Amelia Kemp Contributing Writer Independent Study (I.S.) is an integral part of the College of Wooster experience. Since our first year or even our campus tours, we have been told that we would be supported all the way through our I.S. experience. And yet, …
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.
For Independent Study, leniency is key
Samuel Casey Editor in Chief March Madness is finally over! No, not the basketball tournament; I’m talking about the rush to turn in I.S. before the deadline(s) at the end of last month. Regardless of when it was finIShed, every senior deserves a standing …
I.S. has major limits in COVID
Sydney Barger Contributing Writer Writing an Independent Study (I.S.) during a pandemic is difficult, especially when you have to write two. As a double major in Music (B.A.) and German Studies, I was required to write a 50-page German thesis, a 10-page program and …
We have a name
This Viewpoint was submitted anonymously by a College of Wooster student following the March of AAPI lives. “You think the only people who are people Are the people who look and think like you.” – Colors of the Wind, Pocahontas The statistics: disheartening. …
Performative activism fails your Asian peers
This Viewpoint was submitted anonymously by a College of Wooster student following the March of AAPI lives. I am not going to go into statistics of anti-Asian violence in the last year. It is more than obvious that there has been a sharp rise …
Accepting stereotypes poisons our society
Alicia Krielaart Contributing Writer “8 Dead in Atlanta Spa Shootings, With Fears of Anti-Asian Bias.” “New York man charged with hate crime in Asian American attack that bystanders watched without helping.” “Asian 7-Eleven worker punched in face in Manhattan.” Shot. Attacked. Hated. Punched. As …