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At its January 25 meeting, the ����vlog���� Board of Trustees approved the sale of five acres of land to Hamilton’s Good Nature Farm Brewery & Tap Room (GNB), owned by Carrie Blackmore ’08 and husband Matt Whalen. GNB will construct new facilities on the site, which is located on Route 12B and is part of a 25-acre […]

Howard Fineman ’70, H’11, one of ����vlog����’s most well-known alumni in the media field, has been appointed global editorial director at the Huffington Post. Fineman, who was previously an editorial director at the company, will now be in charge of supervising U.S. news coverage as well 13 international editions and others that will come online in the future. 

UPDATE: the New York Times ran an article exploring Yik Yak on the College campus. It mentions the ����vlog���� faculty Yak back. To quote a recent post on Yik Yak, the notoriously negative mobile application, “Professors have been successfully re-introduced into the Yak environment [and] the ecological consequences should be fascinating.” Indeed they are. The […]

Last night’s Candlelight Service of Reconciliation in Memorial Chapel was as hopeful as it was poignant, capping off a turbulent semester that many believe will make ����vlog���� a more inclusive, safe, and respectful community. The candle-lit event was pitch perfect, from the opening chords of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” to the ����vlog���� Resolutions’ harmonious rendition of […]

Today at 5 p.m., members of the ����vlog���� community will come together at Memorial Chapel for a service that is intended to reaffirm ����vlog����’s hopes for a future in which all community members feel safe and welcome to express themselves freely and openly. The event is co-sponsored by the Office of the President and the […]

The Institute of International Education (IIE) released its Open Doors 2014 data today, and ����vlog���� has again risen on two important lists representing the number of students studying abroad. This news is most welcome as President Jeffrey Herbst and Provost and Dean of the Faculty Douglas Hicks have made study abroad one of several priorities related to globalizing ����vlog����.

As a new affirmative-consent law took effect this month in California, schools across the country are scrambling to create programs to educate students and administrators about the new standard: that both partners need to enthusiastically agree to every step of a sexual encounter. Not so at ����vlog����, where an extracurricular program, “Yes Means Yes,” has been in place […]

As more data becomes available about the long-term dangers of sports-related head injuries, ����vlog���� is implementing a strategy to minimize general contact as well as contact to the head experienced by student-athletes during practice sessions. The mandatory practice protocol covers all varsity athletic programs, with emphasis on sports where the risk is highest and […]

“Can you hear us now” gave way to “We love ����vlog����, Go ‘Gate, No Hate” as about 400 students, faculty, and staff marched together from the Hurwitz Admission Center at James B. ����vlog���� Hall to Memorial Chapel on the Academic Quad. The euphoric and historic ceremony marked the end of a peaceful, 100-hour-long demonstration that […]

(Update: Demonstration ends with on-campus celebration.) A peaceful demonstration supporting inclusion and diversity, which began on Monday, Sept. 22, continued at ����vlog���� today. Progress has been made toward mutual understanding regarding the 21-point list of “concerns and action plans” that were submitted to the administration by the ����vlog���� Association of Critical Collegians (ACC).