Skidmore, along with three other colleges, was recently given a $100,000 grant to develop a program to better engage second-year students in the college experience. The prospective program intends to prevent and remedy what is being called the "sophomore slump," a bout of disillusionment and lack of motivation associated with the pressures unique to sophomore year.
Maine voters confirmed last week that in America, when a man inserts something into another man, it had better be a knife. On Nov. 3, gay marriage proponents suffered their 31st defeat at the hands of state voters. Mainers, by a margin of 53 percent to 47 percent, voted to repeal the bill signed this spring by Governor John Baldacci.
Two weeks ago Skidmore News endorsed the Safe-Ride Program. I don't. The $60,000 used for the Safe-Ride Program, which provides free cab service from downtown Saratoga Springs after 11 p.m., is a waste of money. However, nobody could reasonably argue that the roughly $12,000 spent for free Saratoga Taxi transportation to and from the Boathouse and the Van Lennep Center should be cut.