The word ìgraduation” often cues bittersweet feelings in seniors during these last few weeks of school. Empathizing while listening to friends verbalize their variety of intense emotions has been easy enough to do over the past three years; but experiencing the end of college firsthand …
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.
Senior Independent Study should encompass multiple academic disciplines
As my time here at Wooster draws to a close, I have had some time to reflect upon the senior Independent Study process. In theory, one of the best parts about I.S. is that it allows you to draw upon everything youíve ever learned, regardless …
Trouble and the Voice: better in a crowd
When I was a first-year living in a program house with the FYLLP program, my housemates and I decided to throw a party. In true first-year fashion, it involved a stack of paper Lowry ketchup cups, two handles of Colonial Club pilfered from some juniorís …
Donít ever settle for ëgood enoughí
I recently had the opportunity to meet James Stewart, Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg professor of business journalism at the Columbia School of Journalism. Acknowledging Americaís current economic crisis, Stewart offered advice to anyone interested in pursuing a career in …
To The Editor:
I would like to personally let you know how much I appreciate all the articles on the upcoming election. Since it is in fact, such an important election, this kind of coverage is most certainly necessary. I’ve found all of your articles very interesting, especially …
Lecture on Russia was one-sided
The title was highly misleading. “Intrigues in the Caucasus: the Georgian-Russian Conflict” was billed as an academic “lecture/discussion” and proved not at all academic and entirely propagandistic. I left the event, which took place last Thurs-day, Sept. 11, feeling disturbed and shaken, as if Vlad-imir …