Greek life: reflections on an insurmountable social boundary Tyler Hoff A liberal arts education refers to an education that is better rounded than what one might find at a trade school or public university. Students at The College of Wooster and many other small liberal …
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.
I’ll have what he’s having
Mariah Joyce There is a dangerous trend sweeping the nation: using ‘she/her/hers’ as generic pronouns. In classrooms across America, young women are being fed the incendiary notion that they are just as important as men; that they, too, matter. Obviously, this is a feminist plot, …
Teach for America’s impossible goal
Gareth McNamara More than a month of term has passed. In these six to seven weeks, we are expected to have learned enough to be able to pass midterm exams for the majority of our courses. Are you feeling prepared? Got it all down? Confident …
NBC’s Olympic coverage unfair
Timothy Duhon The Olympics are intended to be an event of world unity in which all nations put aside their differences and come together to compete in a friendly and peaceful manner. This means allowing athletes to compete and citizens to watch these events in …
Memories of the Annex
Craig Firestone Mr. Firestone has been a long-time janitor of the Holden Annex. He is writing to reminisce about some of the better memories he has from his time working there. This is taken from a guy from the inside out. I think the Annex …
Lose rubrics, give real feedback
Dabo Li This article hopes to convince you, the student or the professor, that essay grading rubrics — of the sort purposed toward illuminating why grades are what they are by aggregating hierarchical values — do not make a good substitution for traditional, written feedback. …