At 8:56 p.m. on Feb. 2 a sprinkler system pipe in the ceiling of the southwestern corner of the Murray-Atkins Dining Hall froze and then collapsed, prompting the alarm system to go off and a student evacuation. Massive amounts of water spurted out of the pipe, flooding the area around Semolina's pasta station by about two inches.
After over 20 years of discussion and 33 months of construction, Skidmore's Arthur Zankel Music Center is complete. The building is a voluminous 54,000 square-feet, over twice the size of the Therese W. Filene Music Building. Music majors are enthusiastic about the spaciousness of Zankel, which cost $32.
The college's Student Senate, the legislative body of the Student Government Association (SGA), held the first meeting of its 13th session on Feb. 2. The Senate discussed potential ways to spend the SGA's $340,000 budget surplus. SGA currently has an endowment of $650,000.
On Feb. 11, Barbara Love, a professor from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will deliver the keynote speech for Skidmore's annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial observance. The Office of Student Diversity Programs and Office of Religious and Spiritual Life are sponsoring the lecture, which will take place at 7 p.
Skidmore has received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation to extend the tenure of anticipated retiring faculty and hire new faculty for the next three years. The Mellon Foundation has granted funds to various liberal arts colleges, such as Union College, Hamilton College, Colgate University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and St.
Dear Editors, The beginning of our new semester represents an appropriate moment to update the Skidmore community regarding our financial situation and address an issue that I know has been very much on all our minds. As you will recall, last May I announced that we needed to achieve an additional $3.
Upon returning from winter break, college students were welcomed with the opening of the brand new Arthur Zankel Music Center. With 54,000 square feet of teaching and practice space this $32.5 million building is sure to provide music students with the facilities they need to perform at their best.
So a couple fruit flies walk into a bar… Not a surprise for bartenders in at least one part of the country. Biologists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have discovered that they can turn fruit flies into alcoholics. The experiment started out simply by setting up two food sources for the flies: one was a tube filled with just sugar and yeast, and one contained sugar and yeast with ethanol, the same alcohol you find in liquor and beer.