Students from Green Mountain College’s Media Campaign and Advocacy class launched a website for their environmental campaign, called Don’t be a Dick. The campaign, Don’t Be A Dick, is accessible through its website, http://www.dontbeadick.org/, featuring the videos, photos, and blogs about the daily habits of people debilitating environment. The Media Campaigns and Advocacy class taught [...]
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Commuter parking to improve
A Commuter Parking Expansion proposal was passed by Student Senate and Cabinet. This Spring, commuting students will have access to 16 new parking spots on campus. A much needed and long awaited upgrade from the current parking system will be implemented immediately upon return from Winter Break. The 8 spaces to the side of Bogue [...]
‘Student Senate does nothing’
Senate does not do anything. Do I have your attention? That statement gets tossed around a lot, and it seems like the time to finally comment. Traditionally, Senate publishes a “Semesterly” that details what we’ve done and what’s coming up. As Director of Publicity, I should do this, but I really don’t feel like wasting [...]
ICC events this semester
Fall 2009 so far has been a very fruitful and rewarding semester for the InterCultural Center (ICC). The ICC is an organization that aims to foster multicultural understanding enriching the diverse campus community at GMC. ICC has organized over ten successful events this semester, three of which had over one hundred people in attendance. ICC [...]
GMC community member of the month (Nov.)
Jose Galvez-Contreras, a junior student at Green Mountain College, wanted to do something positive for the children in his native country, Honduras. Two summers ago he began an undergraduate research project with Professor Paul Hancock. While studying the Honduras economy, Galvez-Contreras began to film a documentary about the children living on the streets. He documented [...]
What the River means to GMC
At Green Mountain College, the Poultney River is a classroom, an escape, a flowing version of Walden Pond. A documentary on what a river means to a college. A project of Falling Off Rope Swings Production completed as part of a course taught by Prof. Paul Falzone in Fall, 2008.
Butt huts fume debate on campus
Students returning to GMC this fall have all come into contact with a new part of the campus landscape which has become one of the most common topics to talk about. With the administration’s new policy on smoking, specially prescribed smoking tents, or “butt huts,” are popping up on campus lawns. “I’m not for or [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Comeback not enough for men’s basketball team
BY JAMES KENNEDY The Green Mountain College men’s basketball team went to Thomas College on Thursday night to play their semifinal playoff game. “We were ready and knew what we were in for because we had lost to Thomas twice this season,” senior guard Fabian Ferreira stated. Thomas was up by 16 going into the [...]
