Category: Viewpoints

I’m sure the title of this article has already got some people feeling as if an inevitable attack is on the horizon; that another rant about white people being terrible is rearing its head once more. Let me assure you now that this is not the purpose of this piece. I have no desire to…

Up until this semester, I never thought about how I enabled and normalized rape culture. I figured with training, workshops and even an official partnership with One-Eighty, I shielded myself from being within that category. However, I realize that access to a woman’s person has always been something that I have been told I have.…

The release of the Black Panther movie is projected to be one of the highest grossing opening weekend movies for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I, just like everyone else, have been ecstatic over the release of this all black cast, featuring not just a male protagonist but powerful and prideful black women. The idea that…

Student government has always been kind of my thing. Throughout middle and high school, you could find me at the heart of any politically motivated extracurricular — I went to mock government conferences, I ran for executive board, after executive board and I ran my cat for president as a joke — to talk about…

The title of this article sounds conspiratorial. However, it is not an inaccurate description of the relationship between the mass media, government agencies and large corporations on how they collaborate to influence public thought. To begin, consider the comparison of media coverage of the Syrian Civil War versus the Colombian Civil War. Anybody who follows…

As I’m approaching the end of my undergraduate career and considering the recent campus climate, I’ve been spending a lot of time reflecting on my time at Wooster: things I did well, things I could’ve done better and times I wish I had made an effort to do more. The last of those three thoughts…