February 16, 2011

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2012	Apr 25 An Interview with Graduating Senior, Mark Thiong'o By Kristen Moore “The first time I spoke with Mark Thiong'o our conversation consisted of an exchange of ...” 20 Something More “By Cai Manoogian “Talk to me,” he says. “About what?" I ask. “Tell me a story.” “Ugh. I'm too ...” Dear Summer “By Cai Manoogian This is the first time I have written to a season. I cannot ...” 18 Tutors for Spring, 2012 We Must Fail To Succeed “By Jose Vazquez The Green Mountain College Lacrosse team has been training hard every day since ...” Quidditch Champion Series “By Jose Vazquez Green Mountain College was chosen to be part of the Quidditch Champion Series. ...” A Double Rainbow or Triple? “By Jose Vazquez First time I have seen a double rainbow, or even a triple. One ...” The Antarctica Story “By Jose Vazquez Hugo Neuburg “Antarctica Photographs 1957-58” was in Surdan Foyer Gallery right next to ...” 17 Club that makes you move your feet “This may not be the most popular club but it does provide a service for ...”	Mar 31 Five Green Mountain College Students to Do Research in China “Professor Mark Dailey received a grant of $27,000 from ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Fellows Program to ...” 11 "A Modest Proposal" “By Matthew Bemis When I arrived at Green Mountain College three and a half years ago, ...” Why I Read in Libraries: “ By, Samantha Albala I am completely bias. I am aware of that. I love books, physical ...” 03 Spring “The mountains begin to breathe once more, their round backs arch towards the sky, and ...” Sustainability: What's it to you? “Sustainability is something that many of us at GMC are working toward, and because it is ...” Burial – Kindred EP “By Luke Dailey For years after Burial exploded into the musical consciousness with his 2006 self-titled ...” of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks “By Luke Dailey Kevin Barnes, the driving creative force behind of Montreal, debuted the band in ...” Submit To The Green Anthology “By Luke Dailey Howdy all. Spring is in the air, in a chilly, vague, New England ...”	Feb 13 Love at GMC: Just Go With It “by Chad Skiles There’s all sorts of love at GMC. The more I think about it, ...” 12 Magic: The New Thing “By Jose Vazquez It seems like Magic, the collectible trading card game, has returned. The Gathering ...” Look Beyond The Art “By Jose Vazquez A very interesting art show was presented in The Feick Fine Arts Center, ...” 06 Honoring Dr. King's Legacy “GMC Celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday By Kristen Moore This year GMC students and faculty ...” Book Review: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 05 Where are you, Saint Valentine? “ By, Samantha Albala * A special thanks to Siegfried de Rachewiltz, the history channel, and everyone ...” Filmmakers Donate Fracking Films to Griswold Maple Fest Weekend 2012 “By Cai Manoogian There are many stories behind a celebratory function. You know, how things begin ...” Love “What is it about love? Are we destined to roam the Earth, in search for ...” 02 Puppy Love “By Matthew Bemis My family has always had at least one dog in our household, but ...”	Jan 11 From Childhood to College “By Casey McGill I have decided to do something a bit different in this edition’s article ...”
2011	Dec 13 Declinations underlining its progressions “ By Minh Ho Human history is a process that is composed of many patterns of improvement ...” 06 Appreciation for GMC and the Environment! “ By: Jesoni "Fiji" Kuruyawa Green Mountain College is at the center of promoting a green environment ...” Pick Up Your Dog Poop! “By Jesoni “Fiji’’ Kuruyawa It has come to many peoples attention that some community members in ...” 05 A New Player in Town- Zero Sort! “By Jesoni “Fiji” Kuruyawa Zero Sort is the new trash disposal that will soon be implemented ...” Recycling is Back in Business “By Jesoni “Fiji” Kuruyawa The recycling crew were hard at work cleaning up the recycling trailer ...” Eagles Men’s Basketball Team Ready for Season “ By Jesoni “Fiji” Kuruyawa The Green Mountain Men’s Basketball team looks to have a great season ...” The Mountaineers Male Athlete of the Month “By: Jesoni "Fiji" Kuruyawa Forrest Teutsch Cross Country Runner Forest Teutsch has been named The Mountaineers-Eagle Sports ...” Mountaineers Female Athlete of the Month NY State Comment Period on Hydrofracking Extended “By Kristen Moore On Dec. 1, Gov. Cuomo of NY State extended the comment period on ...” Mesmerized by Ceremonials 04 First Annual Hoops for Hunger Tournament “On November 11, 2011 juniors Emma Lord, and myself, Casey McGill, held a 3v3 basketball ...” GMC Community Reacts to The Fake Email “The fake email sent out last week by someone pretending to be President Fonteyn has ...” A New Forest “A New Forest By Lauren Piechota When envisioning the concept of a rebirth, a common and appropriate ...” Believe in Zero	Nov 14 Horse back Riding Lessons at GMC “By Kristen Moore Due to a recently stressful academic week, I found my body yearning for ...” 