Jesse Tiffen I once believed so strongly in the tenets of vegetarianism, I continued to recommend that others become vegetarian years after I became a vegan. Over time I learned that the ethical implications of a vegetarian diet are essentially the same as an omnivorous …
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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.
In the words of someone else, my heart aches
R Taylor Grow My roommate once suggested that we — the privileged Millennials who have never really suffered — are so separated from our emotions that we rely on musicians to feel sad on our behalf. The day he offered this insight, I had one …
Drop the Mic: Ethical Allyship
Scott McLellan As you can imagine, I was startled last Monday when the popular Facebook page Wooster Compliments counter-reprimanded me for a sardonic post made Sunday night during the MTV VMAs. I relentlessly criticized the foregrounding of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s song “Same Love” …
Make your own fun, man
Wyatt Smith Every Wooster student has undoubtedly either voiced or overheard a complaint about how boring Wooster is. These grumblings are indicative of a social defeatism felt by many students. These individuals, especially upperclassmen, complain about the ‘Wooster bubble’ and the lack of social events …
The creative benefits of bad jobs
R TAYLOR GROW I like to believe that reality is stranger than fiction, and, consequently, that every aspiring humorist should undertake a thankless job at a fast food establishment. In my experience, the most absurd people will either purchase an old-fashioned burger or two from …
Smartwater controversy
JESSE TIFFEN As some of you may or may not know, a group of students after an arduous grassroots campaign managed to dissuade the College from selling non-reusable water bottles in locations on campus thatoperate on flex dollars, according to an official statement released on …