Holly Engel Staff Writer To many of us, the ocean is a place of beauty, wonder and even mystery — a vast expanse of water that connects the human race figuratively and literally. In it, we see reflections of who we are now and …
Arts & Entertainment
After 20 years, Lauryn Hill’s music is still impactful
Kamal Morgan A&E Editor This past summer, I wanted to explore more hip-hop music from the past, especially albums released in the golden age, the 1990s. One of the most critically acclaimed and revered albums during this period is Lauryn Hill’s “The Miseducation of Lauryn …
Celebrating Ohio Light Opera’s bombastic 40 years
Claire Wineman Staff Writer While no one has ever definitively decided whether the chicken or the egg came first, Laura Neill, the executive director of the Ohio Light Opera (OLO), knows one thing for sure: light opera, or operetta, was the predecessor to the modern …
Future of Deafheaven
From the shimmering pink cover of their signature record “Sunbather” to vocalist/pianist George Clarke’s purple prose exposing “a multiverse of fuchsia and violet [that] surrenders to blackness,” the tension between darkness and light has defined Deafheaven. While genre purists dismiss the black-metal adjacent quintet for …
Lakin gives a powerful final WAC small concert of the year
Eleanor Linafelt A&E Editor The Wooster Activities Crew (WAC) hosted their last small concert of the year on Wednesday, April 25 with an intimate and powerful performance by the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Lakin. “I thought Lakin would be a good fit and appeal to the …
Senior studio art majors display I.S. projects in CWAM exhibit
Laura Haley Chief Copy Editor On April 27, the College’s senior studio art majors showcased their Independent Study projects (I.S.) in a group exhibition put on by The College of Wooster Art Museum (CWAM). The gallery was first viewed during the campus-wide Senior Research Symposium …