08 Men’s Rugby Team Gives Back! “By: Jesoni “Fiji” Kuruyawa The Men’s Rugby Team gives back to the community by holding a ...” Expressing Thoughtfulness this Holiday Season “By Kristen Moore As your mind is filled with final projects and thoughts of holiday celebrations, ...” Goodbye Fall, Hello Basketball “By Casey McGill This fall on the golf course for GMC, freshman Tim Daniels finished 14th ...” 07 The Welsh Green Dragons - Quidditch “By Jose Vazquez Have you ever heard of Quidditch? If not, then come see for yourself! They ...” Pallets and Cardboard boxes Stolen “By Jesoni "Fiji" Kuruyawa The Green Mountain College Recycling Team recently discovered that students have been ...” 06 University of Maine at Farmington vs. Green Mountain Eagles: NAC match “By Jesoni “Fiji” Kuruyawa The Eagles Womens Volleyball team put up a good fight, but it ...” 01 Old Ground, New Growth “By Luke Dailey Blink-182 – Neighborhoods Yeah, seriously. Blink’s announcement that they were reforming and working on ...” The Master of Dreams “By Luke Dailey Tycho – Coastal Break Throw out the word ‘dreamlike’ these days and you’re pretty ...” Remember Accordions “By Luke Dailey Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal “While they used to be ...”	Oct 31 Bonds with Brothers “Bonds With Brothers By Lauren Piechota What is it that makes a sibling relationship work? Why do ...” 30 Another Fake Email “By Bruna Lobato Around 12:30 a.m. on October 26th, a bogus email was sent out to ...” 23 Making A Difference “By Jesoni “Fiji” Kuruyawa Delicate Balance is a course designed to encourage students to execute a ...” High Quality Local Food! “Poultney is Stocked with High Quality Local Food! By Kristen Moore This fall, Poultney is a locavore’s ...” 20 Spartans vs. Green Mountain College “By Jose Vazquez This week Green Mountain College faced the Spartans. It was a mind blowing game. Both ...” 19 Green Mountain College Vs. Castleton State College Volleyball Game “The Green Mountain College volleyball team faced the Castleton State College volleyball team, which was ...” 06 The Green Senior Program 05 Hello Everyone! 01 The Office Freepo is Open! “The Office Freepo is Open! By Kristen Moore Are you in need of office supplies? Do you ...” My Top NYC Hot Spots “I spent much of this past summer living and working in New York City. My first ...” Evening Song Farm Benefit Student Campus Greening Fund: It's Your Money, Use It! “If you go to the outdoor classroom to sit on the slate benches and do ...” Music Review-The New Staind Album “Old Power Revived By Lauren Piechota The band Staind has seen quite a bit of success over ...” Losing the T's “Losing the T's By Lauren Piechota Kids playing sports, clubs, counselors at a summer camp, Boy Scout ...” "Actions Speak Louder Than Words": A Request For More Composting “It has come to the Eco Reps and the school recycling team’s attention that students ...” New Mac Computers “By Jesoni “Fiji” Kuruyawa Green Mountain College students will have the luxury of using new Mac ...” More than Meets the Eye- Loyal Korean Son Pursues His Dreams! “By Jesoni “Fiji” Kuruyawa Kye-yong Lee may be a typical exchange student studying here in the ...” Men’s Eagles Ties Match Against Becker “By: Jesoni “Fiji” Kuruyawa The GMC Eagles Men’s Soccer team fought hard and well against the ...”	Sep 30 Mens Soccer Season is Here! GMC Men’s Rugby- A Rising Sport “By: Jesoni "Fiji" Kuruyawa Rugby is truly not a game to be taken lightly as it ...” Another Wes Moore “By Bruna Lobato The summer reading for 2011, required for all freshmen, was The Other Wes ...” 28 "THERE ARE NO ROADS!" ““THERE ARE NO ROADS” Hurricane Irene impacted Vermont with a fury, washing out roads, demolishing homes ...” Women's and Men's Cross Country Teams- Not An Easy Push Over. “By: Jesoni "Fiji" Kuruyawa The Green Mountain College Cross country teams look in top shape as ...”	May 07 Burning Sage Bodhisatva Moments The Burning of Cabrini Green “Flames were smeared across the night sky like paints. I watched. I thought about the ...” May Cover Art A Girl of Many Trades: ONE HUNDRED GOALS AND STILL COUNTING… Kelloscuro Mac Computers Stolen “Students of a well known professor were shocked and mad at the fact that Mac ...” A Gold Rush: Mining in OZ Stopping Human Trafficking “by Lan Tran Lan Tran and Kirstin Kelly invited their friends to give information and raise ...” 