Ian Benson Daylight Saving Time can seem like something of a joke, because admittedly, it is rather silly. It is a relic of a bygone era when America was an agrarian society and that extra hour of sunlight was needed to work the fields in …
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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.
Dudes doing dude stuff
Matt Porter This month is celebrated by many college boys as a time in which they can grow pathetically wispy and patchy facial hair with little to no persecution because it is “no-shave November.” I often do not participate in this because I tend to …
More like daylight ‘slaving’ time
Dan Hanson This Sunday, people around the country woke up to the yearly ritual of finding an extra hour added to the day when the strange phenomenon known as daylight saving time (DST) came to an end. Most students likely jumped for joy at the …
The imminent decline of dating
A good friend overnighted with me as a prospective student last weekend. Being young and male, it was not surprising that one of his first questions was “So, is Wooster the kind of place where I can find girls to hook up with tonight?” Evidently, …
End the fascist slurs
A few years ago, certain ideologues in the mainstream media began preaching the belief that Barack Obama was a man hell-bent on destroying American democracy. Words like “Obaminism” (A shoddy portmanteau of “Obama” and “communism”) and “stealth socialism” entered the American vocabulary. Books were written …
The ongoing evolution of censorship
Regrettably, too often we hear news reports outlining the stories of humans living under comprehensive censorship in authoritarian states. The Middle East recently experienced periods of government-mandated shutdown of the internet in attempts to suppress the insurrection of the Arab Spring. Stories of reporters whisked …