Connecticut College

Historicizing 9/11

Jim Downs | Posted 05.02.2012

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In the course, aptly titled, "Historicizing 9/11," students at Connecticut College, a small liberal arts college in New London, have put forth their own history of 9/11 by making a documentary based on oral histories that they conducted of New London residents.

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The Best Colleges For Making Friends

Posted 02.28.2012

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Some colleges just have a better atmosphere for making friends. It can be fairly easy to feel like a cog in a big machine at a large public univer...

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Social Sciences Can Lead to Successful and Fulfilling Employment

Lee Higdon | Posted 12.20.2011

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Uncertainty in global markets and advances in technology demand adaptability and creativity. Problem-solving, critical thinking and communication skills have never been more crucial.

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College Should Be About Learning; 'Earning Power' Comes With Success in Any Major

Lee Higdon | Posted 09.26.2011

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For most students, choosing a major -- or even a college -- based solely on earnings expectations is a big mistake.

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Gatsby, Winter Carnival, and Me

Lonna Saunders | Posted 05.25.2011

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In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, narrator Nick Carraway remarks, "You can't repeat the past." To which Jay Gatsby replied, "You can't repeat the past? Why of course, you can."

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Teenage Dreams: Masculinity and Katy Perry

Jim Downs | Posted 05.25.2011

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When I was in college in the 1990s, white guys never danced. Fortunately, a gender revolution is being televised, and Katy Perry seems to be the omnipresent narrator.

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Between Earth and Heaven: Ode to Tyler Clementi

Jim Downs | Posted 05.25.2011

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You can define homophobia when you point to the words used to condemn and ridicule gay people. You can see it. You can understand it. And you may even feel it. But do you know what it means to be robbed of an imagination?

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"If I Could Write This in Fire": Police Brutality in Provincetown

Jim Downs | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a town that seems to make such a fuss about its historical value and acceptance of all kinds of people, it seems that certain historical lessons are not taught in the police academy or upheld at the local paper.

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The PREPPIEST Colleges (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011

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We've let you in on our picks for the top 10 hipster colleges -- now it's time to go the opposite direction with the PREPPIEST schools. We scoured the...

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The Most EXPENSIVE Colleges And Universities (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Lindsay Dittman | Posted 05.25.2011

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For a year at one of America's most expensive colleges, you could buy a luxury car. For four years, a house. Granted, each campus on Campusgrotto.com'...

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