College of Wooster

::Psychology 34 ::Biology 31 ::Computer Science 23 ::Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 22 ::Neuroscience 19 ::Communication 18 ::History 16 ::Business Economics 15 ::Philosophy 13 ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/University_Library,_University_of_Wooster,_Wooster,_Ohio._-_DPLA_-_03fa9e60bc157dbf150af0c4e24314d8_(page_1).jpg" caption="1911 depiction of the Timken Library, then known as the University Library" alt="Drawing of students studying in an old library with columns"] :: ### Libraries The College of Wooster Libraries consists of three branches (Andrews Library, Flo K. Gault Library, and Timken Science Library) and a music library located at the Scheide Music Center. Andrews Library, the largest library in the system, houses more than 850,000 volumes and can accommodate over 500 readers. Andrews Library houses the college's Special Collections, media library and the student writing center. The Timken Science Library in Frick Hall, the oldest branch in the system, served as the original academic library for the college from 1900 to 1962. After three decades as an art museum, the building reopened as the science library in 1998. ### Art Museum The College of Wooster Art Museum was established in the 1930s. The current museum was established at the Ebert Art Center in 1997. The museum houses two small galleries, the Charlene Derge Sussel Art Gallery and the Burton D. Morgan Gallery, as well as storage for the college's permanent art collection. The museum's encyclopedic collection spans from ancient to contemporary art. Permanent collections include the John Taylor Arms Print Collection—which represents works by Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, Isabel Bishop, Martin Lewis, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Albrecht Dürer, Käthe Kollwitz and Félix Bracquemond—the William C. Mithoefer Collection of African Art, Middle Eastern pottery and Chinese decorative art. ## Student life ### Residential life ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/College_of_Wooster_Bornhuetter_Hall.jpg" caption="Bornhuetter Hall, one of the college's residence halls" alt="Modern Residential building"] :: The College of Wooster is a residential campus and has 16 residence halls, which house 16 to 270 students each, and 30 program houses. 97% of the student body live in the residence halls on campus.[https://wooster.edu/about/fast-facts/](https://wooster.edu/about/fast-facts/) The residence halls include Andrews Hall, Armington Hall, Babcock Hall, Bissman Hall, Bornhuetter Hall, Brush Hall, Compton Hall, Douglass Hall, Gault Manor, Gault Schoolhouse, Holden Hall, Kenarden Lodge, Luce Hall, Stevenson Hall, and Wagner Hall. ### International presence Elias Compton, former dean of the college, founded the Wooster in India program during the 1930s, which established a sister school relationship with Ewing Christian College in Allahabad, India. Over a forty-year time span, Wooster sent several former students to serve as Head Resident at Ewing while Ewing faculty were brought to Wooster as Ewing Fellows; a plaque with the names of Ewing Fellows hangs in Babcock Hall. The Wooster in India program helped build this unique bond between Wooster and India that enhanced the exchange of students, ideas and cultures. This international presence affected the entire campus, establishing a tradition which continues to influence the college. Today, 15% of the student body is international in origin, representing 59 countries. The college offers majors in Cultural Area Studies and International Relations, instruction in seven foreign languages and opportunities to study abroad in 60 countries. Sixty-nine percent of Wooster students are from outside of Ohio. - Scot Center: In early 2012, the Scot Center, a 123000 sqft $30 million recreation facility, opened its doors. It includes four multipurpose sport courts (for intramural basketball, volleyball and tennis), a 200-meter indoor track, a new fitness center, batting cages for baseball and softball, expanded locker rooms, coaches' offices and meeting facilities. The building also boasts a 20,000 sqft solar roof, the largest of any college facility in the United States. The Scot Center is the first phase of a master plan to create a Campus Center. - Babcock Residence Hall: Babcock Hall houses 60% domestic and 40% international students who desire to experience this cross-cultural living environment. Babcock Hall offers cross-cultural programming that includes regular hall meetings with student speakers and cultural activities; celebrations of holidays from around the world; and discussions of international and diversity-related issues led by faculty and invited speakers. - Luce Residence Hall: Luce Hall houses six language suites (Chinese, Classics, French, German, Spanish, and Russian) providing students with a living/learning environment focusing on developing foreign language skills. The building features submarine-inspired architectural details, like a winding floorplan and porthole windows. ### Performing arts ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/College_of_Wooster_Freedlander_Theatre.jpg" caption="Freedlander Theatre is the main auditorium on campus."] :: Wooster is the home of the Ohio Light Opera, an enterprise founded within the college in 1979, but not part of the college curriculum. It is the only professional company in the United States entirely devoted to operetta. OLO performs the entire Gilbert & Sullivan repertoire, but also regularly revives rarely performed continental works of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Over the years, the company has produced eighty different operettas. Wooster's performing ensembles include the Wooster Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1915 by Daniel Parmelee, then Professor of Violin at the college. The orchestra currently is the second-oldest orchestra in continuous performance in the state of Ohio. Additional ensembles include the Scot Symphonic and Marching Bands, the Wooster