49-723: [REDACTED] Look up woo or Woo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Woo , or variants, may refer to: People [ edit ] Wu (surname) , and several variants and other transliterations Wu (surname 伍) Wu (surname 武) Ng (name) : 吳, 伍 Hu (surname) , also pronounced Woo Woo (Korean surname) Woo (Korean given name) Łukasz Obrzut , nicknamed Woo, Polish-American basketball player fl. 2003–2007 Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Fictional characters [ edit ] Woo, in King of
98-631: A callsign of the AT&;T High Seas Service WOO (Philadelphia) , a 1920s broadcasting station "Woooo!", a catchphrase of wrestler Ric Flair Wool railway station , Dorset, England, station code WOO The Woo (restaurant) , a Korean restaurant in New York City, United States See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Woo Wu (disambiguation) Woo Hoo (disambiguation) Woo Woo (disambiguation) The Wizard of Oz (disambiguation) Woo circles ,
147-516: A callsign of the AT&T High Seas Service WOO (Philadelphia) , a 1920s broadcasting station "Woooo!", a catchphrase of wrestler Ric Flair Wool railway station , Dorset, England, station code WOO The Woo (restaurant) , a Korean restaurant in New York City, United States See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Woo Wu (disambiguation) Woo Hoo (disambiguation) Woo Woo (disambiguation) The Wizard of Oz (disambiguation) Woo circles ,
196-624: A cataloging system for unnumbered works of Beethoven and others Woo (music group) , a British experimental band Woo (soundtrack) , from the 1998 film Woo! , a 2003 EP by Tilly and the Wall "Woo", a song by Rihanna from the 2016 album Anti "Woo", a song by Beach House from the 2018 album 7 " The Woo ", a 2020 song by Pop Smoke Other uses [ edit ] Woo, to engage in Courtship World of Outlaws , or WoO, an American motorsports sanctioning body WOO,
245-509: A cataloging system for unnumbered works of Beethoven and others Woo (music group) , a British experimental band Woo (soundtrack) , from the 1998 film Woo! , a 2003 EP by Tilly and the Wall "Woo", a song by Rihanna from the 2016 album Anti "Woo", a song by Beach House from the 2018 album 7 " The Woo ", a 2020 song by Pop Smoke Other uses [ edit ] Woo, to engage in Courtship World of Outlaws , or WoO, an American motorsports sanctioning body WOO,
294-534: A cost of roughly 30 million dollars. Home to the Fighting Scots, the center offers a wide assortment of fitness equipment available to both college athletes and the community. It was built to improve athletics and overall fitness at the college. The previous recreation facility for the college, Armington Physical Education Center (the PEC), was adequate. However, an increased demand for high-end facilities pressured
343-530: 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
392-477: A record of 31–3, and reached the national championship game before falling to St. Thomas (Minnesota) . The 2003 team was close behind at 30–3, with center Bryan Nelson named D-III Men's Basketball Player of the Year. Home games are contested in the 3,400-seat Timken Gym, which is often filled to capacity for big games, including the rivalry contest with Wittenberg University and post-season tournaments. Since 2000,
441-593: A set of infinitely many Archimedean circles Woo! Yeah! , a drum break Worcester, Massachusetts , a city in the United States known as Woo-town or The Woo Wooster, Ohio , a city in the United States College of Wooster Woozle effect , undeserved credibility for a source cited for a claim it does not adequately support Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
490-457: A set of infinitely many Archimedean circles Woo! Yeah! , a drum break Worcester, Massachusetts , a city in the United States known as Woo-town or The Woo Wooster, Ohio , a city in the United States College of Wooster Woozle effect , undeserved credibility for a source cited for a claim it does not adequately support Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
539-617: 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
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#1732765226244588-704: Is a private liberal arts college in Wooster, Ohio , United States. Founded in 1866 by the Presbyterian Church as the University of Wooster, it has been officially non-sectarian since 1969. From its creation, the college has been a co-educational institution. It enrolls about 2,000 students and is a member of The Five Colleges of Ohio , Great Lakes Colleges Association , and the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities . Founded as
637-538: Is known for becoming Marshall ’s head coach following the airplane crash that killed their head coach, coached Wooster for five seasons before accepting the Marshall job. In 2004, the team recorded a perfect 10–0 regular season and won its first outright NCAC conference championship, as well as its first NCAA D-III football tournament game. The 2004 team was led by senior All-American running back Tony Sutton, who set multiple NCAA Division III career rushing records and
686-557: 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
735-627: The Baird Brothers Trophy by virtue of a 53–32 victory over the Scots. In the early 2000s, the women's field hockey and women's lacrosse teams each won multiple NCAC championships, earning automatic bids to their national NCAA D-III tournaments. The only national championship won by a Wooster athletic team came in 1975, when the men's golf team won the NCAA D-III title. They also have two world class, competitive ultimate frisbee teams:
784-550: The University of Wooster in 1866 by the Presbyterian Synod of Ohio, the institution opened its doors in 1870 with a faculty of five and a student body of thirty men and four women. Ephraim Quinby, a Wooster citizen, donated the first 20 acres (8.1 ha), a large oak grove situated on a hilltop overlooking the town. After being founded with the intent to make Wooster open to everyone, the university's first Ph.D.
