A Good Season
The maple trees have been tapped on campus—a sign that spring is just around the corner.
Mar 15, 2008 | Posted in College | Read More »
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March, 2008
Horoscopes
Your essential link to the whims of the Cosmos
Aries (March 21-April 19) For all the hype, lunar eclipses are really quite anti-climactic. Consider this analogous to your Saturday nights, Aries: you’re going to pound three forties and go home alone anyway, so you may as well not waste water on a shower.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) [...]
Mar 15, 2008 | Posted in Entertainments | Read More »
Vegan Feast
By Joe Bossen
A raucous band of food fans gathered in the East Room of Withey on Sunday, February 24 to immerse themselves in some food that was both conscientious and yummy. The air carried a loaded pallet of olfactory fireworks that wound their way through the old time tunes of Western-Central Vermont Uptown Whiskey Ramblers, [...]
Mar 15, 2008 | Posted in News | Read More »
Trouble, south of the Mason Dixon
By Ben Daniel
A great adventure with three of my great friends turned quickly to a travesty this past summer, coming home from the All Good Festival in Masontown, West Virginia. We had the utmost amazing time seeing great music all weekend, and on Sunday morning we began to make our way home.
About twenty minutes down [...]
Mar 15, 2008 | Posted in News | Read More »
A Tribute to Balls
By Justin Grimbol
I sat at the edge of the crowd and watched our men’s basketball team, The Eagles, annihilate the Huskies, an awkward little team from the Word of Life Bible Institute.
At their worst, The Eagles were leading by at least twenty points, and even then it seemed as if they were letting the Huskies [...]
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Digging a Little Deeper
By Caitlin Berry
Coming into college it’s easy to forget responsibility past personal hygiene, which still proves difficult for some, but it’s also easy to forget that individual actions within a community reflect the community as a whole. A strong sense of independence evolves when we move away from our parents and our actions are subject [...]
Snoop in Vermont
GMC lacrosse team works security for concert
BY TIMOTHY DONAGHY
This past weekend, the Pickle Barrel in Killington experienced one of the biggest acts to come through Vermont in years; Long Beach’s own Snoop Dogg. Snoop played two sold-out shows as part of his U.S. tour, and was the first time he ever played in Vermont.
Opening for [...]
Mar 15, 2008 | Posted in Music | Read More »
The Revolution
By Harold Vance
When you think of a community, what image comes to mind? Do you see an inner city? A small town in rural America? Green Mountain College? The Simple Way in Philly? The Twelve Tribes–in Rutland or wherever else you may find them? Hippies from the sixties? [...]
Mar 15, 2008 | Posted in News | Read More »
Why People Murder?
An interview with sociologist Gordon Knight
By Renee Fasanaro
Q: Are there any sociological theories that deal specifically with murders? What makes a person more prone to crime?
A: Bad things happen in society when people experience what 19th century French sociologist Amiel Durkheim called ‘Anomie,’ or normlessness … a person is unsure how to behave, what to [...]
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Bank Robbery on Main Street
Students were surprised to find out that the Poultney bank had been robbed recently. At 10:17 on February 21 Joshua Swinger, 21, from Newark walked into the Citizens Bank and demanded money. He was later arrested.
According to Rutland Herald, Swinger entered the bank and gave a note to the teller that read: “Be Calm I [...]
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