The Wayne Stater

Stalling with Steele: Workplace advice from programs that hate you

Steele Giles, Columnist • January 20, 2016

People tell me that video games don’t reflect real life and can’t teach you anything about the real world. My reply is that they have clearly never played a roguelike. For the...

Editorial

Sarah Lentz, Opinion Editor • January 20, 2016

Our first issue of the semester finds the staff of The Wayne Stater dealing with some of the same issues that filled our pages last semester. Variety is the spice of life but when news continues to...

Straight from the Daily Prophet

Sarah Lentz, Opinion Editor • December 9, 2015

Universal Studios announced yesterday when their newest attraction, The Harry Potter Experience, will open. Most of our staff was over the moon to hear that this would be opening this year, and we imagine...

This one time at camp…: A different kind of tired

Megan Kneifl, Columnist • December 9, 2015

As finals begin next week, I feel many of my fellow students can share this sentiment: I’m tired. I sat down to type 15 pages worth of papers for different classes last night, and it hit me in the...

At Whitt’s End: Profound wisdom of Led Zeppelin

Joe Whitt, Columnist • December 9, 2015

In a little over a week’s time, many of our fellow ‘Cats will graduate and embark on their next adventure in life. For them especially, but also for everyone reading, I have a little piece of advice:...

Letter to the Editor: Students continue to be short changed

Cathy Blaser • December 9, 2015

Back in October, I wrote a letter to the Wayne Stater concerning the dismissal of Dr. Walker. I was fairly convinced at the time that this would all be seen as a gross mistake and would be resolved quickly. Instead,...

Letter to the Editor: Losing pride

Carrie Duncan Newman • December 9, 2015

I am an alumni of WSC. I want to say proud alumni, but at this time I would be hesitant to recommend the school under its current leadership. One of the college’s most beloved instructors,...

Letter to the Editor

Blythe Spindler, 2009 Alumna • December 4, 2015

Late this past Wednesday evening, I received word that Dr. Karen Walker was dismissed as a psychology professor at Wayne State College. This was disheartening and upsetting. I do not know every detail,...

Sunshine state of mind: No thanks to Robert Frost

Stephanie Hempel, Columnist • December 2, 2015

Two roads diverged in a nature clearing, and I took the one my family forced upon me. When I was in high school my aunt and uncle surprised me with a trip to Chicago. We drove straight into...

The nuance of Conn Library’s motion-activated, overhead bathroom lights has worn off

Derek Pufahl, Guest Columnist • December 2, 2015

If you have not had the opportunity to use the Conn Library basement bathrooms, let me fill you in on a crucial element to this article. They’ve been blessed with the radical invention of the motion...

High on the Plains: Deer rape, things in jars and other tiny failures (I’m using my John Huston voice.)

Chad Christensen, Columnist • December 2, 2015

Sometimes things get tough. And sometimes things get really tough and then weird. And then after that, you start to wonder if, just maybe, someone put something in your drink. Yesterday, I had a religious...

Solidarity forever

Sarah Lentz, Opinion Editor • December 2, 2015

It’s that time of the year when if you enter any public space and stay there long enough you’ll hear Andy Williams croon at you that “it’s the most wonderful time of the year.” If...