Category: Viewpoints

  • Election as educational opportunity

    If you were within 10 feet of me on Election Night, you probably heard me tell a lot of people to go fuck themselves: Gary Johnson, third-party voters, the white-cis-heterosexual population, the electoral college, etc. I blamed a lot of people for why a candidate who embodies rape culture and ran on the values of…

  • Female leaders face double standards

    For the past year and a half, I have served as one of the editors in chief of this paper. In the grand scheme of things, this leadership role is very small: no one beyond the confines of this College cares who heads The Wooster Voice. It is still a leadership role, however, and it…

  • The benefit of Meatless Mondays and quelling vegetarian myths

    The Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Senior Seminar, “Feminist Pedagogy in Action,” in collaboration with Greenhouse Food Committee and Vegan Club, is pushing an initiative for campus-wide participation in a Meatless Monday campaign. We are advocating the Meatless Monday as part of a national initiative aimed to reduce meat consumption in efforts to curb…

  • Illuminating a ‘deplorable’ perspective

    The American college institution has become a place where the line is too often blurred between being taught how to think and what to think. Students here spend their days surrounded by liberal media, peers and educators. The propaganda that many of our professors attempt to pour down our fellow students’ throats is astounding: most…

  • On the consequences of hate and fear

    It’s now been over a week since the Presidential election, and as elections go, you expect jubilation on one end and disappointment on the other. That’s the process, and in the days and months that follow, the nation unites behind the President-elect. But this election was different; as some relished the numbers coming in from…

  • Open Letter from Faculty Conference Committee with Trustees

    Nov. 4, 2016 Dear College of Wooster Community: As the elected members to the Faculty Conference Committee with Trustees, we wish to publicly add our voices to those condemning recent comments by a member of the Board of Trustees.  In a discussion with students about the need for a more diverse faculty, the board member…