06 Meet your friendly Eco-Reps The Past Four Years Camper to Counselor -A student’s reflection of summer work at a day camp Poultney Earth Fair - The Spark of a Change Grass Power at GMC Green Bike Program Back in Effect Trash Cars & Cow Drums: The Recycled Art Competition Office FreePo to Open On Campus-Reduce, Reuse, Re-Staple Smoking at Gas Station-A student’s view on this hazardous activity The Ugly Truth About Beauty Products Oil and Shadows - An Artist Profile Teams Struggling at GMC “Why is that our sport teams are struggling here at GMC? Is it that our ...” Voice of New Generation, 12 students at National Model UN 05 Arty Soup! Brings Poultney High and GMC Together The Art of Being Sophisticatedly Thrifty - A Tale of Craigslist “The name Philip Markoff may not mean much to most of us, but back in ...” GMC Approves 5% Increase in Socially Responsible Investments “Wednesday, April 27th, the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees approved a proposal by ...” SCGF (pronounced “skŭ-gŭf”) “A sampling of projects funded by the Student Campus Greening Fund By Dan Riley and Katie ...” Fair Haven Responds to Plans of Biomass Project “In the neighboring town of Fair Haven, rumors of new green jobs and and economic ...” Stop, Drop and Nap “College students are traditionally depicted as getting either too much or too little sleep. We ...” 04 Cheap and Easy Festivals: A Summer Guide “In planning summer endeavors, it is easy to have lofty vacation goals. Every spring, when ...” Summer Listening Guide “The best music is often seasonal. Sigur Ros is consistently great, but there’s nothing quite ...” Kombucha Bug Spray the Right Way “Whether you’re spending your summer here in Poultney, doing an internship in Maine, or flying ...”	Apr 21 Verano 20 April 13th Cover Art 14 Inside The Biomass Facility Tasting Sweet Success - Tapping into a Personal Story of Maple Sugaring in Poultney, V Farmhouse Kitchen Certified Gorillaz, The Fall - An album that hardly loses its footing Springtime Planning 13 Local Musician Attempting to make it BIG - One Man’s Struggle to Find a Place in a Digital World An Improvement to the System - A response to: “Food Handouts too Much” Deciding the Rules of Food Choice-Added information might make you think twice, it might not “ The Food and Drug Administration recently proposed a set of rules that would require chain ...” A Nostalgic Senior Reflection “ In this day and age, the United States still shows direct influence from other cultures. ...” Blooming 03 Beginning “Sometimes ideas are as seasonal as the leaves. In summer the minds tends to wander wild; ...” 01 The Special Ones	Mar 29 Do Not Simply Walk into Mordor… You Must Funky Dance! Appreciating Green Mountain College “ Green Mountain College is at the center of promoting a green environment and sustainable living ...” Welcome Aveta - Cerrwiden Farm’s New Calf Where’s the Grass? Is it Spring Yet? Yuck, Self Titled - The 90’s are back, only this time with less (or more) flannel Bonnie Prince Billy & the Cairo Gang - Two tracks for a cause Stepping on Bare Toes with Expensive Shoes Staff in the City - The Mountaineer staff travel to NYC Fireside Chats With Student Government “ KATE WERNETT and RASHEED HAMMOUDA This is the first installment of many to come in Fireside ...” 26 March 23, 2011 Cover 25 Chalkboards-Video “ I made this to encourage people to express themselves in a healthy way rather than ...” Food Handouts Are Too Much “Regardless of political affiliation, I think that most people would agree that our country, and ...” The Ackley Chapel: A place to breathe “The chapel is a beautiful space on campus that far too few people know about. ...” The Beauty of Solitude Artificial Intelligence: The Way Forward “The world of computing has taken numerous strides in the past decade. Technology is constantly being ...” Back from the Streets 24 A Culture of Peace “ I know about your culture as much as you do. This is the fourth year ...” 23 Springtime Planning “Everyone is ready for winter to end, but are you ready for springtime planting? This ...” 21 Discovering Rutland’s Farmer’s Market 19 9.0 Earthquake hits Japan 04 America Throws Fuel on the Middle East’s Fire “In the course of hardly a month, the political climate of the Middle East has ...” Meet the Athletes - The Two Terrific #10 Jersey Wearers of Green Mountain College Radiohead, King of Limbs - Back with a mix of glitch and atmospheres. Iron & Wine, Kiss Each Other Clean - Just missing the mark. Kali “Late summer sacrifice yarrow in bloom its spicy scent lingers rain in the night knots in my back milkweed blooming – monarch the regal ...” At Her Mother’s Funeral “Drowning in a crowd, she stands alone. Addressing strangers with clapboard eyes she is as ...” 