Ellen Skonce At this time next week, most of us will be at home. With finals long forgotten, we’ll be out doing our holiday shopping, baking an early batch of Christmas cookies, reading some of those novels that we hadn’t gotten the chance to touch …
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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.
And the illusion was shattered
R Taylor Grow It started the same way that everything seems to start for me: I was waiting in line at a McDonald’s. I had ordered French fries and two apple pies; my companion had requested a Big Mac meal; and a distant acquaintance, coincidentally …
Diversity: a gift from the College
Lauren Breck I must admit, before I came to Wooster, I had not experienced any diversity. Growing up in Medina, Ohio, a town just 35 minutes away from Wooster, I went to a dominantly white school. Of course there was a small percent of African …
Language and intolerance
Jesse Tiffen Last week on the phone with one of my friends, he jokingly made a racially charged comment to describe his roommate. Largely because of his position of privilege I immediately called him out. “I was mostly joking, dude. It’s not like I had …
Regarding the educated idiot
Gareth McNamara According to the Department of Education, full-time enrollment in degree-granting institutions increased by 45 percent between 2000 and 2010. Census Bureau figures show that more than 38 million people over the age of 18 that hold a bachelor’s degree. Does this mean the …
Advice for First-Years
Seonna Gittens I and many others imagined freshman year as a time of complete bliss. It was an opportunity for me to mold myself into the individual I wanted to become. I thought college would be the time for awesome friends, crazy, never-ending parties …