Gina Christo If you have access to the Internet, you have probably seen articles like “23 Things To Do Before Marriage” or the response “23 Things I Can Still Do After I Get Married at 22.” You have probably seen the Instagrams and status updates …
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.
It’s time to discuss the climate
Jacob Brotman Global warming is real, it’s terrifying and it must be stopped. The science is not only “in” but has been for the past 40 years. Svante Arrhenius was the first to propose a basically correct mechanism for the greenhouse effect in 1896. Greenhouse …
A classless college
Jacob Malone When I look back at my college career, I always come back to my introductory weeks as a first year. It was a terrifying time of anxiety between new classes, strange people and an alien party scene. I was completely out of my …
Burden of proof: show the logic
Ben Taylor Unfortunately for the continued promotion of intelligent thought, a pandemic of something nigh unto catastrophic proportions has dominated everyday discourse for quite some time now. It is the utterly preposterous, outright fallacious notion that individuals are entitled to their opinions, irrespective of whether …
Party monitors, a poor idea
Travis Marmon I understand that we have had a vandalism problem at this school recently. I get that drunken students trash Mom’s on a regular basis and that an underage student winds up in the Wellness Center with alcohol poisoning seemingly every week. But even …
Academic Leadership
Jai Ranchod The average Wooster student receives more in scholarship money per year than a year of college would have cost 25 years ago. That is a testament to the amount of money Wooster sets aside for financial aid, but it is also an alarming …