833-487: The "Scottish Arts Scholarship" for students who perform as pipers, drummers, or Scottish dancers. The College of Wooster Board of Trustees named Anne E. McCall to be the 13th president of the College of Wooster on December 8, 2022. Wooster's most popular majors, by 2021 graduates, were: The College of Wooster Libraries consists of three branches (Andrews Library, Flo K. Gault Library, and Timken Science Library) and
882-607: 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
931-480: The Buckeyes at home on November 1, 1924. (as of 2018) The football team's greatest success occurred between 1916 and 1934; during this era, Wooster had a record of 118–31–12, and won four outright OAC championships. The 1934 title would be the Scots' last outright conference championship for 70 years, with only a trio of shared conference titles (1959/1970 OAC and 1997 NCAC) during that time. Jack Lengyel , who
980-715: 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. 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
1029-604: The Monsters video games WoO, an alien creature in Japanese TV show Bio Planet WoO Woo, a fictional monster in the Ultraman television series Film and television [ edit ] Woo (film) , a 1998 romantic comedy " Woooo! ", a 2008 TV episode of How I Met Your Mother "Woo-oo!", serioes premiere of 2017 TV series DuckTales Music [ edit ] WoO (Works without opus number),
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#17327652262441078-434: The Monsters video games WoO, an alien creature in Japanese TV show Bio Planet WoO Woo, a fictional monster in the Ultraman television series Film and television [ edit ] Woo (film) , a 1998 romantic comedy " Woooo! ", a 2008 TV episode of How I Met Your Mother "Woo-oo!", serioes premiere of 2017 TV series DuckTales Music [ edit ] WoO (Works without opus number),
1127-573: The Scots have been in the top ten in D-III basketball attendance every year, ranking second in some seasons, with over 2,000 fans per home game. Charles Follis , the first black professional football player, attended the University of Wooster and starred on the baseball team before signing with the Shelby Athletic Club to play professional football in 1902. Wooster was the last State of Ohio team not to be beaten by Ohio State, when it tied
1176-471: The Scots to over 1,100 victories, placing him in the all-time top ten among D-III baseball coaches, and the winningest active coach as of 2017. The Scots have also won a conference-record seventeen NCAC championships, most recently in 2017, under Pettorini. Prior to Pettorini's tenure, Bob Morgan led the Scots to the NCAA tournament in each of his final five seasons, giving Wooster a total of 25 appearances since
1225-584: The Tippers and the Hawks. Since 2000, Scots have been named Academic All-Americans 32 times by College Sports Information Directors of America , in the college division, which includes NCAA Division II and Division III institutions, as well as NAIA schools, a total of over 1,000 colleges. The Scot Center is the recreation center for students and alumni at the college. Construction was completed in January 2012 at
1274-909: 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
1323-466: The church to cut off funding to the college. In 1923, Wishart defeated Bryan for the position of Moderator of the General Assembly , largely on the evolution issue, and the college continued to teach evolution. On November 10, 2015, the college named Sarah Bolton as its twelfth president and first female president. Bolton left the college at the end of the 2021–2022 academic year to assume
1372-747: The college from 1900 to 1962. After three decades as an art museum, the building reopened as the science library in 1998. 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
1421-432: The college, including ΦΒΚ – Phi Beta Kappa , which arrived in 1926. 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
1470-683: The event began in 1976. During the first decade of the 21st century, the Scots had a record of 372–98, winning more games than any other team in Division III, and were second in winning percentage over that span, trailing only The College of St. Scholastica . Following his graduation in 2010, All-American second baseman Matthew Johnson signed with the Toronto Blue Jays organization, and played for four seasons in their minor-league system. Long-time head men's basketball coach Steve Moore has won over 700 games at Wooster, and in 2017 became
1519-575: 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. Wooster
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1568-599: The 💕 [REDACTED] Look up woo or Woo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Woo , or variants, may refer to: People [ edit ] Wu (surname) , and several variants and other transliterations Wu (surname 伍) Wu (surname 武) Ng (name) : 吳, 伍 Hu (surname) , also pronounced Woo Woo (Korean surname) Woo (Korean given name) Łukasz Obrzut , nicknamed Woo, Polish-American basketball player fl. 2003–2007 Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Fictional characters [ edit ] Woo, in King of