03 March 2, 2011 Cover Preparing for Baseball Season Careless Love “A man once told me that when you make love to a woman, you get revenge ...” Feminism in the United States Reviving the Women’s Movement Students Prepare for Life on the Street How you can help Heifer International fight World hunger and poverty “Heifer International, a nonprofit organization funding over 920 projects around the world, offers education and ...” Used Pokéflute… Wild Snorlax Attacks in a Grumpy Rage! Hey, Hey, What Did They Do? Concert tees face a possible ban at one high school. Co-op Comes To East Main Street Cerebral Cortex Calisthenics	Feb 12 February 2011 Cover Art 09 Heating troubles campus Western puppets, Egypt’s uprising Kyla’s heady sustainable tips “The Eco-Reps program, designed and managed by Sustainability Office Manager Kyla Jaquish, will be up ...” Tweets of the Union Crash text Obama visits Schenectady “ Schenectady, NY-On Friday, Jan. 21, President Barack Obama visited GE’s steam turbine and generator facility. ...” Exciting news from SCGF “ It’s a new year and SCGF (Student Campus Greening Fund) has exciting news to share ...” Meal plan woes Bring on the basketball I see the sign, you missed it? OFF!- First Four EP’s I’m with the band: local music trying to make it big
2010	Dec 12 S.R.I - socially responsible investing - the right choice for GMC? 10 December Cover 09 Howl Back Mountains 08 Sports: Continued “BY CASEY MCGILL Golf Team The golf team was lead by senior Matt Tarricone who opened the ...” Sports: Continued Sports: Continued Fall sports hit the net, winter bounces forward Araignées Albums of the decade: Continued Albums of the decade Albums of the Year Holiday Reflections “BY AMBERLEE MILLER When I was younger, maybe in kindergarten, I would check the same book ...” A wild Tonberry has appeared!… crap… The Pre-Thanksgiving Feast “BY TSERING SHERPA Our Multicultural, Diversity and Social Justice class had assigned us to do a ...” Quidditch in the city Remembering a friend Expanding the seasonal spirit “BY LAUREN PIECHOTA. At this time of the year, people usually begin to think about holidays, ...” Shiny Materialism Stealing the Gift Giving of the Holidays Kyla's heady sustainable facts “BY KYLA JAQUISH. Some Interesting Facts about Campus Sustainability... that you all may have been wondering ...” Trying to make sense of the UNICCO switch Giving Back “BY RACHEL WORRELL The Dismas House in Rutland is a residential community for former prisoners who ...”	Nov 10 Koban wa doko ni arimasu ka (Translation: Where is the police station?) What just happened? GMC goes to DC, returns a little more sane Vampire Diaries: My descent into roleplaying hell Cries of Mary “By Kelsey Eaton Mary Bodge was barely 23 on the day that she died. It was ...” A Haunting in Poultney “Put the fun between your legs” The Green Mountain Quidditch team’s success Moonlight Whispers Cellphone use at GMC Kyla’s heady sustainable tips “ By Kyla Jaquish If you go to the grocery store and forget your reusable shopping bag ...” Loving Biology Endless A reflection on the Deane Preserve The Deane Controversy A letter to the students and faculty of GMC “Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a letter written by the donor of the ...” Green Mountain College: The Little Engine that could!	Oct 22 Remembering a loss I think I’m turning Japanese... “By Vincent Yasi Hello one and all, and welcome to the first ever edition of the ...” Staying happy, staying healthy Fighting for the Cure An Evening of Dance Lost in China: A heartwarming tale of childhood misery 20 Eat In or Take Out? “ by Olivia DeJohn and Student Senate We the people of Green Mountain College, in Order to ...” SCGF -- what is it? “By Whitney Rose and Katie Emerson If you had access to the money, what would you ...” Just a Minute! The Silver Screen on Main Street	Sep 23 Where are the bikes? Check out the basement of Dunton Bored in Poultney? “So begins another year at the beautiful Green Mountain College, and for those of us ...” What’s Good In September: Reviews of Upcoming Music Spring Semester at Brunnenburg Castle Letter from a Friend “This here is a beautiful letter written to me. It is brazen, from my best ...” Summer music stretches Further than ever before “Summer time equals a time of freedom. The norms and structure of conventional life fall ...” Adventures in India Going up is easy: Stuck on a mountain in Japan Memory Loss 22 The not so forbidden flesh “It is a team most schools would not call conventional, or appropriate for that matter. ...” Alcohol policy enforced on campus “A senior student, well over the legal drinking limit, is walking to his dorm carrying ...” Returning to new initiatives Interning at the EPA	Apr 16 H.R.3590: what is it exactly? “BY LILLY BRADBURN While the battle for heath care in