on the issue of differential room rates. The school constantly touts that every other college already does this as if this were a justification. One would think a college with an emphasis on ìindependent minds” would have a better reason for such a drastic change. Charging more,…

  • Reminiscing about past years at the Voice

    My very first assignment was given to me at the Voice open house in late August 2005, in which I was tasked to cover how the Scot Marching Band had decided to forgo the traditional costume of tartan shirts and replace them with T-shirts with a tartan stripe on them instead. The lead borrowed the…

  • Opening doors to the future

    When I look back at my four years at Wooster, Iím torn. I canít decide whether to feel happy that it happened, upset that itís over or wonder what could have been if I had made different choices. When I was in high school applying to colleges, my mother always said that it didnít matter…