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The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 2012-Present "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 4-21-2017 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 2017-04-21 Wooster Voice Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice2012-2020 Recommended Citation Editors, Wooster Voice, "The oosW ter Voice (Wooster, OH), 2017-04-21" (2017). The Voice: 2012-Present. 15. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice2012-2020/15 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection at Open Works, a service of The oC llege of Wooster Libraries. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oV ice: 2012-Present by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Wooster Voice A student-run newspaper since 1883 Vol. CXXXVI, Issue XXII Friday, April 21, 2017 “When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don’t speak out ain’t nobody going to WWooster, Ohio V thewoostervoice.spaces.wooster.edu speak ain’t nobody going to speak out for you.” - Fannie Lou Hamer Inside Story of the Week College rais- Viewpoints | 3 es tuition for Mary McLoughlin ’20 comments on Passover Evan White ’18 initiates The 2017-2018 and raising religious awareness on campus Free Tampon Collective school year The goal of the petition is to provide free menstrual Cost of atten- dence finally products in public bathrooms across campus reaches $60,000 Jared Berg Editor in Chief Features |4 & 5 In November, The College Sally Kershner ’19 of Wooster announced that covers newly-created tuition and fees for the 2017- First Generation Stu- 2018 academic year will total dents Organization $48,600, with room and board raising this figure to a “com- prehensive fee” of $60,000. In the past, tuition for the succeeding academic year was set by the Board of Trust- ees at a spring meeting, with the new rate announced over spring break. This year, the Board decided upon next year’s rate during their October meeting, and it was announced to rising stu- A&E | 6 dents around Thanksgiving, Waverly Hart ’20 in a letter sent to place of the students’ primary residence, reviews Kendrick according to College Presi- Lamar’s new album, dent Sarah Bolton. DAMN. “We did that in order to help Evan White ’18 plans to present the petition to Dean of Students Scott Brown students get financial aid and and the Center for Diversity and Inclusion (Photo by Mariah Joyce). financial information earlier. There was a change in fed- Ryan Secard menstrual care products in able solution, asserting that eral law about the FAFSA and Contributing Writer every female bathroom. They “While the C-Store […] which tax year students could were reminded of it later on provides tampons, they are use to fill out their FAFSA,” Evan White ’18 has start- when they noticed students at poorly made and have un- said Bolton. ed the Free Tampon Collec- Wooster struggle to find ac- comfortable cardboard ap- Bolton continued, “That tive, a petition started on cess to the hygiene products plicators.” meant that students would change.org. The petition’s they needed. The petition goes on to be able to apply for financial Sports | 7 & 8 goal is “to provide tampons, The project aims to provide point out that the nearest aid much earlier because they free of charge, in central tampons free of charge, not alternative location to pur- wouldn’t need their 2016 tax Ben Blotner ’20 re- bathrooms on campus,” so just for students who might chase tampons is the Drug returns. It’s a real advantage counts baseball team’s that students who need not have immediate access to Mart on Beall Ave., a sig- to people to have a sense of victory over Kenyon Col- menstrual products will al- hygiene products but also for nificant walk from campus what their college costs are lege in doubleheader ways have access to them. those who may not be able to that would be inconvenient going to be earlier. So what “I’ve been aware of stu- afford them. for students who menstru- we did was try to make it pos- dents at Wooster who are The petition asserts that ate unexpectedly. sible for students to apply for unable to afford menstrual “having access to tampons for The petition is addressed financial aid and know what Event of the Week products […] My hope for some College of Wooster stu- to Dean of Students and the charges are going to be this initiative is to provide dents just isn’t fiscally pos- Vice President for Student already by late fall. In order Leadership Arts students who are in need of sible. [The College] should Affairs Scott Brown and the to do that, you have to set