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Viewpoint

Posted in Campus News, Fall 2009, Sports News, tagged duffy turf field, field hockey on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Saint Michael’s field hockey team warms up on the Duffy Turf field before their game against UMass-Lowell River Hawks on September 16.

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Fall Magazine is in the mail!

Posted in Uncategorized on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Fall 2009 Saint Michael’s College Magazine has gone into the mail here in Vermont. I hope you enjoy this new issue, with its cover story on Patrick Gallivan ’89, one of the many Saint Michael’s alumni who have devoted their careers to the college. We also have a refreshed design courtesy of Kehoe + [...]

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Project Bug

Posted in Campus News, Fall 2009, tagged Bug Project, First-Year Seminar, Kafka, William Marquess on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Musings on Kafka’s Wake-Up Call Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find he’s become a giant insect. Thus begins Franz Kafka’s classic book, Metamorphosis. And thus began the Summer Reading Project’s reading assignment for first-year students at Saint Michael’s.

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It’s a paper crane, yes, but…

Posted in Campus News, Fall 2009, Student News, tagged Brittany Baker, George Ashline, math, origami on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

…it also proves a mathematical theory. So Brittany Baker ’11 discovered this past summer when the mathematics major was selected to participate in a National Science Foundation-funded program on “The Mathematics of Paper Folding” at the University of Georgia in Athens. The program, linked to the university’s respected graduate program in mathematics, is designed to [...]

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