Name: Bridget Slone Major: Music & CSD Hometown: Royal Oak, Mich. Describe your I.S. I’m trying to write the best music I can for my senior recital, because you never have enough time to write music just the way you want it. There’s this saying, …
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Tristan Lopus
Letter to the editor by our Faculty of Color
The original copy of this letter, including faculty signatures, is available here. October 24, 2016 To: Chair of the Board William A. Longbrake, Vice Chairman of the Board Mary A. Neagoy, President Sarah Ruth Bolton, Provost Carolyn Newton Cc: The Wooster Voice Dear Colleagues: We, the undersigned faculty …
Critiquing simple politics
Hillary Clinton: Wall Street super-agent, or the most credentialed, bold presidential candidate of our times? Donald Trump: irreparably sexist pig, or a crusader, fearlessly shaking up the American political landscape when no one else would? I suspect everyone’s familiar with these hypothetical questions — they …
D.C. museum honors African Americans
The National Museum of African American History and Culture had its historic opening on Sept 24. 2016 and within the first week, an average of 10,000 people visited per day. On opening day, 7,000 official guests and more gathered on the National Mall to witness …
Humanities serve an important purpose
“Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”-Dead Poets Society (1989) ‘O Captain! My Captain!’ Whether or not you’ve seen the movie, most people have come to connect …
Subtle sexism is a threat
Recently in the media and during this election, several derogatory comments about women have surfaced. These comments, however often they are dismissed as out of context or irrelevant, seriously damage attitudes towards women in society. I’ve noticed that some have disapproved of these statements by …