Allow me to describe a business plan: you set up a league of 350 basketball teams across the United States. These teams recruit talented players directly out of high school. Due to societal conditions and professional regulations, players’ other options are so limited that they …
Viewpoints
The Viewpoints page features the opinions of the campus community. Viewpoints articles should be 350-700 words and be about any opinion, funny or serious, about campus or the world around us. Letters to the Editor, which also are on our page, should be no more than 150 words, usually responding to articles either in Viewpoints or elsewhere in the paper.
Those who wish to submit a Viewpoint can do so by emailing zperrier25@wooster.edu and lpatton26@wooster.edu.
Race and religion: their intersections today and in the past Chadwick Smith
In his speech at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference in 2012, the Rev. Dr. Mack King Carter said, “Part of the attraction to the eschaton is seeing how he [God] will work things out.” For many black people, we look at what has happened to …
Babcock: C3 will miss you Tara Abhasakun
For those who don’t know, Babcock, Wooster’s international program dorm, will be moving non-traditional freshman (a term most often used to refer to gap-year students) to the third floor in replacement of students in the Cross Cultural Connections (C3) program. The reason for this, according …
Equestrian club: still kicking on campus Kelsey Large and Lauren MacDonald
When the average Wooster student thinks about horses, they probably think of teenagers in a chick flick galloping through flowers or of the Kentucky Derby Thoroughbreds thundering down the homestretch. However far away horses may seem from campus, they are actually here! It is about …
Newman Catholic Student Association goes to El Salvador on mission Colin Omilanowski
Over the second half of Spring Break, The College of Wooster’s Newman Catholic Student Association embarked on a mission trip to El Salvador, a predominantly Catholic country, basking in a culture brimming with opportunity for cultural exploration. One of the goals of our trip was …
A moment to reflect on campus loss
Linda Morgan-Clement Dear College community, As we return from the places where we scattered for spring break, I want to offer some of my reflections on our recent experiences with tragic death. In 1996, as I was beginning to wonder what campus chaplaincy would …