Category: Viewpoints

Dzifa Adjei In my last year and a half here at The College of Wooster, I have begun to notice a trend. Everywhere I looked, edgy brunettes were slowly making their way to the much riskier side of the hair color spectrum: bleach-blonde. Now, I am going to start by saying that I ended up bleach-blonde…

Samuel Casey I don’t know about all of you, but I’ve been losing sleep — losing sleep over the start of primary (or caucus) season. It started when a number of candidates larger than my biggest political science class decided to run. The field started to narrow slightly when most of the ambitious white guys…

Chloe Burdette When I went to get my morning coffee from Old Main last Tuesday, I stood in a line of around 20 people. The woman behind the counter was alone, trying her best to take orders and quickly make coffee for these caffeine-dependent students. Her hands were shaking, visibly stressed, but she still greeted…

Matthew Mariola “Why aren’t pizza boxes recyclable?” “Plastic bags have the recycling symbol on them … why can’t I put them in the recycling bin?” “Why don’t they take glass anymore?” I hear questions like these all the time across campus. Recycling seems like it should be simple, but the truth is more complicated. Before…

Rohini Singh For this piece, I was asked to write about a topic that excites me outside the classroom and which I think students should pay attention to. This question reveals a common perception, namely, that a professor’s life is split between what happens inside the classroom and outside. The reality for me (and, I…

Jeffrey Lantis The popular phrase “May you live in interesting times” is sometimes interpreted as a blessing and other times as a curse. We certainly are living through interesting times in national and global politics, and many of us are wondering just where this political turbulence will take us. It is certainly tempting to interpret…