Archive for January, 2012
Students draw parallels between Civil Rights Movement and Occupy protests during MLK event
Allie Bedell Equinox Staff Nearly 60 students and a handful of staff and faculty members sat in the Mountain View Room after a film screening on the evening of Monday, Jan. 23, discussing the occupation they had seen, the overreach of the government, and what protesters called the suspension of citizen rights. But the [...]
MailCruiser mobile app delayed till spring
Jon Carey Equinox Staff The media sensation of having simple applications available at the touch of a screen has become almost commonplace for both the teenage youth and working adults all across the world. But Keene State College students who would like to access their MailCruiser accounts through their smartphones will have to wait [...]
Cause of campuswide power outage unknown
Jordan Cuddemi News Editor Just after 1 p.m. on Martin Luther King Day, an unknown electrical surge left the Keene State College community with endless questions. After the “10 to 15” second power glitch, Sergeant Joel Huntley said Campus Safety became “inundated with phone calls.” Huntley said the only information Campus Safety had in [...]
KSC receives $5,560 in grant money
Money to preserve film archives and special collections Jen Richards Equinox Staff Help for protecting Keene State College’s valuable collections has arrived. The college recently received a grant to preserve and protect the school’s film archives and special collections. The National Endowment for Humanities, NEH, awarded a $5,560 grant to KSC to contribute toward [...]
Award nominations are in
Allie Bedell Equinox Staff Keene State College’s Campus Commission on the Status of Women collected 16 nominations for the 22nd annual Outstanding Women of N.H. awards, for which nominations closed last Friday, January 20. The award, created by the President’s Commission, seeks four women each year who contribute to the furthering of women in [...]
MailCruiser hinders student discounts
Kaitlyn Coogan Equinox Staff Besides worrying about class, homework, and having a social life, students have to worry about their tuition expenses. If there was any chance students could get benefits and sales from websites, most would jump at the possibility. Unfortunately, Keene State College students’ emails are not recognized as a valid college [...]
Mobile app delay is nail in the MyKSC coffin
It is no secret that the number of Keene State College students who use smartphones to access their personal email, social networking sites, and a multitude of other things is increasing daily. Yet, even though smartphones have been a part of many college students’ lives for several years now, and only continues to become [...]
Presidential candidates a major letdown
There was a time in my life when I was quite the political junkie. I reveled in what I called “primary season” the way that sports fans get excited about the start of football season, or baseball season. For approximately six months every four years, I lived, breathed, ate, slept, and submersed myself in every [...]
SOPA and PIPA legislation will ruin the internet
If it may be said that each one of us, no matter how ostensibly “ordinary” or unremarkable, harbors some innate capacity for excellence, then logic would denote that this principle manifests itself in a wide variety of forms and across a considerable breadth of disciplines. Lest you fall into despondence, said forms need not be [...]
Allowing guns on campus still in state legislature
Keep students unarmed. The N.H. State House passed a bill this month, despite objections from all of the public places of higher learning in New Hampshire, that would make it legal to carry a weapon on college campuses. Although the bill has yet to pass the state Senate, which will most likely reject the decision, [...]
Allowing guns on campus still in state legislature
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