Archive | April, 2009

Gaming Cookies For You: Alternate Reality Reflections

Systems: PlayStation 2 ESRB Rating: M (for Mature) Many gamers would argue that the quality of games from the 1980s to 1990s has changed drastically compared to games from 2000 on. Rather than spending between 30 and 40 dollars per game and getting from 40 to 100 hours of game play, a good percentage of [...]

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Gaming Cookies For You: Shreddin’ With The Best Of Them

Systems: PlayStation 2, Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 ESRB Rating: T (for Teen) Channeling your inner heavy metal love can be easy enough with the right conditions involving loud speakers, lots of head banging, and singing at the top of your lungs. However, for video gamers, playing air guitar just got a whole new level [...]

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YES Coffee House renovated

BY DUSAN VUKSANOVIC After months of renovations done by the Maintenance Deparment and Residence Life, the newly-refurbished YES Coffee House held a grand opening on April 3. About 60 students and staff members came in and out throughout the evening. “I’m happy to see the renovation, because it creates a more inviting atmosphere for the [...]

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Taking a bite out of diplomacy

BY CANDY SMITH Twelve Green Mountain College students, who compose the college’s Model United Nations team, will be in New York City competing in one of the largest United Nations simulations in the world. In 2008, the conference was attended by almost 4,700 students, out of which over 50 percent were non-U.S. nationals. “I am [...]

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The Capstone Experience

BY CANDY SMITH As we inch closer to the end of the spring semester, students from all over campus are putting a final bit of effort into their academic year, strutting their stuff to the community. On April 2, the uniform was suits and hiking boots as students from the Outdoor Studies Seminar course planned [...]

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Hot for justice

BY ASHLEY CASE In most undergraduate conversations the goings on of the Supreme Court is not a wildly exciting issue, but according to Brett Dugan, “justice turns me on.” Tom Wheeler holds the opposite opinion. “If I were a Supreme Court Justice, I would rule how I feel and ignore precedent; justice is an abstract [...]

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How’s about just Ackley Hall?

BY RONNIE BLACK Some parts of this campus have an identity crisis. Every building, structure or patio seems to be named after someone. This spring, the school will be dedicating the space in Ackley Theatre as the Clara Hitchcock Fitzpatrick Jones ’09 Concert Hall. What? Ackley is already referred to as a hall, a theatre, [...]

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Berlin, Sundance, and Green Mountain

BY CHAD SKILES AND DUSAN VUKSANOVIC Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano, better known as The Yes Men, showed their newest movie “The Yes Men fix the world” on March 25. The movie, still in its post-production process, was screened only at Sundance Film Festival and Berlin, Germany prior to Green Mountain College.

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Gaming Cookies For You: Battling Giants

System: PlayStation 2 ESRB Rating: T (for Teen) Once again returning to a world of fantastical creatures, undying love, and everlasting companionship, game developers Team Ico brought the world Shadow of the Colossus in October 2005. Having clawed their way into the gaming world with the puzzle RPG hit Ico in 2001, the cult hit [...]

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The Amazing Dodge Ball Game

By Jose Vazquez The first weekend of Spring Semester, there was a college wide dodge ball tournament and teams were [...]

Declinations underlining its progressions

 By Minh Ho Human history is a process that is composed of many patterns of improvement and decline, which focus [...]

Appreciation for GMC and the Environment!

By: Jesoni “Fiji” Kuruyawa Green Mountain College is at the center of promoting a green environment and sustainable living not [...]

Pick Up Your Dog Poop!

By Jesoni “Fiji’’ Kuruyawa It has come to many peoples attention that some community members in Poultney Town and of [...]

A New Player in Town- Zero Sort!

By Jesoni “Fiji” Kuruyawa Zero Sort is the new trash disposal that will soon be implemented in our community early [...]

Recycling is Back in Business

By Jesoni “Fiji” Kuruyawa The recycling crew were hard at work cleaning up the recycling trailer located at the lower [...]