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 a moment and reflect on Fall ’09 at Conn. From my perspective, the biggest issues this semester were the Freeman t-shirt fiasco, concerns for women’s safety, [...]

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 SGA and complaints and groans heard throughout campus, Information Services made our day last week with a campuswide email from Lee Hisle, Vice [...]

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 furthers my point that it is a widespread, universal problem. I didn’t have any one group in mind when I wrote the piece, nor [...]

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 Shared Vision,” “Challenge the Process,” “Enable Others to Act” and “Encourage the Heart”), I received equal scores in “Inspire a Shared Vision” and [...]