‘Editorials’ Archives
On Self-Reliance
Throughout the past three years, I have been challenged and stimulated by what this college has provided me. It has let me self-design a major, staple fabric to my walls, and yell weird terms like [...]
Peace, a farewell term; Or: Engaging in Non-Engagement
Listen: When I came to this school, it had a radical presence. It wasn’t by any means the main scene in town, but it – we – existed, and we organized, and it mattered. In the years that [...]
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 the academic [...]
Warped Perceptions of Change
There are a lot of changes I’ve seen since arriving on campus as a freshman. Some ideas are pushed through and implemented quickly, while others are bogged down with additional meetings, [...]
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 few Conn students [...]
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 tourists to buy [...]
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 so). This [...]
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 [...]
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 lengthy document an [...]
Coming Back, Going Places
We had a looong break. For some of us, it included travel: a NOLS trip to the Himalayas, service work in Appalachia, visiting family in Mexico. The respite from academia did not function as such for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 furthers my [...]
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 [...]