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 [...]
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 [...]
BY NOAH PAPPANO
After 23 hours of traveling by taxi, bus, planes, and finally car, I had made it back to America and safely ensconced in San Diego after dropping 13 time zones and swapping a humid jungle in the height of monsoon season to a desert with Mediterranean breezes. But how did I do all [...]
BY ASHLEY CASE
In most undergraduate conversations the goings on of the Supreme Court is not a wildly exciting issue, but according to Brett Dugan, “justice turns me on.” Tom Wheeler holds the opposite opinion. “If I were a Supreme Court Justice, I would rule how I feel and ignore precedent; justice is an abstract concept,” [...]
BY CHAD SKILES
AND DUSAN VUKSANOVIC
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano, better known as The Yes Men, showed their newest movie “The Yes Men fix the world” on March 25. The movie, still in its post-production process, was screened only at Sundance Film Festival and Berlin, Germany prior to Green Mountain College.
BY MELISSA MARKSTROM
After a slew of long lines, a chanting metro, and rushing ahead of the crowds to hit a fresh port-a-potty, we arrived. At 5 AM, GMC alumni Liz Clare and I were 200 feet away from the closest we could be without having tickets. We spent the next seven hours desperate to stave [...]
BY MELISSA MARKSTROM
With the Inauguration just around the corner, and throngs of Obamaites clamoring for the best seat on the lawn of the most lavish housewarming party of the century, we have to ask ourselves – who else is moving in?
Obama received mixed responses to his recent administrative appointments. Neoliberals and Neoconservatives alike praised Obama’s [...]
BY IAN SUTHERLAND
I was appalled by the inaccuracies and biases in William Byrd’s article last month, “The United States of Terror”. The generalizations of American politics, oversight of vital information, and unjust, oversimplification of world politics in Mr. Byrd’s article were inane.
BY WILLIAM BYRD
Imagine for the moment that you are getting into your car to go to work. Your wife waves to you as you buckle your seatbelt, you’ve just had a hearty breakfast, and you’re looking forward to watching your child’s school-play in the late afternoon. As you’re backing out of your driveway, you hear [...]
FROM DUSAN VUKSANOVIC
One of the most inspirational nights of my life was the presidential election one. After CNN announced their projection that Senator Barack Obama was the new president-elect, the Green Mountain College campus erupted in joy and celebration. People hugged, kissed, played music, and danced to commemorate what they were hoping to be the [...]
