Category: Viewpoints

Ping-pong? Nope. Usable pool-tables? Who needs those? Bowling Alleys? Ah, maybe if you find an open weekend to go visit the lanes in the next town over. With the closure of Scot-Lanes, and having “The Alley” take up its former space, we now have more places for students to “gather”. You would think that the…

Why is it we always assume that wrong that is brought to the light will be corrected with the occasional revolt against it? Why do we, as a society, assume that entrenched patriarchy, nepotism and gender insensitivity will be abolished by an elaborate editorial in a celebrated daily? More importantly, why do we as a…

Doing good has become something of an obsession for me. Ever since I was a young child, I have hoped that I would someday be a person who did good for the world. I imagined that I would become a lawyer who fights to get justice for people who have been wronged, or maybe I…

And just like that, five weeks of the school year have gone by. If you’re anything like me, you have no idea how the fuck that happened. I think we have a tendency to forget just how quickly our time gets swallowed while we’re at school. And I don’t mean that just in a “I…

When you hear the words “Greek Life,” it is easy to jump right to the stereotypes that are associated with national fraternities or sororities, or to picture the things that are portrayed in movies. However, here at Wooster, Greek Life is far from that. As local chapters, each group is able to make their own…

I would like to start by saying I recognize that many students on this campus are not affiliated with or affected by Greek Life. However, Greek organizations have been on campus since 1871 and approximately 18 percent of the student body is a part of a sorority or fraternity. Despite this, administration holds Greek Life…