Category archives for: College

By the numbers: What are we paying for?

The Gorge

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 [...]

We Party Sober Club

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 [...]

An Insecure Nation

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 [...]

Potty privacy

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 [...]

Jose M. Calhoun Learning Center offers academic resources for students

The Jose M. Calhoun Learning Center, located on the third floor of the Griswold Library, offers numerous resources for students looking for extra help with their work. The LC teaches the English as a Foreign Language program and offers academic counseling and skills workshops on note-taking, test taking, time management, college writing, and computer applications, [...]

Profile Article- Jose Galvez Contreras

Winter break is a time where most students relax and enjoy the freedoms that a month without classes affords them. Though he enjoyed his time off from classes to spend with family and friends, for junior Jose Tulio Galvez Contreras life in his home country, Honduras, is not all fun and games.
Honduras has historically been [...]

Activist visits campus Katie Koestner speaks out on the threat of date-rape among college students

College is a once in a lifetime experience, in which students all over the globe are exposed to a lot of new things. Some students who have been blessed with ability of being extremely athletic, play sports. Other Students have 4.0 GPA’s and live in the library. Some become submerged in the party scene, wake [...]

Saddle up: the Canter Club prepares new ideas

The Canter Club is an organization on campus where members get together based on their passion for horses.
Last semester the Canter Club held a fundraiser to save two Quarter horses, Lyric and Brio. The woman who had them couldn’t afford them anymore and was going to euthanize them. The club stepped in, and created a [...]

Communcation Troubles on campus

Do you ever feel like you have no idea what is going on around here? You’re not alone. Regarding everything from daily activities on campus, to the status of the new Biomass plant, it seems that any news or information at GMC is difficult to come by.
After sifting through hundreds of deleted (and previously unread) [...]

Campus fire regulations heating up

All on-campus residents who attended the campus-wide floor meetings when they returned from break, likely heard about the new regulations imposed regarding fire alarms resulting from burning food. To many students, this sounds like an issue which should not be punishable and viewed as an accident.  And, generally speaking, it is accidental. Sleeping residents of [...]

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