Chorus, and the Wooster Jazz Ensemble. Wooster has an active on-campus pipe band. Officially called the College of Wooster Pipe Band, members perform at many official on-campus events such as commencement, sports games (football, basketball, swim meets, and sometimes lacrosse games) and many spontaneous student-run events. During the spring season, they perform and compete at a grade 3 level, having won prizes at the Scots wi' Shotts event in Cleveland hosted by the local Lochaber Pipe Band. The Pipe Band also placed first in the grade 3 contest at the 2009 Toronto Indoor Highland Games, as the only American band competing. The college's department of Theatre and Dance produces two dance concerts per year, a fall concert in the round, and a spring concert in a more formal proscenium setting. Additionally, the college produces at least two plays each academic year. Further plays are produced by student groups and seniors pursuing their Independent Study projects. In 2007, Wooster's theatre production of 'Nocturne' was invited to perform at the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival in Washington, D.C. Wooster's production was one of four shows chosen from a field of approximately 400 entries. ### Greek life, honor and professional societies *Main article: List of College of Wooster fraternities and sororities* The College of Wooster has hosted numerous fraternities, sororities and honor societies since its establishment. These number more than 80 Greek named chapters, including defunct groups, with approximately 30 active today. The most visible are the college's Greek Academic and Social chapters. However, the Greek System includes Honor Societies and Professional Fraternities, along with Greek-aligned clubs and sections which adopted those terms when the words "fraternity" and "sorority" were discouraged. There are currently twelve active academic and social Greek groups at the College of Wooster: six sororities, five fraternities and one co-educational group. Sometimes called clubs and sections, these groups are not affiliated with national Greek organizations, and approximately 15% of the student body participates. Wooster's twelve Greek chapters are self-governed under an Inter-Greek Council. Noted by date of founding, social chapters include: #### Women's sororities - ΠΚ – Pi Kappa (local), 1918, "Peanuts" - ΖΦΓ – Zeta Phi Gamma (local), 1928–19xx, 1988, "Imps" - ΚΕΖ – Kappa Epsilon Zeta (local), 1943–~1980, 2013, "Keys" - ΕΚΟ – Epsilon Kappa Omicron (local), 1943, "Echo" - ΑΓΦ – Alpha Gamma Phi (local), 1983, "Alpha Gamm" - ΔΘΨ – Delta Theta Psi (local), 1992, "Theta" #### Men's fraternities - ΒΚΦ – Beta Kappa Phi, 1914 (local), First (I) Section - ΦΣΑ – Phi Sigma Alpha, 1916 (local), Sixth (VI) Section - ΜΟΗ – Men of Harambee, 1989 (local)(inactive), New Eighth (VIII) Section - ΞΧΨ – Xi Chi Psi, 1991 (local) - ΔΧΔ – Delta Chi Delta, 2017 (local) #### Co-ed fraternities - ΗΠ – Eta Pi, 1983 - Inactive (local) At least eighteen honor societies are active at the college, including ΦΒΚ – Phi Beta Kappa, which arrived in 1926. ### Student organizations The college has a wide variety of student-run media. *The Wooster Voice* is the weekly student newspaper with a newly launched website, and has been published weekly since 1883 (see list of college newspapers), while WOO 91, which was at WCWS-FM until 2019, is the college's online radio station that streams from iHeartRadio. The college also has a successful Ultimate Frisbee program. The Women's team, Betty Gone Wild, won USAUltimate's D-III College Championship Sectionals in 2014 and 2015. Also in 2014 and 2015, they came in second at USAUltimate's D-III College Championship Regionals. They attended the National College Championship in 2014 and came in 15th place. The college is well known for its Moot Court team as part of the American Moot Court Association, ranked second in the nation in 2017 by the ACMA. In addition to the teams regional championships, the college routinely qualifies teams to the Moot Court Nationals tournament and was the 2008 National Champion. In 2017, Wooster qualified five teams to the nationals tournament and had teams finish 12th, 16th, and 18th in oral argument, 13th and 14th in oration, and third in appellate brief writing. ## Athletics *Main article: Wooster Fighting Scots* thumb|120px|Wooster athletics logo Wooster teams are named the *Fighting Scots*. Wooster's athletic history dates back to its first baseball team, in 1880, which played only one game, losing 12–2 to Kenyon College. The football program was established in 1889; over its first two seasons, the team won all seven games it played, by a total score of 306–4. Included was a 64–0 victory at Ohio State on November 1, 1890, in the Buckeyes' first-ever home football game. Shortly thereafter, intercollegiate sports were banned by the College President. Sports sponsored include baseball, basketball, cross country, field hockey, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. They compete in the North Coast Athletic Conference of NCAA Division III. ## Notable people *Main article: List of College of Wooster people* - J.C. Chandor, filmmaker - Martha Chase, geneticist - Arthur Holly Compton, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis - John Dean, White House Counsel for U.S. President Richard Nixon and participant in the Watergate scandal - John Exter, economist, member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and founder of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka - Stanley Gault, businessman - Duncan Jones, film director, producer, and screenwriter; son of David Bowie - Donald Kohn, former vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System - Norman Morrison, anti-war activist who self-immolated in front of the Pentagon in protest of the Vietnam War - Lamont Paris, college basketball coach - William P. Richardson, co-founder and first dean of Brooklyn Law School - George E. Goodfellow, first civilian trauma surgeon and naturalist - S. 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