A Picture-Perfect Campus Needs Picture-Perfect Postcards
For me there is no better place to enjoy autumn—my favorite season—than right here at Conn. And I was glad to have shared the campus’ beauty with a few people through some postcards…
Youth Mobilization for Young and Future Generations Day
I would like to start off by wishing everyone a happy Young and Future Generations Day! Today is a UN-designated day each year devoted to the recognition of youth participation and stake-holdership in…
First day at the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations in Cancun, MX
Wow. First weekend on the job as a SustainUS youth delegate to COP-16 and I couldn’t be more enthused! It seems like just yesterday that I was furiously working for hours on my…
The Battles of the Bottle
Alex Schwartzburg ’12 sits in his room in Freeman late on a Wednesday night. Warm, bronze light glows from incandescent lamps. Piles of papers surround his laptop as he plugs away at an…
The Signs, They Are a-Changing
Back in the eighties, people thought that by the year 2000 everyone would own jetpacks, hovercrafts would replace automobiles and we would all wear chrome. Now it’s easy to point to the past,…
I Live Here. So please stop taking down our posters.
Bureaucracy doesn’t take root overnight. It grows slowly, desk by desk, until things just sort of run themselves, and no one can remember when all this was put in place. Point-blank, no one…
A Letter to Disappointed Democrats
My Halloween this year started on a sour note, and I blame the New York Times. Mini potato pancakes at Harris were not enough to assuage the dissatisfaction curdling in my stomach regarding…
Representing the Garden State
I am from New Jersey and I am proud of it. While I can enjoy a good Jersey joke as much as the next person, sometimes I feel like enough is enough. Now…
Man Your Stations: It’s Time for Registration
It’s that wonderful time of year again. No, not the holiday season. This is an event more dreadful than that time Uncle Earl had one too many glasses of wine and tried to…
Learning How to Play Again (with Flubber)
At first glance, Shauna Merriman’s work appears rather grotesque and uncomfortable, but what else would you expect from a body of work inspired by adipose tissue, skin and cervixes? Her sculpture is reminiscent…
2, 4, 6, 8, Why Don’t We Participate?
Perhaps you are like me: clinically introverted – unable to speak confidently before a group consisting of more than a few close friends. It could be the case that you are serially uninterested…
Conn Gets Caught in the Mo(ve)ment
Around here, one sees art every day, whether in the form of a meticulously detailed portrait of an apple, a flawlessly executed and choreographed dance performance or that blue twisty thing near Fanning….
Don’t Do That!: Kiefer Roberts’ open letters to the campus community
Dear Campus Safety, You and I both know it was only a matter of time before our paths crossed. In the interest of full disclosure, I don’t drive on campus. I find the…
Daylight Saving Time – PRO: I’m DTS (Down to Save) with DST
While Quinn has made his points well, let’s just take a moment to appreciate his stupidity and laugh at his ignorance. Now that that’s done, let’s talk about Daylight Saving Time (DST). Originally…
Daylight Saving Time – CON: Stop Playing God with the Space-Time Continuum
Every year on the first Sunday in November the clocks are set back one hour, returning the world to the comfort and consistency of Standard Time. But what were those last eight months…