America has been going on for ...” White Sand Getting Real with Ryan Paving the path to Socially Responsible Investing “BY MINDY BLANK For various present and past students who have been involved in working towards ...” Snoe.Down 2010 rocks Rutland County Memoirs of a spring concert planner “BY MICHELLE ERHARD Picture this: students are filing in and out of the campus bookstore, each ...” Implications of Adventure Colloquium Basketball players give back to community “BY JESONI "FIJI" KURUYAWA Alphonso Howlett is one common name around the GMC community. Howlett has ...” The start to a hopeful lacrosse season Student Campus Greening Fund Progress Report “BY TODD MARTIN With only a few weeks left of the Spring 2010 semester here at ...” GMC President and students attending Bill Clinton Conference “BY WAI PHYO MYINT The President of Green Mountain College, Paul Fonteyn, is going to attend ...” Griswold Library raises awareness about wasting paper President Fonteyn defends policies “BY ALEX VAUGHN We should have known that there would be a reckoning. We should have ...” 06 Living under the Taliban rule “BY WAI PHYO MYINT Children from other parts of the world, at the age of eleven, ...”	Mar 25 Students travel to Montpelier for vote on Vermont Yankee A whale's tale of woe “Growing up as a kid, I always thought of environmentalists as a bunch of hippies ...” Media convention addresses the issue of print Some thoughts on minimum wage employment... “The Upside: The authority to say things like, “We actually don’t do that here,” general sense ...” Job searching advice: A word from the wise “This is the point in the semester where we mold our futures for post college ...” 24 The rise of green business “It is common to see headlines in the business section of any newspaper regarding the ...” Mud is in season “CAUTION: Mud Season is officially in effect. Be prepared to encounter muddy conditions any and ...” Fire devastates Poultney family Katahdin: Land of the pine marten? Getting real with Ryan “Dear Ryan, I have a big problem! I’m so bored with how my hair looks. I ...” The adventures of a working girl “According to the United States Department of Labor, 72.6 million Americans held jobs paid at ...” 16 First Hand Experience; Wall Street Vs. Main Street “Since the economy tanked and businesses of all sizes have gone bankrupt the Wall Street ...”	Feb 24 By the numbers: What are we paying for? 23 Letter to editor Response to “Feedback from the Disgruntled” “As a student representative to the Retention Committee for over a year I have had ...” Getting real with Ryan In Search of the Greatest Cheap Beer The days we thought music had died Vermont Yankee: a day of lobbying in Montpelier Student volunteers help launch theater Alum launches Tiny Theater Volunteering: It’s not just for lame people anymore Oz Skinner takes on the Sundance Film Festival and returns with a few tips We Party Sober Club “The mission of We Party Sober! is to create a forum for like minded individuals ...” GMC hosts Activist Farmers’ Photo Exhibition 16 Student profile: Alaina Killion “Alaina's destiny was not always to be an Adventure Education major. From a young age ...” 04 Getting real with Ryan New challenges ahead for Haiti Student Greening Fund goes big Green Mountain College is "a college on the move:" A modest reply to the perennial sect of pessimists “Although it is only natural for human beings to complain about their current set of ...” DREAM teams up “Picture a brisk, wintry Saturday afternoon with children and students from GMC dressed warm, shuffling ...” 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 ...” An Insecure Nation “About five years ago my mother had bought a few books off of an independent ...” Potty privacy “ A perfect world would consist of much more focus on real life problems like pollution, ...” 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, ...” Profile Article- Jose Galvez Contreras “Winter break is a time where most students relax and enjoy the freedoms that a ...” 03 Activist visits campus Katie Koestner speaks out on the threat of date-rape among college students Saddle up: the Canter Club prepares new ideas “The Canter Club is an organization on campus where members get together based on their ...” Communcation Troubles on campus “Do you ever feel like you have no idea what is going on around here? ...” 02 Farm Crew Retreat	Jan 29 Healthcare in crisis: Nursing a broken system back to health “by Amberlee Miller While visiting Pennsylvania recently, I became extremely ill. I could barely move out ...” 26 Climbing the wall: Life in the bouldering cave 22 Campus fire regulations heating up “All on-campus residents who attended the campus-wide floor meetings when they returned from break, likely ...”
