In Response to “A Left Without A Right”
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…
Advice from Shain Library Concerning the NY Times
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…
Connecticut College, 1960s and 1970s
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…
A Plea for Digital Relevance
In the fall of 2008, I took my first course with a New Media scholar named Alison de Fren, who had come to Conn for her post-doctoral fellowship. De Fren taught courses with…
Welcome to April
College to throw Cro Dance-Themed Cro Dance this Saturday The campus’ newest student organization, The Student Activities Council for Programming Activities (SACPA), has been allocated a total of seventeen dollars by SGA’s Finance…
On Senioritis
Maggie Brown was the last girl I ever dated. We parted ways probably later than we should have in the summer of 2006, she off to college four hundred miles away and I…
See Something, Say Something
This will be the last time I will refer to our campus as a “bubble” until we are engulfed in soapy solution or until SAC throws a foam party. I’ll use this final…
Free Speech
As we approach spring break, I want to introduce myself and make you aware of resources that exist on campus for anyone who has been directly or indirectly affected by sexual assault, dating/domestic…
Connecticut College, 1940-1950
The 1940s was an unsettling decade for the College and the world. In 1941, the Japanese attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor and the country officially entered World War II. A group…
On Paper Cups
At the beginning of this semester, I approached the General Manager of Dining Services, Mike Kmec, about the possibility of implementing a reusable mug system in the dining halls at Connecticut College….
One More Night
Last Thursday, SGA suggested starting a petition to allow graduating seniors an additional day after Commencement to pack and and prepare to leave campus. The editorial board of the Voice supports this endeavor…
Connecticut College, 1930-1940
The Voice has been an establishment under many other names: from the College News in the early 1900s to Conn Census through the 1950s, to Sadyagraha, or “truth force,” for a short stint…
Home
A pronoun is a stand-in for something specific, something definable. A pronoun is a placeholder for something typically already identified, to which one later alludes. Charles ate an apple. He found it on…
Free Speech
When my son was home for Christmas break we had an ongoing dialogue about American suburbia and its inhabitants’ chronic myopia about the real world. We put the obvious elephant on the table:…
On Why We’re Here
Last week, when a Voice staff member was researching an article regarding Chris Bylone, former South Campus Area Coordinator for Residential Life, he approached the remaining professional staff to find some answers. Bylone’s…
