Thomas Pitney Sports Editor On Saturday, Nov. 6, the Wooster football team hosted its final home game of the season against its longtime rival: the Allegheny College Gators. Determined to give its seniors a positive final memory at John P. Papp Stadium, the Scots …
Historic Weekend for Women’s Volleyball
Langston Hood Sports Editor The Fighting Scots volleyball team put on a performance for the ages throughout the NCAC tournament, demolishing Oberlin and Hiram in straight sets on Friday, Nov. 5 to advance to the conference semi-final. After dominating Oberlin in the first round, …
Voices from the Crowd – Jayden Barr: Rugby Starr
Jayden Barr Contributing Writer It is my first year playing rugby at Wooster and my fifth year playing overall, as I played during high school. As a first-year student, finding out that Wooster had a rugby club made me very excited to join and …
The First Extragalactic Exoplanet to be Discovered from Outside the Milky Way
Melita Wiles S&E Editor Recently, scientists have discovered what they think is the first planet ever to be found outside our galaxy. This possible exoplanet, meaning a planet outside our solar system, was discovered in the Whirlpool Galaxy (the spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51)) …
Chemical Containments in Our Water: The Silent Killer
Kayla Bertholf S&E Editor People who live in Northeast Ohio and along the coast of Lake Erie have grown up hearing the constant rhetoric about how the local bodies of water are polluted, gross, and unsafe to swim in. This region is home to …
The Intergalactic Battle of Colliding Black Holes
Nazifa Younus Contributing Writer Two billion years from now our galaxy is in for a shock. With every hour that passes, the Milky Way galaxy gets half a million kilometers closer to another sizable spiral galaxy called Andromeda, and it is only a matter …