Resolving Safety Issues in Fanning Bathrooms
In the fall of 2011, students began to advocate against gender-inclusive bathrooms in public buildings at Connecticut College. After several meetings with students, history professor and director of the LGBTQ Center Jen Manion…
Homonationalism Gone Viral: The Affective Politics of Discipline and Control
Jasbir Puar, a professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, explained last Thursday at a lecture entitled “Homonationalism Gone Viral,” that homonationalism represents the relationship between nationship formation and queer sexuality….
Weaving the Safety Net: Potential budget cuts threaten on-campus sexual violence awareness programs
April is Sexual Assult Awareness Month—a fact which many students at Connecticut College know thanks primarily to Darcie Folsom’s work as the Coordinator of Sexual Violence Education and Advocacy on campus. Before this…
Posse Foundation Guides Students Through College
The Posse Foundation is a scholarship program that trains public high school students with significant academic and leadership potential in order to succeed in four-year universities. Recently featured in the New York Times,…
Bone Marrow Drive Seeks to Raise Awareness on Campus
Molly Murphy ’13 realized something needed to be done when her sister’s best friend, Mandi Schwartz, passed away from leukemia because she was not able to find a donor match. Schwartz was a…
Breaking Dawn and Dating Abuse
On Monday, November 14, just a few days before the premier of Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Shannon Keating ’14, a member of SafetyNet, a domestic violence awareness group, and Darcie Folsom, Coordinator of Sexual…
Zombie Attack Coming to a College Campus Near You
Humans vs. Zombies, a popular game on campus sponsored by the Gaming Club, kicked off this Sunday and will continue until the final mission takes place on Friday. Conn’s page on the Humans…
What You Seek is Seeking You: Thinking About Sufism
This past Thursday and Friday, the symposium “Sufism as a Mediating Force in South Asia,” a conference imagined by Professor Sufia Uddin from Connecticut College and Professor Frank Korom of Boston University, took…
Students Move to Ban Bananas
SGA has introduced a new initiative to completely ban Chiquita bananas from the dining halls. Two years ago students at Connecticut College first realized that the bananas served in the dining halls were…
Students Petition for Weekend Transportation from Downtown Bars
An online petition asking Conn students to support a new appeal to support a “safe rides” program has been posted on Facebook. The purpose of the safe rides program is to prevent students…
