BY WAI PHYO MYINT The President of Green Mountain College, Paul Fonteyn, is going to attend a conference, hosted by President Bill Clinton in April, to discuss the issues globally suffering, and to strengthen the college’s shared commitment in changing the world into a better place. GMC’s seniors, Todd Martin and Cody Currier were selected [...]
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Griswold Library raises awareness about wasting paper
BY WAI PHYO MYINT Green Mountain College’s Griswold Library staff, Cail Clark came up with the idea at one staff meeting to visually demonstrate the amount of paper left in recycle bins, after being printed out at the Library’s printers. A cylinder-shape wire frame named the “Recyclone” is now used as a temporary recycling bin [...]
Living under the Taliban rule
BY WAI PHYO MYINT Children from other parts of the world, at the age of eleven, might have had a hard time even to understand what really war is. Asadhullah (Asad) Sohail was eleven years old when the United States government declared war on his land, Afghanistan, in 2001. Unlike children of his age from [...]
Media convention addresses the issue of print
“Open to adopt new/different platforms.” It was profound advice, from Andrew Devigal, the Multi-media editor of the New York Times, and many other media advisors, offered to the student journalists, attending the College Media Advisers convention in New York city on the second week of March. Hundreds of student journalists, working at college newspapers across the [...]
GMC hosts Activist Farmers’ Photo Exhibition
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 [...]
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 Senate revises its Constitution
Green Mountain College’s student governing body, Student Senate, is working to replace the Student Assembly with a committee to make its process more efficient. “We have a problem that many club representatives do not show up at Student Assembly meetings,” the Student Senate president, Jose Galvez Contreras said. Student clubs’ representatives meet at the weekly [...]
H1N1 flu infection among GMC students
Green Mountain College’s Wellness Center is conducting an online survey to get an accurate number of students who got infected by H1N1 flu on November 4 after getting the reports of infection among the students. “A number of GMC students reportedly got infected by H1N1 flu. Some went back to their homes, but some remained [...]
More smoking tents approved
Wai Phyo Myint Green Mountain College students’ opinions divide on the college administration’s decision allowing more smoking permitted areas, ‘smoking tents’ on campus as its attempt to deter noise, and smoke coming out from popular smoking tents. The administration announced the decision to increase the number of tents at strategic locations on October 8. The [...]
The Bus service in Poultney
BY WAI PHYO MYINT Poultney residents welcomed the re-launching of the public transportation service, also known as The Bus, by the Marble Valley Regional Transit District (MVRTD) last month. The Bus expanded its service up to the Poultney region by extending the Castleton and Fair Haven route on September 29.