2009	Dec 10 Uncle Dollar's Horoscope “Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21) Hard times are on the horizon for you and all ...” Don't be a dick campaign launches Several hundred portraits of the artist as a young woman UN climate change conference at a glance “As you read this article, world leaders from 192 countries are shaking hands in Copenhagen, ...” Rising bids for Rising Minds Congressman visits campus 09 Commuter parking to improve Student Senate revises its Constitution “Green Mountain College’s student governing body, Student Senate, is working to replace the Student Assembly ...” The inexhaustible war adds a tragically ironic notch onto its belt “Barack Obama said frequently during his campaign trail, “I am not opposed to all wars—what ...” Looking back on holiday tradtions New experiences lead to new ideals Guido loving? I think not: slaughtering stupid stereotypes “You mean the Jersey Shore isn’t a haven to the greasy, fist-pumping, muscle shirt wearing ...” 'Student Senate does nothing' “Senate does not do anything. Do I have your attention? That statement gets tossed around ...” Diversifications of energy sources: A 2008 investor's perspective: today “I had the pleasure of attending “The Future of Vermont’s Energy” forum at Green Mountain ...” ICC events this semester “Fall 2009 so far has been a very fruitful and rewarding semester for the InterCultural ...” Farming “ Her lips burnt a small black singed circle 'round his chest, where his heart was. ...” Owls: friend or foe?	Nov 24 The blood makes the grass grow “BY RYAN HORVATH This year the Green Mountain College Rugby Football Club (GMCRFC) gave plenty of ...” Notes from the Community Conversation: Striving for Sustainability “BY TODD MARTIN On Wednesday, November 4, 2009, Green Mountain College students, faculty and staff gathered ...” Green Mountain College Biomass Facility Update Solar Thermal Research Project to Take Place at Cerridwen Farm On the Road -- where we stop, no one knows GMC Students Hit the Rails Flying Squirrels Prepare to Hibernate “BY THE FRISBEE CAPTAINS The Flying Squirrels played a home Tournament – Zen and the Art ...” Amputation Obsession: Body Integrity Disorder “BY ASHLEY CONNOR Trying to imagine what life would be like without a limb is tough ...” 21 Tips for Greening your dorm Students reach out to community Students shed light upon retention issue “Green Mountain is a uniquely captivating place. As the Princeton Review noted about the school, ...” H1N1 flu infection among GMC students “Green Mountain College’s Wellness Center is conducting an online survey to get an accurate number ...” Holistic Wellness: Exploring the Salt Cave “by Amberlee Miller The Salt Cave at the Pyramid Holistic Wellness Center in Rutland is one ...” GMC community member of the month (Nov.) Light your match “Adagio thumping numbs my sense(s) Skin parched and voice cold Etched sheets of crumpled pavements With a hammer ...” Brooms and bludgeons 19 STUDENT ‘SKELLIES’ THRILLER 02 More smoking tents approved “Wai Phyo Myint Green Mountain College students’ opinions divide on the college administration’s decision allowing more ...” GMC community member of the month (October) “After surviving what could have been a fatal car accident in the fall of 2008, ...” Global climate change and what we can do about it “ BY TODD MARTIN Climate change is shaping up to be the most important issue of our ...” From hearts to hits: Domestic violence stories of current GMC students The Progressive Program: Why on earth don't more people know about it? “BY NOAH PAPPANO The brochure to the Progressive Program (PP) states: “People are better learners when ...” A vegetarian almost cracks “BY STEPHANIE CONLEY I’ve been a vegetarian for almost five years. I support PETA and I’m ...”	Oct 30 What or who is slowing down the campus Internet again? Health care chaos: Not just a national issue “BY CHAD SKILES As an international student from Kenya, sophomore Mark Thiong’o experienced one of his ...” 28 Maplefest and Marriage Equality (documentary) What the River means to GMC 04 Green Mountain Podcast	Sep 30 Alan Weisman: a new look at the environmental crisis Meeting GMC’s energy needs, one panel at a time A semester's study in South Korea Butt huts fume debate on campus “Students returning to GMC this fall have all come into contact with a new part ...” GMC Community Member of the Month: Luke Percival	Apr 21 Gaming Cookies For You: Alternate Reality Reflections 16 Gaming Cookies For You: Shreddin' With The Best Of Them 10 YES Coffee House renovated 08 Taking a bite out of diplomacy “BY CANDY SMITH Twelve Green Mountain College students, who compose the college’s Model United Nations team, ...” The Capstone Experience Hot for justice How's about just Ackley Hall? “BY RONNIE BLACK Some parts of this campus have an identity crisis. Every building, structure or ...” Berlin, Sundance, and Green Mountain 01 Gaming Cookies For You: Battling Giants	Mar 28 Governor Douglas promises to veto Marriage Equality Bill 18 Gaming Cookies For You: Mixing The Old With The New 16 