It’s election time again, and political advertisements have once again flooded our favorite television shows and even our mailboxes telling us who to vote for. So if you enjoy watching two candidates having a verbal fight to the death on your television screen, then you …
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.
Shape up, Wooster
The past two months have been an eventful chapter in The College of Wooster’s anthology, a section I would call “The Fall of Etiquette.” Despite the College’s legitimization of emptying our wallets with the $30 million Scot Center or aesthetic restoration of living spaces to …
Pennies are outdated and useless
For a long time, I have considered myself to be a fairly happy person.† I don’t hold many grudges, I detest bullying and meanness and I hope to smile more than I frown.† Try as I might, though, there are three things that truly get …
Bullying comes in many forms
As of late, there has been heightened national awareness to the increased instances of bullying and violence in response to Rutgers student Tyler Clementi’s as well as several other students’ suicides. In fact, it is suspected that suicide is the second leading cause of death …
Entrepreneurship: the other option
Personally I believe that education should not be viewed as a means to an end; rather, it should be considered an end in itself. Not many people share that view with me. The typical answer to “why did you decide to attend college?” is that …
Students deserve class variety
I’ve spent much of my free time these past few weeks researching internships for the upcoming summer ó it seems premature, I know, but many applications are actually due in November. Surprise! The barrier I keep butting up against for these internships is not that …