Our college promotes a very specific visual aesthetic, its campus well-known for its architectural consistency. Most buildings follow the template of our oldest, New London Hall, which was constructed primarily of rocks taken from our Arboretum. Today, handsome white cut stone buildings and a buffered stone sundial frame the infamous ocean view from Blaustein. [...]

I’d like to start by saying that the Winter Olympics as a whole produces about as much suspense as a mug of warm beer, which may be because I become snow blind if I watch for too long. Now, to curling. Whenever I walk into a common room or by a television that isn’t playing men’s [...]

This Clean Plate Club (CPC) stuff is admirable, or at the very least well-publicized, but we aren’t looking at the underlying consequences of what it means to our “belly brains.” The belly brain, by the way, is like the head brain in many ways but its location is in your belly instead of your head. [...]

Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian and Spanish: these are the 11 foreign languages currently being taught at Connecticut College according to the Spring 2010 course schedule. Additionally, Croatian and Czech are offered for independent-study. The college deserves praise for offering such a linguistic smörgåsbord from which students can choose (ironically [...]