http://thecollegevoice.org Connecticut College's independent student-run newspaper Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:58:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/12/13/half-way-there/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/12/13/half-way-there/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:49:41 +0000 Jazmine Hughes http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=11637 The past nine issues have been scary. The server, where we keep the files of the Voice from the past fifteen years, has occasionally failed; our software has randomly quit, citing a “modal...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/12/13/half-way-there/feed/ 0 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/12/05/letter-to-the-editor-2/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/12/05/letter-to-the-editor-2/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:10:55 +0000 Mike Natriello http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=11457 A Web comment in response to Megan Reback’s “CC Dissent Sparks Debate on Campus” from November 14, 2011: Loving your coverage of this fascinating time in our social history. I’m really perplexed about...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/12/05/letter-to-the-editor-2/feed/ 0 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/12/05/when-are-you-gonna-write-about-us/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/12/05/when-are-you-gonna-write-about-us/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:58:28 +0000 Jazmine Hughes http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=11424 I have two housemates. One is Carolyn, who has provided our 360 Mohegan home with crayons and Sesame Street coloring books; the other, Kerry, has an unnatural capacity for presidential facts and brings...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/12/05/when-are-you-gonna-write-about-us/feed/ 0 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/11/21/learn-and-lead/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/11/21/learn-and-lead/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:54:26 +0000 Ipek Bakir & Jazmine Hughes http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=11277 At Conn, we love the term “student leaders.” The deans are quick to affix it to a plaque and award to it to whomever is best at both learning and leading; the Office...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/11/21/learn-and-lead/feed/ 0 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/11/14/moving-the-conversation-online/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/11/14/moving-the-conversation-online/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:51:22 +0000 Meaghan Kelley http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=11005 In September 2009, editor-in-chief Claire Gould ’10 wrote an editorial about the print vs. online newspaper debate after the removal of free copies of the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and USA...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/11/14/moving-the-conversation-online/feed/ 0 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/11/14/letter-to-the-editor-111411/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/11/14/letter-to-the-editor-111411/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:19:00 +0000 Anne Kearney http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=10982 Upon reading Liakos’s article on the Science Leadership Program, I felt the need to correct him on a couple of things. First, the name of the program is not Science Leadership Program; it...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/11/14/letter-to-the-editor-111411/feed/ 0 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/11/07/on-college-relations/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/11/07/on-college-relations/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:12:28 +0000 Jazmine Hughes http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=10559 I spend most of my days in the same sweater, reading the College Voice archives. I relish seeing the font size shrink, the article lengths grow and the ever-changing masthead. I was revisiting...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/11/07/on-college-relations/feed/ 0 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/10/31/on-student-activism/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/10/31/on-student-activism/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:32:34 +0000 Melanie Thibeault http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=10148 Lately, everywhere I turn, I see another Conn student, holding a sign or dressed as a banana, protesting some latest injustice on campus or in the world. Maybe it was because I was...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/10/31/on-student-activism/feed/ 1 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/10/24/on-the-value-of-a-liberal-arts-education/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/10/24/on-the-value-of-a-liberal-arts-education/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:05:22 +0000 Jerell Mays http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=9763 Last week, President Higdon wrote an article for the Huffington Post emphasizing the strengths of a liberal arts education, in response to Florida Governor Rick Scott’s desire for public funding for more “practical”...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/10/24/on-the-value-of-a-liberal-arts-education/feed/ 0 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/10/24/on-shared-responsibility/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/10/24/on-shared-responsibility/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:55:37 +0000 Jazmine Hughes http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=9775 There isn’t much space for an editorial this week, and I’m proud: partially because I get an extra two hours added back to my day, but mostly because the Letters to the Editor...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/10/24/on-shared-responsibility/feed/ 0 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/10/03/nine-to-one/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/10/03/nine-to-one/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:28:07 +0000 Jazmine Hughes http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=9591 I’m afraid to eat in Harris by myself. My apartment-contingent reduced meal plan limits me to five meals per week of haphazardly-made sandwiches and French fries I stuff in my pocket on the...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/10/03/nine-to-one/feed/ 0 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/09/26/atlas-world-news/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/09/26/atlas-world-news/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:48:00 +0000 newseditor http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=9229 ]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/09/26/atlas-world-news/feed/ 0 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/09/26/the-balance-of-power/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/09/26/the-balance-of-power/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:44:10 +0000 Jazmine Hughes http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=9219   Entering my fourth year at Conn, I’ve realized that critical thinking happens in many other places besides the classroom, especially in places where I don’t want it. One afternoon in the Office...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/09/26/the-balance-of-power/feed/ 0 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/05/02/on-what-comes-next/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/05/02/on-what-comes-next/#comments Tue, 03 May 2011 03:10:54 +0000 Jazmine Hughes http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=8552 The last issue of the College Voice under Lilah went to bed at 3 AM—three hours after our yearlong goal of going to press by midnight, two hours before she submitted her first...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/05/02/on-what-comes-next/feed/ 2 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/05/02/in-response-to-welcome-to-april/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/05/02/in-response-to-welcome-to-april/#comments Tue, 03 May 2011 02:00:53 +0000 Voice staff http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=8559 To the College Voice: The April Fool’s edition that caricatured President Higdon’s height was both offensive and disrespectful—and need I say not funny at all.  Making comments about someone’s appearance, whether under the...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/05/02/in-response-to-welcome-to-april/feed/ 0 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/04/18/realworld/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/04/18/realworld/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:29:02 +0000 Lilah Raptopoulos http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=8286 This morning I awoke to my own voice mumbling, “Wake up. Wake up.” My dream was nightmarish: I was sitting in a fancy dress, drinking wine at a graduation party on the night...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/04/18/realworld/feed/ 0 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/04/18/voice-reunion/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/04/18/voice-reunion/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:25:33 +0000 Voice staff http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=8282 In an act of nostalgia and an effort to reconnect with our history, the editors of The Voice hosted an editors’ reunion, inviting twelve members from past decades to return to the College...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/04/18/voice-reunion/feed/ 1 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/04/18/in-response-to-a-left-without-a-right/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/04/18/in-response-to-a-left-without-a-right/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:24:44 +0000 Voice staff http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=8278 To the editor: It was with great disappointment that I read Sam Norcross’s piece “A Left Without A Right” (4/11/11).  As the 2002 co-founder and Vice-Chairman of a vibrant, 200+ member Conn. College...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/04/18/in-response-to-a-left-without-a-right/feed/ 0 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/04/11/advice-from-shain-library-concerning-the-ny-times/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/04/11/advice-from-shain-library-concerning-the-ny-times/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:59:05 +0000 Voice staff http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=8025 Gentle readers, For those of you bummed out about being given an opportunity to purchase an online subscription to the New York Times as you click on your twenty first article in a...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/04/11/advice-from-shain-library-concerning-the-ny-times/feed/ 0 http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/04/11/connecticut-college-1960s-and-1970s/ http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/04/11/connecticut-college-1960s-and-1970s/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:55:54 +0000 Lilah Raptopoulos http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=8018 The 1960s and 1970s are close to impossible to summarize in a short editorial.  The early 1960s maintained the traditions of the decades before, but with a newfound appetite for dissent: singing on...]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2011/04/11/connecticut-college-1960s-and-1970s/feed/ 0