Category: Viewpoints

In last week’s Voice, President Nugent was quoted in an article as saying, “As some of our students learned when they attended a national student leadership conference, their fellow students from other campuses were aghast that ‘where to party’ seemed to be the biggest student life issue on the Wooster campus.” I would like to…

Millions of us continue to flee from violence, oppression and famine even today. The world impoverishes itself by spending mammoth resources on the propagation of war, and our leaders in their infinite wisdom employ some of our most brilliant minds solely on developing the tools for the continuation of this futile endeavour. None of us…

Chris Gethard is one of the most underrated comedians today. His honesty, kindness and DIY spirit embodies all the reasons why I fell in love with comedy in the first place. I began to love comedy because it seemed like the only place you could really talk about how you feel; you don’t have to…

A year ago, I couldn’t have told you whose face was on the $10 bill. I honestly would’nt have cared, even if you had insisted that the man on that particular piece of currency had led an extraordinary and improbable life, and that he had founded our country’s financial system. If you ask me today…

This has been a year in which, all across our campus, we have engaged one another in new initiatives to create a more truly inclusive Wooster community. This will be a long — perhaps a never-ending — process. We cannot say that we have achieved all that we would like. But we can, I think,…

In 2003, Pope John Paul II announced the beatification of Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, now popularly known by the name ‘Mother Teresa,’ (MT) and in December 2015 Pope Francis announced that Teresa would be canonized a saint. The recipient of many honors, among them the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, MT founded the Missionaries of…