Category: Viewpoints

Nov. 7, 2017: an important date for the city of Wooster, Ohio. It’s a day when citizens in the community pick candidates for local positions. Things like school board members, city councilors, the mayor, municipal court judges and many issues that need to be settled are on the ballot. While these elections may not be…

Dating is hard. The intense anxiety one feels when trying to attract a partner can be overwhelming and stressful. Many of us go through leaps and bounds to make ourselves marketable during a time when presentation is everything. Instagram profiles, Tinder bios and witty captions are just some of the many avenues people choose to…

Somehow after decades of the feminist movement, including both the first and second waves, feminism still seems to be one of the most misunderstood concepts in society. Feminism is about empowerment and equality of all genders. An even more misunderstood concept is intersectional feminism. It may just sound like a fancy word, but in today’s…

Did you go to Party on the Green? I did, but I left early with my head reeling and a sickened feeling in my stomach. It wasn’t that it had been any different from music events that I’d been to at Wooster in the past — but that was exactly the problem. In a near-replica…

This past week was the biannual “Sex Ed Week,” a well-known campus event put on by Wooster’s sexual respect and education group, k(no)w, with help from multiple other campus organizations. The logo this year was a set of open legs. Neither the race nor the gender could have been assumed from the image and there…

Where has my party gone? Where has the party of Lincoln and Reagan gone? I grew up Republican and I still call myself a Republican if I’m ever asked. Unfortunately, these days I need to add a caveat saying I belong to an older mindset of Republicans. This group grows smaller every day, and that…