By Dan Riley “So what is it?” This was the question on the minds of newspaper editors, analysts, and politicians for weeks after Jon Stewart made his announcement. The host of the widely watched comedy news program, The Daily Show, and arguably one of the most trusted and influential names in news, declared on his [...]
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Fighting for the Cure
When I was younger, I remember the terrified look on my mom’s face after a lump was discovered in her breast. Was it cancer? Could it be removed? Is it too late? Thankfully the tumor was removed, and turned out to be benign. It was hard to imagine the thousands of women who discover a [...]
Spring Semester at Brunnenburg Castle
In the last days of February 2010, I found myself with fourteen other GMC students on a plane descending into Munich, Germany. It was seven in the morning after an all night flight. I couldn’t contain the excitement in me as the early light sifted in through the row of little windows, which gave a [...]
Adventures in India
By Matthew Bemis This summer I studied abroad in India, with a program through Loyola University in New Orleans. I took two courses there, one with Green Mountain College Professor Mary Pernal; the other with Loyola University Professor Timothy Cahill. We went to several different places, but for the most part stayed in Tibetan settlements [...]
Going up is easy: Stuck on a mountain in Japan
“I can’t believe this” Martin muttered as he nudged a pebble with his foot. With a little cascade of gravel, the pebble slid off the edge and, though we couldn’t see the pebble’s fall, we had peered over the edge enough times to imagine its uninterrupted drop 200 feet onto the rocks below. With a [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Unlimited corporate $$$ on U.S. Elections: Supreme Court gives corporations First Amendment rights
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 [...]
A semester’s study in South Korea
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 [...]
