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Every Wednesday afternoon, from the late spring through mid-fall, half of the marketing and communications staff at Saint Michael’s (Buff Lindau, Brian MacDonald and I) stopped what we were doing in Prevel Hall and hurried across campus to pick up our orange baskets from the Food Hub and load the contents into a variety of [...]

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By Caroline Crawford, Editor Fall came quickly this year. It’s an interesting quirk of college life at Saint Michael’s that the academic year ends in mid-May, just about the time the weather is becoming reliably good. The campus is greening up into its most lush and verdant state just as the residence halls empty out [...]

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I grew up in New York City, so you would think I would know something about diversity in public schools. My neighborhood elementary school on Staten Island, however, was a relatively homogenous mix of children of mostly Irish, Italian and Norwegian parents, with just a few children from Asian homes scattered about the grades. We [...]

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A few weeks ago, I was sitting in my third-grade son’s class for what was dubbed “A Writer’s Celebration.” What was remarkable to me, on top of the sweet, poignant and insightful writing that these eight- and nine-year-olds were sharing, was the fact that they used Adobe’s Audition software, a highly innovative program for audio, [...]

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In The Margins By Caroline Crawford, Editor The view outside my window in Prevel Hall was peaceful—a ridge of trees and a sloping hill, a constantly updated measure of changing seasons as well as an often surprising opportunity for wildlife sightings (as many readers may remember, a young moose was hanging around outside my window [...]

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It was a crisp morning here in Northern Vermont this morning, with a forecast of temperatures in the low 30s and a killing frost tonight. Ah, summer… it was fun while it lasted, which wasn’t very long. But cool temperatures, changing leaves and almost 2,000 students back on campus means that the fall issue of [...]

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This summer the two faculty founders of the Teaching Gardens, Valerie Bang-Jensen and Mark Lubkowitz, took me on a tour and talked about some of the plants–and insects–that are living in the gardens. Brian MacDonald, director of Web development, did the filming. Next time you’re on campus, be sure to visit the gardens, which are [...]

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It’s one thing to create a magazine in print. Take paper, ink, a press, an editor and a designer, writers and photographers, and content is created, printed and distributed.

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By Caroline Crawford Spring is always a time for discovery, especially here in northern Vermont, where what can feel like an endless wait for the first signs of spring can be slightly bolstered by declarations of, “I think the grass is turning green over there,” or “I saw a crocus at the edge of that [...]

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