by Wai Phyo Myint Green Mountain College’s Griswold library hosted a photo exhibition featuring portrait pictures of local farmers, along with their stories. The exhibition, titled ‘Vermont’s Activist Farmers,’ was organized by Rural Vermont, which is a non-profit farmer organization. Photos, taken by a local photographer, Corey Hendrickson, will be exhibited at the library for [...]
Archive | February, 2010
Student profile: Alaina Killion
Alaina’s destiny was not always to be an Adventure Education major. From a young age she had her sights set on professional basketball, but her career peaked in the 1st grade. Though at the time she survived numerous escapades—such as jumping off the roof of the shed at her childhood home in Westminster, MA.—she unfortunately [...]
Getting real with Ryan
[Editor’s Note: Ryan is in no way qualified to give advice of any kind. He’s just a regular guy trying to get his ducks in a line.] Dear Ryan, “It has been 7 years now and I’ve been on and off trying to quit cigarettes. I really want to quit. Do you have any suggestions [...]
New challenges ahead for Haiti
by Wai Phyo Myint. Two weeks after the severe earthquake struck Haiti’s capital city, three million people are left homeless and the city faces a new set of challenges. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake, centered just outside the capital city, Port-au-Prince, killed more than 200,000 people. Vladimur Sibera, a Green Mountain College student, and Rebecca Saintil, [...]
Student Greening Fund goes big
by Todd Martin During the fall 2009 semester, Green Mountain College students voted and approved to fund all fifteen proposed Student Campus Greening Fund projects, the first time in SCGF history. In addition, students Steve Carpenter ’11 and Cody Currier ’11 became the new co-presidents of the fund. SCGF is a student-run and funded program designed [...]
Green Mountain College is “a college on the move:” A modest reply to the perennial sect of pessimists
Although it is only natural for human beings to complain about their current set of circumstances—despite how favorable they may be when compared to less fortunate folks—GMC students, as it seems to me, have taken this luxury to the point of excess more times than I care to count or remember. Perhaps it is because [...]
DREAM teams up
Picture a brisk, wintry Saturday afternoon with children and students from GMC dressed warm, shuffling down the street. Their mission? Bringing holiday cheer to the greater community in the form of Fa-La-La’s and Jingle Bells; caroling will now be added to our resumes! This effort was made by the DREAM program, N2N AmeriCorps and a [...]
Unlimited corporate $$$ on U.S. Elections: Supreme Court gives corporations First Amendment rights
On Thursday January 21st, 2010, the United States Supreme Court voted 5-4 in favor of overturning two, sixty-year old restrictions on corporations, unions and other interest groups that restricted them from spending their treasuries on United States public elections. In other words, corporations now have First Amendment rights just like you and are now allowed [...]
An Insecure Nation
About five years ago my mother had bought a few books off of an independent online bookstore. A few days after her purchases someone had stolen her credit card number and hacked into her bank account taking a few thousand dollars out for a new flat screen or something. Unfortunately for my mom, she had [...]
Potty privacy
A perfect world would consist of much more focus on real life problems like pollution, the depletion of natural resources, and nuclear weapons with potential of world wide catastrophe. Instead, we allow our precious time to be swamped with petty news that belongs in the tabloid section at the grocery store. Recently, one of these [...]
