By Sarah Knickerbocker Design Editor As students prepare for their fourth round of COVID-19 testing, Saint Michael’s College employees, including faculty and staff, have yet…
Defender Sandbox 2021
‘It’s too much pain, too much pain’ Professor uses racial epithet reading Toni Morrison’s Beloved
By Victoria Zambello Executive Editor On Friday in an African American Literature course on Zoom, the professor read out loud a passage with a racial…
By Isabella Davitt Associate Editor While few students have tested positive for COVID-19 in the first eight weeks of the semester, that hasn’t prevented another…
By Kit Geary Politics Editor Everywhere you look people are telling students to vote. Check Instagram, check your emails, look at posters around campus, it’s…
By Jackson Greenleaf Staff Writer In a year of such profound uncertainty, college students have craved a sense of normalcy. As winter approaches, skiers and…
By Grace Filloramo Online Editor These days, while trying to conform to the new “normal” COVID-19 has brought on, it feels like college comes at…
By Ashley DeLeon & Liam GayKilleenDeputy Editor, Staff Writer On the first day of classes of the Fall semester, a racist epithet was uttered by…
By Kaitlin Woolery Photography Editor Have you noticed students carrying out the new to-go containers from Alliot? The pandemic has drastically altered our way of…
By Kit GearyPolitics Editor Whether you are one of the 429 students from Vermont on campus, or you call a different state home, this upcoming…
By Kit Geary Politics Editor When I first read the new changes to Title IX, “Federal law provides that Title IX “shall not apply” to…