News

First Student Day of Action energizes campus politics

By Will Shoemaker

Late one night this October, in the usually stale hallways of the Withey East Room, students howled, drums thundered, and the energy built late into the night as the sounds drifted across campus. It was a drum circle held by the Youth Energy Squad to celebrate the faculty mock-debates, and the energy was still gathering the next day at 11 am, when students gathered for the Student Day of Action in front of Withey Hall to spread their enthusiasm across the campus. Click here to read the full story...

Arts & Entertainment

Silence is Golden for Writers

Stephanie Weaver

Sitting on damp hay in the back of a horse drawn carriage while it’s raining and cold isn’t anybody’s idea, really, of a walk in the park. Especially when the odious stench of sweat and mud emanating from the horse’s rump wafts back in your direction. But something about listening to spiritual tales accompanied by the clomp-clomp-clomp of hooves on pavement was meditative, and I’m pretty glad I did it. Click here to read the full story...

Sports

GMC ruggers bolster their ranks

By Larry Dressel

Boots tied, moments from kickoff, you rise from a knee. Your breath is grey. The frozen autumn air curdles the adrenaline boiling in your guts. Then the ball is in the air, and everything on this tortured planet disappears but the ball in your hands and the fifteen rabid men seeking to grind your face into the turf. This greatest of all contests between men is called rugby. Click here to read the full story...

Academics

Inside the mind of the student body: Part 1

By Margo Logan

We, as humans, are a part of our landscape. We tend to forget that we are a major part of the environment around us. Many of the plants and animals that surround us are the way they are because they have adapted and evolved to accommodate our way of life. We have fundamentally changed nature, but this shouldn’t be taken as a bad thing. Click here to read the full story...