While April 16, the Saturday of Spring Concert, did not necessarily bring Spring weather, there were certainly enough people making their way outside for the day’s events. One event in particular was “Arty Soup!” hosted by GMC students Kate McAuley and Frank Riley. This project originally began in Vangie Blust’s Senior Seminar class. Riley and [...]
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Discovering Rutland’s Farmer’s Market
Being a student of GMC comes with a certain set of assumptions. I’m not saying I support such sweeping stereotypes but they do exist. To name a few: you own of pair of Birkenstocks, showering is optional, and you know at least a couple of Grateful Dead songs. We all know and have seen these [...]
Co-op Comes To East Main Street
Recently, a once abandoned building on East Main has been filled with signs advertising for the Stone Valley Community Market (SVCM). This co-op, set to open Earth Day (April 22nd) 2011, will be the first of its kind in the small Vermont town and is already drawing attention from eco-conscious students of GMC and Poultney members [...]
Quidditch in the city
BY LILY BRADBURN If on the weekend of November 13th you happened to find yourself in New York City around DeWitt Clinton Park in Manhattan, then you probably would have been witness to a spectacle not yet seen by the Big Apple. The event occurring was the Fourth Annual Quidditch World Cup. Hosted by the [...]
“Put the fun between your legs” The Green Mountain Quidditch team’s success
By Lily Bradburn Usually when you tell people about the Quidditch Team they respond with “Can you actually fly?” Based roughly off the popular sport in Harry Potter, the Quidditch Team is one of the clubs unofficial sports teams at GMC. With practices taking place on the front of Moses Lawn, the team is hard [...]
The not so forbidden flesh
It is a team most schools would not call conventional, or appropriate for that matter. While on the surface the streaking team at Green Mountain College appears to be no more than a bunch of hippies stirring up the standards of politeness society usually adheres too, in reality holds a much deeper meaning and opinion [...]
H.R.3590: what is it exactly?
BY LILLY BRADBURN While the battle for heath care in America has been going on for several months now, it wasn’t until this past March that the country saw one of the most drastic reforms in healthcare since Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. After months of being thrown back and forth between the House and [...]
Farm Crew Retreat
During the weekend of January 31st, Green Mountain’s own Farm Crew headed to Plymouth, Vermont for a retreat. The crew stayed two nights at one of the retreat facilities at the non- profit Farm and Wilderness campground where they participated in game building activities and brainstormed ideas for the future. Farm and Wilderness on a [...]