the menstrual care with proper provide meaningful resources Center for Diversity and In- tuition. We moved the tuition in Africa support,” said White. to marginalized groups on clusion. decisions earlier so that stu- 6:30 - 8 p.m. White got the idea for campus.” When reached for com- dents could apply for financial Tuesday the petition on a 2008 visit Although MacLeod’s does ment, Dean Brown, who aid and actually know where April 25 to Butler University, where sell tampons, the petition does they stood earlier on.” they noticed baskets of not consider this an accept- Continued on page 2 The raise is consistent with CWAM a longer trend of rising tuition costs at the College. Since the 2001-2002 academic year, tu- ition has more than doubled, CC charters new European Students Association from $22,430 in 2001-2002 to $48,600 in 2017-2018. The Brandon Bell raise from $46,860, the tuition Staff Writer rate for 2016-2017, to $48,600 is consistent with the rate of On Thursday, April 13, Cam- tuition increases from year to pus Council approved the char- year over the past 17 academic ter for the European Students years. Association (ESA), giving it Since 2001-2002, the Col- formal status as a campus stu- lege has increased tuition dent organization. The group between approximately 3.4 formed in November to rep- percent and 6.48 percent an- resent the College’s European nually, with an average in- international students and crease of approximately 4.9 global nomads. percent. “The ESA filled a niche that While the College has had not been filled yet and steadily increased costs, finan- needed to be filled,” Jordan cial aid grants approximately Griffith ’19, an at-large mem- 85 percent of Wooster stu- ber of the Campus Council, dents some degree of financial said of the decision. “[W]e assistance, mostly through the believe that the existence of Above, several members of the newly chartered European Students Association form of merit scholarships, the group will help students making the “sticker price” tu- gather together for an event (Photo courtesy of Marco Roccato). on campus understand our di- ition of $60,000 greater than versity better.” Campus Council made us more bond with fellow European cato said. “And so, having the the sum that most students Marco Roccato ’20, the pres- than happy,” Roccato said. students. ability [to spend] time togeth- will pay. ident of ESA, said that the Even before being chartered, “[A]fter one of our meet- er and sharing a common iden- When asked about how the group was glad to have re- Roccato explained that the ings, I was talking to a couple tity as Europeans — it’s defi- College goes about deciding ceived their new status and felt members of the group would of our rising seniors in the nitely nice for all of us.” tuition rates, Bolton said, “We it would allow them to do more frequently meet to spend time group, and they were saying, As a chartered school orga- try to think about what is nec- in the future. with each other, saying that ‘We didn’t have anything like “Hearing the news from those meetings had helped him this on campus for us,’” Roc- Continued on page 2 Continued on page 2 Friday, Voice SECTION EDITORS: April 21 Janel England Mackenzie Clark 2 News SECURITY BRIEFS Resident assistants hold menstrual drive INFORMATION Coral Ciupak and other programs discuss- ucts like those being collected to participate in the menstrual ing topics from body positivity for donation. drive. 4/15 — 1:33 p.m. Viewpoints Editor to self-care. To keep with the Though the FDA classifies While the drive began in Douglass Hall For the remainder of April, theme, we thought it would be menstrual products as “medi- Wagner Hall, a number of Suspect burning incense in The College of Wooster resi- appropriate to donate to wom- cal devices,” users of these resident assistants from other room dent assistants will collect en’s and homeless shelters in products spend an average of residence halls have joined the pads, tampons, menstrual cups the area since these products $70 a year on menstrual prod- efforts, creating a competition VANDALISM and packaged panties as part are often overlooked in other ucts, racking up over $11 mil- between residence halls — a of a menstrual drive. hygiene drives.” lion in sales tax for the state. pizza party will be awarded to 4/10— 10:35 p.m. The drive, dubbed “Panty the hall that collects the most Wagner Hall Raid,” was started by Olivia items. Witness reported Lawrence ’18 and Marlee Pav- Being a hall of [first year] girls, Donations can also be given extinguisher shot off lechko ’19 as an outreach com- “ in lieu of service hours.