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It’s that time of year again — the time when the leaf-blower army appears on campus. I’m still unconvinced about the merits of leaf-blowers.  Obviously, there are environmental costs associated with the engines; though ours are pretty efficient, they still … Continue reading →

Have you ever been curious about Social Entrepreneurship(SE) at Wooster?  Have you ever wondered about what students do in SE?  Here is your opportunity to find out.  Our five Local SE teams will be presenting their plans for social change … Continue reading →

Here’s the great thing about the library – if people want to bother me and I don’t want to deal with them, I can just hunker down and look studious until I guilt them into going away. It’s rather pleasant … Continue reading →

I have literally spent this entire weekend cleaning. For me, it is a slow going process. In fact, it was a stroke of luck that Celeste was not here, because I am very self-conscious about a.) my tendency to make … Continue reading →

MacArthur Fellowship Award winner, Lateefah Simon, will visit campus for a series of lectures, workshops and classroom visits from November 7 – 11, 2011. Ms. Simon is the Executive Director of the Rosenberg Foundation, and former Executive Director of the … Continue reading →

This week’s fossil is a beautiful little gastropod (snail) scientifically known as Diodora italica (Defrance, 1820), and commonly as the Italian Keyhole Limpet. I collected it with Steve Dornbos (’97) during the 1996 Keck Geology Expedition to Cyprus, where it … Continue reading →

Which means, “I want to sleep, but I have too much Chinese homework.” (I think I wrote it correctly.) I just thought that – while taking a break from Chinese handwriting sheets so that my hand doesn’t fall off – … Continue reading →

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has just issued a 63 page study, titled “Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007.”

I will admit that I very rarely utilize Lowry’s stir-fry station. There is something about my combination of awkwardness and impatience that makes it a less-than-desirable option for me on most days. Today, however, I decided to go for it. … Continue reading →

Stromatoporoids are very common fossils in the Silurian and Devonian of Ohio and Indiana, especially in carbonate rocks like the Columbus Limestone (from which the above specimen was collected). Wooster geologists encountered them frequently on our Estonia expeditions in the … Continue reading →