Vice President Cheney assured Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili last week that the United States remains committed to his nation eventually joining the North Atlantic Trade Organization. On the surface, Cheney’s promise makes sense. Russia is becoming more powerful, so what better way to contain that …
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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.
To the Editor:
The choice by John McCain of Sarah Palin as his candidate for the vice presidency is an act of astonishing irresponsibility and exhibits profoundly poor judgment. Not since Richard Nixon’s ill-considered choice of Spiro Agnew and George H. W. Bush’s highly questionable selection of Dan …
Democrats struggle with election polls
A recent Gallup poll of registered voters now has Sen. John McCain leading Barack Obama by four percentage points. How is that possible? The country’s current Republican president is so unpopular that even Warren Harding is wiping sweat off his brow in relief.
Ethics, not consumpton, for environment
With the shadow of global climate change looming large and ominous over the 21st century, buying environmentally friendly products is all the rage. T-shirts picturing the earth saying “This is why I’m hot” (referring to global warming), and phrases like “green is the new black” …
Acknowledging students abroad
The opportunity for summer study abroad is lightly advocated and underacknowledged here at Wooster. Students who study abroad hardly get recognition for the academic challenges they overcome once the spring term is finished.
One casualty of war: diplomacy
It’s been over half a month since Russia invaded Georgia in response to Georgia’s military offensive aimed at reclaiming the breakaway state of South Ossetia from its separatist fighters. Since then, the international community has mostly sided with Georgia, claiming that the Russian response to …