Category: Viewpoints

We live in a world where we are constantly being oversaturated with media. Between Facebook, Twitter and 24/7 news outlets, we are absorbing new information every time we pick up our phones. While this system definitely has its benefits, it can also be dangerous. Social media platforms allow anyone to post anything, regardless of the…

Wooster is no stranger to the opioid epidemic; many community members know a person who has overdosed, and patients are repeatedly overdosing right outside the Wooster Community Hospital. In 2015 there were 2,698 opioid-related deaths in Ohio, according to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. From 2015 to 2016, opioid and heroin-induced overdoses across the…

Food waste is a serious problem; around one third of the food produced for human consumption every year is wasted, which presents significant issues from both a human and environmental perspective. Not only is the economic cost of food waste painfully high, but there are individuals in every part of the world who do not…

A favorite poem of mine is by farmer and activist Wendell Berry entitled, “The Peace of Wild Things.” In it Berry writes: “When despair for the world grows in me / and I wake in the night at the least sound / in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, /…

Whenever I talk to anyone about The College of Wooster, the first thing I hear is, “It’s in the middle of nowhere.” Now, I’m not going to pretend that I didn’t believe that when I first got here and don’t still believe that today. However, what I will say is that you cannot let that…

Last week, there was a viewpoint published that expressed reservations about a group that calls itself WooSCRAM. In a pamphlet circulated this week, presumably in response to that viewpoint, WooSCRAM explains they are committed to the creation of “a radical left wing political culture on campus.” This goal represents a danger to our campus community…