Category: Viewpoints

I am a former athlete. “Former athlete” as in I spent hours every week doing the various sports I was involved in for all of my memory until recently. I loved the sports I did and felt happy and privileged to spend all of the hours in the gym training. I was lucky to be…

Pi Kappa, a campus sorority also known as Peanuts, became the first Greek Life organization that decided to create the position of Diversity Chair in fall 2017 in order to support diversity, equity and inclusion among the student body at The College of Wooster. Alex Gordon ’18 was elected to serve as the first in…

From Aug. 21 to Sept. 9, a nationwide prison strike occurred across federal prisons, state prisons, immigrant detention centers and local jails in the United States. In at least 17 states, prisoners were boycotting facilities that generate profit for prisons, striking against performing prison labor, encouraging consumer boycotts against companies that exploit prison labor and…

The current Supreme Court confirmation proceedings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh may be the most important SCOTUS confirmation during our lifetime. The inevitable confirmation will shift what has typically been a primarily liberal or moderate court in the past to a conservative one for what could be the next 30 plus years. Further, with Justices Ginsburg…

While this might be old news to many, the closing of Kittredge Dining Hall is something that still troubles me. In fact, the burdensome impacts of its closing have become more apparent with time. Because Lowry is now the only dining hall open to students, it is often overcrowded and the lines are very intimidating…

Kanye West once said,  “She never messed with entertainers ’cause they always leave,” in reference to how the city of Chicago’s entertainers are always leaving for a life of fame. David Butts’ sudden departure from the College makes me think of that line. I know he isn’t anything close to Kanye and The College of…