Category: Viewpoints

Nicosia Shakes Any student who has taken a class with me knows that my research, art, scholarship and activism inform my teaching. I am, and have always been a diehard fan of theatre, TV, film and music, whose idea of a perfect time is watching a good play, concert, film or TV show — often…

Emilee McCubbins The Wooster plague spares no one. This time around, however, it’s a little more frightening than the normal start-of-semester common cold — the flu has struck Wooster. Each campus-wide email and newly placed hand sanitizer station serves as a reminder to take care of yourself, try to keep healthy and please, please stay…

Maggie Dougherty When I was initially considering Wooster as a potential school, the yearly cost of attendance was listed as $60,000. Even with my scholarship award, I couldn’t afford it. However, I really wanted to come here, so I asked the Financial Aid Office if they could come up with any more money to make…

Amber Rush I am sure you are tired of reading these viewpoints about this by now, so I will get straight to the point. After reading the Viewpoints from last week, and listening to the student body, it has become clear that the opposition to these changes in the structure of Campus Council (CC)/ Student…

Kamal Morgan The journalist Gayle King has received backlash from her inter- view with for- mer WNBA star Lisa Leslie. She brought up Kobe Bryant’s sexual assault allegation in 2003, for which he later apologized and assumed responsibility. Anger arose from people feeling it was terrible timing to talk about these allegations when Bryant was…

Marco Roccato As a current senator-at-large in Student Government Association (SGA), I have had the chance to listen directly to the many conversations about the planned restructuring of Wooster’s student government. Throughout these talks, both in and outside of the scheduled meetings of Campus Council (CC) and SGA, many have talked of a “merger” or…