Category: Viewpoints

Neva Derewetzky As college students, we are at a constant war with our wallets. Whatever your spending practices, there is one certain fact. You need to budget your meal plan even if it is made of prepaid money. At Wooster, we are not given the option to forego our meal plans for the immense possibilities…

Eli Learn Last night, I went to Mom’s and waited for an hour to get my food. The combined time it took me to wait in line, receive my food and correct the mistake made by the staff took one hour.  To those familiar with the Mom’s experience, this is not an uncommon story. Lunch…

Jackson Beckerley There is an old American saying that “there is no such thing as a free lunch,” indicating that people need to work for their food and necessities. Right now as we speak, students across the country are starting school, are hungry in class, can’t pay for school lunch or are in lunch debt.…

Sam Corrigan Is the livestock industry massively unhealthy for the planet? Yes, absolutely. Is the beef industry responsible for 80 percent of the deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, according to the Yale School of Forestry? Yep. A viewpoint last week accurately laid out these points as part of a larger argument advocating for more people…

Oria Daugherty Joe Biden is one of the few politicians who has carved out a place not only in Washington D.C., but also in pop culture. His vice presidency under Obama rocketed him to a fame that most presidential candidates could only dream of before the primaries. But his plans for climate action—when compared to…

Angad Singh In the cacophony of news headlines, credible information gets buried underneath opinion. Fact becomes a narrative and an individual’s agenda becomes law. Particularly in Kashmir, India, the coverage by the news is incredibly skillful at displaying one perspective. I hope this viewpoint, through historical analysis, might scribble some fact on the backside of…