For the first time since the 2017-2018 season, the Thoroughbreds took home the Liberty League title with an impressive 54-52 win on the road at #1-seed Ithaca College on February 26. The team ended the season with a 22-5 record, marking the program record for most wins in a season. The team then celebrated Skidmore women’s basketball’s first-ever NCAA tournament win, defeating Johns Hopkins University 62-59 with an incredible comeback in the fourth quarter. Though the historic playoff run was cut short by a 59-50 loss to Tufts University the next day, there is no doubt that this Thoroughbreds team was dynamic, energetic, and committed.
Read moreThose Who Fail to Learn from History: COVID Restrictions
For the last 2 years, restrictions have been instrumental in containing the spread of COVID-19 and continue to be the first line of defense in protecting us from the virus which has claimed millions of lives worldwide. However, individuals and governments alike have spent the last few years caught in a cycle of loosening and subsequently tightening restrictions, never learning from failures or breaking the cycle of mistakes.
Read moreIt Didn’t Have To Be Like This: The Skidmore Administration’s Role in the COVID-19 Outbreak
When the Fall 2021 semester began, we all had high hopes for being able to put the pandemic behind us and have a relatively normal college year. Understandably so: after the heartbreak, loss, and frustration of a year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic, we finally had 98 percent of students and staff vaccinated, and the end seemed in sight.
Read moreSatire: Fourth Best College Food in New York
Our new normal is basically back to pre-COVID normal, but with masks, and I'm sure everyone’s sick of asking covid safety questions, I am to a degree, but entering D-hall with 100-plus students is still overwhelming when we've been so conditioned to socially distance. Hopefully more of us can be vigilant in wearing masks indoors (like in the library) and the future of our campus won't become a COVID hotspot.
Read moreHow the Liberty League Unanimously Chose to Promote the Spread of COVID-19
Does Skidmore only care about how outsiders perceive us or about what goes on? Do donations related to current or former athletes matter more than student safety? What drove Skidmore, as well as the other schools, to unanimously accept these objectively unsafe protocols? Although we will likely never find the real answer, these are questions that are important to ask. If you are also concerned about campus athletics, or if you believe that they should continue, feel free to contribute to this conversation.
Read moreWhy Mental Health Matters Now More Than Ever
When you get sick or scrape your knee, the immediate reaction is to take medicine or grab a bandage. But what about when you are having a mental health day; when your anxiety or depression is making you feel worse than a cold or a scraped knee could? The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our lives more than any other time in history. Quarantine became the new norm and, for months on end, our mental health has paid the price.
Read moreBack to Athletics: Gail Cummings-Danson on the Return to Practice and Sport
Skidmore College put out an athletics update stating that while Fall sports competitions were cancelled, teams may still practice under the rules and regulations put out by New York State and the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA). But what was the conversation and process like to reach this decision? And what would this mean for varsity athletics, as well as usage of the facilities? To provide clarity to the situation, Gail Cummings-Danson, Director of Athletics, answers some of these questions.
Read moreVote on Retaining Student Evaluations Divides Faculty at Oct. 2 Faculty Meeting
Over 200 faculty members voted on whether to retain or remove student evaluations for the Fall 2020 semester, during the college’s monthly faculty meeting held on October 2nd. This meeting, and particularly, the results from this vote sought to put to rest circling unease surrounding the administering of Student Ratings and Feedback surveys and their inclusion in hiring decisions.
Read moreCOVID's Impacts on On-Campus Work Study
Now that we are over five weeks into the semester, Skidmore continues to invest in preventing the spread of COVID within the community in the hopes that we will have a successful semester of low cases. However, preventing the spread of the Coronavirus comes with the decline of job opportunities on campus.
Read moreTips and Tricks for First-Years (COVID-Edition)
Being a first-year is difficult. Let’s face it, you have to navigate a whole new area, get accustomed to living on your own, and meet new people all while juggling school. But, doing all of this during a world-wide pandemic? That seems almost impossible. Of course none of us have lived through college in a pandemic before, but here are a senior’s tips and tricks to help you get through this tumultuous time while also living your college years to the fullest.
Read moreRediscovering Dance in a Time of COVID and Racial Injustice: A Look into Dance Community Conversations and Gadria Conlan ‘21
COVID-19 has brought forth a time of incredibly isolating experiences that have turned lives and livelihoods upside down. I wanted to know how others were dealing with the present situation. I reached out to Gadria Conlan ‘21, a member of the group Dance Community Conversations, to see how the broader dance community was dealing with these uncertain times.
Read moreIntroducing SGA President Rachael Borthwick
On a Tuesday afternoon in early August, I had the pleasure of speaking with new SGA president Rachael Borthwick ‘21.
Read moreSkidmore Students Speak Out About the Coronavirus Pandemic
On March 9, students were notified through an email that classes were suspended until March 23. Three days later, students found out that the college would be moving to remote learning for the remainder of the semester. The same email announced that all students needed to move off campus by the end of that week.
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