Systems: PlayStation ESRB Rating: T (for Teen) For this review rather than finding the newest title off of the retail shelves, I plan to dig deep into the closet of my forgotten consoles and revive a title that every gamer should play at least once in their lifetime. As the year 2000 slowly started coming [...]
Archive | February, 2009
Gaming Cookies For You: Orcs, Elves, Hobbits Galore!
Systems: Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo DS ESRB Rating: T (for Teen) With millions of readers around the world entranced, inspired, or submerged into the world of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, allowing the readers and fans a chance to control the characters they love in epic battles seems appealing [...]
GMC students attend historic inauguration
BY MELISSA MARKSTROM After a slew of long lines, a chanting metro, and rushing ahead of the crowds to hit a fresh port-a-potty, we arrived. At 5 AM, GMC alumni Liz Clare and I were 200 feet away from the closest we could be without having tickets. We spent the next seven hours desperate to [...]
College welcomes new Sustainability Coordinator
If there’s one place where it’s socially acceptable to believe that compost is beautiful, then that place is the Green Mountain College. And this belief helped Amber Garrard, the college’s new sustainability coordinator, to get hired for the position that was formerly held by the ever-popular Jesse Pyles.
GMC professor receives a Fulbright recognition
Professor of Fine Arts Dick Weis was recently accepted on the roster for the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program. Fulbright Specialists are placed on a list (called the Fulbright List) so they can be matched with project proposals initiated by institutions in other countries. The application for the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program includes assembling a portfolio [...]
Internet on campus gets an upgrade
During the winter break, Green Mountain College upgraded the student network bandwidth, allowing the students faster Internet access. The bandwidth was doubled from three megabits to six megabits, and is shared among all campus dorms. “[The network] is working great. The initial bandwidth test showed that, when nobody was here, we had six megs of [...]
Lucky to be alive
On two separate occasions during the last semester, Mason Lord and Keith Surbey both suffered serious injuries. Fortunately, they were able to recover and move on with their lives. It is both odd and unfortunate that two Green Mountain College students celebrated their birthdays in hospitals last semester. Now, after two serious but unrelated accidents, [...]
Stories from the Sundance Film Festival
Every year, stories from cities all across the globe are translated into film. And every year, these stories come to a small mountain town in Utah for the Sundance Film Festival. Filmmakers come from all over the world to showcase independent features in hopes of acquiring a distribution deal. For many, the Sundance Film Festival [...]
Impact of US economic crisis felt in Mexico
It is the capital city of Mexico, commonly known by foreigners as Mexico City and by residents as Distrito Federal (Federal District), and it is the most important industrial, economic and cultural center in the country, with the population in the metropolitan area is estimated to be 19,826,918 people, making this city the third largest [...]
Homeland Security or something similar to it
The new Obama Administration seems like a breath of fresh air after the past eight years of political follies and made up words. If you haven’t guessed by now, this issue is mostly political. However I wanted to offer something more than just, “Woohpee! A black man is president.” One thing that has recently startled [...]
