How We Represent Shared Governance and Its Shortcomings
This issue, as is tradition at The College Voice, marks the last issue of the year with our current editorial staff. Next year’s editorial board will create our next and final issue of…
Warped Perceptions of Change
There are a lot of changes I’ve seen since arriving on campus as a freshman. Some ideas have been pushed through and implemented quickly, while others were bogged down with additional meetings, channels….
SGA Passes Resolution to Restructure Exec Board, Elections
The SGA assembly recently passed a resolution that will affect the structure of future SGA assemblies. The Commission on SGA Restructuring allowed a group of SGA members, advisor Dean Briddell and a student-at-large…
NL and US
As Ben Gitkind and Andrew Crimer discussed in their pieces this week, New London is a pretty cool place, to say the least. As someone raised in the area, I’m always upset that…
Spring Break and the Relentless Countdown
As of March 9, I have no definite spring break plans. And for once, I’m OK with that. Freshman year, I worked in a small store in Mystic Village full-time, trying to convince…
Our Endless Wants, Never Satisfied
We are a campus of endless wants. Like I briefly touched upon in my editorial two weeks ago, we are a campus with a stereotype of feeling sub-par to our peers (perhaps needlessly…
Sustainability on Campus
I completely concur with Andy Irwin’s Letter to the Editor since I too was disappointed with our lack of coverage of the Sustainability Teach-In. The event was eye-opening to me in terms of…
SGA Votes Down Purchase of RECs, Deemed Merely Short-term Solution
Recent Vote Breaks usual practice of buying Renewable Energy Credits every year – Why?
Proving Our Worth
If you were to judge Conn’s school spirit from the Conn Club Hockey verses Coast Guard Academy game this past Saturday, it’d be impossible to say we don’t have spirit. But this spirit…
Though we cannot make time stand still, yet we will make him run..
It’s here. Scary. Now in my final semester of Conn, I’ve taken it upon myself to do as much as possible: to complete the “101 Things You Must Do Before You Graduate” (a…
It’s That Time of Year
It’s that time of year. With temperatures dropping, malls full of crazed shoppers, Festivus and the scent of cinnamon found everywhere, you know they’re coming. Finals are looming. But procrastinate with me for…
Behold the Power in Numbers
Behold power in numbers. After Jamison Hermann’s article was published in The College Voice on October 27, the Facebook group “Connecticut College needs more bandwidth!!” gained over 550 members, discussions were had at…
Notes on a Rant
Notes on my “rant” from last week’s issue: every group on campus that I’m involved in, or work with, thought that my editorial was about them. What does this say? I think it…
Challenging the Process
Warning: this is a rant. During the Student Government Association’s executive board training this past summer, we took a personality/leadership style test, and out of the possible results (“Model the Way,” “Inspire a…
Intellectual Climate at Conn and the Status of Newspapers
Over the summer, the eight-member Faculty Working Group on Academic Challenge examined the perceptions of Connecticut College’s academic program by analyzing recent studies and survey data, and offered recommendations for improving the college’s…