1617-407: The liberal arts. In the 1920s, during the clashes between liberal and fundamentalists , William Jennings Bryan , a prominent Presbyterian layman, and former United States Secretary of State , attacked the college for its teaching of evolution. The subject had been taught at the college for several decades and defended by then-president Charles F. Wishart . Bryan called for the general assembly of
1666-668: 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. 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
1715-483: The presidency of Whitman College . Anne E. McCall is the current president, and was inaugurated on October 28, 2023. Wooster's school colors are black and old gold and its mascot is the 'Fighting Scot '. Early Wooster teams were known as the Presbyterians or unofficially as the 'Presbyterian Steamroller.' In 1939, a large donation from alumnus Birt Babcock funded the purchase of kilts for the marching band, in
1764-721: The rest of the Ohio Five ) broke away from the OAC to form the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC). The NCAC, which competes at the non-scholarship Division III level of the NCAA , was founded primarily on the principle of offering women equal opportunity to participate in varsity sports. In its first season of competition, 1984–85, the NCAC sponsored 21 sports, eleven for men and ten for women. Women's softball
1813-542: 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
1862-604: The second-winningest coach all-time in NCAA Division III. His teams have won 17 NCAC championships and have made 24 appearances in the NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship , including a record 14 in a row from 2003 through 2016. The team reached the national semifinals ("Final Four") of the NCAA D-III Tournament in 2003, 2007, and 2011. The 2011 team set a school record for victories, with
1911-461: 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
1960-456: The student body live in the residence halls on campus. [1] 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. Elias Compton, former dean of the college, founded the Wooster in India program during
2009-443: The title Woo . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Woo&oldid=1240034133 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages woo From Misplaced Pages,
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2058-465: The title Woo . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Woo&oldid=1240034133 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages College of Wooster The College of Wooster
2107-567: 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: At least eighteen honor societies are active at
2156-458: The yellow-and-black MacLeod tartan (MacLeod of Lewis), which had no particular significance, except that it matched the school colors. Scottish culture became an important part of the school's heritage; today, the football games feature a Scottish pipe band with Highland dancers in addition to a traditional marching band, with all three groups clad in the MacLeod tartan. The college offers
2205-571: Was a 2004 finalist for the Gagliardi Trophy, the D-III equivalent of the Heisman Trophy . From 1995 through 2008, Wooster's record was 99–43, making this the most successful era since World War II . In 2009, lights and artificial turf were added to the Scots' 4,500-seat John Papp stadium. The first-ever nighttime football game at Wooster was played on October 10, 2009, against Case Western Reserve University , with Case retaining
2254-522: Was added in 1998, and women's golf in 2010, giving the NCAC its current 23 sports. Wooster fields varsity athletic teams in all 23 of these sports. The baseball team has made five appearances in the NCAA Division III World Series , including second-place finishes in 2009 and 1997. Wooster has made 23 appearances in the NCAA baseball tournament under head coach Tim Pettorini, who has led the Scots since 1982. Pettorini has guided
2303-607: 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. After varsity athletics returned in 1901, Wooster became an early member of the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC). In 1983, Wooster (along with
2352-402: Was granted to a woman, Annie B. Irish, in 1882. The first black student, Clarence Allen, began his studies later in the same decade. The university gradually began to define itself as a liberal arts institution. In 1915, after a bitter dispute between the faculty and the trustees, the institution was renamed College of Wooster reflecting a dedication to the education of undergraduate students in
2401-592: Was one of four shows chosen from a field of approximately 400 entries. 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
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