January 26, 2012

Club hockey dominant over weekend

The club hockey team concluded a dominant weekend Sunday night at Messa Rink in Schenectady. As the final horn sounded on Sunday’s 11-1 drubbing of the SUNY Oneonta Red Dragons, the Club Dutchmen concluded a weekend that saw them net …→

Do it in the Dark

The annual Do It In the Dark campaign starts on Wednesday, Feb. 1. The campus-wide energy competition sponsored by Ozone aims to promote awareness about reducing energy consumption in daily campus life. All members of the campus community can participate …→

Minerva Fellow Alex Brockwehl ‘11, center, says hello from the coast-hugging villiage of Estero de Platáno in the province of Esmeraldas, Ecuador.

Following the Fellows

For the last six months, I’ve been living in Estero de Plátano, a village of 500 people on the Ecuadorian coast. When I first arrived, I was struck by Estero’s simplicity and authenticity. Estero is simple in that life still …→

The now-familiar FBI takedown page is all that remains of the public face of popular file hosting and sharing website Megaupload in the wake of last Thursday’s global takedown. Domain names and assets were seized and Megaupload’s key employees arrested.

THE SAGA OF SOPA: Part 2 of 2 covering the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act

In light of an extraordinary turnout on the internet, the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act have been at least indefinitely stalled and at most killed permanently. More than 100 thousand websites protested in some way or …→

Members of the Italian Club enjoy their freshly made pizza at an event.

Come join the new Italian Club!

Benvenuti! The Italian Club is making its grand debut on campus this year and is looking for new students to join. The club was founded last year by Lia D’Ambrosio ‘12, Jackie Salzillo ‘12 and Robert Davis ‘12, who began …→

The Dutchmen won a hard-fought game against Yale before falling to Brown the following night.

Men’s Hockey: Union splits weekend

With one step inside Messa Rink on Jan. 28, 2011, you could feel the energy. It was loud and the whole building was shaking. Scanning the crowd, you would have struggled to find a single person sitting in their chair. …→

Republican woes

When I heard the news that Newt Gingrich had won the South Carolina primary, a noxious feeling washed over me. I asked myself, “How could such an odious candidate be excelling?” The problem is that the candidate who secures the …→

Harrell, right, stands with Shanique Kerr ‘09 when the two were both working in Paris.

Catching up with Ewo Harrell

It has been a whirlwind of a year for Ewodaghe Harrell ’10. The last time the Concordy spoke with Harrell in May 2011, she was lying in a hospital bed in Paris, hospitalized for three months for lupus and kidney …→

Joe Paterno’s legacy

Joe Paterno’s legacy

This past Sunday, college football lost one of the best coaches to ever take the field. Joe Paterno (1926- 2012), otherwise known as “Joe Pa,” died at the age of 85 from complications of lung cancer. Paterno spent 61 years …→

Mike Hilton keeps the memory of his wife alive by advocating for better treatment for lung cancer patients.

In honor of Tonya, husband fights lung cancer

“Smoking kills.” It’s a typical phrase that has been ingrained in the minds of young and old people alike to denote that smoking causes lung cancer. This is very true, but it also causes people to be ignorant as to …→