Skidmore was recently named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. The college's incredibly active community service club, Benef-action, is no doubt a major factor in receiving this award. Benef-action has been active since the 1980s.
Imagine a world where college students are actually encouraged to take a nap between classes, or while doing homework or studying. Well, fellow Skiddies, prepare yourselves, for I come bearing some excellent news. While the encouragement of daytime dozing might be a little far-fetched, an occasional snooze might actually "prime the brain for learning.
In the fall Saratoga Apple provides a festive atmosphere for a trip off campus, but the frigid upstate winters make excursions to the orchard a less than ideal activity. Luckily, the orchard also comes to Skidmore every Friday throughout the year to provide local grocery options to students and faculty.
For the past three months, we should have been living our lives like every moment could be our last. And now we no longer need to. Physicists in Europe this week announced plans to turn off the Large Hadron Collider for a year, saying the machine is too dangerous to continue operating.