By, Samantha Albala I am completely bias. I am aware of that. I love books, physical books, objects that you can hold, feel, and experience. I am a writing major and an amateur book binder, and because of that it might be a requirement to read at least twice as many books than the average [...]
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Spring
The mountains begin to breathe once more, their round backs arch towards the sky, and the sun stretches above us. Winter has gone by faster than expected, melting at our feet, fading into warmth. Buds and birds perch on branches, scents of flowers shape the air, and we can feel the earth pulse beneath our [...]
Sustainability: What’s it to you?
Sustainability is something that many of us at GMC are working toward, and because it is such a large concept, there are many ways to for us to get closer to it. The following is a collection of stories collected and written by GMC students in the Fall 2011 course of Images of Nature, about some [...]
Burial – Kindred EP
By Luke Dailey For years after Burial exploded into the musical consciousness with his 2006 self-titled debut, the artist himself was almost as worthy of discussion as the music. That album and its follow-up, 2007’s masterful Untrue, are landmark, peerless works of post-dub, post-garage, dark ambient music—shuffling beats, unsteady rhythms, ghostly pitch-shifted vocals, cobweb textured atmospheric prods [...]
of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks
By Luke Dailey Kevin Barnes, the driving creative force behind of Montreal, debuted the band in 1997. Fifteen years and eleven albums later, he’s not only still going strong—he’s continually evolving, shifting, and redefining the band’s sound. 2007’s Oh Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? marked a late-career high water mark for the act: fueled by a [...]
Submit To The Green Anthology
By Luke Dailey Howdy all. Spring is in the air, in a chilly, vague, New England sort of way, and seniors are scrambling to complete an at-least mildly respectable Delicate Balance Project. My Big Idea is to compile a ‘green reader’ of sorts. Basic idea: a diverse collection of environmentally themed writings that is designed to [...]
Love at GMC: Just Go With It
by Chad Skiles There’s all sorts of love at GMC. The more I think about it, we really are a loving bunch. For the most part, I think we excel at spreading our token hippie-crunchy love in all the right ways—whether it be loving animals, or loving some counterculture political cause, or even loving [...]
Magic: The New Thing
By Jose Vazquez It seems like Magic, the collectible trading card game, has returned. The Gathering was dying away slowly, but all around the United States players seem to be playing once again, even at Green Mountain College. Some of you may not know what the game even is, so I’ll give you GMC folks [...]
Look Beyond The Art
By Jose Vazquez A very interesting art show was presented in The Feick Fine Arts Center, beginning on February 7th, 2012. The artist Bill Ramage, created unique art that has not been seen in The Feick. As stated on the Green Mountain College website, “The Feick Fine Arts Center serves as the main art gallery [...]
Honoring Dr. King’s Legacy
GMC Celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday By Kristen Moore This year GMC students and faculty came together in many special ways to honor Dr. King’s legacy. Activism at GMC, The Black Culture Club and Student Life coordinated to organize various events throughout the day. A homemade banner hung from the open window of [...]
