The sky is spitting rain, a foreboding of the brewing April snow storm, and the air is thick with the sharp smell of billowing wood smoke. Behind Colby's Hill House, five members of the Colby Outing Club and the Woodsmen Team stand around a large metal basin and poke at the crackling logs underneath.
Last week, retired police captain Peter Christ spoke at the College about what he sees as the failures of existing U.S. drug policy and the potential to regulate drugs through decriminalization. Christ visited the College as part of his 10-day tour through Maine, sponsored by the Maine Marijuana Policy Initiative (MMPI), an organization that works to legalize marijuana in the state of Maine.
When Mariah Buckley, a senior from Scarborough, Maine, entered high school, she decided she wanted to leave Maine for the big city as a dance major. Buckley was set in her ways until she met one Spanish teacher that changed the course of her life. This teacher encouraged Buckley to partake in a school trip to Costa Rica, and the experience completely changed her priorities.
Chris Andrews '07 is going to Senegal this September to spend 27 months promoting sustainable small-business development in Francophone Africa as a part of the Peace Corps. Andrews, an economics major from Chittenden, Vermont, will spend three months adapting to his new surroundings and polishing up on his French followed by two years of intensive work within Senegal.
Well, it's 4/20 and finally looks like spring may soon be here. We've had our share of April blizzards, nor'easters, and snow-thaw-snow cycles, but with any luck we'll be maxin' out on the lawn en masse next week (Get out your frisbees, skirts, slacklines and hookahs!).
While Hurricane Katrina may have come and gone for some of us, the disaster and disarray left in the wake of the storm is still a prevalent reality for many residents of the Gulf Coast. For the past month and a half, Katie Gilroy '06 has been helping with relief work in the Gulf as a member of AmeriCorps*NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps).
A new website called Island Odyssey aims to make traveling with friends cheap and easy. A mix between Travelocity and theFacebook.com, Island Odyssey is the first combination of a social network and travel portal. One of the site's main selling points is that it will make coordinating vacations easier for students.