BY CAI MANOOGIAN
We aren’t in Puerto Rico anymore. And we have already ventured out of Florida. Mukunda and I spent barely two months there in Gurukula (a Hindu school), until now—it is summer time.
We have taken a Ferry to The Dominican Republic, where we are meeting my father’s side of the family in Yamasa. There [...]
BY DANIELLE PHILLIPS
Rutland County saw in influx of visitors the last weekend in March and this time it was not simply for the above-average spring skiing that Killington offers.From March 26 to March 28th, Rutland and Killington hosted the snoe.down 2010, featuring popular jam band moe.
They played Friday and Saturday night at the Spartan Arena [...]
“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 United [...]
By Kelsey Eaton.
One of the greatest parts about becoming a mentor is the first time you get to meet your “mentee”. It’s almost like holding a newborn baby sibling for the first time—but even cooler because these kids are already smart, funny, and don’t poop their pants. I remember the first time I met my [...]
By Nate Higgs.
On March 6, the Green Mountain College Adventure Programming Office (GreenMAP) launched its first Spring Break trip, a seven day expedition to Baxter State Park in Maine. While hordes of college students chase the first warmth of the year during spring break, a group of ten rag-tag adventurers set out instead to quest [...]
According to the United States Department of Labor, 72.6 million Americans held jobs paid at an hourly rate in 2009. Of these workers, 3.6 million were paid exact minimum wage or under. A characteristic of these workers were that they were young, under 25. I have to say, I’ve had my fair share of minimum [...]
Over time there have been many deaths upon the music industry, deaths that ended careers and halted musical inspiration for future generations. For instance, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison all died prematurely. If they were all still alive maybe they would get together and party like its August 18th, 1969, or maybe Jimi [...]
Frank Riley, along with Robert Lees, created a community website for volunteers as part of their Delicate Balance project. Riley currently runs the website as part of his work-study position as a tour guide for the college. “Basically, I am trying to network with the town and school to get people volunteering to build community,” Riley [...]
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, a GMC [...]
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 normal [...]
