By Katie Sobalsky How ready is Green Mountain College for an emergency? What would we do if a fire broke out, or even worse to think about, if there was a school shooting? In light of the tragedy at Virginia Tech and most recently at Northern Illinois University, these are unfortunate but necessary questions to [...]
Archive | March, 2008
GMC Media Cooperative Constitution
The creative efforts and business of media are undergoing a generational change. But this sort of change is familiar to Poultney: in the 1820s, two of the most influential American journalists learned their craft here. Horace Greeley went on to publish the New York Herald and provided key support for the abolitionist movement. And George [...]
Are we just guinea pigs?
By Katie Sobalsky It was some unpleasant news to get, especially on a Monday morning, and even worse if you happened to be drinking out of a Nalgene at the time. Students and faculty had gathered in the East Room to listen to a lecture by Dr. John Peterson Myers about a chemical known as [...]
