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A quick-fix solution isn’t the way to plan commencement
Brandon Borges Contributing Writer The uncertainty of COVID-19 has severely impacted administrative planning across the world. International, national, state and even local administrators of all organizations are currently at the whims of the virus, with events of all types being postponed for an arbitrary date in the future. This patchwork planning style is no different…
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For first-gen college students, commencement symbolizes upward mobility
Margie Sosa Contributing Writer For first-generation college students, walking across the stage at commencement is something bigger than just us. It symbolizes a start to educational and intergenerational mobility, one of the many reasons why my family chose to immigrate to the U.S. and why I decided to pursue a higher education. When I found out that commencement was…
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Decisions are made by those who show up
Oria Daugherty Contributing Writer Over the last year, the College has started to undergo a lot of changes in a lot of different areas — we have begun the Master Planning process to plan for the next decade of Wooster’s future, the planning for the Lowry renovation has begun in full force and the College…
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When will Wooster take student concerns over tuition seriously?
Zoe Kopp-Weber Contributing Writer C.O.W. tuition increased 4.6 percent in 2013. This was my junior year and I was anxious. The sticker price of our education exceeded $50,000 before additional expenses, and I was also shouldering bills for my family at the time. I advocated for tuition transparency alongside the Wooster Student Union (WSU), but…
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How the Wooster Class of 2020 pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes (by accident)
Claire Montgomery Senior News Writer I am here today to tell you why almost every senior snickers when a professor discusses plagiarism, saying something along the lines of, “You all signed the Wooster Ethic, so you should be committed to not plagiarizing.” Picture this: sometime during first-year orientation, at one of the many events in…
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Economics doesn’t hold all the answers
Ian Ricoy In American academia, there is a tendency to move many social sciences towards quantitative analysis. It started with economics, originally a branch of philosophy, trying to rebrand itself as a hard science and has been spilling into political science for almost 30 years. Economists really want to be mathematicians; political scientists really want…
