Jeremy Ludemann Contributing Writer Disbelief. Jubilation. Victory. All of these thoughts and sentiments became a reality when Wooster’s Shawn Bowman ’15 blocked Myles McKenzie’s (and Ohio Wesleyan’s) field goal attempt as the clock expired in the fourth quarter. Bowman’s stellar play put a spectacular coda …
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And the illusion was shattered
R Taylor Grow It started the same way that everything seems to start for me: I was waiting in line at a McDonald’s. I had ordered French fries and two apple pies; my companion had requested a Big Mac meal; and a distant acquaintance, coincidentally …
Diversity: a gift from the College
Lauren Breck I must admit, before I came to Wooster, I had not experienced any diversity. Growing up in Medina, Ohio, a town just 35 minutes away from Wooster, I went to a dominantly white school. Of course there was a small percent of African …
Language and intolerance
Jesse Tiffen Last week on the phone with one of my friends, he jokingly made a racially charged comment to describe his roommate. Largely because of his position of privilege I immediately called him out. “I was mostly joking, dude. It’s not like I had …
Regarding the educated idiot
Gareth McNamara According to the Department of Education, full-time enrollment in degree-granting institutions increased by 45 percent between 2000 and 2010. Census Bureau figures show that more than 38 million people over the age of 18 that hold a bachelor’s degree. Does this mean the …
Advice for First-Years
Seonna Gittens I and many others imagined freshman year as a time of complete bliss. It was an opportunity for me to mold myself into the individual I wanted to become. I thought college would be the time for awesome friends, crazy, never-ending parties …