Category: Viewpoints

  • 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…

  • Protect DACA students

    After the duration of more than a week, everything still seems unrealistic. As hours pass by, and day becomes night, my fear for my friends and family increases. For individuals on this campus and in America, Jan. 20 is not an ordinary presidential inauguration. Jan. 20 will be the day that America initiates a multi-strategic…

  • 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…