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SGA Fishbowl Open Forum Video
SGA Meeting on 12/6/12 at 7.15PM in Ernst Common Room. VIDEO GUIDE: Meeting Commences – 0:00 Campus Safety Director reflection on Fishbowl - 3:03 Brian Gooch announces Open Forum to Student Body - 7:19 Dean Denard Introduction on Phone Line - 8:04 Ben Schactel (Spokesperson for Seniors) - 8:28 Dean Denard responds to Schactel - 17:29 Schactel responds to [...]
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Per-DORM-ance Art Rocks Smith (VIDEO)
Last Thursday, a group of artists transformed the second floor of Smith into an art venue combining “visual art, postmodern dance, theatre, improvisation, oral hygiene and food processing” in a piece called perDORMance Art. The concept was formed over a year ago as a “collaborative idea and effort by the [now] senior dance majors,” said [...]
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Howard Gordon Named 95th Commencement Speaker
On Friday, September 21, the Office of College Relations named Howard Gordon the commencement speaker for the ninety-fifth ceremony in May 2013. Gordon, an accomplished television producer and author, is best known for his work as an executive producer on Homeland and 24. Most students have an opinion on the choice, but few understand how [...]
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Pickles and Ice Cream
After a summer of inspiration from the domestic goddess Hannah Hart, host of YouTube’s My Drunk Kitchen series, and the magic of Pinterest, The College Voice has decided to embark on its own culinary adventure. Each week, we will either write a column or upload a video of us attempting to make “real” food using [...]
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Student Photography Project Uses Social Media to Bring the Campus Together
ConnPix, a Tumblr and Facebook account of photos from around campus, has steadily gained popularity since its launch this summer by Andrew Nathanson ’13. Nathanson has posted a picture every day since September 3 and hopes to continue this personal project. His goal is to photograph life at Conn in a unique way and to [...]
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Fran Shields, Athletic Director
Ben Schachtel Perched atop a tall bookshelf in the corner, a mud-caked hat seemed out of place. The rest of the office was clean, save for a veritable mountain of paperwork on the desk. The man who had been sitting across the table from me had risen now and was walking towards the hat, which, [...]
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Wiffle Ballers Stay Luce
By Alex Cammarata & Marina Stuart Team Stay Luce defeated team New London Arboritos in the final round of Connecticut College’s first annual Wiffle Ball Tournament on September 23. Stay Luce came out on top 1-0 after six innings of overtime to win a $100 dollar gift card to Paul’s Pasta. Eight teams, each with [...]
An Interview with New Media Producer Jeff Puklin
This year Connecticut College’s social media presence has exploded with the creation of the CC Live Twitter account, a Conn Instagram account and various contests aimed at inviting current students, prospective students and even alumni to participate and interact with the burgeoning digital community. Many of you may have received postcards in your mailboxes, encouraging [...]
Posted by Melanie Thibeault Tuesday, February 26, 2013 Category: NewsThe State of Our Union’s Education
On February 12, 2013, President Obama addressed the American public with the State of the Union address. He dedicated a few minutes to the challenges that lie before us for the American educational system, which has historically lagged behind in international ratings and received less time, effort and funding from both national and state-level governments [...]
Posted by Molly Bangs Monday, February 25, 2013 Category: OpinionsSlater 2.0 Takes on Issues of Creative License
Thomas L. Friedman recently wrote an interesting case study of innovation in India entitled “When E.T. and I.T. meet ID”. He focuses on three technologies: Energy technology (E.T.), high-speed Internet access (I.T.), and India’s Unique Identification project (ID). For an E.T. Innovation, Friedman chose Gram Power. Around 400 million people (out of a population of [...]
Posted by Andrew Shaw Monday, February 25, 2013 Category: OpinionsZombie Apocalypse Decision in Canada
Must be nice to be a country that has so little on its agenda that they have time during their House of Commons session to discuss a possible zombie invasion! Maybe we should just move to Canada… On Wednesday, February 13, in the middle of a House of Commons session, Canadian Parliament member Pat Martin [...]
Posted by Samantha Grainger Shuba Monday, February 25, 2013 Category: OpinionsIn Defense of Nicholas Kristof
I may not have been impressed with Kristof’s presentation at Connecticut College, but there is no doubt that he is trying to make a change. Unlike countless masses of men sympathetic to the cause of educating and empowering women who stay silent, he is actually trying to do something. And though he may not have [...]
Posted by Samantha Grainger Shuba Monday, February 25, 2013 Category: OpinionsIf You Give a Student the Internet, Examining the widespread cheating scandal at Harvard
If you were given a take-home final exam for which you were allowed to use both your notes and the Internet (in case you didn’t quite get that the first time, I said Internet), would your first instinct be to cheat and collaborate with others on answers? Mine wouldn’t be, and I don’t even go [...]
Posted by Corey Scarola Monday, February 25, 2013 Category: Opinions
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