Gaming Cookies For You: The New Kid On The Block 04 Gaming Cookies For You: The Silent Contender 03 A Thoreauvian approach to modern lifestyle GreenMap organizes first Women's Ice Climbing trip Comeback not enough for men's basketball team A letter from Student Senate “Fellow Green Mountain Colleagues, Over the past few years there has been a consistent pulsation regarding ...” Finding a job in a weakening economy Loans: The Real “Game of Life”- The formula for keeping students buried in debt “BY JENNIFER MONTAGNE For graduating high school students, the loom of anticipated college debt hangs heavily ...” Gulf brings more gas diversity to Poultney “BY KEVIN HART As I was driving down Poultney’s Main Street earlier this semester, I noticed ...” Life is a beech “BY IAN FOERTSCH Fagus Grandifolia, the American Beech, is dying all over the east coast, from ...” Reporting on the Olympic champions	Feb 25 Gaming Cookies For You: Blast from the Past 16 Gaming Cookies For You: Orcs, Elves, Hobbits Galore! 11 GMC students attend historic inauguration College welcomes new Sustainability Coordinator “If there’s one place where it’s socially acceptable to believe that compost is beautiful, then ...” GMC professor receives a Fulbright recognition Internet on campus gets an upgrade “During the winter break, Green Mountain College upgraded the student network bandwidth, allowing the students ...” Lucky to be alive Stories from the Sundance Film Festival Impact of US economic crisis felt in Mexico “It is the capital city of Mexico, commonly known by foreigners as Mexico City and ...” Homeland Security or something similar to it “The new Obama Administration seems like a breath of fresh air after the past eight ...” Skiing: the winter wonderland of Vermont 10 Gaming Cookies For You: The Stylized Hack and Slash “ Afro Samurai System: PlayStation 3 and Xbox360 ESRB Rating: M (for Mature) Hack and slash games have always ...” 03 Gaming Cookies For You: Zombies Galore!	Jan 28 Gaming Cookies For You: Video Game Review
2008 “So far so good!”	Dec 22 GMC hosts Socially Responsible Investment forum “BY MELISSA MARKSTROM “It’s interesting that GMC has an environmental mission, but not socially responsible investment,” ...” Last words for President George W. Bush “BY CHAD SKILES After a rather colorful and controversial eight years of hanging around the White ...” ResLife explains the missing ballots issue “BY BEATRIZ GOMEZ The Mountaineer published a story in the previous issue about students wondering what ...” 19 Thoughts on Obama administration Oh, cruel world! Rants from the Edge The bigger picture at hand “What can be learned from the most recent Poultney murder? BY BENJAMIN DANIEL Eye brows raised, questions ...” Intellectual Sin “BY GORDON ELLMS Sometimes it seems like I’m part of some nationwide ego trip. I recycle, ...” 18 Balancing Delicately: Happy Holidays Balancing Delicately: What's so special about Specialty Floors? “BY RONNIE BLACK GMC doesn’t have Fraternities or Sororities, but it has a similar form of ...” Village of Poultney warning “WINTER PARKING BAN 1. No person shall park a motor vehicle unattended within ...” GMC celebrates 175th birthday “BY MELISSA MARKSTROM “We are caught up in a profound spiritual and moral crisis. You can ...” The Americans are coming “BY OZ SKINNER Do you know what a police state looks like? You may find out ...” A new addition to the men's basketball team Women's basketball heading for another successful season	Nov 23 Lice and Healthcare: Are you covered? A few lost voices Affordability of education Environmental Mission Who's slowing down the Internet?! Green Mountain College Eagles (Sports Bulletin) “Volleyball ends season in NAC semis The women’s volleyball team lost to Husson College in a ...” Presidential elections resemble Superbowl XL Roadblock Proposition 8 is unconstitutional Buy Nothing Day A letter to the American people “FROM DUSAN VUKSANOVIC One of the most inspirational nights of my life was the presidential election ...” 22 How democratic is the US voting system? Balancing Delicately: Sickness and Wellness 21 Recent crimes on campus raise security concerns “BY OZ SKINNER After a weekend with his family, a student who wished to remain anonymous ...” The Bus service in Poultney Dr. Scovner asked to leave campus Healing Mason Lord GMC squirrels go international Being green in your social environment “BY JOE PETRICK Vice President of Student Life Question 1: How is Poultney different from Boston or ...” Jesse Pyles Leaves GMC 19 Jeffrey Brace Memorial “BY AARON ASHTON On Sunday, October 13, the Jeffrey Brace Memorial was unveiled in East Poultney. ...” Textbooks: The Fleecing of Undergrads Irresponsible economics ruining senior citizens “BY MELISSA MARKSTROM Did you know that in order to qualify for heating assistance in Vermont ...” Decisions, Considerations, Truth Doing Good While Doing Well Where are your manners? “BY JENNA CALVI What ever happened to respect your elders? How about, you get further with ...” Frolicking Fall Fairies Balancing Delicately: Back at the ranch You’ll Remember Being There “BY NOAH PAPPANO You’ll remember being there. Questioning, doubting, fearing, loathing, loving, hating, gripping, wanting to ...” 