Ramsey Kincannon It can be easy to rip on the Oscars. Many claim that the Academy overly focuses on pretentious art rather than a good movie, which makes sense given the completely undeserving “Tree of Life” getting a best picture nomination over “The Girl With …
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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.
Shameful abortion legislation
Elaine Wilcox-Cook It is the year 2012, almost 40 years since Roe vs. Wade passed, yet the government is still trying to punish women for legally exercising control over their bodies with state-sanctioned rape. Recent bills requiring a woman to have a trans-vaginal ultrasound before …
In defense of libertarianism
Kate Mozynski Picture this scene: it’s 3 A.M., it’s been a long day, and you’re driving home. You are stopped at a red light for what seems like forever, and you know that you would pose no risk to yourself or others by just driving …
Point-Counterpoint: Grab bag
Copy editor Sarah Kristeller ’14 and Features editor Anya Cohen ’14 share their thoughts on several issues. Mushrooms Anya: Mushrooms are weird, slimy and smell like dirt. They make whatever they are mixed with taste worse. They are like the Debbie Downer of your friends …
Wet lounge letdown
Eric Batke When I arrived on campus at the beginning of this past fall semester, I was very enthusiastic about the year ahead. In addition to the adrenaline-inducing thought of starting my I.S., my excitement over the social environment of Stevenson Hall, my new dorm, …
Random room lottery number best
Emily Timmerman It’s that time of year again, when all of the underclassmen receive the randomly assigned number that ultimately determines the housing fate of the next academic year: the room selection lottery number. The day the numbers are put in our mailboxes, people anxiously …