After concerns of overcrowding in the dining hall at dinner, Dinning Services this year has instituted changes to ease congestion.
Read morePresident Glotzbach Responds to Orlando Shooting
President Glotzbach responded on June 13th to the horrific shooting in Orlando.
Read moreA Senior Looks Back
As I was looking through old files on my computer, I found an article I wrote in September of my freshman year, though never published. Some ideas still hold true.
Read moreHEAD SPACE: An Interview with Curator Hannah Kolb ’16
An interview with Hannah Kolb '16, who put together Head Space: An Exhibition on Mental Health, a recent Case Gallery exhibit- a striking visual and emotional experience.
Read moreNew Furniture for Case Center is Finally Being Installed
For the past year, the Skidmore News has been reporting on the new furniture that Case will be receiving (A Facelift for Case Center and A Change to Case Center Furniture is Finally Starting to Take Shape). The process of getting the new furniture for this area ultimately took much longer than anticipated, as part of the furniture order was backordered.
Read moreOur Campus Culture: Self-Righteousness
While the political culture we have each played a role in enabling at Skidmore is most harmful to those with dissenting points of view, it is damaging to all of us in the long run—and counterproductive for efforts to achieve the progressive policy goals many of us share.
Read moreThe Next Generation: 4 Young MLB Prospects Who Will Make an Impact in 2016
The 2016 MLB season is officially underway. All of the work teams put in during the offseason and in spring training is now put to the test through a grueling 162-game schedule. Every year, many major sporting news outlets publish their opinions on who the top prospects are for the season. These prospects have the potential to make huge impacts on MLB rosters during the season. However, prospects can also turn out to be flops. Today, I want to focus on a few prospects who might make a significant impact for their teams in 2016.
Read moreA New Study Abroad Campaign Might Solve Shortage of Housing in the Future
Recently, the Skidmore News reported on the on campus-housing situation. Assistant Director of Residential Life for Operations, Ryan Ballantine, shared many ways that Skidmore could potentially solve their housing problems in the future.
Read morePredicting the Studs and Duds of the 2016 NFL Draft
Since we are less than a week away from the draft (which will be televised on ESPN Thursday April 28th), I want my predictions for each selection in the top ten on record. To clarify, I am basing these predictions based on what I think other teams will do rather than what I personally would do. Moreover, I think it would be boring for there to only be predictions for the top selections. So, I am also going to project whether each player will be a “stud” or a “dud” over the course of his career. Hopefully no one will look back at this when one of my duds becomes a Hall of Famer.
Read moreConstitution Pipeline: Laying Down a Dismal Future
The DEC rightfully denied the permit request to build the Constitution Pipeline on Earth Day 2016. This effort is about more than defeating one pipeline—it is also about shifting the way we think about sustainability, energy, and our future.
Read moreThe Evolution of Skidmore Party Culture, What We Should Do About It
A lot has changed for Skidmore seniors since they became students in 2012, including the landscape of party culture. For a number of reasons, students are choosing to stay on campus to party, and are not entirely satisfied with the options available, creating a heightened demand for on campus events.
Read moreEscaped Earth Day Turkey Still at Large
For years, the petting zoo has been a staple of Skidmore's Earth Day celebrations, allowing students the opportunity to connect with animals and giving vegan students the chance to make their meat-eating peers feel guilty.
Read moreWill Sophomores be Housed in Triples?
April is a busy month for Skidmore students. We select courses for next year, celebrate Earth day, make final summer plans and enjoy our long awaited event, fun day. In addition to this, everybody, aside from seniors, select housing for next year. As housing selection is under way, we have seen some changes from past years.
Read moreHEAD SPACE: An Exhibition on Mental Health
“Head Space” is the senior project of Hannah Kolb ’16, who is studying English and sociology. She has spent the past semester seeking and collecting submissions from Skidmore alumni and current students to bring together a range of artworks on mental illness, specifically anxiety and depression.
Read moreA Problematic Trivialization of the Kashmiri Conflict on Film
Why choose to adapt a play that has been reproduced for centuries when an abundance of real stories of hardship and tragedy exist in the region you are trying to reveal to the world?
Read moreSkidmore RideShare
Jack Spiegelman ’18 and Mark Gao ’19 announce their development of an online RideShare program available exclusively to Skidmore students looking to save money on travel expenses.
Read more2016 NHL Playoff Preview and Predictions
Even if you haven’t followed the NHL regular season, this preview will inform you of the three most compelling first-round matchups, the three most intriguing players, and my three main predictions for the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Read moreNew Admissions and Financial Aid Building to Come
If you ask many of Skidmore’s top administrators, they will tell you that the Center for Integrated Science (CIS) remains a top priority, in terms of construction projects. Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, Mary Lou Bates, confirmed this, saying “the top priority is CIS.”
Read moreRanking the Greatest Finishes In Sports
The final moments of this game easily rank as some of the most thrilling I have ever seen. But was Villanova/UNC the greatest finish in sports history? Without further ado, here is my take on the greatest sports endings; and for the fun of it, they will be joined by comparisons to famous movie climaxes that aroused similar feelings of emotion. Fair warning, spoiler alert!
Read moreWin Totals Aside: Are the 2016 Warriors Better than the ‘96 Bulls?
Since regular season win totals should not be the main measure to determine who the greatest NBA team of all time is, which team is truly better: the 2016 Warriors or the 1996 Bulls?
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