I remember it like it was not so far gone. I carried the last of my belongings into my first floor room in Bouge, my body sweating from the lingering summer heat. I rushed my mom, brother, and friend Sarah back on the road, ready to start my new venture. I wandered around this unfamiliar [...]
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Back from the Streets
While some of us went home over spring break and others traveled to exotic places, two GMC students did the unexpected—they went homeless. Mike Shulman and Clara Walsh experienced spring break on the streets of Boston, as part of a project for their Ethnographic Field Methods class, as an attempt to study gender roles among [...]
Students Prepare for Life on the Street
We’ve all seen them. The men and women who sit on the streets with most of the things they can call their own in a single backpack. They sit there in shabbier clothing than ours, with signs that read something like, “Anything will help. God Bless.” At night, you may find these people sleeping on [...]
Heating troubles campus
We have all been in those campus buildings where something isn’t quite right with the heating system. There are those buildings that are sweltering hot where you need to wear a tank top, then those that are freezing cold and you need to wear your winter coat. With record low temperatures—reaching the negative twenties—it is [...]
I’m with the band: local music trying to make it big
“I’m with the band,” I find myself saying boldly as I open the door to The Elevens. I push my way past the bouncer trying to charge me ten dollars and make my way to the mediocre bar. After chugging my beer, I head over to the dance floor where groups of kids are scattered [...]
Holiday Reflections
BY AMBERLEE MILLER When I was younger, maybe in kindergarten, I would check the same book out of the library each week. It was a pocket sized book, filled with images of flower fairies. I would slowly turn the pages, watching a fairy in a tattered brown dress walk barefoot on a barren ground; another [...]
A Haunting in Poultney
Submissions By Amberlee Miller, Christian Sapovits There are certain buildings that make my skin crawl with fear and make me think every creak in the floorboard is a ghost (most likely because it is a ghost or some other supernatural being). That being said, here are the top most haunted (local) places that we have [...]
Fighting for the Cure
When I was younger, I remember the terrified look on my mom’s face after a lump was discovered in her breast. Was it cancer? Could it be removed? Is it too late? Thankfully the tumor was removed, and turned out to be benign. It was hard to imagine the thousands of women who discover a [...]
Alcohol policy enforced on campus
A senior student, well over the legal drinking limit, is walking to his dorm carrying the unopened remains of a 6 pack. He places them on the ground near the butt hut, while an R.A. comes over and confiscates the cans. He pours them out, one by one, into the bushes. The reason, he explained, [...]
Returning to new initiatives
If you haven’t heard by now, Green Mountain College was ranked number one on Sierra magazine’s “Coolest Schools” list. GMC’s new greening initiatives helped the college achieve this status. One of the changes is the introduction of GMC’s transportation policy, specifically utilizing public transportation and the new addition of the Zipcars. The idea of a [...]
