Undergraduates are applying to graduate school in record numbers, but is it worth the cost? Emily Bartelheim News Editor This year, student loan debt will exceed $1 trillion, surpassing even credit card debt, according to USA Today. Loans have increased by 500 percent since 1998 …
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November 2011
The imminent decline of dating
A good friend overnighted with me as a prospective student last weekend. Being young and male, it was not surprising that one of his first questions was “So, is Wooster the kind of place where I can find girls to hook up with tonight?” Evidently, …
End the fascist slurs
A few years ago, certain ideologues in the mainstream media began preaching the belief that Barack Obama was a man hell-bent on destroying American democracy. Words like “Obaminism” (A shoddy portmanteau of “Obama” and “communism”) and “stealth socialism” entered the American vocabulary. Books were written …
The ongoing evolution of censorship
Regrettably, too often we hear news reports outlining the stories of humans living under comprehensive censorship in authoritarian states. The Middle East recently experienced periods of government-mandated shutdown of the internet in attempts to suppress the insurrection of the Arab Spring. Stories of reporters whisked …
Reslife and SPS are failing us
Since last week’s forum regarding the state of student life and the policies of the college, there has been an increasingly divisive atmosphere of mistrust towards our administration. This forum followed two significant trends this semester: the increase in reported campus drug abuse, and the …
The leak in the internet
The Internet is truly a beautiful thing. It has expanded into our daily lives to the point where one often has to clarify if a topic of conversation is internet-relevant in order to make sure one is understood. I look at this age of universal …