SGA Report Card: B+
Per tradition, the Echo is tasked with grading the SGA on its performance every academic year. That being said, we used several categories to evaluate how successful SGA was in meeting its varied goals.
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Special Section: Remembering April 12, 2009
A special section looking back on the April 12 incident in 2009.
Editorial: On the Cost of Education
Some thoughts on the exorbitant price of a Colby education.
From our archives, March 1877: “Social Despotism”
In every age of the world, aggressive Thought has fought the battle hand to hand with despotic Custom in the great struggle for progress. And it has won brilliant victories, though often defeated and imprisoned, often put to the rack by this social tyrant.
SGA
Presidential Platform: Morgan Lingar and Kareem Kalil
Outreach and transparency are two of our highest priorities.
SGA
Presidential Platform: Pasquale Eckert and Andrew Fabricant
Establishing a more integrated Colby community is our utmost priority. Let’s work together to realize this goal! Vote Andrew Fabricant and Pasquale Eckert, the Voice of the Students.
SGA
Presidential Platform: Benjamin Amy and Lester Batiste
We don’t have all the answers, but we want to be vehicles for your ideas, putting the “cool” back into “school.”
SGA
SGA Ticket Endorsement
The Echo officially endorses Morgan Lingar and Kareem Kalil for the 2012-13 SGA President and Vice-President positions.
SGA
Class of 2014 Presidential Tickets - Fall: Wayne Kim and Cole Yaverbaum
Our favorite event we got to plan this year was Spontaneous Fun Day: from cotton candy vendors to spray paint hats, it was a day where the Colby community really came together for some much-needed fun.
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Class of 2014 Presidential Tickets - Fall: Adele Priestley and Julia Prezioso
We have high energy, we’re spunky and we’re motivated to create the events and paths of communication that will keep you involved and enthused all fall.
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Class of 2014 Presidential Tickets - Spring: Elizabeth Gorence and Ian Boldt
The paramount goal of our campaign is to maximize the communication between you and us, and to give you what you want.
SGA
Class of 2014 Presidential Tickets - Spring: Kelly Ling and Elliot Marsing
We, Kelly Ling and Elliot Marsing are here to serve you, Colby College Class of 2014, and we would love to be your presidents for the spring of 2013.
SGA
Class of 2015 Presidential Tickets: Kush Jadeja and Charlie Madden
We are one of the most diverse classes in the college’s history, and we would like to continue our reputation through many different kinds of class and school activities, whether that’s a dodgeball tournament, class movie nights or outdoor activities at the outing club cabin, we are open to all suggestions.
SGA
Class of 2015 Presidential Ticket: Joseph Whitfield and Justin Deckert
If elected again, we will continue planning fun events for the class as well as to carry forward our work on SGA policy and other SGA-related tasks.
Reflecting on Spike Lee’s visit for S.H.O.U.T. week
There was a great deal of anticipation on campus for the event. Free tickets were snatched up quickly, there were simulcasts throughout campus for those who did not have tickets and the line to enter the Chapel stretched from the Chapel doors all the way down to Pulver.
What a great week!
We are in the midst of a hugely exciting week here on the Hill. Seriously. There is so much going on that it is, in fact, one of the biggest weeks of the year for not one, not two, not three, but four major clubs on campus.
Taking a few life lessons from Valentine's Day
This year, students on the Hill celebrated Valentine’s Day in a way that made everyone feel included—regardless of their relationship statuses.
In Memoriam: Derrik Flahive '13
The College community is still mourning the death of Derrik Flahive ’13, who passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011, in Chile, where he was studying abroad for the fall semester.
Wise up, Colby!
On Saturday, Sept. 17, Waterville police showed up at 16 Winter Street for an off-campus party involving alcohol and under-age drinking; over 50 students from the Hill face alcohol charges for their decisions that night.
AROUND CAMPUS
The Civil Digest: Use it, but use it well
It has become a trend for the Echo to discuss the Community Digest of Civil Discourse through a fall editorial.
MULTICULTURALISM
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SGA Report Card: C+
The staff of The Colby Echo critiques this year's Student Government Association. While we believe they did a lot of good things, we do not feel as though they accomplished anything great and we are unsure of how long many of Hutchings and Ravunniarath's changes with last.
Our take on The Black Sheep
Last week an anonymous student posted a letter in dorm bathrooms across campus expressing an extreme disappointment with his or her Colby experience.
Reacting to Bobbi Starr's talk
We at the Echo would like to express our amazement at how many people attended Bobbi Starr’s lecture last night.
LGBT
Observing Pride Week
Last year at this time, Miller’s pillars were surrounded by the colors of the rainbows—the universally recognized colors of gay pride.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it
We at the Echo would like to officially join the public student outcry against the proposed changes to the reading period and exam schedule.
SGA
SGA Endorsement
We at The Colby Echo would like to begin this endorsement by congratulating both tickets on an exemplary debate performance. Our endorsement serves not as a judgment of whom we believe performed best at the debate, but whom we believe will serve best the student body as SGA President. Therefore, The Colby Echo officially endorses the Samuel Andler ’12 and Raymond Rieling ’12 ticket for Student Government Association (SGA) Co-President.
Embracing the liberal arts education
A true liberal arts education involves pushing yourself outside of your comfort level and exploring a wide variety of subjects.
Dearth of debate
The criticism that our generation is increasingly silent is a grave one with implications especially pertinent to college students.
STRESS
Superlative Stress!!!!
Stress is an inevitable part of life at Colby. But how you handle respond to it will play a huge role in determining your stress' effect on both you and your peers.
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The Colby Echo is the weekly student newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. The paper is published every Wednesday that the College is in session.
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SGA
Ineffective SGA Polling
While we at the Echo support the Student Government Association’s (SGA) polling initiative, we believe that SGA Publicity Chair Justin Rouse’s recent presentation on behalf of the SGA Executive Board concerning the polling results from October demonstrate that SGA leaders are not listening to the student body as closely as they ought to be.
Digesting campus issues
If the students, faculty and administrators at Colby can agree on anything, it is on the value of a liberal arts education and the immense amount of learning we students do both inside and outside of the classroom.
Lessons from the Lovejoy recipient
Attending an event like the Lovejoy Convocation with a journalist as fearless as Alfredo Corchado is inspiring, to say the least.
LGBT
You can't filibuster freedom
With the effort to repeal "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (DADT) making fast progress in recent months, it was disappointing that the bill did not even come to a vote yesterday, Tuesday, September 21. Rather, this vote turned into a procedural kerfuffle of gross electioneering tactics.