06 Halloween and The Drag Ball “by Ronnie Black-- I was gearing up for the Drag Ball. I figured that somebody ...”	Oct 29 GMC Squirrels go international “BY NIKKI PFEIFFER AND ROBBIE LEEDS A group of seventeen ultimate frisbee players packed up their ...” The Bus service in Poultney “BY WAI PHYO MYINT Poultney residents welcomed the re-launching of the public transportation service, also known ...” Main Street—sharing the fate of national economy	Apr 09 New college president “ By Dusan Vuksanovic Chemistry professor Sue Sutheimer and sustainability coordinator Jesse Pyles were one of the ...” Not sufficient evidence to prove sexual assault “ By Katie Sobalsky The Sexual Misconduct Committee ruled that there was not sufficient evidence to prove ...” CHURCH “ By Justin Grimbol I took Heather to church. It was Easter. She wore a bright yellow ...” One Mighty Seed It's better in the dirt “ By Justin Grimbol She looked bad to me. Her body was an awful white pear, and ...” Behind the scenes of The Buttery “ By Renee Fasanaro MOUNTAINEER: What do you like most about your job? MARIE: “The kids, really, the ...” Runaway to the circus Village of the lost “ By Caitlin Berry We’re taking off for Tomorrowland, Fantasyland, Frontierland, and Adventureland combined. That’s the way ...” The revolution “ by Harold Vance 26,000 children under the age of 5 died yesterday. 26,000 more are dying ...” The work has just begun Developing countries need science and technical capacity “By Wai Phyo Myint An official of the World Bank emphasized the need for science and ...” Vermont Yankee and patriotism “ By Joe Bossen As time has ticked through and across manifest destiny’s legacy, generations of citizens’ ...” Ghosts of springtime “ By Guillermo Vasquez Spring is the time when the greenery starts to burst out of the ...” Earth Day cancelled? “ By Renee Fasanaro Reports vary on how long the flag was gone before anyone noticed. Last ...” Save energy, do it in the dark “ By Timothy Donaghy Saturday, March 29 marked the date for the second annual Earth Hour run ...” 5 years is too many El Curandero New area coordinator found intoxicated “ by Katie Sobalsky The newest area coordinator hired by the college was recently fired after not ...”	Mar 15 A Good Season Horoscopes “ Your essential link to the whims of the Cosmos Aries (March 21-April 19) For all the ...” Vegan Feast “ By Joe Bossen A raucous band of food fans gathered in the East Room of Withey ...” Trouble, south of the Mason Dixon “ By Ben Daniel A great adventure with three of my great friends turned quickly to a ...” A Tribute to Balls “ By Justin Grimbol I sat at the edge of the crowd and watched our men’s basketball ...” Digging a Little Deeper “By Caitlin Berry Coming into college it's easy to forget responsibility past personal hygiene, which still ...” Snoop in Vermont “GMC lacrosse team works security for concert BY TIMOTHY DONAGHY This past weekend, the Pickle Barrel in ...” The Revolution “ By Harold Vance When you think of a community, what image comes to mind? Do ...” Why People Murder? “ An interview with sociologist Gordon Knight By Renee Fasanaro Q: Are there any sociological theories that deal ...” Bank Robbery on Main Street “Students were surprised to find out that the Poultney bank had been robbed recently. At ...” College's Emergency Response Plan “ By Katie Sobalsky How ready is Green Mountain College for an emergency? What would we do ...” 12 GMC Media Cooperative Constitution “The creative efforts and business of media are undergoing a generational change. But this sort ...” Are we just guinea pigs? “By Katie Sobalsky It was some unpleasant news to get, especially on a Monday morning, and ...”	Feb 25 Triumph for all times 24 A sense of pride: tales of America's sport, dodgeball “By Gordon Ellms When my eyes opened that morning, one thing came to my mind. It ...” How many ways can you spell GMC? “We know what it means. GMC. Green Mountain College. But there's a world of acronyms ...” 19 Red Coal (mockumentary) “Why is he sick? What's he smoking? A short video about global peer pressure on ...” 18 Pete Myers: Environmental health advocate to speak with students “Dr. Pete Myers is a scientist who most embodies the vision of Rachel Carson. She ...” What will winter bring next?	Jan 28 Focus the Nation: Coming to a Campus near You “The Change Begins Here.Starting with "The 2% Solution" on Wednesday night. Followed Thursday, Jan. 31, ...”
2007	Dec 25 Neighbors: Poultney Food Shelf 13 Rockin' the big green feller. GreenMAP: Delivering a chance for all to be Green... Our Roots vs. The Modern Environmental Movement “An Opinion by Kevin HartDespite the efforts of organizations such as the Sierra Club and ...” 11 Sustainable dorm in the future? A little help for Honduras: Un poco de ayuda para Honduras “---BY BEATRIZ GOMEZ“Make a Difference” could mean a variety of things depending on the person ...” 10 Hello World. The Mountaineer is Live