by Nate Higgs
$304.00 could be a lot of things to a college student. It could be two biology textbooks, tickets to a show, or even 5,400 fluid ounces of beer (if you’re willing to drink cheap beer).
But what is three-hundred and thirty-four dollars to a Green Mountain College student? Short answer: it’s the part of [...]
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 [...]
Friday, February 12th marked a significant event for the Poultney community, the opening of a new business on Main Street. A little before 7:00, the Tiny Theater opened its doors to a crowd of anxiously awaiting – and cold – GMC students, professors, and community members. There were three movies shown in a row, starting [...]
The mission of We Party Sober! is to create a forum for like minded individuals seeking a to meet and find each other in a substance-free environment.
A substance-free club is needed at Green Mountain College because those students who do want to maintain a substance-free lifestyle have been having a difficult time finding others like [...]
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 a month [...]
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 [...]
Picture a brisk, wintry Saturday afternoon with children and students from GMC dressed warm, shuffling down the street. Their mission? Bringing holiday cheer to the greater community in the form of Fa-La-La’s and Jingle Bells; caroling will now be added to our resumes! This effort was made by the DREAM program, N2N AmeriCorps and a [...]
On Thursday January 21st, 2010, the United States Supreme Court voted 5-4 in favor of overturning two, sixty-year old restrictions on corporations, unions and other interest groups that restricted them from spending their treasuries on United States public elections. In other words, corporations now have First Amendment rights just like you and are now allowed [...]
About five years ago my mother had bought a few books off of an independent online bookstore. A few days after her purchases someone had stolen her credit card number and hacked into her bank account taking a few thousand dollars out for a new flat screen or something. Unfortunately for my mom, she had [...]
A perfect world would consist of much more focus on real life problems like pollution, the depletion of natural resources, and nuclear weapons with potential of world wide catastrophe. Instead, we allow our precious time to be swamped with petty news that belongs in the tabloid section at the grocery store. Recently, one of these [...]
