Category: Viewpoints

In today’s society, we see people turn against one another over anything and everything. Examples include religion, political preference, gender, favorite artists, favorite sports teams; you name it, someone probably has an opinion about it. At that point, we then turn against one another because not all of us think alike. Each group believes that…

On the first day of school this year, College of Wooster Security decided to pay my group house a visit under the claim they smelled marijuana a block away. Ignoring the fact that this would be impossible since we just came from dinner thirty minutes before, my housemates and I were confused that the security…

During my lifetime, I have constantly caught myself rolling my eyes at pretentious cishet [cisgender-heterosexual] white men who preach about how terrible neoliberalism is, older white women who have the white savior complex, Uncle Toms who betray other people of color, cishet folks invading queer spaces and all sorts of people who like to engage…

As a new year begins at The College of Wooster, it is the perfect time for students to make new school year resolutions and establish goals for what they want to accomplish in a semester. From trying to work out five days a week, or cutting back on the amount of flex dollars they spend…

Despite attending college in an economically depressed district of a small Midwestern town, every day we are surrounded by immense privilege. This is unsurprising, considering that the annual cost of attendance of Wooster is greater than the entire annual household income for more than 70 percent of Americans. When we sit down in Lowry for…

It’s only the second week of college and I keep hearing what college is all about. “College is about the people you chose to be around,” “college is about exposing yourself to uncomfortable truths and growing as a person,” “college is about focusing on your academics,” “college is about finding your niche”. While all these…