Category: Viewpoints

The College of Wooster is working to create a five-year sustainability plan this year. What might that look like? How is it happening? Most importantly, why are we doing it? This last question needs to be addressed before any consideration of the first two. Sustainability literally means the ability to maintain a system at a…

In early 1976, I sat in the Kauke Hall office of my I.S. advisor Dr. John Gates, professor of history at The College of Wooster. The purpose of our meeting was to choose a topic for my Senior I.S.   When asked what I planned to research and write about, my response was, “I really…

If I asserted the claim that “anger is complicated,” the average reader may immediately respond with, “Of course anger’s complicated, all emotion is complicated.” However, the average reader would be wrong. To feel anger in modern society is to detriment one’s livelihood, a result which is unique to anger and no other human emotion. Of…

You need to understand that this is another piece about immigrants. That is all. There will be nothing in this viewpoint which you already do not know (at least, I hope). No, I will not try to explain to you how and why immigrants matter. Will I put down some statistics to dispel myths about…

Cena Burns, an employee of the College’s custodial staff, sends a letter to the editors to thank students for holding a safety training session last week. On Wednesday Oct. 24 at 7:00 a.m., a small group of four students, Ana Fairbanks-Mahnke ’20, Michelle Biksey ’21, Chloe Litts ’20 and Kayla Bertholf ’22 started their day…

This past week has been filled with unimaginable tragedy. Between a shooting at a grocery store I frequent back home and the largest mass shooting of Jews ever in the United States, it’s clear that something needs to be done. It is simply not enough for us to stand by and offer our thoughts and…