Cher Kornma Contributing Writer On Monday Oct. 18, the Black Manifesto was posted all over campus as a wake up call to admin, faculty and students about the grievances, trials and hardships Black people across campus face. This Manifesto, along with the growing areas …
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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. Submissions exceeding 700 words will be condensed to fit within this word limit in the print editions, the uncondensed version will be published in its entirety digitally. 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.
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Breaking Down the Black Manifesto
Camron Love Contributing Writer The Black Manifesto forced the administration to look at the environment in which they created that has led to the oppression of Black students on campus. The administration continuously acknowledges that the College has plenty of work to do when …
Statement from Faculty on Black Manifesto
As BIPOC faculty and staff at the College of Wooster, we stand in support of the authors of the Black Manifesto and the countless other students who have spoken up against racism, bias, discrimination, and systemic inequality on our campus. We hereby uplift the voices …
We Must Abolish I.C.E.
Gus Thomas Contributing Writer Last Sunday, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) came under scrutiny after detaining and deporting over 2,000 Haitian refugees seeking Temporary Protected Status at the Texas border. Following the recent catastrophic earthquake in the country, as well as the …
The Disenchantment of Reality
Matthew Prill Contributing Writer Your phone buzzes angrily—it’s the fire alarm option that you picked last night in order to give you that extra oomph to boost you out of your slumber. It’s Tuesday morning, early. Or is it Wednesday? It doesn’t matter, because …
Being a Black Woman in a Predominantly White Institution
Byera Kashangaki Contributing Writers I come from a country that is predominantly Black. I am from Kenya, a country in the Eastern part of Africa. I have never felt like an outsider because everyone I was surrounded by looked like me and spoke like …