Wabash is a unique place and nothing proves that claim more than Bell Week. If any observer decided to walk around campus within the last couple of weeks, they would have noticed freshmen in the middle of the night spread out amongst the campus, huddled around burning barrels guarding the campus. Or more [...]

When I first heard about Wabash, I thought it sounded ridiculous. An all-male institution? College is when you’re supposed to meet hoards of women, right?
All of that changed when I visited campus. From the quirky traditions to the fervent pursuit of knowledge, I knew that Wabash was special. And as unnatural and weird as the [...]

When a person visits the web site of Professor Humberto Barreto, the first thing that they will see is not links to current work, a biography, or a curriculum vitae. Yes, these are on Professor Barreto’s website. But the first thing that a person will see is the following quotation at the top [...]

by Jay Horrey ‘09
I am a liberal Democrat. I decided I was a Democrat during the 2000 Presidential Election and since then have worked to promote and further the issues of the Democratic Party. I am a past president of the Thomas Riley Marshall College Democrats here at Wabash College, have served as the Director [...]

It was a typical day of class on November 5, 2007. The only difference was sitting to my left in Calculus 111. It is not the particular class that is important, but the person sitting to my left was someone I had been anticipating to meet. The man, Dr. Leonard [...]

Picture this: Your bladder is full and you are madly running around in search of the men’s room. You stumble into a hallway and find ten restrooms—six that are co-ed and four that are for girls only. Which one would you use? Well, I’d hope that you searched until you found of one the last [...]

Dr. Sax shows the important characteristics that define the two genders and emphasizes that it is folly to ignore them, and he provides ample evidence that pretending that these differences don’t exist only hurts the children and does little to erase the gender gap. He sees these strong and weak traits of boys and girls and inherent and not as social constructs and places much of the fault for the continuing emphasis on total equality on the feminist movement and its aftereffects. Dr. Sax does not try to place one gender as superior to the other, but rather sees them as different and also equal.

Wabash College has recently been host to numerous debates on its inherent qualities and culture. From criticism of the all male educational system, to the demeaning of some long standing College traditions, no topic has been safe from the vicious conflicts of the recent past. In the wake of these debates the campus now finds itself in a relatively peaceful and solid position on some of its most historically controversial issues. In this calm one would expect to find solidarity amongst the College’s highest levels, mainly the administration and faculty, and in some instances this consistency of mission is the case; many members of the faculty and administration share a purpose or understanding in the College’s quest for excellence in education and the continual attempts to evolve and reform the curriculum to suit the ever changing students. However, there is still lingering dissent on some of Wabash’s core issues, especially in its position as an all male educational system. Dr. Humberto Barreto of the Economics Department says this dissent is “a good thing, it lets students see there are differing views.” In some ways this is true but at the same time this dissent, if presented in a destructive manner, can be detrimental to other areas of the college when involving core issues.