Former Afghan Finance Minister and Presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani gave the second lecture in this year’s Wooster Forum Series with a speech entitled “Afghanistan: Owning the Present; Building the Future” on Monday.† Ghani, who was named one of the 20 most influential global thinkers of …
October 1, 2010
President Cornwell signs contract for a greener campus
The College of Wooster has taken two giant steps in becoming a more environmentally friendly and sustainable campus in terms of one very hot political topic: energy. For those of you that thought the building alone of the new Scot Center was a progressive feat …
Studies show rise in female bank robbers
In conjunction with the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Northern Ohio Violent Crimes Task Force arrested a Cleveland woman last week suspected to have robbed four banks in the Cleveland area. Lateesha Scott, 32, was wanted for a Sept. 4 robbery of the U.S. Bank on …
SGA senators discover hidden documents
The Student Government Association senators discovered College of Wooster governing documents dating back to the 1960s and 1970s.† The files were found in the Student Government office during† a group effort to organize the room.† Among the documents which span over five decades are meeting …
Ohio man commits double murder-suicide
A man in Arlington, Ohio shot his two sons, Solomon, 8, and Samson, 6, multiple times in the head and chest. Troy Geller, 35, then shot himself in the head. According to the Columbus Dispatch, Geller wrote a note before the murder/suicide saying that he …
15 children kidnapped in Nigeria
15 children remain missing in Aba, located the southeastern region of Nigeria. According to CNN, the children were kidnapped during a hijacking involvolving four gunmen who boarded a schoolbus and took the children away. President Goodluck Jonathan expressed his concern for the 15 nursery and …