Janet Zahorsky I will never forget the advice my aunt offered to me as I was preparing to leave for college. “I would tell you not to do anything that I wouldn’t do, but that gives you too many options of things you shouldn’t do,” …
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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.
Town-Gown turns equal partners
Luke Tonat It is time for us, the students of The College of Wooster, to find our voice in the Wooster community. On campus, our discourse grows more constructive and robust by the day. Yet, in regard to the city and the county that surrounds …
Clarify your interest, please
Dabo Li It has become trendy to express one’s thoughts with the banal phrase “I find it interesting that,” but such redundant throat-clearings compromise the quality of intellectual discussions and invite unnecessary confusion. This is not to say that popular turns of phrase like this …
Lowry on the prairie
Kim Palagyi Last year I developed a long-term joke where I tried to direct the table-talk conversation back to Little House on the Prairie as often as possible. Though this endeavor panned out only to include three or four references to instances such as the …
Normative minorities: No love lost
Travis Marmon I like to think of myself as a socially liberal and progressive person. My vote is always most likely to go toward the candidate who supports marriage equality and wants to reform our country’s many racist institutions. I consider myself a feminist, because …
Guns and preventable casualties
Anna Fleming It has been said that the politics of gun control are impossible to reconcile. I believe that we can get to the heart of the issue by asking the following question: What is of value to us? To get to the bottom of …