October 4, 2008 – 12:54 pm
From the Montepelier Times Argus’s UVM money frozen: “Wall Street’s financial meltdown has hit Vermont’s largest college. The bulk of University of Vermont’s $79 million investment in a short-term fund used to pay day-to-day expenses was frozen this week by Wachovia, the fund’s trustee. UVM is among 1,000 colleges and private schools around the country [...]
It is probably not widely known that I work at a university as a glorified admin in the Student Affairs division. It is probably not widely known that I am hoping to start grad school in the fall in pursuit of a Masters in Student Development Administration. It is also probably not widely known that [...]
April 22, 2008 – 12:26 pm
Sorry about the lack of posting these last few days, but it’s been Alumni Week here in Poultney-town, and we’ve had house-guests and old-friends-visiting galore.
The “weekend” started on Wednesday, when our friends Alex and Tempest arrived from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
We hadn’t seen Alex since graduation, and hadn’t ever met Tempest in person, but since those [...]
The Realignment of America:“It has become a commonplace to say that population has been flowing from the Snow Belt to the Sun Belt, from an industrially ailing East and Midwest to an economically vibrant West and South. But the actual picture of recent growth, as measured by the 2000 Census and the census estimates for [...]
August 25, 2006 – 10:12 am
Let it be known that the incoming class of college freshmen was born in 1988.
August 21, 2006 – 02:07 pm
The incoming freshmen arrived in town this weekend. Next Monday, the rest of the students come back. With this happening, you’d think I’d have an issue with still living in this college town, that unlike many of my graduated peers, I haven’t gone on to bigger and better things, like heading out to Oregon, or [...]
April 10, 2006 – 01:42 am
It’s been a few days since I blogged last. And it’s been a few weeks since I blogged with anything approaching the regularity I hope to achieve. I’ve just been busy procrastinating about all the things I’m supposed to be busy doing.
The good news is that I am mostly done with the stuff I need [...]
March 31, 2006 – 02:31 am
I read the NY Times. I skim the headlines about three times a day, usually read at least two full articles off the site, and I often link to the NY Times when I’m looking for an authoritative source. Now, I know the NY Times is often called a liberal elitist newspaper, but being a [...]
February 21, 2006 – 07:33 pm
The U.S. Supreme Court came back with rulings on a bunch of different cases today, some of which I agree with and some of which I don’t . Let’s take a look at them, shall we?
The Good
In Gonzales v. O Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal,, the Court ruled that the a small church in [...]
February 7, 2006 – 01:52 am
Dawn is the teacher’s assistant for a Feminist Philosophy class at Green Mountain College this semester. She had the idea to put together a class blog for the course, where she would post links to news articles and intriguing questions about the week’s assignment, and the professor of the class thought it was a great [...]
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