Trading sweatpants and sneakers for dresses and heels, girls blast Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" as they apply makeup and toast before taking a shot of rum. Next door, boys break out their blazers as their joking banter rises above the music. Games of Beruit, Beer Die and Seven Eleven Doubles will ensure that students arrive at the dance with a nice buzz.
As students demanded answers following the arrests of three students Easter Sunday, President William Adams held a campus-wide forum last Thursday April 16 and worked to hire an independent investigator, who came to campus yesterday to begin meeting with students, staff and faculty.
Excessive force. Unfair arrests. Overzealous security. Aggressive cops. Intoxicated and belligerent students. In the days following Easter weekend, rumors and strong opinions fueled conversations across campus as students, faculty and the administration debated who was at fault for a Saturday night dance that resulted in three student arrests.
Bob Diamond '73, president of Barclays PLC and CEO of investment banking and investment management, has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 1993. This coming may, he will replace Joe Boulos as chairman of the Board. Diamond has also served on two regional campaign committees and the President's Advisory Committee.
Take Back the Night, a rally and march put on to raise awareness on sexual violence, attracted approximately 40 students, townspeople and community leaders to the steps of Miller Library on Thursday, April 16. Hundreds of rallies like this one are held globally each year in order to remember the victims of sexual assault, as well as to share experiences and raise community consciousness about the issue.
Professor Peter Hayes of Northwestern University attempted to demystify certain misconceptions surrounding the Holocaust at the Annual Berger Family Lecture last Sunday, April 19. In conjunction with the Jewish Studies Program, the grant from the Berger Family allows a speaker to come to Colby once a year to discuss an issue relating to the Holocaust.
Students called for it in the open forum on Monday, April 13. Colby United included it in a list of demands on Tuesday, April 14. Bro Adams endorsed it at his forum on Wednesday, April 15. In response to the outcry from the College community following the Easter weekend events, the Student Government Association (SGA) held a brainstorming and discussion forum on Sunday, April 19 to begin to outline "it"-Colby's Student Bill of Rights.
Empowering girls was the goal of the second annual Girls Rock! Weekend. The event was run by Hardy Girls Healthy Women, a non-profit organization based in downtown Waterville during the weekend of April 17. The schedule of events for the weekend included a conference held on Mayflower Hill, an awards ceremony, a movie screening, a local performance by Ani DiFranco and a poetry mash-up.
"So much of what people think they know about Darwin is wrong," John van Whye said in his Monday, April 20 lecture entitled "Charles Darwin: The True Story." The historian of science spoke at the College with the goal of dispelling many common misconceptions regarding the groundbreaking scientist.
When Jessica Boyle '12J walks into a classroom, a party or the dining hall to grab breakfast, she knows that she is different. The sophomore-next year's East Quad dorm president, and member of the Student Programming Board and class council-isn't a different color from most students.
I had never really thought about financial aid at Colby. I occasionally talk with my friends about it, increasingly more so as we approach the graduation day of reckoning, but our conversations only briefly touch upon being broke with loans to repay once we leave Colby.
This May, as over 500 seniors receive their diplomas and begin their life after Colby, roughly 40 percent of them will have debt. Leaving the Hill with finances in the negative and Colby still not fully paid for seems like an unsettling situation, but for 200 graduating seniors, student loans have made it a reality.
Recently, 222 students participated in an online survey regarding facts and perspectives on financial aid at Colby. Of those surveyed, 43 percent identified themselves as receiving aid from Colby, and 57 percent said they did not. This surveyor was surprised to find many similarities among the answers of both categories of students; however, certain trends and patterns did arise.
When I was applying to colleges, way back in Bush's first term in office, one of the most important criteria to me was a need-blind admissions policy. For those new to the term, a need-blind policy is when the admissions office does not consider financial aid eligibility to be a factor in determining one's qualifications for enrollment.
If you don't understand loans, grants, or your financial aid package, if you don't know what it means to be a borrower or what your rights and responsibilities are as a student on financial aid, of you don't know how to send a bill home or what it means to have bad credit, where do you go? The Financial Services Office.